PEDIATRICS WELCOMES TWO NEW FACULTY MEMBERS IN JANUARY 2019
The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomes two new faculty members during the month of January. Please join us in making them feel at home!
Laura McGuinn, M.D., Professor in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Rebekah Savage, M.D., Assistant Professor in Adolescent Medicine
Laura McGuinn, M.D., Professor and director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. McGuinn completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she was also Ambulatory Chief Resident. She completed her developmental and behavioral pediatrics fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to joining UAB, Dr. McGuinn was an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. McGuinn holds the Thomas Lowder Chair in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include diagnostic evaluation for children with developmental and behavioral concerns such as autism and related neurodevelopmental concerns, ADHD, intellectual disabilities, language and learning disorders, sleep, eating, and elimination issues, parent-child interaction concerns, among others. Her advocacy interests include healthcare systems improvement, bridges out of child and family poverty, and health equity. At UAB, she will be working collaboratively to enhance care processes for children with autism and related neurodevelopmental disabilities, as well as creating a medico-legal partnership to support families and children.
Rebekah Savage, M.D., Assistant Professor in Adolescent Medicine, earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Savage completed her pediatric residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and an adolescent medicine fellowship at UAB. In addition, Dr. Savage completed a Master’s of Public Health at UAB in Maternal and Child Health. Her research/clinical interests include the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders in adolescents as well as the medical management of eating disorders.