Program Director

Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of General Internal Medicine

Bio

Carlie Stein Somerville is a Birmingham native and received her doctorate from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2013. She completed Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency in 2017 and served as chief resident during her final year of residency. Her clinical duties include seeing patients of all ages in a Med-Peds primary care practice, attending on the inpatient teaching wards and resident clinics. She is passionate about primary care across the lifespan, medical education, care of underserved patients, advocacy and about improving transition for teens and young adults with chronic diseases of childhood as they move from the pediatric to adult health system. She is the lead physician of a new multidisciplinary STEP (Staging Transition for Every Patient) clinic which will transition young adults with complex diseases of childhood from the Children's of Alabama to the UAB Medicine Health System.

Assistant Program Director

Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of Academic General Pediatrics

Channing Brown, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics, earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. Dr. Brown completed her combined internal medicine/pediatric residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL. She will serve as an attending in the resident Primary Care Clinic as well as a primary care provider at UAB Leeds for adults and children. In addition to her clinical roles she will also serve as an assistant program director for the UAB Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program. Her clinical interests include pediatric and adult primary care, improving healthcare transitions for adults with chronic pediatric medical conditions, reducing weight stigma in medicine, mental health, and eating disorders. 

Assistant Program Director

Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of General Internal Medicine

Brian May is a native of Chattanooga, TN. Prior to medical school, he worked as a middle school science teacher and completed a Masters in Education at Arizona State University then completed his doctorate of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2014. He went on to finish his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at University of Cincinnati in 2018 and then served as chief resident for there in 2018 - 2019, joining the UAB Med-Peds team the following year! In his clinical duties, he serves as a dual hospitalist in the UAB Hospitalist division as well as Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children’s of Alabama. He is passionate about DEI, health disparities, medical education and medical education research around resident assessment and competency based medical education, feedback, and coaching. In his spare time, he likes to mountain bike at Oak Mountain and canoe on the Cahaba River with his 3 children!

Hometown

Little Rock, AR

Undergraduate

Auburn University

Medical School

University of Arkansas

Career/Clinical Interests

Adult Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Why did you choose UAB Med-Peds?

I honestly was not that excited about UAB at first blush. I had lived in Alabama before and was pretty confident I never would again. I applied because I knew there were strong medicine and pediatric categorical programs. During my visit, I was absolutely blown away. It took me my interview diner and interview to know this was the place for me. The residents were super smart, they were inviting, and I could tell they were extremely well trained.

What are the strengths of UAB Med-Peds? What have you enjoyed most about your UAB Med-Peds residency experience?

Our strengths depend on a few things. One is the leadership. JR and Carlie have built a program that runs smoothly, where the residents get along, and where you know that you have someone going to bat for you at every turn. Second is the strengths of the respective categoricals. I do not think you can find many programs which have medicine, peds, and med-peds department as strong as we do. Third is the location. Birmingham is a hidden gem both from a city and medicine perspective. We have a lot of amenities that larger cities have without the downsides of it being difficult to live in or overcrowded. UAB is huge and sees everything in the state without things being diverted to other teaching hospitals.

What do you love about UAB Med-Peds?

Strong clinical program with non-pretentious, easy-going people.

Birmingham's Best Food and/or Drink

Little Donkey for food, Ghost Train Smoothie Sour Series for drink

Rachel Cawley

Program Coordinator