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Director of the General Surgery Residency Program and Associate Professor Britney Corey, M.D., MACM, FACS, was presented gifts from her general surgery residents expressing their gratitude and appreciation.

James P. Hayes, Jr., Endowed Professor in Gastrointestinal Oncology and Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology Vikas Dudeja, MBBS, has been selected for the 2021-2022 James IV Association of Surgeons Travelling Fellowship program.

UAB Locke Lab member Brittany Shelton, MPH, was awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award from the UAB School of Public Health.

UAB General Surgery Resident Adam Lucy, M.D., was selected as a member of the Surgical Palliative Care Society (SPCS).

Nestled in the Russell Medical campus in Alexander City, Alabama, the UAB Medicine – Russell Medical Cancer Center offers advanced technology, rehabilitative care, and emotional support to patients through a multi-disciplinary team.

The UAB Department of Surgery Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee hosted several students in a UAB Surgery learning space to teach a hands-on suturing skills workshop.

After a successful Match Day 2022, the General Surgery Residency program will welcome 10 new trainees this summer, including a preliminary PGY1, PGY2, and Integrated CT resident.

UAB Department of Surgery Communication Specialist Emma Shepard’s paper titled “Digital presence as a communication tool for building reputation in an academic department” was published in the American Journal of Surgery (AJS) this month.

Division of Transplantation Associate Professor and Associate Director of Transplant Analytics, Informatics, and Quality Paul MacLennan, Ph.D., has been appointed an at-large member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Data Advisory Committee.

According to The Pancreas Foundation, nearly 220,000 people in the U.S. will be afflicted with acute pancreatitis.

Several Department of Surgery faculty have been named new members of the Society for University Surgeons (SUS). The members include:

UAB Research Resident Katherine McElroy, M.D., was named a recipient of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) 2021 URM Travel Grant.

With just a few cold snaps left before the warmer weather is here to stay, several faculty are sharing their gardening experiences.

Professor and Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery Gregory Kennedy, M.D., Ph.D., present “Preventing Colorectal Cancer” webinar on Mar. 14 at 5:30 p.m.

UAB Medical Student Meghna Katta recently presented her research “Identifying Factors Associated with Trust in Telemedicine” at the Tripartite Colorectal Meeting in New Zealand virtually. Katta is mentored by both faculty and trainees within the Department of Surgeryand completed the department’s T35 STREAMS program last summer under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Chu.

Department of Surgery Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the UAB Women in Surgery Kristy Broman, M.D., MPH, has secured an American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Faculty Research Fellowship.

Department of Surgery Endocrine Research Fellow Polina Zmijewski, M.D., MA, was selected for an appointment as a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS).

UAB’s Trauma Medical Director, Associate Professor Daniel B. Cox, M.D., was recently selected for promotion to full Colonel in the United States Air Force.

UAB’s Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery was well-represented in the trauma research presentations at the 17th American Surgical Congress (ASC) in Orlando.