The UAB Department of Pathology is excited to welcome two new faculty starting September 3: Farzad Esfahani, M.D., as assistant professor, Anatomic Pathology, and Adam Wilberger, M.D., as assistant professor, Laboratory Medicine.
Dr. Esfahani, an Iranian native, joins UAB Pathology from private practice, moving from Sebastian, Florida, where he was a staff pathologist and independent contractor at Sebastian River Medical Center. He completed undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Oklahoma, in the state where he has lived since moving to the US. Esfahani became a US resident in 1987.
He completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa campus. Esfahani spent time at the University of South Alabama completing residencies in anatomic pathology and cytopathology. There, Esfahani he worked for a year as a clinical assistant professor in the USA College of Medicine, departments of Emergency Medicine and Pathology. Before working as a pathologist, Esfahani worked as an emergency room physician at hospitals in Alabama and Florida.
Congratulations to six of our Department faculty who learned recently that they will receive promotions effective October 1, 2019.
The following faculty were each promoted from assistant to associate professor, tenure-earning track:
Daniel Atherton, M.D., Forensic Pathology
Huma Fatima, M.D., Anatomic Pathology
Rajeskaran Namakkal Soorappan, Ph.D., Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Todd Stevens, M.D., Anatomic Pathology
On Tuesday evening, August 27, a group of UAB School of Medicine students making up the Pathology Interest Group gathered in the Surgical Pathology conference room in North Pavilion, Room 3554, named in honor of Dr. Vishnu Reddy, Professor, Anatomic Pathology. They came together as part of a co-enrollment course between Forensic Medicine and Public Health, "How the Dead Can Teach the Living," led by Brandi McCleskey, M.D., Assistant Professor, Forensic Pathology. The course invited students in the interest group to come view slides on the room's multi-head microscopes. The session covered cardiac, pulmonary, renal, and gastrointestinal pathology topics, and was taught by residents Danielle Fasciano, Chief Resident, Bo Chen, PGY-4, Taylor Pickens, PGY-3, and Oraine Snaith, PGY-2.
Images from the slides under the microscopes are projected on screens around the room for consultation, to discuss interesting cases and possible diagnoses. 
UAB medical students getting a closer look at some of the work pathologists do.
A panel led by pathology residents will be held next month, September 10th, 5-7 p.m. in Volker Hall to discuss pathology as a career.
On Friday, August 16, the Department of Pathology gathered for a daylong Research Retreat at Regions Field near downtown Birmingham. The event was an opportunity for trainees, staff, and faculty to gather to discuss challenges and opportunities in research, including several outstanding presentations.
Organized by Rakesh Patel, Ph.D., Vice Chair for Research and Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, with the help of staff members Samantha Gromko and Traci Oden, the retreat included more than 100 attendees.
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