The Division of Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce the addition of Elizabeth Staley, M.D., Ph.D., to our faculty, effective January 27, 2022. Dr. Staley re-joins the department as an assistant professor, returning to UAB where she received both her doctorate of immunology and her doctor of medicine degrees.

Staley returns from the west coast where she was an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington Medical Center.

As a medical student, in 2014 she received the William Boyd Medal in Pathology, given on behalf of the Alabama Association of Pathologists and the faculty of the UAB Department of Pathology to the graduating medical student whose performance in Pathology throughout their medical school career, “has been most outstanding.”

Staley was a resident in clinical pathology at UAB Pathology, as well as a fellow in Hemostasis. During her fellowship she also worked as an Instructor, for the Transfusion Medicine service. She completed a second fellowship in Transfusion Medicine, at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

She is board certified in clinical pathology and blood banking/transfusion medicine, and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Pathology, AABB, and the Academy of Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. In addition, she serves as a peer reviewer for several pathology journals.

Staley has lectured for multiple courses throughout her career, on topics ranging from hematology to apheresis and transfusion. She is a well published author, and having published primary research as well as numerous reviews and book chapters.