Shi Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Women's Health, has been named section head for bone and soft tissue pathology, effective April 1. Wei assumes the position from Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., Robert W. Mowry Endowed Professor, who recently retired on December 31, 2024, after 34 years of service in the UAB Department of Pathology. 

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 from 2015 and associate division director of anatomic pathology from 2019. In late 2021, Wei joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Kansas Medical Center, where he was named the Barbara F. Atkinson Endowed Professor and Director of Translational Research. In 2024, the UAB Department of Pathology was pleased to welcome him back to UAB as director of the Division of Women's Health. 

The bone and soft tissue pathology service provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluatrion of neoplastic (benign and malignant) and non-neoplastic diseases arising from soft tissue and bone, also known as musculoskeletal or orthopedic pathology. 

Join us in welcoming Dr. Shi Wei to his new role and in thanking Dr. Gene Siegal for his years of impactful service as section head of bone and soft tissue pathology.