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More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma. In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This week, learn about the Abdominal Transplant Fellowship.

This year, the UAB Department of Surgery’s Abdominal Transplant Fellowship welcomes Saulat Sajjad Sheikh, M.B.B.S., who joins UAB from York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania, where she completed her general surgery residency. The fellowship’s outgoing fellow, Alexandre P. Ancheta, M.D., leaves the Abdominal Transplant Fellowship program for the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Incoming

  • Saulat Sajjad Sheikh, M.B.B.S.
    Saulat Sajjad Sheikh, M.B.B.S.
    Residency: Providence Hospital and Medical Centers, Southfield, Michigan (PGY 1); Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso (PGY 1-2); York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania (PGY 3-5)
    Medical School: Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

Outgoing

  • Alexandre P. Ancheta, M.D.
    Next Step: University of Kentucky, Lexington
    Residency: Baylor University, Dallas, Texas
    Medical School: State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn