She received her MD and PhD from Hunan Medical University (now Xiang Ya Medical School, Central South University), China in 1995 and 1999 respectively. From 1999 through 2010, Dr. Shi served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona with an NIH-funded research focus on pancreatic cancer. Dr. Shi completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan in 2014. Among her many awards, Dr. Shi has won the 2011 Benjamin Castleman Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). She is currently active members of the USCAP, ASCP, CAP, Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society, Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, and the Michigan Society of Pathologists.