Research Areas

Division of Transplantation
Research Focus: liver transplantation, kidney and pancreas transplantation, benign and malignant hepatobiliary disease, minimally invasive hepatic surgery, transplant oncology

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery 
Research Focus: quality improvement, geriatric trauma, health literacy in trauma and acute care surgery patients

Division of Surgical Oncology 
Research Focus: skin and soft tissue malignancies including melanoma, nonmelanoma skin cancers, retroperitoneal and extremity sarcoma, and neuroendocrine tumors

Division of Vascular Surgery
Research Focus: complex aortic disease, including aortic dissection, suprarenal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, device development, outcomes research

Division of Pediatric Surgery
Research Focus: pediatric surgical oncology, pediatric solid tumors, neuroblastoma
Research Website: Beierle Lab

Division of Vascular Surgery
Research Focus: clinical outcomes research, cross-specialty collaboration, and mixed methods implementation science 

Division of Surgical Oncology
Research Focus: host microbe interactions, mechanisms of microbial regulation of substance use disorders, bioengineering microbial-based therapeutics, hormonal and metabolic syndromes and disease
Research Website: Carter Lab

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: thyroid and parathyroid surgery, minimally invasive radioguided parathyroidectomy, adrenal surgery, endocrine surgery, neuroendocrine cancer biology
Research Websites: Endocrine Surgery Research, Neuroendocrine Cancer Research Lab

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticular disease and anorectal pathology, health care disparities research, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS), microbiome research
Research Website: Chu Lab

Division of Plastic Surgery
Research Focus: laser procedures, skin tightening, resurfacing, fat grafting, transplantation, liposuction, reepitheliazation, skin grafts, wound healing, minimally invasive surgery, laser surgery, fat transplantation

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Focus: lung and esophageal cancer surgery, chest wall surgery, tracheal resection and reconstruction, mediastinal tumors, outcomes research, airway disorders, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, lung nodules, mediastinal tumors, chest wall tumors, malignant pleural effusions, pneumothorax, esophageal disease (benign)
Research Website: UAB Thoracic Outcomes, Research & Innovation (TORI)

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: identifying and quantifying the more elusive impacts primary hyperparathyroidism has on quality of life in order to inform the operative indications for parathyroidectomy
Research Website: Endocrine Surgery Research

Division of Surgical Oncology
Research Focus: pancreatic, liver, gallbladder and bile duct diseases and cancers, stomach cancer, small bowel tumors, health disparities research
Research Website: Fonseca Lab

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: brain development and plasticity, neurotransmitters, substance abuse

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Focus: immune regulation of post-transplant vascular disease and allograft rejection, transplantation and heart failure outcomes research

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: breast and endocrine surgery, surgical oncology
Research Website: Endocrine Surgery Research

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: progression from immune homeostasis that leads to permissive dysplasia in colitis-associated cancer and novel avenues for its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: colon, rectal and anal cancer; surgical management of Crohn's disease and ulcerative collitis; diverticulitis; benign anorectal disorder; robotic and minmally invasive surgery

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: foregut and bariatric surgery, achalasia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, hiatal or paraesophageal hernias, morbid obesity and metabolic syndrome, role of the microbiome in obesity, outcomes research
Research Website: Grams Lab

Division of Surgical Oncology
Research Focus: neuroendocrine tumors, notch signaling pathway, theranostics, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Research Websites: Rose-Guenter Lab, Neuroendocrine Cancer Research Lab

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: global surgery, global oncology, disparities, health services research, financial toxicity, oncoplastics

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery 
Research Focus: trauma systems, trauma benchmarking, quality improvement, surgical critical care
Research Website: Center for Injury Science

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: colon and rectal surgery, intestinal surgery, intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity in colorectal cancer metastasis and response to therapy, multidisciplinary cancer care and survivorship care
Research Website: Hardiman Lab

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: hereditary colorectal cancer; ostomy care; health inequities; quality of care

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery 
Research Focus: acute care surgery, injury research, trauma surgery
Research Website: Center for Injury Science

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: breast cancer, patient reported outcomes, quality improvement, improving access to breast cancer care 

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery 
Research Focus: trauma, critical care medicine, clinical trials
Research Website: Center for Injury Science

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: neuroendocrine and thyroid cancers, endocrine cancer associated signaling pathways, personalized cancer therapy, preclinical models, endocrine cancer specific cell surface proteins, targeted detection and drug delivery, nanomedicines, cancer tissue microarrays and high-throughput screening
Research Website: Neuroendocrine Cancer Research Lab

Division of Surgical Oncology
Research Focus: peritoneal surface malignancies, HIPEC, gastric cancer, small bowel cancer, colorectal cancer, health services research, palliative care

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: breast cancer, DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), benign breast disease, outcomes research

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery
Research Focus: thyroid cancer, parathyroid disease, parathyroid disease, parathyroid disease, disorders of the adrenal gland, inherited endocrine syndromes, surgical education research
Research Websites: Lindeman Lab, Endocrine Surgery Research

Division of Transplantation
Research Focus: abdominal transplantation, incompatible organ transplantation, transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients, outcomes and behavioral research focused on health disparities

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: gallbladder disease, abdominal wall hernias, health services research, surgical education, and bariatric surgery

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: Health disparities, pain research

Division of Transplantation
Research Focus: uterus transplantation, VCA transplantation, reproductive immunology, transplant immunology, pregnancy alloimmunization, renal function during pregnancy, living donor kidney transplantation, sex and race disparities in transplantation, transplantation tolerance
Research Website: Porrett Lab

Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy
Research Focus: angiogenesis, cancer, endothelial cell and vascular biology, epigenetics, epitranscriptomics, gene transcription and translation, ischemic heart and vascular diseases, vascular niche in stem cells
Research Website: Ren Lab

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery
Research Focus: trauma, hemorrhage, resuscitation, endothelial glycocalyx, lung injury, bioengineered in vitro models, mechanotransduction signaling
Research Website: Richter Lab

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: health services research, biostatistics

Division of Surgical Oncology 
Research Focus: diseases of the stomach, small bowel, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and bile duct, Notch signaling pathways in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Research Websites: Rose-Guenter Lab, Neuroendocrine Cancer Research Lab

Division of Pediatric Surgery
Research Focus: minimally invasive pediatric surgery, pediatric trauma, neonatal surgery, quality improvement and outcomes research

Division of Pediatric Surgery
Research Focus: pediatric surgical oncology, pediatric solid tumors, minimally invasive neonatal and pediatric surgery

Division of Vascular Surgery
Research Focus: 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

Division of Transplantation
Research Focus: kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), transplant ethics and health policy

Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Research Focus: shock, resuscitation, wound healing, blood transfusion

Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery
Research Focus: general surgery education, burn surgery, surgical critical care

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Focus: optimizing health care delivery systems, evaluating comparative effectiveness of surgical interventions, statistics, econometrics, simulation modeling, clinical outcomes research

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Research Focus: Membrane physiology, dopamine and gut-brain axis, bile acids and neurotransmission, neuromodulation