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Dr. Samantha Baker, a UAB general surgery resident, presents her research, "Enhanced Recovery Pathway after Surgery Benefits Elderly Patients at the VA," at the Department of Surgery's 2019 Resident Research Day on June 11. (Photo by Ashton Cook)

UAB Department of Surgery residents came out to the West Pavilion Conference Center earlier this month to present their research at the 10th Annual Resident Research Day.

More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. In this week’s installment, learn about our Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship.

Wound Healing Society President Dr. Sashwati Roy presents Dr. Praveen Arany and UAB plastic surgeon Dr. Timothy King with commemorative plaques at the WHS 31st Annual Meeting, May 7-10 in San Antonio, Texas, in recognition of their service as the program's co-chairs. (Photo via woundheal.org)

Associate Professor of Surgery Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., director of research for the Division of Plastic Surgery and associate director of the UAB Plastic Surgery Residency Program, recently served as co-chair of the Wound Healing Society’s 31st Annual Meeting program last month in San Antonio, Texas.

General surgery resident Quince Gibson, M.D., was presented with this year’s UAB Emergency Medicine Residency Program Resident Consultant of the Year Award yesterday at the Department of Emergency Medicine’s residency graduation reception at The Florentine.

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health recently awarded Daniel Chu, M.D., a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award for his research project, “Enhancing Health Literacy in Surgery to Eliminate Surgical Disparities for African-Americans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.”

Plastic surgery resident Dr. Shreyas Makwana receives the Friend of the Emergency Department Award from Children's of Alabama's Emergency Medicine team on June 5, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Marjorie White)

For his kindness and attention to patient care, Shreyas Makwana, M.D., was presented with the Friend of the Emergency Department Award from Children’s of Alabama Emergency Medicine last week. Makwana is one of the Plastic Surgery Residency Program's second-year rising chief residents.

Former assistant professor in the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Courtney Balentine, M.D., MPH, recently presented his research on Virtual Acute Care for Elders at the American Geriatrics Society’s 2019 meeting, where he was also named one of the recipients of this year’s AGS Jeffrey H. Silverstein Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Surgical and Related Medical Specialties.

Participants of this year's UAB Healthcare Leadership Academy graduated from the program in May.

Last month, the Division of Pediatric Surgery’s Robert Russell, M.D., and Department of Surgery Administrative Director Megan Yeatts, MBA, graduated from the UAB Healthcare Leadership Academy training program.

Dr. Abhisek Parmar discusses hernia care with passersby at a community education event in honor of National Hernia Awareness Month on June 4 in the second-floor atrium at North Pavilion. (Photo by Ashton Cook)

Hernia treatment has advanced over the past few years, becoming more sophisticated and efficient as new techniques and technology continue to develop within the specialty.

Dr. Britney Corey

Assistant Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Medical Student Surgery Clerkship Director Britney Corey, M.D., was recently appointed to the UAB School of Medicine Admissions Selection Committee, after having previously served on the Admissions Committee.

As former UAB Medical Student Surgery Clerkship Director Richard Stahl, M.D., steps down from his position within the clerkship, new UAB Surgery recruit Robert Cannon, M.D., has agreed to take on the role of assistant surgery clerkship director this June, at the beginning of Block 1.

Beth Comeaux, MSN, CNP, lead outpatient nurse practitioner in liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgery at UAB, was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners to support her work on the UAB Hepatobiliary Outcomes Database.

Third-year medical students from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, will soon have the opportunity to train at UAB as part of the Department of Surgery’s medical student clerkship program.

Associate Professor of Transplantation and Comprehensive Transplant Institute Director Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, has been selected as the inaugural Mark H. Deierhoi, M.D., Endowed Professor in the Department of Surgery.

Medical Student Surgery Clerkship Director Britney Corey, M.D., was named the first-ever Medical Student Career Advisor of the Year at the UAB School of Medicine’s 2019 Birmingham Campus Awards Reception on Friday, May 17, at the UAB National Alumni Society House.

Four UAB medical students were named winners of the Department of Surgery’s annual medical student awards at the 2019 School of Medicine Birmingham Campus Awards reception on Friday, May 17. Among those students, three of them will soon join the department as general surgery residents after matching into the program in March.

Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of the Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes James K. Kirklin, M.D., was recently named the recipient of the 2020 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Lifetime Achievement Award.

More than 20 students will join the Department of Surgery this summer to participate in one of three summer research programs hosted by the department every year:

Forty faculty from the UAB departments of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine met up for a “Match.com-style” mixer in the West Pavilion Conference Center last Wednesday, May 8, to brainstorm potential research collaborations, as part of the new BME/Surgery/Anesthesiology Collaborative Pilot Research Program.