BIRMINGHAM, AL — Mark N. Hadley, M.D., professor of neurosurgery at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), has been named to the endowed professorship in neurosurgery by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system.

Hadley, who is also the director of the neurosurgery residency training program and the neurosurgery spine fellowship program, as well as the UAB football team neurosurgeon, is the first holder of the endowed professorship.

Hadley earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York and did post-graduate training at the University of California, Davis, and the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix.

He is past president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and has been listed in the America’s Top Doctors publication since 2001. He has authored nearly 150 publications in neurosurgery and spinal cord injury and was lead author on Neurosurgery’s international neurosurgical guidelines on spinal cord issues.