The UAB Department of Surgery is pleased to welcome Richard Harris, DPM, FACFAS Harris, DPM, FACFAS (left), to the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy as well as Xiaoming Shi, M.D. (right), to the Division of Trauma and Acute Surgery. Both are clinical assistant professors.

Harris received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and soon after attended the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. After receiving his doctrine in podiatric medicine in 2015, Harris spent three years as a podiatry resident at the University of Florida Health Jacksonville.

After completing his residency in 2018, Harris spent three more years at the West Virginia University School of Medicine as an orthopaedic foot and ankle surgery attendee. Harris is also a member of the American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons, the American Board of Foot & Ankle Surgeons, and the American Society of Forensic Podiatry.

Shi is an active duty Air Force trauma surgeon with the Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST) based out of UAB.

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 a simulation curriculum for robotic surgical techniques and its effect on resident and faculty proficiency and patient outcomes.