Cynthia Shen MS, DO

Education

Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center - Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine
Michigan State University/Mount Clemens General Hospital - Residency in Emergency Medicine
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine - Doctor of Osteopathy
Eastern Michigan University - Masters in Ecological Genetics
University of Michigan - Bachlors in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Biography

Cynthia Shen has been practicing Emergency Medicine in a variety of settings including the University of Maryland (a large academic), rural community hospitals on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and underserved inner city hospitals in Baltimore. Since joining the Air Force Colonel Shen has practiced in Alaska, Maryland, and DC. She has deployed to Afghanistan where she was medical director in the ED and to Qatar where she was a member of a CCATT team transporting critically wounded military personnel from combat zones to US hospitals in Germany. She was the logistical lead on the emergency and surgical team that accompanied President Obama to Malaysia for his historical visit in 2015. Dr Shen then spent a year in Korea where she was flight commander and also the Senior Emergency Medicine Consultant to PACAF small hospitals at Misawa, Yokota, and Osan air bases. Since being a part of USUHS Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Col Shen reinstituted the Departments monthly Grand Round lecture series and is the course director for the field exercise Operation Gunpowder.

While Dr Shen has been in the military she has not lost her love of civilian medicine and still manages to find time for bedside work at Shock Trauma Center as an intensivist and in community hospital ERs. In her spare time she enjoys playing golf, reading, cooking and playing with her dogs.

Representative Bibliography

Cole, R., Shen, C., Shumaker, J., Matthews, K. J., Brown, Z. L., Cuestas, J., & Rudinsky, S. L. (2024). The impact of simulation-based training on medical students' whole blood transfusion abilities. Transfusion, 64(8), 1533–1542. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17906

Shumaker, J. T., Shen, C., & Cole, R. (2024). Ukrainian Healthcare Professionals' Experiences During Operation Gunpowder: Implications for Increasing and Enhancing Training Partnerships. Military medicine, 189(9-10), 239–243. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usad484

Hildreth, A. F., Cole, R., Henderson, J., & Shen, C. (2025). Time Is a Tool: Evaluation of a Prolonged Casualty Care Curriculum With a Focus on Temporal Fidelity. Military medicine, 190(7-8), e1727–e1733. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaf017

Henderson, J. D., Cole, R., Hildreth, A. F., Myers, M., Henderson, J. J., & Shen, C. (2025). The Benefits of Peer-led Experiential Learning in Military Medical Education: Reflections From Peer Educators. Military medicine, usaf202. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaf202

Cole, R., Durning, S. J., Shen, C., Reamy, B. V., & Rudinsky, S. L. (2024). Civilian and Military Medical School Graduates' Readiness for Deployment: Areas of Strength and Opportunities for Growth. Military medicine, 189(9-10), e2220–e2228. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usae167

Khoujah, D. & Shen, C.S. (2013). Systemic Infections in Elderly Patients. Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, 27, 12–21.

Gibson, C. & Shen, C.S. (2009). COPD Exacerbations. Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, 23, 12–21.

Shen C, Bach C. (1997) Genetic variation in resistance and tolerance to insect herbivory in Salix cordata. Ecological entomology. 22(3), 335-342. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.00078.x

Onuchic, M. H. F., Campbell, W. N., & Shen, C. S. (1998). Acute Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection with Severe Respiratory and Renal Failure. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 27(6), 1537–1538. https://doi.org/10.1086/517741

Berkowitz, C. M., Shen, C. S., Bilir, B. M., Guibert, E., & Gumucio, J. J. (1995). Different hepatocytes express the cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene during its circadian modulation in vivo. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 21(6), 1658–1667. https://doi.org/10.1016/0270-9139(95)90472-7