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Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Dr. Shen is a Professor of Surgery and Consultant in the Division of General Thoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Dr. Shen received his undergraduate degree (A.B.) cum laude from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1987 and then received his M.D. degree with High Honors from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut in 1995. He completed a residency in General Surgery at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts in 2002, which included a two year research fellowship at Harvard Medical School in gastrointestinal physiology. He then completed a residency in Thoracic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts in 2004. Dr. Shen is certified by the American Board of Surgery as well as the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Shen has been on the staff at the Mayo Clinic since 2007. Dr. Shen is the Program Director of the Mayo Clinic Thoracic Surgery Residency Program. Dr. Shen has served in numerous national leadership positions in Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Shen’s clinical practice and expertise spans the breadth of thoracic surgery and includes a specific interest in the treatment of benign and malignant esophageal disease.
He is author of more than 135 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, The Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, The European Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery Clinics, Chest, and Diseases of the Esophagus, as well as the author of 13 textbook chapters.
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM PT