Clinical Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
trauma and acute care surgery, robotic surgical techniques, simulation curriculum
Biography
Major Xiaoming Shi, M.D., FACS is an active duty Air Force trauma surgeon with the Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST) based out of UAB. In 2022, he became a clinical assistant professor with the UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
Before coming to UAB, Shi was the Deputy Chief of General Surgery and a staff general surgeon at Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston and the Medical Director of General Surgery at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland. He is also an assistant professor of surgery at Uniformed Services University.
During his deployment to Afghanistan, he served as a surgeon at the Craig Joint Theatre Hospital in Bagram and as a clinical team leader with the 455th Ground Surgical Team.
He attended the Saint Louis University School of Medicine for medical school and the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium for his general surgery residency.
Shi's research interests include the development and implementation of simulation curriculum for robotic surgical techniques and its effect on resident and faculty proficiency and patient outcomes.
Select Publications
Jordan L Guice, Shaun M Gifford, Kai Hata, Xiaoming Shi, Brandon W Propper, David S Kauvar. Analysis of Limb Outcomes by Management of Concomitant Vein Injury in Military Popliteal Artery Trauma. Ann Vasc Surg. 2020 Jan;62:51-56. (PMID: 31201972)
Xiaoming Shi, Mary J Edwards, Jordan Guice, Richard Strilka, Brandon Propper. Clinical and laboratory predictors of blood loss in young swine: a model for pediatric hemorrhage. Pediatr Surg Int. 2018 Jul;34(7):789-796. (PMID: 29808278)
Xiaoming Shi, Mary J Edwards. Pediatric Wartime Injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq: What Have We Learned? US Army Med Dep J . Apr-Sep 2016;(2-16):153-6. (PMID: 27215884)
Patrick M Hawkins, Paul A Jelliss, Naoko Nonaka, Xiaoming Shi, William A Banks. Permeability of the blood-brain barrier to a rhenacarborane. J Pharmacol Exp Ther . 2009 May;329(2):608-14. (PMID: 19179541)
Honors and Awards
Meritorious Service Medal 2022
USAF Commendation Medal, Outstanding Achievement First Oak Leaf Cluster with "C" device
USAF Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon with service star device
USAF Commendation Medal, Meritorious Service
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Education
Medical School
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Residency
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium
Contact
Phone
Patient Appointments and Questions: 205-975-7521
Email
xshi@uab.edu