Shi Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Women’s Health, Section Head, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology, has been named the Hazel Gore, M.D., Endowed Professor in Women's Health in the Department of Pathology, effective April 4.
Wei, the second holder of this endowment, joined UAB as a resident in pathology in 2004, under the mentorship of Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., Robert W. Mowry Endowed Professor and former executive vice chair. Wei joined the faculty at UAB in 2009 as an assistant professor and quickly rose to the rank of tenured professor in 2016. He served as section head of surgical pathology in 2015 and became associate division director of anatomic pathology in 2019. Wei joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Kansas Medical Center in 2021, where he was named the Barbara F. Atkinson Endowed Professor and Director of Translational Research. He returned to the UAB Department of Pathology as director of the Division of Women’s Health in 2024.
Wei has special clinical interests in breast, bone and soft tissue pathology. He is active in the diagnostic surgical pathology services, quickly advancing into a leading expert in his field. Wei has edited three textbooks, “Advances in Surgical Pathology: Breast Cancer,” “Atlas of Bone Pathology” and “Frozen Section Library: Bone,” and has contributed to eight monographs.
Wei’s 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 metastasis. He has over 300 professional writings, including near 200 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal of Clinical Investigation and Modern Pathology.
The endowed professorship honors Dr. Hazel Gore, a pioneer in medicine who served on the faculty for the UAB Departments of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Gore was one of a select few gynecological pathologists worldwide honored in the journal, Pathology, by Dr. Robert H. Young, Harvard Medical School, for her influence in the development of modern gynecologic pathology. Gore was inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame in 2014.