Dr. Brian Gannon is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the College of Community Health Sciences. He is a general pediatrician with special interests in adoption, ADHD, multiple births and children with developmental delays. He has a pediatric practice at University Medical Center, which the College operates. Gannon is the Ambulatory Patient Safety Officer for UMC and founder of the FRESH Start Clinic at UMC, which serves children in state custody across West Alabama. He also coordinates the ADHD Clinic at UMC.
Gannon's professional interests include advising families about special education, early intervention and mental health resources. He serves as the Alabama chapter AAP liaison to the Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care.
Gannon has a long track record of advocating for underserved populations and conducts clinical research into quality of care, particularly for children in foster care, adoptees, children with special health needs and immigrant children. At CCHS, his teaching of medical students and residents focuses on cultural humility, resilience, trauma-responsive care and addressing implicit bias.
Gannon's research interests include HPV vaccination, mental health services for children and adolescents in foster care, the lack of prenatal care in rural Alabama among recent immigrants from Latin America and personality traits of children with ADHD.
Gannon completed his undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis and completed his pediatric residency training at St. Louis University Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.