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Department of Surgery Assistant Professor and former Director of the Medical Student Surgery Clerkship Britney Corey, M.D., FACS, was recently named director of the General Surgery Residency Program at UAB.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in America. The UAB Department of Surgery's Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery seeks to change that. 

Overwhelmed. Anxious. Distracted. Lonely. These are a few words that might describe the feelings of those who are transitioning into different working arrangements, or limited work, during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

UAB Department of Surgery Assistant Professor and Director of Medical Student Surgery Clerkship Britney Corey M.D., FACS and Assistant Professor and Minimally Invasive Surgery Clerkship Director Abhishek Parmar, M.D., FACS performed a combined 84 robotic complex abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR) operations in 2019.

UAB Division of Transplantation Director Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH spoke on equity in organ allocation at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEOT) 2020, a conference organized by the American Society of Transplantation (AST).

Seven Department of Surgery faculty and staff will be honored at the upcoming annual UAB Service Awards which honors employees who have made a substantial career commitment to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The program was designed to acknowledge and illustrate gratitude to employees at each five-year milestone of service to UAB. 

Update: The 2020 GRA ORR Joint Spring Meeting: Future Forward Focus has been canceled. Please visit their website for more information.

Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, will open the panel “Future Forward Focus” for the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Resident Affairs (GRA) and Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR) joint spring meeting.

22 UAB Department of Surgery faculty were named best doctors within multiple categories on the Best Doctors in Alabama list.

Professor and chair of the UAB Department of Health Services Administration Christy Harris Lemak, Ph.D.,FACHE sat down with the UAB Department of Surgery to talk about her recent article in Modern Healthcare: "Why the Weinstein Case Matters in Healthcare." The interview is followed by remarks from UAB Department of Surgery Chair Herbert Chen, M.D., FACS.

Assistant Professor of the UAB Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Renata Jaskula-Sztul, Ph.D., has received a two-year, $275,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) NCI R21 grant, “Somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2) antibody-drug conjugate for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PanNET) therapy.”

Angela Carter, Ph.D., and Cozette Kale, M.D., MPH, both placed in their presentation sessions at the 17th Annual UAB Postdoctoral Research Day. The research day saw a total of 41 postdoctoral participants that presented in six different sessions, judged independently.

Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Association for Surgical Education Foundation (ASEF), stemming from the Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research and Training (CESERT) program.

The UAB Department of Surgery is highlighting faculty, residents and staff who have an intriguing out-of-the-office hobby. The goal of the series is to connect individuals across the department by helping illuminate out-of-the-office moments and achievements.

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UAB Medicine has recognized 12 Department of Surgery providers in the 2019 list of “Top-Performing” Providers:

The UAB Department of Surgery is highlighting faculty, residents and staff who have an intriguing out-of-the-office hobby. The goal of the series is to connect individuals across the department by helping illuminate out-of-the-office moments and achievements.

Photo credit: Aakansha Gosain, M.D.

Each year, the Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) convenes to create a platform for networking, scientific exchange, and well– fun. At the 15th annual ASC in Orlando, Florida, the UAB Department of Surgery had a large presence.

On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. in the Hoover Public Library, Department of Surgery Associate Professor Colin Martin, M.D., FAAP, FACS, will speak on "Diet, Stress, and Gut Health" along with Professor and Graduate Program Director of Biology Stephen Watts, Ph.D.

UAB Department of Surgery Executive Vice Chair and Chief of the Medical Staff Marty Heslin is featured in the UAB Memories collection, an initiative of the 50th anniversary celebration of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Victoria Aucoin, M.D.UAB Vascular Surgery Integrated Resident Victoria Aucoin, M.D., was recently selected to join the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

The Division of Transplantation’s Assistant Professor Takayuki Yamamoto, M.D., Ph.D., was recently awarded funding from the Department of Defense Joint Program Committee 6 Combat Casualty Care Research Program and the office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.

During the recent 2020 Academic Surgical Congress, Melanie Morris, M.D., was elected publication chair for the Society of University Surgeons and five other faculty were named members.

The UAB Department of Surgery gathers for a photo while attending the 15th Annual Academic Surgical Congress in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 4-6, 2020.

The Division of Plastic Surgery’s Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., MSBE, FAAP, FACS, was recently awarded by the Association for Academic Surgery’s Publication Committee for Best Overall Manuscript Submission by an AAS Member for his manuscript entitled, “Differences in ‘Highly-Cited’ and ‘Lowly-Cited’ Manuscripts in Plastic Surgery.”

Cozette Kale, M.D., MPHUAB general surgery research resident Cozette Kale, M.D. MPH, recently received the Young Innovator Award from the American Society of Transplantation for the abstract “Waitlist-Conditioned Transplant Rate is Not an Appropriate Metric for Benchmarking Access to Kidney Transplantation.” Cozette is both grateful and excited for the opportunity to present @UAB_TEAM’s impactful work.

The Division of Transplantation’s Mark H. Deierhoi, M.D., and Saulat S. Sheikh, MBBS, as well as the Division of Plastic Surgery’s Timothy W. King, M.D., Ph.D., MSBE, FAAP, FACS, were recently invited to join the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

Laura V. Bownes, M.D.UAB general surgery research resident Laura Bownes, M.D. was recently awarded a Postdoctoral Travel Award by the Office of Postdoctoral Education.

Dr. Raoud MarayatiUAB general surgery research resident Raoud Marayati, M.D., was recently awarded the Bertram M. Marx Student Research Endowment Travel Award. This award, established by the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, supports research activities of graduate students seeking a Ph.D. degree in areas related to cancer, including travel to professional conferences.

The UAB Department of Surgery gathers for a photo while attending the 14th Annual Academic Surgical Congress in Houston, Texas, Feb. 5-7, 2019.

As the UAB Department of Surgery prepares for the 15th Annual Academic Surgical Congress next month in Orlando, Florida – where UAB is again hoping to win the ASC abstract submission contest with a total of 112 abstracts – we’ve made available a spreadsheet of presenters (with times & room locations) who are affiliated with UAB or who have authored presentations affiliated with our UAB Surgery faculty.

Dr. Mark A. Pattershon

The Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy’s Mark Patterson, M.D., and Benjamin Pearce, M.D., are two of only twenty surgeons recently chosen as participants in the inaugural Leadership Development Program of the Society for Vascular Surgery, a program developed in collaboration with the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society, and the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery.