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UAB Department of Surgery Professor Karin Hardiman, M.D., Ph.D., and Associate Professor J. Bart Rose, M.D., MAS, have been invited by the University of Cape Town Division of General Surgery to travel to the institution as visiting professors.

UAB Pancreatobiliary Disease Center Director and Division of Surgical Oncology Associate Professor J. Bart Rose, M.D., MAS, has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Veterans Administration (VA) for his study, "Targeting induced surface calreticulin as a tumor agnostic therapeutic approach." The grant is expected to begin in April 2025 and last up to September 2028.

The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome six new faculty members: Samantha Baker, M.D., MSHPEd, Amy Fernow, D.O., Preston Hewgley, M.D., Mercy Nilda Jimenez, M.D., James Sahawneh, M.D., and Yong Tan, M.D.

The UAB Department of Surgery congratulates the eight faculty members who have been inducted into the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) at the 2024 Clinical Congress!

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor and Benjamin-Carver FIRST Scientist Demario Overstreet, Ph.D., has been chosen as a recipient of the 2024 Community Trailblazer Award by the Birmingham NAACP.

UAB General Surgery Resident Jeremie Lever, M.D., Ph.D, has been elected as an active member of the Association of Academic Surgery (AAS) Basic and Translational Science Committee.

The 2024 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress is just a few days away! As you pack your suitcase and plan your conference agenda for the trip to San Francisco, California, make sure to keep the following event details in mind.

UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine third-year medical student Daniela Muñoz Wilson, M.A., has been awarded third place at UAB’s ENRICH Week 2024 poster session within the Research & Scholarship category for her project entitled, "Influence of Social Identity on General Surgery Residents’ Perceptions of Feedback."

The UAB Department of Surgery is excited to announce its second annual Surgery Staff Town Hall, which will take place on Tuesday, November 5, at 12 p.m. in the Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium.

UAB Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy Associate Professor and Vascular Surgery Program Director Benjamin Pearce, M.D., was recently featured on UAB’s MedCast Podcast to discuss peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and its potential treatment strategies.

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor Robert Hollis, M.D., MSPH, has been awarded $192,000 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his 5-year project, "Piloting an implementation strategy for mainstream genetic testing in colorectal cancer."

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery hosted the prestigious Halsted Society’s 98th Annual Meeting, from September 25-28, 2024.

The UAB Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the recent promotion of several faculty members.

Sanjana Balachandra, M.D., a post-doctoral researcher focusing on endocrine surgery, and Maggie Jones-Carr, M.D., a post-doctoral researcher focusing on surgical transplantation, have been chosen as recipients of the 2024 Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Fall Courses Travel Award.

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery has received a new designation as a hernia and abdominal wall surgery fellowship program at UAB.

UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Assistant Professor Andrea Gillis, M.D., MSPH, has received the 2024 Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Pilot Grant Award for studying pancreatic cancer among older adults.

UAB Division of Surgical Oncology Assistant Professor Angela Carter, Ph.D., and Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Professor Aurelio Galli, Ph.D, D.Sc., have received a $40,000 grant from the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) to support their research on “Microbial biofilms as regulators of psychostimulant abuse.”

The UAB Department of Surgery has announced the creation of the FUSSION (Future Surgeons & Scientists Investigating Oncology) program.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Departments of Pathology and Surgery attended this year’s International Society of Uterine Transplantation (ISUTx) 4th State-of-the-Art Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, from September 5-6, 2024. This year’s meeting celebrated the 10th year anniversary of a special and historic event – the birth of the first baby born from a transplanted uterus. The now 10-year-old Vincent opened the meeting and welcomed the clinicians and scientists from around the world who are working hard to promote growth of the field.

Eleanor Ellsworth, a student from Rhodes College who conducted research under the guidance of Angela Carter, Ph.D., through the Summer in Biomedical Science Undergraduate Research program, secured second place in the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

UAB Division of Surgical Oncology Director Vikas Dudeja, M.D., has been elected secretary of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS).

UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Assistant Professor Lily Gutnik, M.D., MPH, was awarded the Breast Surgery International (BSI) Free Paper Prize at the International Surgical Week, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from August 25-29, 2024 for her research on leveraging breast cancer survivors to help reduce stigma and accept treatment among breast cancer patients in Tanzania.

University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate student and Department of Surgery Galli Lab researcher Yanqi Zhu recently won the Spark Award from the UAB Center for AIDS Research.

UAB Division Director of Surgical Oncology Vikas Dudeja, M.D., Surgical Director of the UAB Liver Transplant Program Robert Cannon, M.D., and Associate Principal of the Office of Clinical Practice Transformation Jonathan Black, M.D., have been selected for UAB's Healthcare Leadership Academy Class of 2025.

UAB Department of General Surgery Residents Jeremie Lever, M.D., Ph.D., and Angela Sickels, M.D., were recognized at this year’s Alabama-Mississippi American College of Surgeons (ACS) Annual Meeting in Gulf Shores, Alabama, for exceptional research presentations.

UAB Assistant Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery Kristen Wong, M.D., has been awarded the Carol and Tom R. DeMeester Traveling Fellowship for surgeons.

August, 2021. Birmingham, Alabama. After working an overnight trauma call at UAB Hospital, six healthcare professionals gathered for a routine Friday morning meeting to discuss how their shift went. They didn’t know that within 48 hours, they would be bound for Kabul, Afghanistan, to join the dangerous and deadly effort to evacuate American citizens, allies, and Afghan refugees.

The UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery has matched four new fellows into the Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship for 2025: Kemp Anderson, M.D., Erin Burton, M.D., Aubrey Schachter, M.D., and Taylor Wallen, M.D.

UAB Division of Surgical Oncology Associate Professor Annabelle Fonseca, M.D., MHS, has been awarded a $296,618 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for her project “A Patient-Centric Approach to Improving Guideline-Concordant Care in Pancreatic Cancer: Using Modifiable Barriers to Identify Patients at Risk for Disparities.”

The UAB Department of Surgery’s Pre-College Research Internship for Students from Minority Backgrounds (PRISM) and Surgery Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program participants gathered together to present their completed research to their peers, mentors, and family members.