Founded in 2015, the Brewer-Heslin Award recognizes those who exhibit excellence in patient care and is named for the late Alabama Governor Albert P. Brewer and Martin Heslin, M.D., a longtime UAB surgeon leader. Brewer made the gift for the endowment in appreciation of the professionalism he observed and admired in Heslin, who had been his surgeon.

2024 Awardees

David S. Geldmacher, M.D.

Professor in the UAB Department of Neurology

Past Winners

• 2023: Anna Hurst, M.D., Associate professor in the Department of Genetics
• 2022: Theresa M. Caridi, M.D., Associate professor in the Department of Radiology, and Daniel Cox, M.D., Associate professor in the Department of Surgery and the trauma medical director in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
• 2021: Sharon A. Spencer, M.D., professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology
• 2020: Erin Synder, M.D., an associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Mamerhi Okor, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery
• 2019: Sara Mazzoni, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• 2018: Catherine Parker, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology in the UAB Department of Surgery
• 2017: Vineeta Kumar, MD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine
• 2016: Desiree Morgan, MD, vice chair of education and the residency program director for the UAB Department of Radiology
• 2015: Martin J. Heslin, MD, the James P. Hayes Endowed Professor of Gastrointestinal Oncology (inaugural year)