Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
breast reconstruction

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
quality improvement, geriatric trauma, health literacy in trauma and acute care surgery patients

Assistant Professor
Committee Member, Surgical Grand Rounds

Areas of Interest 
skin and soft tissue malignancies including melanoma, nonmelanoma skin cancers, retroperitoneal and extremity sarcoma, and neuroendocrine tumors

Professor
Director, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Holt A. McDowell, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair of Vascular Surgery
Director of Quality and Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer, CVI

Areas of Interest
complex aortic disease, including aortic dissection, suprarenal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, device development, outcomes research

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
Clinical outcomes research, cross-specialty collaboration, and mixed methods implementation science

Clinical Assistant Professor
Primary Practice Location: Montgomery Baptist

Areas of Interest
adult heart and lung surgery (coronary bypass, heart valve, and aneurysm surgery), minimally invasive heart and lung surgery (TAVR procedure), lung cancer surgery, surgical diseases of the chest wall and lung

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
combat casualty care, emergency response, shock, resuscitation, critical care, translational medicine, medical education, austere medical care, extracorporeal life support 

Clinical Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
clinical and translational research in trauma and general surgery, hemorrhage control, complex abdominal pathology, infectious complications, educational innovation using cognitive retention tools

Assistant Professor
Primary Practice Location: Whitfield Regional Medical Center, Demopolis

Areas of Interest 
global surgery, rural surgery, health informatics, genetic epidemiology

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
progression from immune homeostasis that leads to permissive dysplasia in colitis-associated cancer and novel avenues for its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
trauma and acute care surgery

Assistant Professor
Associate Vice Chair, Global Surgery Equity
Assistant Program Director for Global Surgery, General Surgery Residency Program
Associate Scientist, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB

Areas of Interest 
global surgery, global oncology, disparities, health services research, financial toxicity, oncoplastics

Clinical Assistant Professor
VA Podiatrist

Areas of Interest
diabetic limb salvage, foot & ankle reconstruction, reducing postoperative complications, and improving clinical outcomes. 

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
trauma systems, trauma benchmarking, quality improvement, surgical critical care

Clinical Assistant Professor
Co-director, UAB Advanced Limb Preservation Clinic

Areas of Interest
prevention of diabetes-related foot complications, diabetic foot complications, wound care, bone infection, Charcot foot, limb salvage, outcomes research

Clinical Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
hemorrhage control and the use of whole blood, integrating minimally invasive surgery in trauma, and the optimization of resident education and autonomy 

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
burns, continuity of care, coagulation, hemostasis, and general surgery education

Clinical Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
Breast cancer surgery, hidden scar techniques, oncoplastic breast surgery, skin sparing mastectomy, nipple sparing mastectomy, prophylactic/risk reduction mastectomy, benign diseases of the breast, breastfeeding medicine, breast cancer survivorship, breast cancer genetic, predisposition, high risk screening, male breast cancer, treatment of breast cancer

Infirmary

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
clinical outcomes in trauma, trauma systems, the management of the injured patient, surgical education, penetrating cardiac injury, emergency general surgery

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
gastrointestinal surgery, general surgery, outcomes research

Clinical Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
military-civilian integration, robotic surgery, disaster response

UAB Department of Surgery Associate Professor Brenessa Lindeman, M.D. MEHP, FACS, was named in the 2022 Association of Women Surgeons 40 Under 40!

Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Association for Surgical Education Foundation (ASEF), stemming from the Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research and Training (CESERT) program.

Clinical Associate Professor

Areas of Interest
Foot and ankle surgery, arthroscopic surgery, traumatic foot and ankle injuries, limb salvage, elective foot surgery

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
gallbladder disease, abdominal wall hernias, health services research, surgical education, and bariatric surgery

Instructor

Areas of Interest
outcomes research, quality initiative and quality improvements, data management and analysis

Clinical Assistant Professor
Primary Practice Location: Riverview Medical Center Gadsden

Areas of Interest 
robotic surgery, bariatric surgery outcome improvement, patient education

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
minimally invasive pediatric surgery, neonatal surgery, thoracic surgery, critical care, burn, trauma

Professor
Director, UAB Vein Program & Clinic

Areas of Interest
open and catheter-based treatments for aortic aneurysm, carotid artery disease, renovascular hypertension and peripheral artery occlusive disease

Professor
Chief of Vascular Surgery Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital

Areas of Interest
lower extremity occlusive disease, arterial aneurysms

Professor
Director, Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency and Fellowship Programs
William D. Jordan, Jr. Endowed Professor in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy

Areas of Interest
tibial revascularization, open thoracoabdominal reconstruction, complex endovascular reconstruction of aortic disease involving the visceral segment, iatrogenic injury

Professor
William D. Jordan, Jr. M.D., Endowed Professor in Vascular Sciences

Areas of Interest
angiogenesis, cancer, endothelial cell and vascular biology, epigenetics, epi transcriptomics, gene transcription and translation, ischemic heart and vascular diseases, vascular niche in stem cells

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
living kidney donation, access to kidney transplantation, optimizing high KDPI organs, robotic surgery

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
laparoscopic and robotic minimally invasive general surgery, including foregut, bariatric surgery, and complex abdominal wall hernias

Clinical Assistant Professor
Primary Practice Location: DCH Tuscaloosa

Areas of Interest
Peripheral artery disease, tibial bypass, angiography and minimally invasive surgery, endovascular surgery, aneurysm disease and EVAR, carotid artery disease and carotid endarterectomy, transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR), hemodialysis access, diabetic foot ulcer, thoracic outlet syndrome, venous insufficiency/varicose veins, limb preservation

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
Open and endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, thoracic outlet syndrome, peripheral artery disease, limb preservation

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest
lower extremity occlusive disease, open and catheter-based treatments for aortic aneurysm, complex endovascular repair, carotid artery disease, limb salvage, outcomes research

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
critical care, ECMO, burns, intestinal failure, vascular access, machine learning

Clinical Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest 
hemorrhage control, REBOA, trauma resuscitation

Assistant Professor
Section Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Birmingham VA
Head of UAB Robotic CABG Program

Areas of Interest
adult cardiac surgery, aortic aneurysm and dissection repair, aortic valve repair, valvular heart disease, coronary artery bypass grafting, minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting, outcomes research

Assistant Professor
Associate Program Director, Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency
Co-Leader, Surgical Grand Rounds

Areas of Interest
surgical and endovascular management of aortic aneurysmal and occlusive disease, mesenteric vascular disease, open and endovascular treatments for peripheral arterial disease, cerebrovascular disease, dialysis access, health outcomes and policy research, quality improvement

Clinical Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
diabetic limb salvage, trauma, forefoot surgery, rearfoot, and ankle reconstructive surgery, adult-acquired flatfoot

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

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest
general surgery education, burn surgery, surgical critical care