This month, the UAB Department of Surgery welcomes Assistant Professor Robert Cannon, M.D., to the Division of Transplantation. A specialist in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery, Cannon returns to UAB after completing an abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship here in 2017.

Dr. Robert Cannon

Cannon received his M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in 2008 before completing a residency in general surgery at the University of Louisville in 2015. After graduating from fellowship at UAB, Cannon went back to the University of Louisville to serve as an assistant professor in the Division of Transplantation, prior to being recruited back to UAB where he now joins our faculty in the Department of Surgery.

Cannon is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. His clinical interests include liver transplantation, minimally invasive hepatic surgery, the surgical management of portal hypertension, the surgical management of polycystic liver disease and the comprehensive management of the full spectrum of benign and malignant hepatobiliary tumors, including hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma.