SHI WEI, M.D., Ph.D.

BARBARA F. ATKINSON ENDOWED PROFESSOR

DIVISION DIRECTOR, ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY

Dr. Wei obtained his medical degree from China Medical University and received his Ph.D. from Okayama University in Japan. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and a surgical pathology fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he received the Roger Denio Baker Award in Anatomical Pathology in recognition of excellence in anatomic pathology. He obtained additional clinical subspecialty training at Emory, Mount Sinai and Harvard universities.

He joined the faculty at UAB in 2009 and quickly rose to the rank of tenured professor in 2016. He served as section head of surgical pathology from 2015 and associate division director of anatomic pathology at UAB from 2019. He was a senior scientist at UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Experimental Therapeutics Program. He graduated from the UAB Healthcare Leadership Academy (Class of 2017).

In December 2021, Dr. Wei joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Mdical Center (KUMC), as a professor with tenure and Barbara F. Atkinson Endowed Professor. He was named director, Division of Anatomic Pathology, effective November 1, 2022.

Dr. Wei is actively engaged in the diagnostic surgical pathology service and has special clinical interests in breast and bone/soft tissue pathology. Over the course of his career, Dr. Wei has rapidly developed into a leading expert in his fields and become an internationally recognized successful academic physician. He has edited 3 textbooks, including Advances in Surgical Pathology: Breast Cancer (Wolters Kluwer), Atlas of Bone Pathology (Springer Nature) and Frozen Section Library: Bone (Springer Nature) and contributed 8 monographs, recognizing his expertise in these areas. He was elected multiple times by peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America. He has been actively involved in the national professional societies including the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, the American Society of Clinical Pathology and the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. He is a member of multiple honor professional societies, including Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, International Skeletal Society (elected as an Executive Committee Member-at-Large, 2020-2022) and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

He has done extremely well in promoting resident education. During his tenure at UAB, he received the Leonard H. Robinson Award for Excellence in Resident Education in Anatomic Pathology in the 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 academic years, respectively. Some of his residents received distinguished honors in research under his supervision, including the Tandra Chaudhuri Award for Excellence in Cancer Research and the John R. Durant Award for Excellence in Cancer Research at O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was named one of the 2020 Honored Mentors by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Foundation.

His major research interests include discovery and evaluation of biomarkers in breast cancer and other malignancies, evaluation of prognostic factors in breast cancer and malignant bone tumors and tumor bone metastasis. He has over 300 professional writings in these fields, including more than 170 manuscripts in some of the leading peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Modern Pathology. Dr. Wei is the editor-in-chief of Human Pathology Reports and has provided his vast expertise to a number of editorial boards, covering diagnostic and experimental pathology, and related disciplines.