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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 week, learn about the Breast Oncology Fellowship.

This year, the UAB Department of Surgery’s Breast Oncology Fellowship welcomes Kareen Ayre, M.D., who will join UAB on Aug. 1 from Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. The fellowship’s current fellow, Meredith Witten, M.D., will leave the Breast Oncology Fellowship program at the end of July to join the faculty at Aurora Health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Incoming

  • Kareen Ayre, M.D.
    Kareen Ayre, M.D.
    Medical School: Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
    Residency: Howard University, Washington, D.C., General Surgery

Outgoing

 

  • Meredith Witten, M.D.
    Meredith Witten, M.D.
    Residency: Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Next Step: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, Wisconsin