Dr. Yang Xia, MD


Physician
Dermatology

Skin MD
804 NE Mall Boulevard
Hurst, Texas 76053
For an appointment, call (817) 595-4500
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About Dr. Yang Xia, MD

Dr. Yang Xia (pronounced like “Shaw”) proudly serves as a Major in the United States Army in San Antonio, Texas.  He currently serves as Director of both Mohs Surgery and the Dermatology Vein Clinic at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center.

He is also a faculty member of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX.  He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 at Bagram Airfield where he earned the Bronze Star for his service in the Craig Joint Theater Hospital.

Dr. Xia graduated as salutatorian at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.   He received his medical degree from the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.  He completed his dermatology training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Bethesda Naval Hospital.  His Mohs surgery fellowship was with Dr. Hugh Greenway at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, CA.

Not only has Dr. Xia performed over 1500 Mohs surgery cases and over 1300 complicated wound repairs to include cutaneous flaps and grafts, he is an accomplished scholar with over twenty peer-reviewed publications.

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