More than 1,200 interns, residents and fellows train in every medical specialty at UAB in Birmingham, at our regional campuses in Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and in our program in Selma.

In an ongoing series, the Department of Surgery will feature incoming and outgoing trainees for all UAB Surgery programs. This time, learn about the Division of Transplantation’s Abdominal Transplant Fellowship, as well as its newest trainee, Margaret Romine, M.D., and its most recent graduate, Robert Plews, M.D.

 Hello:

The Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program gains a new fellow this year in Margaret Romine, M.D. After obtaining her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in 2014, Romine matched into UAB where she completed her residency in general surgery.

Upon graduating from the UAB General Surgery Residency this year, Romine chose to stay at UAB to complete the Department of Surgery’s one-year Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program under the leadership of Douglas Anderson, M.D., the program’s director and an assistant professor in the Division of Transplantation.

Goodbye:

Meanwhile, Robert Plews, M.D., graduated from the UAB Abdominal Transplant Fellowship this year, leaving UAB for Albany, New York, where he now serves as an assistant professor in the Division of Renal and Pancreatic Transplant Service at Albany Medical College.

After finishing medical school at the University of South Florida, Plews completed his residency training in general surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, before beginning his fellowship at UAB.