The Department of Pathology is honored to announce the promotion and tenure of three of our esteemed faculty colleagues for 2021, effective October 1, 2021:

Sameer Al Diffalha, M.D., Anatomic Pathology -- Promotion to Associate Professor 
Dr. Al Diffalha is promoted from assistant to associate professor in the Division of Anatomic Pathology. He is co-director of the UAB Tissue Biorepository and associate scientist with the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Frida Rosenblum, M.D., Anatomic Pathology -- Promotion to Associate Professor 
Dr. Rosenblum is promoted from assistant to associate professor in the Division of Anatomic Pathology. She is the director of the Cytopathology Fellowship Program for the Department. Dr. Rosenblum is a recent winner of the 2021 UAB School of Medicine Dean's Excellence Junior Award for Teaching, and in 2020 received the SOM Argus Award for Best Educator of the Hematology/Oncology Module. 

Rajasekaran Namakkal-Soorappan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology -- Award of Tenure
Dr. Namakkal-Soorappan is an associate scientist with the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, and the Center for Exercise Medicine. He has a joint appointment with the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor. Dr. Namakkal-Soorappan has several active grants funding his studies of reductive stress on the heart and on aging.

Congratulations to our colleagues on their hard work and dedication to the UAB Department of Pathology.