Physician Profile

Dr. Steven Shu, M.D., MBA , MS is a board certified, procedure-oriented family physician with broad medical knowledge and clinical experience who provides a wide range of services above and beyond the typical family medicine.  He is the top proceduralist in the country who does almost 3000 office procedures every year.  On top of his clinical work, Dr. Shu is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota and on the medical staff at Southdale Hospital and North Memorial Hospital. He teaches office procedures to resident physicians every week.

Over the last decade, Dr. Shu has consistently promoted the concept of procedure-oriented one stop care. He strongly believes in the numerous benefits of office procedures, including the low cost, convenient, efficient, one stop and high quality care. He performs the following office procedures using cutting-edge, state of the art technology:

• One Stop hemorrhoid care: Infra-red coagulation (IRC), banding, and hemorrhoidectomy
• One Stop endoscopies: colonoscopy, gastroscopy. nasolaryngoscopy, and sigmoidoscopy
• One Stop vein care: sclerotherapy, phlebectomy, and endovenous laser ablation
• One Stop skin cancer care and other common skin surgery
• Cyst removal: sebaceous cyst, ganglion cyst, pilonidal cyst, and Bartholin’s cyst
• Breast biopsy: fine needle biopsy and simple open biopsy
• Partial anal sphinctorotomy for chronic anal fissure
• No-scalpel vasectomy
• Ingrown toenail removal
• Lipoma removal
• Joint injection
  

Dr. Shu also strongly believes in community activism. He was the founder and the first president of the Minnesota Chinese Physician Association (AMCP) and is a current honorary president. In 2004, he led AMCP members and community volunteers in establishing the Minnesota Chinese Health Center (MCHC), a free clinic for needy Chinese in the Twin Cities. Dr. Shu is also publisher and president of MN Duowei Times, the largest Chinese newspaper in Minnesota.

EDUCATION

December 2005		University of Tennessee at Knoxville School of Business
		Physician E-MBA
December 1995		University of Miami School of Medicine
		M.S., Molecular Microbiology
September 1989		Shanghai Medical University
		M.S., Surgery
August 1984		Shanghai Medical University School of Medicine
		M.D.

RESIDENCY TRAINING:

• Family Medicine    - Michigan State University
• General Surgery   - Flushing Hospital, New York
                               - Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University, China

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Medical Association
• American Academy of Family Practice
• Minnesota Academy of Family Practice

LECTURES

• How to remove the cysts? - sebaceous cyst, ganglion cyst, pilonidal cyst, and Bartholin’s cyst, 11/2008, Smiley's Family Medicine Residency Program, MN
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 3/2008, Smiley's Family Medicine Residency Program, MN
• Competing on Excellence - Healthcare Quality and Management Strategy. 10/2006, Keynote speech at the First Academic Week at Zhejiang University Medical School, China
• Population-based Chronic Disease Management, 10/2006, First Academic Week, Zhejiang University Medical School, China
• Advanced Soft Tissue Surgery, 8/2007, Smiley's Residency Program, MN
• Diagnosis and Treatment of non-melanocytic Skin Cancer, 9/2006, Smiley's Residency Program, MN
• How to Teach Office Procedures, 8/2006, Smiley's Residency Program, MN
• Treatments of Anorectal diseases in Primary Care, 3/2006, Smiley's Residency Program, MN
• Joint Injection, 9/2005, Family Residency Program, North Memorial Hospital, MN
• Treatments of Anorectal diseases in Primary Care, 3/2004, North Memorial Hospital, MN
• Office Procedures in Primary Care, 9/2003, North Memorial Hospital, MN
• Patient Interview Techniques, 8/2001, La Porte Hospital, IN
• Men's Secret Life-Erectile Dysfunction, 2/2001, La Porte Hospital, IN

COMMUNITY AND OUTREACHING ACTIVITIES

• Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University Medical School, China
• Founder and the first President, current President in Emeritus, Association of Minnesota Chinese Physicians
• Founder and the first Medical Director, Minnesota Chinese Health Center (Free clinic), nominated two times for the minority service award in Minnesota.
• Founder and the first president, current honorary president, Minnesota Jiang-Zhe Association
• Honorary President, Minnesota Zhejiang University Alumni Association
• Advisor, Yucai Chinese School, MN