On Thursday, June 20, UAB welcomed 2019-20 new residents and fellows into the Pathology department with a breakfast and orientation held at the Wallace Tumor Institute. Incoming residents and fellows gathered with George Netto, M.D., pathology chair, professor and James Hackney, M.D., residency program director, associate professor, neuropathology, as well as Pathology faculty from various divisions and current residents/fellows. The 17 residents and fellows started in the department on Monday, July 1.
   
Residents and fellows gathered for food and introductions before Netto opened the event, welcoming inocming residents and fellows and shared information about the department. Hackney followed and gave each faculty member a chance to introduce themselves.

Four of the six division directors in the department of pathology were in attendance to welcome the new residents and fellows and help familiarize them: Davis Gregory, M.D., M.S.P.H, division director of forensic pathology, professor; Christina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Anatomic Pathology, professor; Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Neuropathology, professor; and X. Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Laboratory Medicine, professor.

In total, around 60 people were in attendance for the breakfast.

  
Following the breakfast, residents and fellows meet with numerous other faculty members including Residency Coordinator, Monica Henderson; Fellowship Coordinator, Susan Mills; and Israel Ponce-Rodriguez, Information Systems Manager. The chief residents, Adam Jones, M.D., and Danielle Fasciano, D.O., were also on hand to answer questions.

The new residents and fellows join UAB from around the country and the world, such as resident Denis Noubouossie, M.D., Ph.D., who comes from Université de Yaoundé Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences Biomédicales, in Cameroon.
Several new fellows completed their residencies at UAB such as David Dorn, M.D., Hematopathology fellow, and Benjamin Saylor, M.D., Molecular Genetic Pathology fellow, who were both UAB AP/CP residents. Tyler Clemmensen, M.D., is a UAB GYN/GU fellow who recently completed his UAB Hematopathology fellowship, and Nirupama Singh, M.D., Ph.D., was a Molecular Genetic Pathology fellow who is now starting a Transfusion Medicine fellowship.

Welcome to all UAB Pathology's incoming residents and fellows! They join the 189 total fellows and residents total in the UAB Graduate Medical Education program.