David B. Joseph, M.D., professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has won the 2015 Wallace Alexander Clyde Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Pediatrics from the UAB Department of Pediatrics, Children’s of Alabama and the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.Joseph joined the faculty at UAB and the staff of Children’s of Alabama in 1986. He is chief of pediatric urology at Children’s, holding the Beverly P. Head Endowed Chair in Pediatric Urology. Joseph has a special interest in pediatric genitourinary reconstruction and neuro-urology. He has been active nationally with the Spina Bifida Association for more than 18 years and serves on its Board of Directors.
A native of Wisconsin, Joseph has an undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and completed medical school and urology residency at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He went on to fellowship training in pediatric urology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and of the American College of Surgeons. He is a past president of the Society for Pediatric Urology. He is a trustee of the American Board of Urology and member of the ACGME Urology Residency Review Committee.