The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomes eight new faculty members during the month of September. Please join us in making them feel at home!
Terry Bierd, M.D., Associate Professor in Neonatology
Dean Bruce, M.D., Associate Professor in Neonatology
Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., Professor in Adolescent Medicine
Stewart Hill, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Lydia Marcus, M.D., Instructor in Pediatric Neurology
Laura "Katie" Metrock, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Susan Powell, M.D., Assistant Professor in Academic General Pediatrics
Hope Pritchett Wilson, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Terry Bierd, M.D., Associate Professor in Neonatology, earned her medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Beird completed her internship and pediatric residency at the University of South Alabama Medical Center and a neonatology fellowship at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. After completing her training, Dr. Beird worked as a neonatologist at Brookwood Medical Center and served as the medical director of the NICU at St. Vincent's Hospital before working with Newborn Care, P.C. in Birmingham, Alabama. 
Dean Bruce, M.D., Associate Professor in Neonatology, earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Bruce completed his internship and pediatric residency at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky and completed his neonatology fellowship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. After completing his training, he served as the director of Neonatal Followup and Neonatal Intensive Care at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. He then joined Newborn Care, P.C. as a neonatologist before becoming the medical director of the NICU at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. 
Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., Professor in Adolescent Medicine, earned her medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Coyne-Beasley completed her internal medicine/pediatric residency at Duke University Medical Center and her clinical scholars fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In addition, she received a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Coyne-Beasley was previously a Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Director of the North Carolina Child Health Research Network, and Director of Adolescent Medicine Education in the Department of Pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Coyne-Beasley joins UAB Pediatrics as the division director of Adolescent Medicine and vice-chair of Community Engagement. Her research/clinical interests include: sexual and reproductive health and injury prevention. 
Stewart Hill, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Academic General Pediatrics, earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Dr. Hill completed his pediatric residency at Louisiana State University/Children's Hospital of New Orleans. From 2013-2017 he was a general pediatrician with Children's of Alabama in Pell City. This past academic year, he was an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hospital Medicine with the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Lydia Marcus, M.D., Instructor in Pediatric Neurology, earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Marcus completed her child neurology residency at UAB and is currently training in a neuroimmunology and multiple sclerosis fellowship at UAB. Her research/clinical interests include neuroimmunology, pediatric multiple sclerosis and autoimmune encephalitis.
Laura "Katie" Metrock, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Metrock completed her pediatric residency, pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship and pediatric neuro-oncology fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She additionally completed a certificate program in translational research at Emory University. Dr. Metrock was previously a pediatric hematology/oncology junior faculty member at Emory Univeristy.
Susan Powell, M.D., Assistant Professor in Academic General Pediatrics, earned her medical degree and completed her pediatric residency from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Upon completing her residency, Dr. Powell has practiced general pediatrics in various private practices in Houston, Texas and San Francisco, California. She worked in the urgent care clinic of the emergency room at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas for 12 years, ultimately serving as the assistant director of the clinic. Dr. Powell was a founding physician of MacArthur Pediatrics in Irving, Texas. 
Hope Pritchett Wilson, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, earned her medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Wilson completed her pediatric residency and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship trainings at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center/Children’s Hospital of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her research/clinical interests include: disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis.