Guillermo Beltran Ale, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, earned his medical degree Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Facultad de Medicina Alberto Hurtado in Lima, Peru. Dr. Beltran Ale completed his pediatric residency and pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH. His major research interests include: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis with a focus on BAL based diagnosis and optimizing care for pulmonary patients who are technology dependent with a focus on infections diagnosis and treatment.  His clinical interests are aerodigestive pathology, the integrative care of patients on long term ventilation and technology dependence, rare lung diseases and pulmonary transplantation.

Vidit Bhargava, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Critical Care, earned his medical degree at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College in Pune, India. Dr. Bhargava completed his pediatric residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. He did a pediatric critical care fellowship and emergency ultrasound fellowship at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

Jared Buchan, M.D., Instructor in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, earned his medical degree from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL. Dr. Buchan completed his pediatric residency at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, GA.

Viral Jain, M.D., Assistant Professor in Neonatology, earned his medical degree from MGM Medical College, Mumbai, India. Dr. Jain completed his pediatric residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He did his neonatology fellowship and research fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. His primary area of interest is in Developmental Origins of Health & Disorders (DOHaD) or how changes during early period of in utero development influences life-long outcomes, and neonatal evidence-based medicine. He is also interested in exploring family’s contribution to young child’s learning and is the founder of TinyVoices - a patient advocacy program through which is founded the nationally renowned NICU Bookworms, a NICU Infant Reading program. Dr. Jain is also a children’s storybook writer and a musician and has written storybooks for NICU infants as well as written songs with Grammy award winners for NICU families.

Jeremy Loberger, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, earned his medical degree at the University of South Carolina in Colombia, SC. Dr. Loberger completed his combined internal medicine and pediatric residency at the University of South Carolina in Greenville, SC. He did a pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His major research/clinical interests include quality improvement and clinical research on the topics of extubation readiness assessment, mechanical ventilation, and sepsis.

Brittany Marlin, M.D., Instructor in Pediatric Hospital Medicine, earned her medical degree at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL. Dr. Marlin completed her pediatric residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

Pedro Anis Nourani, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, earned his medical degree at the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil and completed his pediatric residency at Texas A&M’s Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX. Dr. Nourani completed his sleep medicine and pediatric pulmonology fellowships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL. His clinical activity has an emphasis on pediatric sleep disorders, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy and general pediatric pulmonology disorders. His clinical research focuses on the identification of different sleep parameters related to clinical outcomes of sickle cell disease as potential targets for intervention.

Bhuvana Sunil, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, earned her medical degree from the Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute in Bengaluru, India. Dr. Sunil completed her pediatric residency at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York, NY. She completed her pediatric endocrinology and diabetes fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL. Her clinical and research interests include obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia and metabolic syndrome. 

Kent Willis, M.D., Assistant Professor in Neonatology, earned his medical degree at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. Dr. Willis completed his pediatric residency at the Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, LA and his neonatology fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. His research interests include understanding how commensal fungi, the mycobiome, influence newborn physiology and disease, principally via exploring the gut-lung axis in bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Willis Lung Lab is supported by the NIH, NHLBI K08HL151907, the UAB Microbiome Center and UAB Pediatrics.

Cynthia Wozow, D.O., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, earned her medical from William Carey College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, MS. Dr. Wozow completed her physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the University of Texas-San Antonio in San Antonio, TX and completed her pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. Her clinical interests include cerebral palsy, spasticity management, congenital neuromuscular disorders, brachial plexus injuries, transitional care, electrodiagnostic medicine, and medical education.