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UAB’s Trauma Medical Director, Associate Professor Daniel B. Cox, M.D., was recently selected for promotion to full Colonel in the United States Air Force.

UAB’s Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery was well-represented in the trauma research presentations at the 17th American Surgical Congress (ASC) in Orlando.

General Surgery Resident Connie Shao, M.D., has been awarded the 2022 Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Writers Workshop Scholarship. 

March marks Women's History Month, and the UAB Department of Surgery Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee commends the team of women who have contributed so much to the department's past and future growth. The team of leaders in the UAB Surgery Chair's Office is highly-concentrated by powerful women who have proven careers in healthcare administration.

The UAB Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) has released its 2022 Annual Report for patients, providers, and the public to review.

Department of Surgery Professor and Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Colin Martin, M.D., FACS, was elected chair of the Society of University Surgeons Membership Committee.

Several Department of Surgery faculty and trainees were recently elected to the national Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society chapter at UAB.

UAB Department of Surgery Endocrine Surgery Fellow Andrea Gillis, M.D., was one of only 12 in the nation selected for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP).

The UAB Department of Surgery is pleased to open Junior Faculty Exchange Program selection for the 2022-2023 academic year.

General Surgery Resident Connie Shao, M.D., has been named to the editorial board of Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (DCR) as a member of the Class of 2022-2023 Reviewer’s Guild Team.

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Assistant Professor Lily Gutnik, M.D., has been named a UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health Scholar.

Vascular Surgery Integrated Resident Claire Motyl, M.D., was named a Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) fellow in training.

Selwyn M. Vickers Endowed Scholar and Vice Chair of Health Services Research Daniel Chu, M.D., FACS, FASCRS has been awarded the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine Professional Excellence Award. He is one of only three recipients for this prestigious award. 

Chief of Endocrine Surgery and Associate Professor Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, sat down with the Birmingham Mom Collective, an online publishing platform, to discuss thyroid health to mark the awareness month.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and the UAB Burn Center celebrated Tuesday, February 8 after Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin signed a proclamation declaring the week of February 6 – 12 Burn Awareness Week.

In honor of Black History Month, General Surgery Resident Katherine McElroy, M.D., and Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Colin Martin, M.D., FACS, sat down with Cardiothoracic Surgeon Allan Pickens, M.D., who completed his medical degree at UAB as well as his general surgery residency training.

With heavy hearts, the UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery shares the death of Richard (Dick) B. Shepard, emeritus professor, on February 5, 2022.

This year, the 17th Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) marked a return to an in-person meeting for attendees, vaccinated and masked, to join the congress from across the U.S.

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Associate Professor Karin Hardiman, M.D., Ph.D., has been awarded a National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute R01 award in the amount of $1.9 million over five years.

UAB General Surgery Resident, Marvi Tariq, M.D., was recently awarded the Association for Academic Surgery Outstanding Resident Research Award in the category of Clinical Outcomes at the 2022 Academic Surgical Congress.

PGY2 General Surgery Resident Hannah Ficarino, M.D., has been awarded an American College of Surgeons (ACS) 2022-2024 Resident Research Scholarship award.

Associate Professor and Chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, has been elected as the national Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Secretary.

Division of Plastic Surgery Associate Professor René Myers, M.D., has been elected to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS).

Advanced Aortic & Endovascular Surgery Fellow Sasha Still, M.D., received the Carolyn E. Reed Traveling Fellowship Award from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation.

Cozette Killian, M.D., MPH, general surgery research resident and member of Jayme Locke’s, M.D., MPH, UAB TEAM Lab, recently had an abstract accepted for oral presentation at the Young Investigator’s Forum at the Controversies in Transplantation meeting in Breckinridge, CO in March.

The UAB Department of Surgery is pleased to welcome Richard D. Betzold, M.D., FACS, to the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery as a clinical assistant professor.

Department of Surgery Staff Wellness Champion Kaycee Hair (right) and Chief Wellness Officer Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS (left), have launched a wellness calendar for the month of February that features self-care challenges each day of the week.

Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Rhiannon Deierhoi Reed, DrPH, has been named a member of the UAB Institutional Review Board for Human Use (IRB).

Director, of the UAB Pancreatobiliary Disease Center and Chief of the Section of Hepatopancreatobiliary Disease J. Bart Rose, M.D., alongside Rogeemon Jacob, M.D., and Moh’d Khushman, M.D., discusses the major breakthroughs informing multidisciplinary pancreatic cancer care.

According to UAB News, UAB Hospital received nine 2022 Women’s Choice Awards, including being named one of the 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experiences. It received numerous America’s Best Hospitals designations for women’s health practice areas.