Program Director

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

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. She attends with residents and students on the inpatient wards and in clinic. She founded and directs the UAB STEP (Staging Transition for Every Patient) clinic which serves as a medical home for adults with complex diseases of childhood. 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. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time in the outdoors with her husband and 4 children.

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 where she served as chief resident during her final year of residency in 2021. She joined our program leadership team as an assistant program director in 2021 following her graduation. She currently serves as a primary care provider for adults and children at our UAB Leeds Med-Peds Faculty Practice and directs our Embedded Primary Care Scholars program and Med-Peds Ambulatory Immersion rotation. She also serves as an attending in the pediatric resident Primary Care Clinic. Her clinical interests include primary care education, improving healthcare transitions for adults with chronic pediatric medical conditions, reducing weight stigma in medicine, mental health and eating disorders.

Chief Resident

PGY-4

Megan Weber is a Saint Louis native who traveled across the state for her undergraduate and medical school degrees at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She had several wonderful Med Peds mentors there who demonstrated the breadth of opportunities the field offers. Weber was introduced to UAB when her husband matched into the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency program. She has been fortunate to train at UAB and Children’s of Alabama, two quaternary care institutions that prioritize resident education while providing strong clinical volume, world-class teaching and lifelong friendships with her coresidents. She describes the program as a true family and has found it a joy to serve as chief resident this year. Weber is passionate about caring for hospitalized children and adults and hopes to practice at an academic center with a focus on medical education. Outside of work, she enjoys being active outdoors, hosting dinner parties with friends and reading!

Rachel Cawley

Program Coordinator