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Match Day 2017 ushered in a new group of surgery residents, while saying goodbye to others who will soon leave UAB for different programs across the country.

According to the UAB School of Medicine Office of Graduate Medical Education, 220 medical students from 63 U.S. universities and 27 international universities will join UAB as residents in 2017.

In a new series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This week, learn about those joining and leaving the Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program and the Vascular Surgery Fellowship.

The Department of Surgery welcomes two new faculty this April, Jon William Jones, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., and Zdenek Novak, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.H.I.

Dr. Robert RussellCongratulations to the Division of Pediatric Surgery’s Robert T. Russell, M.D., who was recently selected to receive the 16th C. James Carrico, M.D., F.A.C.S., Faculty Research Fellowship for his project, “Coagulation Abnormalities after Severe Pediatric Trauma: Bench to Bedside.” As part of this fellowship awarded by the American College of Surgeons, Russell will receive $40,000 per year for two years to support his research.

James K. Kirklin, M.D.Dr. James Kirklin, professor in and former director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was recently asked to serve as vice president of the American Heart Association’s Greater Southeast Affiliate beginning in July 2017. Kirklin is expected to transition from vice president to president-elect in July 2018 and from president-elect to president in July 2019.

Match Day 2017 ushered in a new group of surgery residents, while saying goodbye to others who will soon leave UAB for different programs across the country.

In a new series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This week, learn about the General Surgery Residency Program’s new eight categorical interns and three preliminary interns from all over the country and the world.

Laura Allen, M.D.Laura Allen, M.D., a third-year general surgery resident, recently received a resident travel award to attend the Leadership & Advocacy Summit hosted by the American College of Surgeons. The summit will be held May 6-9, 2017, in Washington, D.C., and offers participants specialized sessions to teach leadership and advocacy skills, as well as the opportunity to meet with members of congress and their staff about current healthcare priorities.

Dr. Timothy KingUAB will host the 2018 annual meeting of the Plastic Surgery Research Council from May 17-19, 2018. The event will be hosted by the Division of Plastic Surgery's Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., the current president of the PSRC, and will be held at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. The UAB Department of Surgery is proud to host next year’s PSRC meeting, which will focus on stimulating fundamental research in plastic surgery. With a history dating back to the 1950s, the PSRC has established itself as a reputable society within the specialty of plastic surgery.

The UAB departments of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering have announced the winners of the Bioengineering-Surgery Collaborative pilot grants. A total of $70,000 in funding will be distributed among 12 surgeon-biomedical engineer partnerships for collaborative projects directed toward finding new, innovative opportunities for biomedical engineering in the field of surgery.

UAB has launched UAB MedCast, an ongoing series of medical education and clinical information podcasts highlighting the latest medical and research innovations from faculty. These podcasts – which are eligible for CME credit – are ideal for physicians, nurses, technicians and other medical professionals interested in staying abreast of clinical and research developments at UAB Medicine while helping satisfy their ongoing professional education requirements.

Dr. Melanie MorrisCongratulations to the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery’s Melanie Morris, M.D., and Courtney Balentine, M.D., M.P.H., who were recently awarded the UAB Outcomes, Disparities and Population Health Research Pilot Grant by the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education and the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center for their project, “Pilot Evaluation of the Virtual Acute Care for Elders Program for Older Patients Having Complex Gastrointestinal Surgery.”

Dr. Colin MartinThe Research Committee of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract has selected Colin Martin, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, as this year’s winner of the SSAT Career Development Award for his proposal, “Environmental Programming of IgA Transport in Neonatal Disease.”

Two studies from Associate Professor of Surgery Jayme Locke, M.D., on HIV-positive kidney transplantation were recently published in Annals of Surgery, as well as the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

The UAB Department of Surgery held the second annual Kirby I. Bland, M.D., Visiting Lectureship at Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 21, featuring this year's lecturer, Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D., from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Bland celebrated the event later that evening with his friends and peers at The Club Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama, at the lectureship's accompanying black-tie dinner.

Two members of Associate Professor of Surgery Jayme Locke’s lab have received Young Investigator Awards for the upcoming American Transplant Congress in Chicago, Illinois, April 29 – May 3.

Congratulations to the Division of Pediatric Surgery’s Elizabeth Beierle, M.D., and Colin Martin, M.D., who were recently awarded grants from the Kaul Pediatric Research Institute.

Dr. Vera Hauptfeld was recently elected to serve on the Accreditation Review Board of the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.The Division of Transplantation’s Vera Hauptfeld-Dolejsek, Ph.D., associate professor of surgery and director of the Comprehensive Transplant Institute's Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, was recently elected to serve on the Accreditation Review Board of the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics as a commissioner for a two-year term.

The UAB Department of Surgery takes a break from the 12th Annual Academic Surgical Congress at Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas on Feb. 7, 2017.

More than 60 medical students, residents and faculty members represented the UAB Department of Surgery last week at the 12th Annual Academic Surgical Congress in Las Vegas. Second only to the University of Michigan, the department led the pack in presentations and moderated more than eight sessions.

After her fellowship at UAB roughly 12 years ago, Dr. Sara J. Pereira has returned to the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery as an associate professor.

In an effort to promote its brand and keep its faculty and staff looking sharp, the Department of Surgery is offering a number of specialty items for purchase, including shirts, shorts, sweatshirts and more. Order your UAB Surgery swag by submitting this online order form.