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Fellow Graduation 2019


Congratulations to our UAB Pediatric Fellowship Class of 2019. Thank you to all who helped us celebrate the graduates at a reception in their honor on May 30th. Please see below where they will be going after completing fellowship training.

Shaundra Blakemore, M.D. - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heather Choat, M.D. - Pediatric Endocrinology, Private Practice, Dothan, AL
Matt Clark, M.D. - Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Leslie Collins, M.D. - Pediatric Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jacinta Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory/Children’s Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Courtney Crayne, M.D. - Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kalsang Dolma, M.D. - Neonatology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Karisa Grizzle, M.D. - Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Neha Gupta, M.D. - Pediatric Critical Care, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Samantha Hill, M.D., MPH - Adolescent Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jason Payne, M.D., MSPH - Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Cali Reynolds, M.D. - Allergy and Immunology, Private Practice, Manhattan, NY
Brandon Seay, M.D., MPH - Pediatric Pulmonology/Sleep Medicine, Private Practice, Atlanta, GA
Jennifer Smedley, DO - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Colorado, Denver, CO        
Thanh Summerlin, M.D. - Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sai Surapa Raju, M.D. - Pediatric Critical Care, Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship, UAB, Birmingham, AL
Saurabh Talathi, M.D., MPH - Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Aman Wadhwa, M.D., MSPH - Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lauren Wagner, DO - Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, Macon, GA
Hansa Wongprasert, M.D. - Neonatology, Private Practice, Mercy Medical Center, Merced, CA

2019 CHIEF RESIDENTS
John Mark Bouchillon, M.D. - General Pediatrics, Colorado Springs, CO
Robert Sellers, M.D. - General Pediatrics, Birmingham AL
Karlene Walker, M.D. - Fellowship, Behavioral & Development Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC