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Assistant Professor Jillian Richter, Ph.D., was recently awarded a Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Discovery Award from the U.S. Department of Defense’s office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.

Dr. Jillian Richter

Over the course of the next year and a half, Richter will receive $297,000 in total from the DOD for her project, “Role of Exostosin-1 in Regulating Hemorrhage-Induced Microvascular Dysfunction and Lung Injury.”

Richter is a trauma researcher in the Division of Acute Care Surgery and leads a research lab focused on understanding the role of the endothelial glycocalyx in regulating post-injury outcomes in trauma patients.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This time, learn about the Division of Transplantation’s Abdominal Transplant Fellowship, as well as its newest trainee, Margaret Romine, M.D., and its most recent graduate, Robert Plews, M.D.

Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery Martin Heslin, M.D., will participate in the American Surgical Association and European Surgical Association’s faculty exchange program next year.

Dr. Martin Heslin

Heslin is one of the two members selected for next year’s program and will be recognized as a member of the ASA-ESA Exchange Program at the ESA’s 27th annual meeting, May 22-23, 2020, in Köln (Cologne), Germany.

The ASA-ESA Exchange Program is designed to foster professional relationships between members of the two organizations and to give participants the opportunity to share information about these organizations, including their histories and notable publications, with one another.

General surgery research resident Raoud Marayati, M.D., recently received a $400 travel grant from the UAB Graduate Student Government to attend the American College of Surgeons 2019 Clinical Congress next month in San Francisco, California.

Dr. Raoud Marayati

During the four-day conference Oct. 27-31, Marayati will present her research project, “Novel Retinoic Acid Derivative Induces Differentiation and Growth Arrest in Neuroblastoma.”

Don’t miss Marayati’s oral presentation on Oct. 28 during Pediatric Surgery Session 1, which will be part of the event’s annual scientific forum.

In honor of #WomeninMedicine Month, the UAB Department of Surgery is kicking off a new Q&A series to showcase some of our favorite women in surgery.

This week, we’re talking with Sara Pereira, M.D., who serves as an associate professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and a co-director for the department’s Pre-College Research Internship for Students from Minority Backgrounds program.

In honor of #WomeninMedicine Month, the UAB Department of Surgery is kicking off a new Q&A series to showcase some of our favorite women in surgery.

This week, we’re talking with Virginia Pierce, M.D., who serves as an assistant professor in the Division of Acute Care Surgery.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This time, learn about the Division of Acute Care Surgery’s Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, its four new trainees and its two recent graduates.

UAB Department of Surgery Chair Dr. Herbert Chen and nurse practitioner Kelly Lovell speak to a thyroid patient at The Kirklin Clinic. Chen and Lovell will soon both treat patients as part of the new UAB Multidisciplinary Endocrine Tumor Clinic.

Patients with thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas and adrenal tumors will soon have a one-stop shop for endocrine neoplasia treatment. UAB’s new Multidisciplinary Endocrine Tumor Clinic opens Oct. 1 on the third floor of The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

In honor of #WomeninMedicine Month, the UAB Department of Surgery is kicking off a new Q&A series to showcase some of our favorite women in surgery.

This week, we’re talking with Melanie Morris, M.D., who serves as an associate professor in the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the vice chair of perioperative services for the department and the chief of general surgery at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

UAB Pancreatobiliary Disease Center Director J. Bart Rose, M.D., MAS, received nearly $800,000 in funding from the National Cancer Institute this summer for his research on neuroendocrine tumors.

Dr. J. Bart Rose

Rose, who also serves as an assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, received a K08 Clinical Investigator Award in July for his project, “Targeted treatment of metastatic gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.” Through this grant, Rose will receive more than $150,000 in support each year from the NIH for five years.

Associate Director of Health Services Research Dr. Daniel Chu and general surgery residents Drs. Samantha Baker and Lauren Theiss attend Proclamation Day on Sept. 16 in Montgomery, Alabama, to welcome Health Literacy Month with Gov. Kay Ivey. (Photo via governoriveyphotos.com)

UAB Associate Professor of Surgery Daniel Chu, M.D., and general surgery residents Samantha Baker, M.D., and Lauren Theiss, M.D., traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday to see Gov. Kay Ivey declare October 2019 as Health Literacy Month.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This time, learn about the UAB Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Program and its newest fellow, Edward Andrew Fazendin, M.D.

