His surgical practice is based at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF/Mt. Zion and he is also a staff surgeon at the San Francisco Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Shen graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University. He obtained his M.D. from UCSF and also completed his surgical residency and research fellowship in endocrine surgery at UCSF. He has been on faculty at UCSF since 2007. His research program focuses on the molecular biology of thyroid cancer, and has been supported by funding from the James Ewing Foundation of the Society for Surgical Oncology, the American College of Surgeons, the UCSF Research Allocation Program, the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, and the American Thyroid Association/THANC.