The Department of Pathology is pleased to announce the naming of two of our faculty to endowed chair positions.

Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D., is named as the Robert and Ruth Anderson Endowed Chair in Pathology in the Heersink School of Medicine. Magi-Galluzzi was previously the C. Bruce Alexander Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology.

Baleed Vishnu Reddy, M.D., Professor, Laboratory Medicine, is named as the Wyatt and Susan Haskell Endowed Chair for Medical Excellence, as approved the University of Alabama Board of Trustees on September 5.

Dr. Magi-Galluzzi joined UAB Pathology in 2018 as Division Director of Anatomic Pathology and Section Head of Genitourinary Pathology. Prior to this she was the director of Genitourinary Pathology in the Department of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic and a professor of Pathology at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

Magi-Galluzzi is board-certified in Anatomic Pathology with fellowship trained clinical expertise in the pathological diagnosis of genitourinary diseases, including prostate, bladder, testicular, adrenal and kidney malignancies. Her research focuses on prostate carcinogenesis and in the discovery and validation of tumor markers, and genomic tests of value in furthering the goals of successful treatment and understanding of the pathogenesis of genitourinary diseases.

Magi-Galluzzi has been invited to lecture at numerous national and international medical meetings. She has authored more than 270 scientific papers on genitourinary topics, has authored or co-authored dozens of book chapters, and is the editor of four books on Genitourinary Pathology. A leader in her field, she currently serves as Vice President-Elect of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and as president-elect of the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS).

Her many honors include winning the UAB Department of Pathology’s Leonard H. Robinson Award for Resident Education in Anatomic Pathology in 2023 and the Academic Leadership and Dedication to Service Award in 2022. In 2018, she was named to The Pathologist magazine's Power List of "100 of the best, brightest, and most powerful advocates of pathology." In 2024 she was named to the Top Italian Scientist in Clinical Sciences.

Dr. Reddy is Professor and Division Director, Laboratory Medicine, and a hematopathologist with four decades of clinical and diagnostic experience. He directs the UAB Health System’s Hematopathology and Bone Marrow labs. Reddy has developed teaching guidelines and curriculum for UAB trainees and fellows, and collaborated with other national experts in publishing training guidelines for Hematopathology programs. He similarly developed curriculum and teaching material for Heersink School of Medicine students. Reddy is a senior scientist with the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Reddy was instrumental in starting the ACGME-accredited, nationally-recognized Hematopathology Fellowship Program at UAB in 1994. He has served as director of the medical school’s Hem-Onc module since 2000. Reddy is the recipient of 16 Argus Excellence Teaching and Pathology fellow/resident awards.

In 2019, Reddy received the School of Medicine Dean’s Excellence Award for service in the senior faculty category. That same year, the department dedicated a surgical pathology conference room in his name.  In 2021, the department announced the establishment of the Vishnu B. Reddy Translational Research in Pathology Endowed Professorship in his name, and in 2022 it was awarded to C. Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Neuropathology. In 2022, Reddy received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.

In addition to his work at UAB over the past 30 years Reddy is also a veteran, having served as an active-duty hematopathologist in the US Army (Colonel, USA Retired) for 15 years, from 1978 to 1993, before joining UAB. He served an additional decade, from 1997 to 2008, in the US Army Reserves as a pathologist for the clinical laboratories at USAMRID Fort Detrick, Maryland.