Thirty interprofessional UAB Geriatric Scholars celebrate the successful completion of the programat the UAB Geriatric Scholar Quality Symposium on Sept. 6, 2019. (Photo courtesy of UAB Department of Medicine)

General surgery resident Samantha Baker, M.D., was named the 2019 Melanie Schultz Leadership Champion at this year’s UAB Geriatric Scholar Quality Symposium on Sept. 6.

Dr. Samantha Baker

Baker is the first physician to participate in the Geriatric Scholar Interprofessional Program and was consequently the first physician to graduate from the program at its annual symposium last week.

The Division of Transplantation's Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, was recently appointed to the Committee on Admissions for the Society of Clinical Surgery.

Last week, the Association for Academic Surgery named Assistant Professor Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, the 2020 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons International Visiting Professor. As the recipient of next year’s professorship, she will receive funding to attend the RACS Annual Scientific Congress in Melbourne, Australia, May 11-15, 2020.

Associate Professor Paul MacLennan, Ph.D., MPH, joins the American Journal of Transplantation Editorial Board this month as a statistical editor.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This week, learn about those joining and leaving our Plastic Surgery Residency.

This month, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Research for the Division of Acute Care Surgery Jan Jansen, MBBS, Ph.D., received a U34 Planning Grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his work on a new clinical trial.

Dr. Prasanth Patcha
Dr. Lee Roberson

The UAB Department of Surgery welcomes two new faculty members this summer: Prasanth Patcha, M.D., MEng., and Lee Roberson, M.D.

Following his fellowship in microsurgery at the University of Gent in Belgium, Patcha has returned to the UAB Division of Plastic Surgery as an assistant professor after he graduated from its Plastic Surgery Residency Program in 2018.

Roberson is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and practices in Montgomery, Alabama, at the new UAB Multispecialty Clinic at Baptist Medical Center South.

Department of Surgery faculty and staff developed a new mission and vision for the department at this year’s UAB Surgery Faculty Retreat on Aug. 17.

The UAB Department of Surgery will soon gain five new faculty members.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, UAB Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all the department’s programs. In this week’s installment, learn about the Society of Surgical Oncology Breast Oncology Fellowship at UAB.

The Division of Plastic Surgery’s Timothy W. King, M.D., Ph.D., will co-chair the AOCMF course, “Management of Facial Trauma,” in Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 7-8.

Dr. Timothy King

The UAB Department of Surgery Communications Office is now accepting applications for our communications internship! We’re in the market for an eager, tech-savvy upperclassman or recent college grad with strong writing skills who is interested in the following:

Alabama School of Fine Arts and UAB PRISM student Oluwatosin Badewa presents her research, "A Novel Application of Artificial Intelligence to Assess Diversity in Surgical Performance," at the PRISM and SURE presentation reception in Wallace Tumor Institute on July 24. (Photo by Rebecca Turner)

Last month, five high school students from the Department of Surgery's Pre-College Research Internship for Students from Minority Backgrounds and 10 undergraduate students from the department's Surgery Undergraduate Research Experience presented the research projects they completed this summer under the mentorship of UAB Surgery faculty.

Sara Mazzoni, M.D., MPH, an associate professor in the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the winner of this year’s Brewer-Heslin Endowed Award for Professionalism in Medicine.

General surgery resident Raoud Marayati, M.D., a researcher in the lab of the Division of Pediatric Surgery’s Elizabeth Beierle, M.D., received the award for best resident research presentation at last month’s annual meeting of the Alabama and Mississippi Chapters of the American College of Surgeons.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing 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.

On Monday, the American College of Surgeons named UAB Assistant Professor of Surgery Graeme McFarland, M.D., its 2019 Gerald B. Healy, M.D., FACS, Mentorship Traveling Fellow.