Dr. Robert Oster has held faculty positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2001. He has worked on projects in the areas of clinical nutrition, cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, rheumatology, nephrology, urology, pathology, pulmonology, malaria, immunology, rural health, transplants, and outcomes research. He has served as a grant reviewer for the NIH Director's Opportunity for Research in Five Thematic Areas Special Emphasis Panel, the NIH/NHBLI Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Special Emphasis Panel, the NIH Cancer Therapy and Biomarkers Special Emphasis Panel, the NIH Cancer Biomarkers Study Section, the NIH Basic Mechanisms of Cancer Therapeutics Study Section, the NIH Clinical Oncology Study Section, the Consortial Center for Chiropractic Research, and the Centers for Disease Control Prevention Research Centers.