Biography:
Dr. Shao-Min Shi joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in Medical College of Wisconsin in 1992 as an assistant professor in 2007 as a distinguished professor. After receiving his Doctor of Medicine Degree from Xian medical school, China in 1973, Dr. Shi completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the First Affiliated Hospital in Xian. He then served as an associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of Hand Surgery before coming to the United States in 1988, completing Hand Surgery Fellowship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1991, Dr. Shi began a clinical fellowship at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was awarded a hand surgery scholarship. He received his master’s degree in 1988 and PhD in orthopaedic surgery in 1992. A member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Dr. Shi’s clinical interests/research include hand and microsurgery. Dr. Shi also focuses on clinical treatment and research of post-surgical neuroma pain and knee chronic extensor mechanism rupture after TKA.
Title : Synthetic mesh reconstruction of extensor mechanism ruptures following total knee arthroplasty: Surgical technique and clinical outcomes