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FellowGraduation2024WEBCongratulations to our UAB Pediatric Fellowship Class of 2024. Thank you to all who helped us celebrate the graduates at a reception in their honor on May 23rd.

Please see below where they will be going after completing fellowship training.

ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY

W. Bradford Fancher, MD
Private Practice
Philadelphia, PA & South New Jersey

Adolescent Medicine

Charisse Graham, MD, MBA
Tampa Family Health Centers
Tampa, FL

CARDIAC CRITICAL CARE

Ahmed Asfari, MD, MSHA
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ahmad Khalil, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

CARDIOLOGY

Matthew Coghill, MD
Critical Care Fellowship
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

CHILD NEUROLOGY

Khaled Al-Robaidi, MD
Epilepsy Fellowship
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Sarah Grace Engel, MD
Epilepsy Fellowship
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

CRITICAL CARE

Aphton Lane, DO
Pediatric Intensivist for the Air Force
San Antonio, TX

Mitchell Moore, MD
UT Houston McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX

Hugh Quach, MD, MBA
INTEGRIS Baptist Health Center
Oklahoma City, OK

COMBINED CRITICAL CARE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Joshua Cooper, MD
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Alexis Ricci, MD, MBA
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lauren Van Wagner, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Austin Wheeler, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES

Sarah Allan, MD
LeBonheur Children’s Hospital
Memphis, TN

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Irene Gamra, MD, MPH
Intestinal Rehab and General GI
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Stephanie Saaybi, MD
Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Lurie Children’s Hospital/Northwestern
Chicago, IL

HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY

Alexandria Broadnax, MD
Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Blake Foxworthy, MD
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL

HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE

Gabriel Daniels, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist & Palliative Medicine
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa FL

HOSPITAL MEDICINE

Ariel Carpenter, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ryan Flaherty, DO
Clinical Informatics Fellowship
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Markus Buchfellner, MD
Advanced Fellowship
St. Jude/Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Memphis, TN

NEONATOLOGY

Kathryn Brand, MD
Houston, TX

Kylee Miller, MD
Lurie Children’s Neonatology Outreach
Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, IL
Franciscan Health in Crown Point, IN

Binh Vu, MD
Infamedics Women’s Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA

NEPHROLOGY

Lindsey Gordon, DO
Prisma Health
Columbia, SC

PULMONOLOGY

Christopher Mertens, MD
Children’s of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

SLEEP MEDICINE

Kyle Bliton, MD
Nemour’s Children’s Hospital
Jacksonville, FL

Melissa Jordan, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

CHIEF RESIDENTS

Joshua Bell, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Kelsey Thetford, MD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Emily Youngblood, MD
Pediatric Renal Fellowship
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital