UAB surgical specialties ranked highly by US News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report’s 2016-2017 Best Hospitals report ranks UAB Cardiology and Heart Surgery No. 30 in the nation and lists Orthopedics and Gastroenterology/GI Surgery as high-performing.
Read moreGeneral surgery residents discuss program in new videos
In our new “Meet the Residents” video series, five residents from our General Surgery Residency talk about their experiences within the program. Check out their stories on the Department of Surgery website or follow the Residency’s Youtube playlist here.
Chu receives UAB PCOR K12 Scholar appointment
The Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery’s Daniel Chu, M.D., has received an appointment as a UAB PCOR K12 Scholar in the UAB K12 in Patient Centered Outcomes Research Career Development Program.
Read moreNew faculty recruits join UAB Surgery
This month, the Department of Surgery welcomes several new faculty recruits to the UAB family.
Read moreMustian receives travel award
Fall 2017 Travel Award from the Office of Postdoctoral Education. Mustian said she plans on using the award to travel to the American College of Surgeons 2017 Clinical Congress in San Diego in October to present an oral presentation on ABO incompatible kidney transplantation.
Congratulations to general surgery resident Margaux Mustian, M.D., who recently won a $500CIREN, Carroll awarded NHTSA funding
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has again selected UAB as a medical center for the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) Program. The current award is $2.3 million over a period of five years, and the Division of Acute Care Surgery’s Shannon Carroll, M.D., serves as the principal investigator. The mission of the CIREN is to improve the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of motor vehicle crash injuries to reduce deaths, disabilities, and human and economic costs. UAB has served as a medical center for CIREN since 2010.
TheHu wins AAST scholarship
Division of Acute Care Surgery’s Parker Hu, M.D., who received an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Research and Education Foundation Scholarship to attend the 76th Annual Meeting of the AAST and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery, Sept. 13-16 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Shoutout to theJaskula-Sztul receives CCC pilot grant
Congratulations to the Division of Surgical Oncology’s Renata Jaskula-Sztul, Ph.D., who recently received a financial award for her research project.
Read moreInstructions available on how to submit IRB protocol electronically
As you might be aware, the IRB has begun to accept electronic submissions via the My Human Subjects module in IRAP as of Monday, June 26, 2017.
Because of this, the Department of Surgery has revised our submission process for Departmental Review and signature on the PORF form. You can now email your submission package to our contacts, Debbie Lowman and/or Lisa Clemons, instead of dropping off a hard copy of the submission package.
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Read moreFaculty receive research awards
Congratulations to Sherry Collawn, M.D., Ph.D., and Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., who recently received awards for their research projects.
Read moreResident matches into Children's Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
Way to go, general surgery resident Alicia Waters, M.D., who matched into the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at Children’s of Alabama. Waters will begin her fellowship in 2019.
Read moreMIS Fellowship Program welcomes newest member
The UAB Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship is excited to welcome Aimal Khan, M.D., as its newest fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year. Khan will join the program August 1, 2018, from the Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Read moreThoracic surgery resident takes position in Greenville, SC
Congratulations to Gautam Bhatia, M.D., who will graduate from our Thoracic Surgery Residency Program on June 30 and begin his career as an attending physician in the Greenville Health System’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Greenville, South Carolina, on August 1.
Read moreResident gets scholarship, attends STS Legislative Fly-in
Society for Thoracic Surgery’s Legislative Fly-in in Washington, D.C., last week after receiving the STS Legislative Fly-in Scholarship. The STS Legislative Fly-in is an annual event that seeks to update participants on policy issues specific to cardiothoracic surgery and offer meetings with lawmakers to discuss how those issues could impact patient care.
Shoutout to PGY-6 thoracic surgery resident, Paul Linsky, M.D., who attended the Read moreBirmingham Heart Walk tomorrow
2017 Birmingham Heart Walk tomorrow at Uptown at the BJCC!
Don’t miss out on the Read moreDivision of Acute Care Surgery hires new director of research
The Division of Acute Care Surgery is pleased to announce the addition of Jan O. Jansen, M.B.B.S., Dr. Med., Ph.D., currently a consultant trauma surgeon and intensivist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, and St. Mary’s Hospital in London, England.
Read moreICYMI: Surgery Bootcamp prepares students for internship
The second annual Surgery Bootcamp took place earlier last month, May 1-12, and was hosted by Kimberly Hendershot, M.D., Britney Corey, M.D., Richard Stahl, M.D., and the Department of Surgery, and supported by the Office of Interprofessional Simulation team.
Read moreNew general surgery resident lounge coming soon
General Surgery Residency Program are excited to announce plans for a new resident lounge space on the second floor of the Boshell Diabetes Building. This 3,040-square-foot area is expected to open in late 2017 and will feature a kitchen, a conference room, a sitting area, showers and lockers for general surgery residents.
The UAB Department of Surgery and Read moreResidents match into fellowship programs
Congratulations to fourth-year general surgery residents Carla N. Holcomb, M.D., and Charles J. Keith, Jr., M.D., who matched into The Ohio State University’s Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery Fellowship program and the Cleveland Clinic’s Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship program, respectively.Read more