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Assistant Professor Abhisek Parmar, M.D., FACS, discusses how physicians manage chronic pain following inguinal hernia repair surgery, the multimodal treatment options available at UAB Medicine, and why it is so important for physicians to pay special attention to the amount of opioid medications they are prescribing patients.

Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program Robert Cannon, M.D., shares the protocol for liver transplant for patients with Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma.

Members of the Dudeja Lab, led by Division of Surgical Oncology Director Vikas Dudeja, MBBS, published, “New Insights Into the Cancer–Microbiome–Immune Axis: Decrypting a Decade of Discoveries” in the Frontiers in Immunology journal.

Professor and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation Michael Hanaway, M.D., was named the 2021 Champ Lyons Outstanding Clinician Award.

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Clinical Research Coordinator I Alexis Carter, MPH, was awarded the Living Donor Community of Practice (LDCOP) Travel Award. Carter is a member of the TEAM Lab.

Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Colin Martin, M.D., FACS, and DEI Committee Member and General Surgery Resident Meixi Ma, M.D., M.S., will lead a DEI Q&A on Twitter on Monday, Jun. 21  at 3 p.m.

Although Match Day 2021 did not look exactly like match day in years past due to the COVID-19 outbreak, fourth-year medical students across the country engaged online through social media, sharing where they were matched. While it was impossible to have everyone in the same room at one time, the excitement could still be felt virtually.

Associate Vice Chair for Health Services Research and Co-Leader of Surgical Grand Rounds Daniel Chu, M.D., has been named a 2021 Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar.

Incoming General Surgery Resident Emily Baird, M.D., was named an abstract winner in the American College of Physicians (ACP) National Abstract Competition.

Bin Ren, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, has been named the William D. Jordan, Jr. M.D., Endowed Professor in Vascular Sciences.

National Women’s Health Month is held every year during the month of May. This year, the Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery wants to encourage women to learn more about the signs, symptoms, and screening options for breast cancer.

Gastrointestinal Surgery Professor Richard Hanney, M.D., has been named the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) Clinical Network Director for Surgery.

The UAB School of Medicine (SOM) fourth-year medical students (MS4) have awarded Director of the General Surgery Residency Program Britney Corey, M.D., MACM, FACS, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.

General Surgery Resident Cozette Killian, M.D., was awarded the 2021 Dale Benos Scholars Award by the UAB Nephrology Research and Training Center (NRTC).

Assistant Professor and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program Robert Cannon, M.D., FACS, was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH)K08 Grant. 

Associate Professor and Director of the Children’s of Alabama Trauma Program Robert Russell, M.D., MPH, was awarded the 2021 American College of Surgeons (ACS)/American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) Health Policy Scholarship.

The Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy is pleased to match with Calvin Williams, D.O., in the 2022-23 Vascular Surgery Fellowship Position.

This year, the annual Department of Surgery faculty retreat was held virtually on Friday, Apr. 30 and focused on leadership development.

Recently, the Department of Surgery named four professors to newly established professorships as well as one professor to a newly established chair. The below professorships and chairs are listed in alphabetical order of the holding faculty member.

The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) recently held its 41st Annual Meeting, led by local arrangements co-chairs, Professor John Porterfield, M.D., and Chief of the Endocrine Surgery Section Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP.

Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Colin Martin, M.D., FACS, published “Reassessing career pathways of surgical leaders: An examination of surgical leaders’ early accomplishments” in the American Journal of Surgery.

Professor Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., will depart UAB for the Department of Surgery at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, effective Jun. 4. He will serve as the chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery.

Each year, the department hosts a Resident Research Day, a scientific forum that gives residents from across the department the opportunity to present their own research projects and discuss their topics with an audience.

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery Director of Education Kim Hendershot, M.D., was recently elected as vice-chair of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Graduate Surgical Education (GSE) committee.

This week, the UAB Department of Surgery is highlighting former general surgery resident, Marianne Cusick, M.D., now assistant professor of surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Cusick graduated the program in 2013.

Each year, the Amputee Coalition recognizes the month of April as Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month (LLAM) to honor its community and educate others about limb loss and limb difference.

A group of UAB researchers developed a web-based decision support tool in their recent publication, “Patient, Nurse, Medical Assistant, and Surgeon Perspectives Inform the Development of a Decision Support Tool for Inguinal Hernia Surgery: A Qualitative Analysis” in the American Journal of Surgery.

General Surgery Resident PGY1 Haddon Mullins, M.D., alongside UAB Medicine Associate Dean of Clinical Education James Willig, M.D., was featured in a UAB MedCast podcast series about medical education.

A team of department faculty and trainees recently published their research “Prognostic Impact of Tumor Size on Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Recurrence May Have Racial Variance” in Pancreas.