September 15, 2006

Birmingham, Ala. -- Mark N. Hadley, M.D., professor of neurosurgery at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), has been named to the Charles A. and Patsy Collat Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery, by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system.

The Collat Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery is a conversion of the Endowed Professorship in Neurosurgery, established last February, with Hadley as its inaugural holder. The conversion of the professorship to an endowed chair is made possible by generous donations from the Collats and others.

Hadley, an internationally recognized leader in spinal diseases and spinal cord injury, also is the director of the neurosurgery residency training program and the neurosurgery spine fellowship program. In addition, he serves as team neurosurgeon for UAB Blazers football.

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.