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Bin Ren, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, has been named the William D. Jordan, Jr. M.D., Endowed Professor in Vascular Sciences.

National Women’s Health Month is held every year during the month of May. This year, the Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery wants to encourage women to learn more about the signs, symptoms, and screening options for breast cancer.

Gastrointestinal Surgery Professor Richard Hanney, M.D., has been named the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) Clinical Network Director for Surgery.

The UAB School of Medicine (SOM) fourth-year medical students (MS4) have awarded Director of the General Surgery Residency Program Britney Corey, M.D., MACM, FACS, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.

General Surgery Resident Cozette Killian, M.D., was awarded the 2021 Dale Benos Scholars Award by the UAB Nephrology Research and Training Center (NRTC).

Assistant Professor and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program Robert Cannon, M.D., FACS, was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH)K08 Grant. 

Associate Professor and Director of the Children’s of Alabama Trauma Program Robert Russell, M.D., MPH, was awarded the 2021 American College of Surgeons (ACS)/American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) Health Policy Scholarship.

The Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy is pleased to match with Calvin Williams, D.O., in the 2022-23 Vascular Surgery Fellowship Position.

This year, the annual Department of Surgery faculty retreat was held virtually on Friday, Apr. 30 and focused on leadership development.

Recently, the Department of Surgery named four professors to newly established professorships as well as one professor to a newly established chair. The below professorships and chairs are listed in alphabetical order of the holding faculty member.

The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) recently held its 41st Annual Meeting, led by local arrangements co-chairs, Professor John Porterfield, M.D., and Chief of the Endocrine Surgery Section Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP.

Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Colin Martin, M.D., FACS, published “Reassessing career pathways of surgical leaders: An examination of surgical leaders’ early accomplishments” in the American Journal of Surgery.

Professor Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., will depart UAB for the Department of Surgery at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, effective Jun. 4. He will serve as the chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery.

Each year, the department hosts a Resident Research Day, a scientific forum that gives residents from across the department the opportunity to present their own research projects and discuss their topics with an audience.

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery Director of Education Kim Hendershot, M.D., was recently elected as vice-chair of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Graduate Surgical Education (GSE) committee.

This week, the UAB Department of Surgery is highlighting former general surgery resident, Marianne Cusick, M.D., now assistant professor of surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Cusick graduated the program in 2013.

Each year, the Amputee Coalition recognizes the month of April as Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month (LLAM) to honor its community and educate others about limb loss and limb difference.

A group of UAB researchers developed a web-based decision support tool in their recent publication, “Patient, Nurse, Medical Assistant, and Surgeon Perspectives Inform the Development of a Decision Support Tool for Inguinal Hernia Surgery: A Qualitative Analysis” in the American Journal of Surgery.

General Surgery Resident PGY1 Haddon Mullins, M.D., alongside UAB Medicine Associate Dean of Clinical Education James Willig, M.D., was featured in a UAB MedCast podcast series about medical education.

A team of department faculty and trainees recently published their research “Prognostic Impact of Tumor Size on Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Recurrence May Have Racial Variance” in Pancreas.

Helen Krontiras, M.D., director of the Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, has named Catherine Parker, M.D., chief of the Section of Breast Surgery and Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery.

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery fundraising efforts are underway for their 2021 Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation (CCF) Take Steps walk team “Operation Deep Remission.”

Each year, the Amputee Coalition recognizes the month of April as Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month (LLAM) to honor its community and educate others about limb loss and limb difference.

The Journal of Surgical Research featured “The Disturbing Findings of Pediatric Firearm Injuries From the National Trauma Data Bank: 2010-2016” on the cover of the March issue.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Diseases (NIDDK) has awarded Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Institute and Division of Transplantation Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, a five-year R01 grant amounting to approximately $3.2 million.

The Journal of Surgical Research featured the research of Michelle Mathis MPH, program manager II, Tosin Badewa, former PRISM student, Ruth Obiarinze, M.D., researcher II, Linda Wilkinson, CRNP, Colin Martin, M.D., vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion, on the cover of the April issue.

Dalis E. Collins, D.V.M., DACLAM, joined the UAB Department of Surgery as an assistant professor in March 2021.

The American Transplant Congress (ATC) awarded Cozette Killian, M.D. MPH, General Surgery Research Resident and UAB Transplant Epidemiology and Analytics in Medicine (TEAM) lab member, the Young Investigator Award.

The Association for Academic Surgery appointed Britney Corey, M.D., FACS, General Surgery Residency program director, and Robert Cannon, M.D., Liver Transplant Program surgical director, to the national Program Committee.

On Saturday, Apr. 10, the UAB Department of Surgery and UAB Medicine will host the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN)PurpleStride Alabama, which participants can join from wherever they are.