Posted on June 28, 2002 at 4:25 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has established an endowed professorship in the name of Dr. William E. Dismukes, in honor of his accomplishments and long service to the university. Dismukes is currently professor and director of the division of infectious diseases in UAB’s department of medicine.

Dismukes is also vice chair of the department of medicine and has directed the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program since 1981. The endowment will be used to support the activities of the residency training program.

Dismukes is a 1961 graduate of the University of Alabama and earned his medical degree in 1964 from the Medical College of Alabama. Following residency training at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he served as an epidemic intelligence service officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Dismukes joined the faculty at UAB in 1971. He has been the principal investigator for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group since 1978. The study group is a consortium of investigators at over 50 academic medical centers with a research focus on prevention and treatment of systemic fungal infections.