ICYMI: The Department of Surgery held its annual State of the Department address this week, where we previewed our new video entitled "The Future of Surgery." 🎬
You can watch the full anthem video here! ⬇️
The UAB Dept. of Surgery is honored to announce Dr. Brenessa Lindeman as the Vice Chair of Education.
As Vice Chair, Lindeman will work to build infrastructure and initiatives that support education-related research for both investigators and trainees.
With sadness, we share the passing of Dr. George Yang, who helped countless patients at UAB & the Birmingham VA. A founding member of
@AsianAcadSurg
, he championed equity & inclusion.
May we all honor Dr. Yang's life and legacy by giving back and furthering the field of surgery.
We are pleased to share that UAB Department of Surgery Chair
@herbchen
will become the senior associate dean for Academic Affairs in
@UABHeersink
, effective June 1, 2023.
Dr. Chen will remain the department chair of UAB Surgery.
Read more here:
As I sign off, some advice for the applicants and aspiring surgeons: At the end of the day, you will be trained to be a good surgeon no matter where you go. Look for a program where you will also become a great person and they support your dreams to reach your full potential!
Dr.
@colinalexmartin
, has been named the president-elect of the medical staff at
@ChildrensAL
! He will serve a two-year term as president elect and will then assume the role of president of the medical staff for two years, beginning 2024.
UAB Department of Surgery Associate Professor
@DChu80
becomes the first to hold the Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS, Endowed Chair position.
Congratulations, Dr. Chu! 🎉
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The UAB Department of Surgery was honored to host Dr. Patrick Jackson and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for the annual George Yang Endowed Lectureship in DEI.
It is an honor to continue Dr. Yang's dedication to DEI education and inspire the next generation of surgical leaders.
The department is pleased to announce that Dr.
@DChu80
has been named Vice Chair of Health Services Research and Selwyn M. Vickers Endowed Scholar in the UAB Department of Surgery.
@DrVickersUAB
@UABHeersink
The Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery named section chiefs: Dr. Catherine Parker will serve as the chief of the Breast Surgery Section and Dr.
@BrenessaL
will serve as chief of the Endocrine Surgery Section.
We're so thrilled to welcome Dr. Katherine McElroy to
@UABSurgery
! Dr. McElroy will join us as a Preliminary PGY-2 resident. She attended
@McGovernMed
and is currently completing a PGY-1 year at Baylor College of Medicine.
Division Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery
@DChu80
has been awarded over $2.5 million from
@NIH
to investigate ERPs in eliminating surgical disparities.
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Congratulations to UAB General Surgery resident Dr. Autumn Beavers who has been selected as a Fulbright scholar and will study in Tanzania for the 2024-2025 academic year!
Help us congratulate her! 🎉
We are so thrilled to announce the future residents of the UAB General Surgery Residency Program! Help us welcome them to the UAB Department of Surgery!
#UABMatchDay2024
Congrats to Dr. Daniel Chu (
@DChu80
) who will serve the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery as division director, effective Oct. 1.
He will succeed Dr. Gregory Kennedy (
@gdkennedy88
) who was promoted to Department of Surgery executive vice chair.
📲:
We are pleased to announce that
@UABSurgery
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the UAB Women in Surgery Dr.
@KristyBroman
has been awarded the
@AmCollSurgeons
Faculty Research Fellowship which is worth $80,000 over two years. Read more:
Congrats to UAB General Surgery Residency Program resident Dr. Alizeh Abbas (
@AlizehAbbas16
), who has been selected as a recipient of the
@AmCollSurgeons
Resident Research Scholarship! She will receive $30,000/year for direct costs related to research.
.
The department is pleased to announce that
@UABSurgery
Residency Program Director and Associate Professor Dr.
@britneycoreymd
has been elected an associate member in the
@AmCollSurgeons
Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. Read more:
A story of determination: Dr. Saulat Sheikh, an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Transplantation, had several barriers to overcome before she could become one of the first female transplant surgeons from Pakistan. Read more:
#WhyUABSurgery
Congratulations, Dr.
@BrenessaL
on being named a UAB Dean's Excellence Award Winner in Service!
Department Chair
@herbchen
: "Dr. Lindeman is truly a unique and talented individual who serves with grace, confidence and expert competence.”
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We are pleased to announce that Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Dr.
@colinalexmartin
has been nominated chair of the
@UnivSurg
Membership Committee. Martin is honored to be elected for this national position. Read more:
The UAB Department of Surgery is honored to welcome Dr. Tania K. Arora as the new vice chair and congratulates Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Dr. Saulat Sajjad Sheikh on being selected as associate vice chair.
More info: .
We are pleased to announce that Selwyn W. Vickers Endowed Scholar and Vice Chair of Health Services Dr.
@DChu80
has been named one of three well-deserving recipients to receive the
@UABHeersink
Professional Excellence Award. Congrats!
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UAB Department of Surgery John H. Blue Chair of General Surgery
@gdkennedy88
, has been named executive vice chair of the department. Kennedy will work with department administration to guide operations and oversee development and planning.
Read more:
Congratulations to UAB Surgery Education Vice Chair Dr.
@BrenessaL
who has been selected to serve as President-Elect of
@AcademicSurgery
! Your department is so proud of you and excited for you! 🎉
Way to go, Dr.
@BrenessaL
! Dr. Lindeman was named an
@AmBdSurg
Councilor and will serve on a six-year term. She will also serve on the Assessment Committee and as a General Surgery Board director.
@UABSOM
James P. Hayes, Jr., Endowed Professor in Gastrointestinal Oncology and Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology Dr.
@drvikasdudeja
has been named the principal investigator on a liver cancer research grant worth $2 million over four years.
Read more:
Congratulations to
@OncologyUab
Assistant Professor Dr.
@KristyBroman
for earning the 2022
@ConquerCancerFd
Career Development Award! This prestigious award will fund Broman $200,000 over three years for research. Read more:
Dr. Jayme Locke and the
@UAB_TEAM
Lab have secured a third RO1 grant in just four years. The $3.2 mil grant will fund: “Promoting Increases in Living Organ donation via Tele-navigation (PILOT).” The team aims to mitigate disparities in transplantation.
UAB Division of Surgical Oncology Director Dr. Vikas Dudeja has been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million pancreatic cancer research grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Read more here: .
@drvikasdudeja
was awarded a $6.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to identify a possible treatment for acute pancreatitis. The grant funds a clinical trial to study the effect of pirfenidone on patients with recurrent acute pancreatitis.
Congratulations to UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Assistant Professor and Medical Student Surgery Clerkship Director
@JfazendinMD
for being awarded the 2022 Argus Award for Best Clinical Educator, Birmingham campus!
Read more here: .
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS, Endowed Chair
@DChu80
, has been named associate division director of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Read more about Dr. Chu:
UAB Gastrointestinal Surgery Division Director Dr. Daniel Chu has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious James IV Traveling Fellowship Award for 2024-2025.
Congratulations, Dr. Chu! 🎉
Read more here: .
UAB transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke is honored with the Mark H. Deierhoi Endowed Professorship. Locke is only the second woman surgeon to receive an endowed professorship at UAB and served as Deierhoi's mentee earlier in her career.
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Congrats to Drs.
@colinalexmartin
and Graeme McFarland, who were recently inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society! A lifelong honor, membership in the society confers recognition for a physician's dedication to the profession and art of healing.
@uabmedicine
Congrats to the Director of UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute Dr. Jayme Locke and the rest of the UAB Xenotransplantation Team for appearing on the cover of the April 2022 issue of the
@amjtransplant
for their pig-to-human transplant. Read more:
Congratulation to our General Surgery chiefs on completing their residency training
@UABSurgery
! They will be missed, but we are incredibly excited to see where their careers take them!
Congratulations to Endocrine Fellow Dr.
@DrAndreaGillis1
for being one of only 12 in the nation to be accepted into the
@theNCI
Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program. Read more:
Our department is honored to welcome
@McGovernMed
Jack H. Mayfield Chair in Surgery
@LillianKao1
as she delivers the Women in Surgery Lectureship for this week’s Surgery Grand Rounds!
The UAB Department of Surgery has added a new lactation room open for department staff, faculty and trainees. It includes a plush recliner, a sound machine, a refrigerator and cleaning supplies for pumping materials.
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We are excited to welcome Dr. Jeffrey B. Matthews from
@uchicagosurgery
as he presents the Herbert Chen Endowed Lectureship in Surgical Education and Leadership for this week’s Grand Rounds!
We're thrilled to welcome former general surgery resident, Dr. Quince Gibson to our faculty as an assistant professor in the Division of
@UABGISurgery
! He practices primarily at Whitfield Medical Center.
Dr.
@colinalexmartin
, professor and vice chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion, was selected for membership in the esteemed Lilliputian Surgical Society, which has only 30 pediatric surgeon members from across the nation.
Join us in welcoming two new faculty! Dr. Zain Hashmi joins the Division of
@UABTrauma
and Acute Care Surgery as an assistant professor while Dr. Sasha Still joins the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery as an intructor, fellow.
Congratulations to UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Associate Professor
@BrenessaL
, who was accepted into the
@associationofwomen
Surgeons’ Shining Star Leadership Program!
📲 Read more here: .
We are excited to kick off
#PrideMonth
with new UAB Department of Surgery lanyards! Faculty, staff, residents and trainees please check your UAB Surgery email for information on how to get your lanyard.
Join us in welcoming Drs. Chinwendu Onwubiko (left) and Eric Sparks (right) to the UAB Division of Pediatric Surgery! Both faculty join as assistant professors. Read more:
Congrats to our own, Dr.
@BrenessaL
for her national election to secretary of
@AASFoundation1
! Dr. Lindeman says she is looking forward to supporting the AAS forward in its mission to inspire and develop young academic surgeons.
@UABHeersink
@UABNews
Congratulations to
@OncologyUab
Director
@drvikasdudeja
who was recently elected to the position of recorder for the
@AcademicSurgery
at this year's Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) in Houston, Texas.
Read more:
Congratulations to Dr. Jayme Locke, who was elected councilor-at-large for the
@UnivSurg
during
#ASC2021
. Dr. Locke will oversee the resident research scholars, junior faculty and mid-career awards on an annual basis. Read more:
Congratulations to UAB Professor of Pediatric Surgery Dr. Elizabeth Beierle for earning the 2022 Dean’s Excellence Award in Mentorship as a senior faculty member! Beierle has mentored numerous students and residents in her research laboratory. Read more:
UAB Division of Surgical Oncology Director
@drvikasdudeja
has received over $2 million in additional funding from
@DeptofDefense
for research concerning the use of the hedgehog signaling pathway in chronic pancreatitis.
Read more:
Welcome to Dr. Vikas Dudeja, who was named the new Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology. Dudeja joins the department as a highly-decorated researcher and leader in the field of surgical oncology.
Read more:
@uabmedicine
@UABNews
@UABSOM
Congratulations to
@DrAndreaGillis1
and Dr.
@margauxnmustian
who are now serving as Associate Clerkship Directors for the Surgery Clerkship program!
Read more:
Congratulations to
@drvikasdudeja
, who has been accepted into the Society of Clinical Surgery (SCS), one of the most prominent clinical societies for surgeons.
Read more here:
The department would like to thank General Surgery Residency Associate Program Director Dr. Graeme McFarland for his service to our residents. McFarland, alongside Director of the General Surgery Residency Program Dr.
@britneycoreymd
have played a key role in growing our program.
Associate Vice Chair for Health Services Research Dr.
@DChu80
was named Associate Editor for Colorectal Surgery for the
@JSurgRes
. Dr. Chu will start in the fall and will serve a five-year term. Congratulations!
@UABGISurgery
@uabmedicine
We are pleased to announce that
@UABHeersink
student Meghna Katta delivered her presentation entitled “Identifying Factors Associated with Trust in Telemedicine” in New Zealand and also won the
@AcademyHealth
Alice S. Hersh Student Scholarship. Read more:
UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery Associate Professor
@BrenessaL
has been named a member of the
#MacyFacultyScholars
Class of 2023!
Read more:
What an accomplishment!
@UABGISurgery
Associate Professor Dr. Karin Hardiman was named a recipient of an
@NIH
National Cancer Institute R01 award to study gastrointestinal cancer. The award amount is $1.9 million over five years.
@uabmedicine
Read more:
We hope that all interested medical students will join us next week for a virtual Meet the Chair session with Dr.
@herbchen
! Register through the link in our bio.
#MeettheChair
#SurgeryResidency
So proud of our UAB General Surgery Residents for their phenomenal presentations at
@AcademicSurgery
’s
#ASC2024
! We are beyond thankful for Residency Program Director and fearless leader
@britneycoreymd
.
Several
@UABSurgery
faculty have key positions in the new
@UABSOM
Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty Association, including Dr.
@herbchen
, who was elected co-leader of the association. Learn more:
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Pearce, who has been elected to serve as president-elect of the
@VascularSVS
' Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery!
He is the program director for UAB's Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency and Fellowship.
UAB Division of Breast & Endocrine Assistant Professor
@DrAndreaGillis1
was awarded the Society of University Surgeon's 2022-2023 George P. Yang, M.D., Ph.D. Junior Faculty Award for the Underrepresented in Medicine.
Read more: .
Congrats to Dr.
@britneycoreymd
, who was named a Leonard Tow faculty recipient by the
@UABSOM
MS4 class! “Her efforts will certainly have a lasting impact on her trainees, the culture of the residency program, and
@UABSurgery
as a whole."
Our DEI Committee would like to recognize April as National Arab American Heritage Month! We're excited to celebrate Arab Americans and the rich history and culture they have contributed to society. Learn more:
For his many contributions to diversity
@UABSOM
and in the larger academic surgery community, Department of Surgery Chair
@herbchen
is awarded the Dean’s Excellence Award in Diversity Enhancement.
Congrats to Dr.
@colinalexmartin
for being selected as a member to join the Surgical Biology Club II! The org was established to provide a forum for a small group of surgeons to present works in progress.
#AcademicSurgeon
#Collaboration
Please join us in rejecting hatred and confronting racism through education, personal commitment, empathy and compassion for all members of our department and society. Read an important message from our leaders.
Our faculty in
@UABGISurgery
are leaders in the field of robotic surgery! Here is Dr. Jamie Cannon with PGY4 resident Dr. Alex Abdullayev, both performing a robotic proctectomy.
#GISurgery
#RoboticSurgery
#MIS
We’re pleased to announce the Martin J. Heslin Endowed Lectureship, established by a generous donation from the Robert E. Reed Foundation. The lectureship honors the work and career of department Vice Chair
@MJHeslin
.
Read more:
@uabmedicine
@UABNews
Dr. Jayme Locke sits down to share more about the
#xenotransplant
procedure and the organ shortage that makes this “world's first" accomplishment so meaningful.
Watch her full interview here:
@UABNews
@uabmedicine
@UABHeersink