The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomes two new faculty members during the month of October. 

Shaundra Blakemore, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Khalisa Syeda, D.O., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Cardiology

Shaundra Blakemore, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, earned her medical degree and completed both her pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama. Her research/clinical interests include management of sickle cell pain crisis in the pediatric emergency department and simulation. 

Khalisa Syeda, D.O., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Cardiology, earned her medical degree at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Syeda completed her pediatric residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and her pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.