Dr. Chia-Ding Shih is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He completed the Lawrence B. Harkless Fellowship in Limb Preservation at Keck Medicine of USC in 2019. He received his doctorate in Podiatric Medicine with honors from the California School of Podiatric Medicine at Samuel Merritt University, then served his residency in podiatric medicine and surgery with the Department of Veterans Affairs and multiple hospitals across Los Angeles. Dr. Shih’s interest in preventing amputations led him to get his Master’s in Public Health from The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. His research interests include population studies in non-traumatic amputation prevention and health care disparities, along with biomechanics and foot and ankle reconstruction as part of wound management. He is widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals on topics such as diabetic foot epidemiology, diabetic foot ulcer and infection diagnostic imaging, and diabetic foot prevention strategy and policy.