Dr. Burski, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UAB. He also holds an appointment at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. He received his medical degree at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport, LA, and completed both his Internal Medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at UAB. Dr. Burski currently serves as Program Director of UAB's Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship program and is actively involved in th...
Dr. Elson received his M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, trained in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell, then did his Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. After doing full-time research in immunology at N.I.H., he joined the Faculty of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Medical College of Virginia. He moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to become Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and subsequently served a...
My procedural expertise is in the area of general endoscopy and advanced endoscopy including: diagnostic and therapeutic endosonography and endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography, drainage of pseudocyst, necrosis, and abscess, and endoscopic removal or large polyps, early cancer, and therapy of Barrett's esophagus and cancer
I am the Director of Endoscopy at UAB and have overseen an increase in the number and kind of procedures performed. I improved the efficiency, throughput...
My procedural expertise is in the area of general endoscopy and advanced endoscopy including: diagnostic and therapeutic endosonography and endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography, drainage of pseudocyst, necrosis, and abscess, and endoscopic removal or large polyps, early cancer, and therapy of Barrett's esophagus and cancer
I am the Director of Endoscopy at UAB and have overseen an increase in the number and kind of procedures performed. I improved the efficiency, throughput...
Dr. Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is also the Assistant Section Chief for Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree from UAB, graduating summa cum laude in 2011. He then completed his internal medicine residency at UAB in 2014 and served as a Chief Medicine Resident at UAB through 2015. He completed his fellowship training in the Division of Gastroent...
Dr. Ahmed came to UAB in November 2015 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Interventional Endoscopy in the Basil I. Hirschowitz Center of Endoscopic Excellence. He received his training in Advanced Endoscopy at Yale University after completing his fellowship in gastroenterology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and residency in internal medicine at Columbia University. He obtained his medical degree at SUNY Buffalo. He serves as the Director of Advanced GI at UAB's Pancreatobiliary Disease ...
Dr. Burski, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UAB. He also holds an appointment at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. He received his medical degree at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport, LA, and completed both his Internal Medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at UAB. Dr. Burski currently serves as Program Director of UAB's Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship program and is actively involved in th...
Dr. Dasher is a Professor of Medicine at UAB and a physician at UAB Highlands. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B. S. in Physics and received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency at UAB, where he served as Chief Medical Resident. Following his residency, Dr. Dasher also completed a fellowship at UAB under the guidance of Dr. Basil Hirschowitz. He re-joined the division in January 2009, and has been involved in establishing GI se...
Dr. Elson received his M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, trained in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell, then did his Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. After doing full-time research in immunology at N.I.H., he joined the Faculty of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Medical College of Virginia. He moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to become Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and subsequently served a...
David Fettig, MD (Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology & Hepatology) joined our faculty in May. Dr. Fettig graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science and received his MD from the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine and served as Chief Resident, and he completed his fellowship in Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant Fellowship at UAB. Dr. Fettig comes back to UAB after having work...
Dr. Douglas Dickinson received his M.S. degree in Biophysics and his M.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Gastroenterology Fellowship at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Dickinson served the Birmingham community in private group gastroenterology practice after establishing Birmingham Gastroenterology Associates between 1977 through 2012. Since 2013 he has been active in the Gastroenterology Fellowship training program at the...
Fayez Sarkis, MD (Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology and Hepatology) joins our faculty as a general gastroenterologist from Kansas University medical center where he completed his training. Dr. Sarkis is specialized in treating general gastrointestinal conditions and diseases (IBS, constipation, c. diff colitis, microbiota transplant, inflammatory bowel disease, GERD, dysphagia, dyspepsia, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc). He also has special clinical and research interest in screening and pre...
Dr. Callaway is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UAB and practices at both the Birmingham VA Medical Center and The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and completed his residency at UAB, where he served as Chief Medical Resident. He remained at UAB to complete his gastroenterology fellowship and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He serves as the Associate Director of the Gastroenterology Fellows...
immunobiology of microbiota-epithelial interactions and the epigenetics of mucosal cancers
Clinical Educator in Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology with a focus in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
My procedural expertise is in the area of general endoscopy and advanced endoscopy including: diagnostic and therapeutic endosonography and endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography, drainage of pseudocyst, necrosis, and abscess, and endoscopic removal or large polyps, early cancer, and therapy of Barrett's esophagus and cancer
I am the Director of Endoscopy at UAB and have overseen an increase in the number and kind of procedures performed. I improved the efficiency, throughput...
Dr. Ismail is a clinician-researcher who focuses on delivering comprehensive and optimal care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. He completed his training in one of the largest inflammatory bowel disease centers in the United States (The Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at The Johns Hopkins University). He is comfortable in treating complex and medically refractory patients with inflammatory bowel disease. He is experienced in managing biologics and emerging therapies. Dr. ...
Dr. Ajayi-Fox joins our faculty from Cleveland Clinic. She is a general gastroenterologist with an interest in addressing health disparities and improving Colorectal Cancer Screening. She is also interested in global health and improving access to subspecialty care in global and underserved regions.
Host-microbiota interactions in health and inflammatory diseases
Ramzi Mulki, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine, and an Interventional Endoscopist in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr. Mulki received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from Cairo University School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and completed his Gastroenterology Fellowship at Emory University Division of Digestive Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Mulki als...
Dr. Sánchez-Luna serves as an Interventional & Metabolic Endoscopist and Assistant Professor Of Medicine at The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine.
He is one of the very few interventional endoscopists in the United States to have undergone formal training in bariatric and metabolic endoscopy via the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) endoscopic training award and to be triple-board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and O...
Dr. Sugandha is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology. He completed a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery at Madras University in India and then a fellowship in Internal Medicine specializing in Gastroenterology at Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. Between 2000 and 2004 he was a Consultant in the Department of Gastroenterology at Christian Medical College. In 2005 he became a Staff Gastroenterologist at the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland, un...
