Surgery - Transplantation

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    Mark Deierhoi, Division Director

    Dr. Mark H. Deierhoi joined the UAB Department of Surgery in 1986. He has been instrumental in the evolution of transplantation surgery at UAB. He currently serves in the renal transplant program. He also sees patients at the VA Hospital.

    Dr. Deierhoi has served widely in his field, most notable with the Southeastern Organ Procurement Foundation assuming numerous committee and leadership roles with the foundation including presiding in 2003.

    A consistently funded researcher, Dr...

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    Babak Orandi, Assistant Professor (P)

    Babak Orandi is an abdominal transplant surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is also the surgical director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program and surgical director of the Kidney Transplant Accountable Care Team. He completed a combined Bachelors/MD program at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with distinction in research and completed a master’s in clinical investigation. He did his general surgery residency and PhD i...

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    Carlton Young, Professor (P)

    Since 1997, Dr. Young has been Director of pancreas transplantation at UAB. A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Young received his undergraduate degree from Villanova University. He then matriculated to medical school at Johns Hopkins, graduating in 1987. Dr. Young then returned to Philadelphia to complete his general surgical training at Thomas Jefferson University by 1993. He then spent two years at the University of Wisconsin as an abdominal transplant fellow. After graduation in 1995, he spent tw...

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    Douglas Anderson, Assistant Professor (P)

    Dr. Douglas Anderson grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering. After graduation, he remained at Vanderbilt to attend medical school before relocating to Atlanta in 2009. Once in Atlanta, he completed his residency in general surgery and fellowship in transplant surgery at Emory University. While there, he spent two years in the Emory Transplant Center laboratory rese...

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    Jared White, Associate Professor (P)

    Dr. Jared White completed his general surgery training and his abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary fellowship at the University of Alabama Birmingham in 2013. Dr. White was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery where he specializes in all aspects of evaluating, managing, and treating patients with end stage liver disease from a transplant surgery standpoint, including management of complications of cirrhosis, management of immunosuppression, and optimization of medical ...

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    Jayme Locke, Professor (P)

    Dr. Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon specializing in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Dr. Locke completed an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry at Duke University and her medical degree at East Carolina University prior to matriculating to Johns Hopkins Hospital where she received training in general surgery and ...

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    Marcos Pozo Jatem, Assistant Professor (P)

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    Mark Deierhoi, Professor (P)

    Dr. Mark H. Deierhoi joined the UAB Department of Surgery in 1986. He has been instrumental in the evolution of transplantation surgery at UAB. He currently serves in the renal transplant program. He also sees patients at the VA Hospital.

    Dr. Deierhoi has served widely in his field, most notable with the Southeastern Organ Procurement Foundation assuming numerous committee and leadership roles with the foundation including presiding in 2003.

    A consistently funded researcher, Dr...

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    Michael Hanaway, Professor (P)

    Dr. Michael Hanaway joined the UAB Division of Transplantation in February 2005. A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Hanaway received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, and proceeded to medical school at the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1992. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at the University of Wisconsin in 1997, and returned after a year of research at Duke University to complete his multi-organ transplant fellowship in 2000. Dr. Hanaway began his...

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    Mohammad Jajja, Instructor - Fellow (P)

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    Muhammad Rabbani, Instructor - Clinical (P)

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    Paige Porrett, Associate Professor (P)

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    Paul MacLennan, Associate Professor (P)

    Dr. Paul MacLennan is an epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Director of Transplant Analytics, Informatics & Quality. His experience includes collaborations with researchers with diverse interests, including occupational exposures and mortality/cancer, health disparities, diabetes and vision, healthcare utilization, geriatric epidemiology, injury and trauma and solid organ transplantation. He currently serves as a...

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    Rhiannon Reed, Assistant Professor (P)

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    Robert Cannon, Assistant Professor (P)

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    Robert Plews, Instructor - Fellow (P)

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    Saulat Sheikh, Assistant Professor (P)

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    Sergio Acuna Mancilla, Instructor - Fellow (P)

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    Stephen Gray, Associate Professor (P)

    Dr. Stephen Gray completed his general surgery training and abdominal transplant fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012. Prior to training at University of Alabama at Birmingham, He obtained a BS from Oakwood University in Huntsville, AL and completed his M.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Gray has been a faculty member in the Department of Surgery since 2012.

    Dr. Gray’s clinical interest is abdominal organ transplant. He specializes in liver...

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    Vera Hauptfeld-Dolejsek, Professor (P)

    Dr. Hauptfeld-Dolejsek attended the Charles University in Prague, where she obtained a Masters Degree, in Experimental Zoology; PhD in Embryology and Candidate of Science in Molecular Biology.

    She became Board certified for Human Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics D(ABHI) in US by American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.

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    Zhuo Tao, Assistant Professor (P)

  • Faculty Secondary Appointments

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    Clifton Kew II, Professor (S)

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