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Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Heersink School of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Faculty

  • Russ, Kirk, MD

    Kirk RussAssociate Professor
    Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
    Areas of Interest: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis 

  • Sarkis, Fayez, MD

    fayez sarkis 200x200Associate Professor
    Director, TKC Outpatient Clinic
    Areas of Interest: General gastrointestinal conditions and diseases and screening and preventing endoluminal gastrointestinal cancers

  • Smith, Phillip, MD

    Smith RS7710 phillip smith 2008 1Professor
    Areas of Interest: Infectious and inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and immune and molecular mechanisms that regulate the host response in those diseases

  • Smythies, Lesley, PhD

    SmythiesProfessor Emerita
    Director, Human Cells Core
    Co-Director, UAB Organogenesis Unit

  • Spencer, Chad, MD

    Chad SpencerAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Hepatocellular carcinoma and living donor liver transplantation

  • Terry, Elizabeth, MD

    TerryAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: General GI and Medical Education

     

  • Truss, Christopher, MD

    Truss GAS 0409Professor
    Areas of Interest:     gastrointestinal bleeding/hemorrhage, celiac, diarrhea

  • Weber, Frederick, MD

    weberProfessor
    Areas of Interest:     Inflammatory bowel disease; microscopic colitis; chronic diarrhea; gastroparesis; cyclic nausea and vomiting; sclerosing mesenteritis; hereditary polyposis syndromes; genetic GI cancer syndromes

  • Zhao, Qing, PhD

    AhmedAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest:     Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Context of Health and Inflammatory Diseases and aiming to develop microbiota antigen-directed immunotherapies for the prevention and treatment of IBD

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