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UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor Angela Carter, Ph.D., has been accepted into the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) class of 2023.

UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident Juan A. Muñoz-Largacha, M.D., was recently selected to participate in the 2023 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Leadership Academy.

UAB General Surgery Resident Rongzhi Wang, M.D., presented his research in secondary hyperparathyroidism at the 134th Annual Meeting of the Southern Surgical Association in December 2022.

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Associate Professor and Assistant Program Director of Resident Research for the General Surgery Residency Program Karin Hardiman, M.D., Ph.D., has been selected for induction into the national Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society chapter at UAB.

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome Division of Transplantation Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Rabbani.

Five members of the UAB Surgery Department were honored at the Annual Service Awards Reception on Tuesday, Mar. 21.

In 2023, the UAB Department of Surgery is highlighting the many accomplished alumni of its General Surgery Residency Program and associated divisional fellowships.

UAB Division of Pediatric Surgery Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Dr. Colin Martin was appointed to serve as a consultant to the Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery for the Pediatric Surgery In-Training Examination (PSITE).

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Clinical Instructor and Associate Clerkship Director Margaux N. Mustian, M.D., MSPH, is the recipient of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) 2023 Health Care Disparities Research Award.

This Match Day, the UAB Divisions of Plastic Surgery and Vascular Surgery are honored to welcome new trainees to their programs.

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome ten new trainees this summer, including a preliminary resident for interventional radiology, PG2, and Integrated CT Resident.

UAB Gastroenterology Assistant Professor James Callaway, M.D., and Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Associate Professor Kristen Wong, M.D., joined UAB MedCast to discuss gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

UAB General Surgery Residency Program announces the 2023-2024 Chief Residents.

Last week, a group from UAB’s Center for Injury Science (CIS) met with colleagues in Houston for the first investigator meeting for a large-scale upcoming trauma clinical trial.

The UAB Department of Surgery has placed nationally as the 10th leading surgical institution for NIH funding in this year’s Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research report, with over $13.7 million awarded to faculty and researchers in 2022.

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome four new faculty members who have joined the department: Srikanth Iyer, Ph.D., William H. Cook, M.D., FACS, Angela Carter, Ph.D., and Russell G. Day, M.D., FACEP.

UAB Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Associate Professor Renata Jaskula-Sztul, Ph.D., was awarded the Pre-R01 grant in the fall cycle of 2022 O’Neal Invests Cancer Research Support Mechanisms for Basic and Population Sciences.

UAB Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Associate Professor and Section of Endocrine Surgery Chief Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, has been named a member of the Macy Faculty Scholars Class of 2023.

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to announce Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, as the Vice Chair of Education. 

Division of Transplantation Professor and Arnold G. Diethelm Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, was accepted as a member into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in April 2022.