2025-2026 UAB HSR Trainees and Program Leadership
Front Row (L to R): Rebecca Williams, Geri Davis, Nicole Rademacher, Anais Mahone, Elliott Botelho, Andrea Davis, & Gabriel Tajeu
Back Row (L to R): Madeline Gibson, Emily Levitan, Will Bradford, Petra Sprik, Josh Lewis, Jordi Garcia-Diaz & Mike Mugavero
The COERE education and training programs are anchored by the UAB Health Services Research Training Program (UAB HSR), funded by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Research Training Award (T32) from 2002 to June 2025 and the Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM) since 2020. This full-time multidisciplinary mentored research training program supports postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral trainees in health services research and is led by Program Directors Mike Mugavero, MD, MHSc, and Emily Levitan, ScD. Our research and training base includes mentors and trainees across UAB Schools including Business, Dentistry, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and the College of Arts and Science.
In July 2025, AHRQ T32 funding for the UAB HSR Training Program was abruptly paused and remains in limbo. Program alumni - 18 who are UAB faculty (as of Oct 1, 2025) along with dozens of others across the nation - have been incredibly productive, including securing extramural research awards at levels many times above the national average for T32 program alumni.
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List of Potential Mentors
- Michael Mugavero, MD, MHSc - Professor, Infectious Diseases
- Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH- Professor, Pediatric Oncology and Director for the Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship
- Kristy Broman, MD - Associate Professor, Surgery
- Greer Burkholder, MD, MSPH - Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
- Herb Chen, MD- Professor, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
- Andrea Cherrington, MD, MPH- Professor, Preventive Medicine
- Daniel Chu, MD- Professor, Surgery
- Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD- Professor, Pediatrics - Adolescent Medicine
- Kaylee Crockett, PhD, Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
- Karen Cropsey, PsyD.- Professor, Psychology
- Mark Dransfield, MD- Professor and Chair/UAB Department of Medicine
- Raegan Durant, Professor and Associate Dean, Preventive Medicine
- Gareth Dutton, PhD, MA- Endowed Professor of Diabetes Prevention and Control
- Annabelle Fonseca, MD, MHS- Associate Professor, Surgery
- Mona Fouad, MD, MPH – Professor - Emeritus and Professor Emerita and Division Director of Preventive Medicine
- Gaurav Goyal, MD - Assistant Professor, Hematology and Oncology
- Ronnie "Matt" Gravett, MD, MSPH - Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Renee Heffron, PhD- Professor and Director of the Center for AIDS Research, Medicine-Infectious Diseases
- Carrie Howell, PhD - Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine
- Anand Iyer, MD, MSPH - Associate Professor, Plumonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine
- Elizabeth Jackson, MD, MPH - Professor, Cardiovascular Disease
- Richard Kennedy, PhD- Professor, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
- Wendy Landier, PhD, RN - Professor, Pediatric - Hematology & Oncology
- Ryan Melvin, PhD - Associate Professor and Endowed Faculty Scholar for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning, Anesthesiology
- Nita Limdi, PharmD, PhD, MSPH- Professor, Neurology
- Tapan Mehta, PhD - Professor, Family & Community Medicine
- Christine Muzny, MD- Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Timiya Nolan, PhD - Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine
- Gabriela Oates, PhD- Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
- Rena Patel, MD - Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
- Maria Pisu, PhD, MPH- Professor, Preventive Medicine
- Aadia Rana, MD - Professor, Infectious Diseases
- Gabrielle Rocque, MD- Associate Professor, Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology; Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, & Palliative Care
- Kenneth Saag, MD, MSc- Anna Lois Waters Endowed Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
- Isabel Scarinci, PhD, MPH - Professor, OB/GYN
- Emily Spangler, MD- Associate Professor, Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
- Anna Sorace, PhD - Associate Professor, Radiology
- Akila Subramaniam, MD- Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Gabriel Tajeu, DrPH, MPH - Associate Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine & Population Science
- Thomas S. Justin, PhD - Associate Professor, Psychiatry - Behavioral Neurobiology
- Alan Tita, MD- John C. Hauth MD, Endowed Professor & Senior Vice Chair Research & Innovation; Director, Center for Women’s Reproductive Health; Associate Dean, Global and Women’s Health
- Rodney Tucker, MD, MMM, FAAHPM - Professor, Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
- Lauren Walter, MD - Professor, Emergency Medicine
- Lisa Zubkoff, PhD - Professor, Preventive Medicine