Program Leadership

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.

John M. Bridges, M.D., MS, assistant professor in the division of pediatric rheumatology, earned his medical degree and completed his combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS.  He completed his combined fellowship in adult and pediatric rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL.  He joined our program leadership team as an assistant program director in 2026.  He is the founder and co-director of the Bridge to Adult Care from Childhood for Young Adults with Rheumatic Disease (BACCYARD) pediatric-to-adult rheumatology transition program at UAB and serves as the pediatric rheumatology fellowship assistant program director.  He serves as a clinical skills scholar in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.  His interests include simulation in medical education, pediatric-to-adult transition care in rheumatology, and reproductive health in patients with rheumatic disease.

Andy Marshall, M.D.

Assistant Program Director

Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine

2026-2027 Chief Resident

PGY-3

Daniel Cooper was born in Kentucky and was raised in Paris, KY where the most spoken language was far from French. He attended Transylvania University for his undergraduate education and later medical school at University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY where he fell in love with Med-Peds both because of the patients and the stellar Med-Peds physicians he saw care for them and mentor him. During residency interviews, his second look at UAB solidified his reason for wanting to come to Birmingham: witnessing how everyone treated one another. He was elated to match at UAB and, upon starting residency, Daniel's love of the program has been solidified while among his co-residents and the humble yet stellar faculty and program directors. After residency, Daniel hopes to continue to make an impact through a job in Med-Peds primary care at an academic institution where he can continue his pursuit of both lifelong learning and teaching.

Rachel Cawley

Program Coordinator