Program Director

Associate Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of General Internal Medicine

Bio

Carlie Stein Somerville is a Birmingham native and received her doctorate from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2013. She completed Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency in 2017 and served as chief resident during her final year of residency. Her clinical duties include seeing patients of all ages in a Med-Peds primary care practice, attending on the inpatient teaching wards and resident clinics. She is passionate about primary care across the lifespan, medical education, care of underserved patients, advocacy and about improving transition for teens and young adults with chronic diseases of childhood as they move from the pediatric to adult health system. She is the lead physician of a new multidisciplinary STEP (Staging Transition for Every Patient) clinic which will transition young adults with complex diseases of childhood from the Children's of Alabama to the UAB Medicine Health System.

Assistant Program Director

Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of Academic General Pediatrics

Channing Brown, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics, earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. Dr. Brown completed her combined internal medicine/pediatric residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL. She currently serves as the Medical Director for the Whitaker Clinic Internal Medicine Resident continuity site and as an attending in the pediatric resident Primary Care Clinic. She also serves as a primary care provider for adults and children at our UAB Leeds Med-Peds Faculty Practice. In addition to her clinical roles she serves as an assistant program director for the UAB Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program. Her clinical interests include primary care education, improving healthcare transitions for adults with chronic pediatric medical conditions, reducing weight stigma in medicine, mental health, and eating disorders.

Assistant Program Director

Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of General Internal Medicine

Brian May is a native of Chattanooga, TN. Prior to medical school, he worked as a middle school science teacher and completed a Masters in Education at Arizona State University then completed his doctorate of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2014. He went on to finish his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at University of Cincinnati in 2018 and then served as chief resident for there in 2018 - 2019, joining the UAB Med-Peds team the following year! In his clinical duties, he serves as a dual hospitalist in the UAB Hospitalist division as well as Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children’s of Alabama. He is passionate about DEI, health disparities, medical education and medical education research around resident assessment and competency based medical education, feedback, and coaching. In his spare time, he likes to mountain bike at Oak Mountain and canoe on the Cahaba River with his 3 children!

Hometown

Huntsville, AL

Undergraduate

Auburn University

Medical School

Heersink School of Medicine

Career/Clinical Interests

Medical education, hospital medicine, infectious diseases

Why did you choose UAB for your residency?

Since I had the privilege of being a medical student here at UAB, I was able to see that both the IM and Peds programs here truly display excellence without ego. Also, the Med-Peds residents were always my favorite to work with on the wards.

What do you love about UAB Med-Peds?

The support! The UAB Med-Peds family is no joke..  

Birmingham's Best Food and/or Drink

Post Office Pies, Ono Poke, Back Forty, Soho Social, Blue Pacific, Seoul Restaurant

Birmingham Must-See

Hometown Supermarket! I know it’s strange to recommend a grocery store, but for those who love international cooking, this place is truly top notch. I could spend hours in there!

Rachel Cawley

Program Coordinator