Dr. Benjamin Shirley

Lt Col Benjamin A Shirley leads the oral surgery department providing specialty care for 5,000 service members at Barksdale Air Force Base in support of 2nd Bomb Wing, Global Strike Command, and HQ 8th Air Force. He performs diagnostic, routine, urgent, and emergent treatment for comprehensive oral surgery needs including dental, reconstructive, and facial trauma. Dr Shirley is an assistant professor for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences staff member for teaching the AEGD residents. Colonel Shirley commissioned as a 2nd Lt in the Air Force in 2006 through the Health Professions Scholarship Program while midway through dental school. After graduation he attended commissioned officer training at Maxwell Air Force Base prior to moving to his first assignment at Travis AFB for 1 year of additional training. He then completed an oral maxillofacial surgery residency program at the University of Chapel Hill in 2014. He has since been an instructor at Keesler Medical Center for the 2-year general dentistry program and also served as the chief of oral maxillofacial surgery at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath and Yokota AFB.