Retirement

• Reaner Shannon, associate dean for cultural enhancement and diversity at the medical school of the University of Missouri Kansas City, has announced her retirement. She was the only African-American dean at the university and the only black administrator at the medical school. She first joined the university as a lab technician in 1974.

Shannon holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Missouri Kansas City.

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