Dr. Brent T. Shoji reviews medical content for Healthwise, a
nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health
decisions. Dr. Shoji is a specialist in abdominal and gastrointestinal surgery.
He has been an Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
since 1987. Dr. Shoji was an Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School
from 1989 until July of 1997, when he was named Assistant Professor of
Surgery.
Dr. Shoji also practices with Brigham Surgical Group, Department of
Gastrointestinal/General Surgery. He has been affiliated with Harvard Vanguard
Medical Association (formerly Harvard Community Health Plan) since 1987 and was
chief of general surgery from 1991 to 2005.
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery-1988, 1998
Healthwise Knowledgebase Topics Reviewed
Breast
Problems
Gallstones
Hemorrhoids
Rectal
Prolapse
Umbilical Hernia in Children
Pilonidal
Disease
Appendicitis
Education
MD: University of California Los Angeles
School of Medicine, 1982
Internship in Surgery: Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center, Torrance, CA, 1982-1983
Residency in Surgery: Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center, Torrance, 1983-1987
Chief Resident: Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center, Torrance, 1986-1987
Academic Appointments
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical
School, 1989-1997
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical
School, July 1997-present
Hospital Affiliations
Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Boston, 1987-present
Surgeon, Harvard Vanguard Medical
Association, 1987-present
Chief of General Surgery, Harvard
Vanguard Medical Association, 1991-2005
Surgeon, Brigham Surgical
Group, Dept. of Gastrointestinal/General Surgery,
1991-present
Shoji BT, Becker JM (1994). Colorectal
disease in the elderly patient (review). Surgical Clinics of North America, 74(2): 293-316.
Parsons WG, Shoji BT, Farraye
FA (1994). Mesenteric venous thrombosis mimicking rectal carcinoma and
presenting as a distal large bowel obstruction. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 89(7): 1126-1127.
