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UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Associate Professor Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, was recently selected as a participant in the 2023 cohort of the Momentum Leaders in Medicine at UAB.

Get ready for an afternoon of adventure and fun!

Together with the Comprehensive Transplant Institute and UAB Medicine, the UAB Department of Surgery hosted the 4th International Congress of the International Society of Uterus Transplantation (ISUTx).

The UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery has matched four new fellows into the Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship for 2024: Tyler Johnson, D.O., Taylor Norton, M.D., Alexis Scheuermann, M.D., and Sarah Weiner, M.D.

The Department of Surgery is honored to welcome two new faculty members - Maria Helena Lima, M.D., and Demario Overstreet, Ph.D.

The UAB Department of Surgery is proud to announce that Daniel Chu, M.D., MSPH, FACS, FASCRS, will serve the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery as division director, effective October 1, 2023.

The UAB Department of Surgery mourns the loss of Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Professor Emeritus Joaquin S. Aldrete, M.D., M.S.

UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Associate Professor Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, has been accepted into the Association of Women Surgeons’ Shining Star Leadership Program.

The UAB Department of Surgery is making the most of the end of summer with several team-building exercises in the great outdoors.

Have you been diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism or an endocrine-related condition that needs surgery? The UAB Section of Endocrine Surgery is honored to serve and treat patients of Alabama and beyond as one of the southeast’s premiere endocrine research and surgery centers.

The UAB Section of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Division of Pediatric Cardiology has been ranked in the top 20 children’s hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery by USA News & World Report.

The UAB Department of Surgery is excited to announce its inaugural Staff Town Hall, which will take place on Tuesday, September 5, at 8:30 a.m. in the Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium.

With the start of a new academic year and with many exciting visitors and events coming to UAB Surgery, it’s a great time to reacquaint ourselves with UAB dress code policy and put our best foot forward!

Members of the UAB Department of Surgery including Fay Fletcher Kerner Endowed Chair Herbert Chen, M.D., FACS, Assistant Division Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery Daniel Chu, M.D., MSPH, FACS, FASCRS, and Division of Surgical Oncology Division Director Vikas Dudeja, M.D., FACS, presented and participated in the 2023 Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty Association (AAPI) Leadership Course.

Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, the United States Air and Space Force Surgeon General, visited UAB to learn about the unique and successful military-civilian partnerships here.

Daniel Cox, M.D., associate professor in the UAB Department of Surgery’s Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, was recently named as one of three new associate chief medical officers for UAB Hospital.

Dale Davis, RN, BSN, is having a full circle moment. Last month, after 29 years at UAB, Davis retired. After one week of retirement, Davis is returning to work where his UAB career first started - in the UAB Emergency Department as a nurse.

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor Kristen Wong, M.D., and Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Assistant Professor Sergio Sanchez-Luna, M.D., recently joined UAB MedCast to discuss achalasia and highlight the peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) program at UAB.

UAB Division of Pediatric Surgery Associate Professor Robert Russell, M.D., MPH, was appointed to the Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine’s Faculty Council for a term of three years, beginning August 2023.

Herbert Chen, M.D., FACS, the UAB Department of Surgery Fay Fletcher Kerner Endowed Chair, and Helen Krontiras, M.D., the director of the Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery were both recognized by the Association of Women Surgeons Foundation.

UAB Department of Surgery research resident Bayley Jones, M.D., was recently recognized at the 9th World Congress of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society as the ERAS Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Abstract Presentation Winner in Lisbon, Portugal.

The UAB General Surgery Residency Program commemorated chief residents, alongside supporting faculty and residents across the program, at awards day and a chief resident dinner.

The UAB Department of Surgery, in partnership with a host of generous contributors, has started a new program to help General Surgery Residents begin their careers with the tools they need.

UAB Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Assistant Professor Lily Gutnik, M.D., has been selected for the 2023-2024 Union for International Cancer Control (UICC’s) Young Leaders Programme.

UAB Division of Surgical Oncology Assistant Professor Kristy Broman, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, and UAB Division of Hematology and Oncology Associate Professor John Dubay, M.D., joined UAB MedCast to examine treatments and therapies for melanoma, a type of skin cancer.

The UAB Department of Surgery's Junior Faculty Exchange Program involves a reciprocal exchange of assistant and associate professor-level faculty from UAB and several intuitions across the nation during the academic year.

Several members of the UAB Department of Surgery have been selected to participate in UAB Medicine leadership programs.

The UAB Department of Surgery’s Professor Aurelio Galli, Ph.D., D.Sc., has been appointed as the Dr. Champ Lyons Endowed Chair in General Surgery and Associate Professor Britney Corey, M.D., MACM, FACS, has been selected for the Dr. Marshall Urist Professorship.

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Rongbing Xie, Dr.P.H., MPH, was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from Forge AHEAD Center for her research study, "Addressing Cardiometabolic Disease in People Living with HIV: Developing Strategies to Improve Diet and Exercise by Assessing Multi-level Social Determinants of Health."

Photo Credit: UAB University RelationsIt was just another ordinary, early morning for Patrick Jones. While his wife, Debbie, was out attending to a sick horse on their South Carolina farm, Patrick ambled to the kitchen to make his daily cup of coffee. That journey to the kitchen would be the last thing Patrick remembered until he regained consciousness with Debbie by his side, as paramedics loaded him for emergency transport.