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James Sommerville McLester, M.D.
1945-1949

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Undergraduate: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Medical School: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 

Resident Training:

Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduate Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

 

Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D.
1950-1957

Undergraduate: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 

Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 

Resident Training: Peter Bent Brigham, Boston, Europe, MA 

Fellowship Training: General Education Board, Europe 

 

Walter B. Frommeyer Jr., M.D.
1957-1969

Undergraduate: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

Medical School: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

Resident Training: Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 

Fellowship Training: Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston, MA 

 

T. Joseph Reeves, M.D.
1969-1973

Undergraduate: Baylor University, Waco, TX 

Medical School: Baylor University, Waco, TX  

Resident Training: Parkland Hospital, Dallas, TX 

Fellowship Training:
University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL;
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, England 

 

Thomas N. James, M.D.
1973-1981

Undergraduate: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 

Medical School: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 

Resident Training: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 

Fellowship Training: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 

 

Charlie William Scott, Jr., M.D.
Acting, 1981-1982

Undergraduate: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Medical School: Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 

Resident Training: University of Alabama Hospitals, Birmingham, AL 

Fellowship Training: University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 

  

J. Claude Bennett, M.D.
1982-1993

Undergraduate: Samford University, Birmingham, AL 

Medical School: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

Resident Training: University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL 

Fellowship Training: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

 

William E. Dismukes, M.D.
Acting, 1993-1995 and 2005-2006

Undergraduate: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Medical School: Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 

Resident Training: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA 

Fellowship Training: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

 

William J. Koopman, M.D.
1995-2006

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Undergraduate: Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA 

Medical School: Harvard University, Boston, MA 

Resident Training: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

Fellowship Training: National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 

 

Edward Abraham, M.D.
2006-2011

Undergraduate and Medical School: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

Resident and Emergency Medicine Training: University of California, Los Angeles, CA 

Critical Care Medicine Training: UCLA Hospital, Torrance, CA 

Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow: Pasteur Institute, Paris, France 

 

Anupam Agarwal, M.D.
Acting, 2011-2012

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Medical School: Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore University, India 

Resident Training:
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Fellowship Training:

University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinic, Minneapolis, MN;
College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

C. Seth Landefeld, M.D.
2012-2024

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Undergraduate: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Oxford University, Oxford, UK 

Medical School: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Resident Training: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 

Fellowship Training: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

 

Mark Dransfield, M.D.
2025-Present

Headshot of Dr. Mark Dransfield, MD (Professor/Chair, Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care), July 2024.

Undergraduate: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Medical School: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Resident Training: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Fellowship Training: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL