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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.

Last month, UAB was the meeting place for a global gathering of Air Force Rescue personnel. Hosted by the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, the Pararescue Medical Operations Advisory Board meeting is held annually to discuss the progress and future of the medical training aspect of the Air Force Pararescuemen, or PJs as they’re commonly known.

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor Drew Gunnells, M.D., alongside Rogeemon Jacob, M.D., and Moh’d Khushman, M.D., discusses the major breakthroughs informing multidisciplinary colorectal cancer care.

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery Assistant Professor Lily Gutnik, M.D., will participate in the 2022 Multilevel Intervention Training Institute (MLTI) which begins January 20.

Chief of the Section of Melanoma and Sarcoma Surgery Ashley Holder, M.D., will join Physiological Reviews journal early career editorial board.

Photo credit: Amanda AbbettThere is no worse feeling then getting to your car after a long day of work, only to find you’ve locked your keys in your car or your battery is dead. Well, maybe commuting to work and getting a flat tire on campus.

General Surgery Resident Connie Shao, M.D., is featured in HemOnc Today’s article entitled “Studies offer insight into telehealth availability, patient use for cancer management.” 

The department is pleased to welcome Manu Kaushik, M.D., to the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery as an assistant professor.

Former UAB Division of Plastic Surgery Professor Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., in company with his colleagues, published “Changing Dynamics in Medical Education during COVID-19 Pandemic: Are Integrated Plastic Surgery Programs Adapting for Residency Applicants?” in the Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. 

The International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG) Board of Directors has selected Fay Fletcher Kerner Endowed Chair Herbert Chen, M.D., FACS, and Assistant Professor Renata Jaskula-Sztul, Ph.D., as the 2021 Robert F. Gagel ITOG Discovery Award recipients.

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Professor and Vice Chair of Perioperative Services Melanie Morris, M.D., FACS, FASCRS, was elected to the Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM) Faculty Council, effective January 2022.

The UAB Department of Surgery will travel to Orlando, Florida for the 17th Annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) Jan. 30-Feb. 3.

Assistant Professor Lily Gutnik, M.D., has been named associate scientist for the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) and the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB in the Cancer Control and Population Science program.

Baker (left) and Smithson (right)The UAB General Surgery Residency Program is pleased to congratulate Program Coordinator II Mario Baker on obtaining his Bachelors of Science in Information Systems and Resident Mary Smithson, M.D., M.S., on earning her Masters of Multidisciplinary Biomedical Sciences, with a concentration in genetics and genomics.

UAB General Surgery Residency Program Director Britney Corey, M.D., MACM, FACS, has named three new faculty as assistant program directors: Lily Gutnik, M.D., global surgery; Karin Hardiman, M.D., Ph.D., resident research; and George Yang, M.D., Ph.D., educational curriculum.

This month, Selwyn M. Vickers Endowed Scholar and Vice Chair of Health Services Research Daniel Chu, M.D., FACS, FASCRS, was featured in the SeamlessMD podcast episode, “Leveraging Digital Patient Engagement for ERAS & Health Literacy Strategies.”

One of the only programs of its kind, the UAB Department of Surgery Pre-College Research Internship for Students from Minority Backgrounds (PRISM) provides promising high school students, interested in careers in healthcare and medicine, with hands-on research experiences under the mentorship of surgeons and their peers.

Zain Hashmi, M.D., an assistant professor with the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, has been selected as one of five scholarship recipients by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST).

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor Robert Hollis, M.D., MSPH, has been named associate scientist for the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC).