Professor
Heart, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Lung Transplant Chief

Areas of Interest 
Complex redo cardiac surgery, left ventricular aneurysm repair, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplantation, lung transplantation, donation after circulatory death donors, early management and hormonal replacement therapy in potential heart and lung donors

Get your walking shoes ready: The Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation (SVSF) presents a fundraising campaign to celebrate Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Awareness Month this September.

Professor
Charles W. Breaux, Sr., and Ann K. Breaux Endowed Professorship in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Program Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency

Areas of Interest
robotic-assisted and video-assisted thoracic surgery, lung and esophageal cancer surgery, gastroesophageal reflux disease, paraesophageal hernias, esophageal motility disorders

In 2023, the UAB Department of Surgery is highlighting the many accomplished alumni of its General Surgery Residency Program and associated divisional fellowships.

The UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery celebrates Women in Medicine month by highlighting women in UAB's trauma, burn, and wound care services.

UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Assistant Professor Kristen Wong, M.D., and Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Assistant Professor Sergio Sanchez-Luna, M.D., recently joined UAB MedCast to discuss achalasia and highlight the peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) program at UAB.

Image Credit: UAB News, Steve Wood (UAB)The cross-collaborative, UAB Medicine xenotransplantation study, “First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model," was recently recognized as a 2023 American Journal of Transplantation's Outstanding Article.

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Assistant Professor Rongbing Xie, Dr.P.H., MPH, was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from Forge AHEAD Center for her research study, "Addressing Cardiometabolic Disease in People Living with HIV: Developing Strategies to Improve Diet and Exercise by Assessing Multi-level Social Determinants of Health."

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
optimizing health care delivery systems, evaluating comparative effectiveness of surgical interventions, statistics, econometrics, simulation modeling, clinical outcomes research