The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine is a public medical school located in Birmingham,Alabama,United States with branch campuses in Huntsville,Montgomery,and at the University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa. Residency programs are also located in Selma,Huntsville,and Montgomery. It is part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Robert Alan Good NAM,NAS,AAAS was an American physician who performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant between persons who were not identical twins. He is regarded as a founder of modern immunology.
Max Dale Cooper,is an American immunologist and a professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Emory Vaccine Center of Emory University School of Medicine. He is known for characterizing T cells and B cells.
James K. Kirklin is an American cardiac surgeon who has made significant scientific and surgical contributions in the fields of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support devices to assist the pumping action of the heart. He was formerly Professor of Surgery (1987-2022),Director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2006-2016),Director of the James and John Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes (KIRSO) (2016–2022),and Co-Director of Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center (2011-2017) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). While at UAB,he held the UAB Cardiovascular Research Chair (1998-2006),the John Kirklin Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery (2006-2017),and the James Kirklin Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2017-2022).
Helen Elisabeth Heslop is a physician-scientist from New Zealand whose clinical interests are in hematopoietic stem cell transplants. Heslop’s research focuses on immunotherapy to treat viral infections,post transplant and hematologic malignancies. She is a professor in the Department of Medicine and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine,Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital. She is also the Dan L. Duncan Chair and the associate director of clinical research at the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center.
Beatrice H. Hahn is an American virologist and biomedical researcher best known for work which established that HIV,the virus causing AIDS,began as a virus passed from apes to humans. She is a professor of Medicine and Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2002,Discover magazine listed Hahn as one of the 50 most important women scientists.
Crystal L. Mackall is an American physician and immunologist. She is currently the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy.
Cheri L. Canon is an American abdominal radiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Radiology. She currently serves as a professor and as the Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology in the department of radiology at UAB.
Monica Baskin is an American psychologist who is a professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research considers health disparities in the Deep South. She serves as Director of Community Outreach and Engagement at the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Larissa Nekhlyudov is an American general internist. She is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School,primary care physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Clinical Director of Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.
Ann Hart Partridge is an American medical oncologist. She is the founder and director of the Young and Strong Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.
Nirali N. Shah is an American physician-scientist and pediatric hematologist-oncologist,serving as head of the hematologic malignancies section of the pediatric oncology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She researches the translation of immunotherapeutic approaches to treat high-risk hematologic malignancies in children,adolescents and young adults.
Monika M. Safford is an American clinician-investigator. She is the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and John J. Kuiper Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She was the inaugural Endowed Professor of Diabetes Prevention and Outcomes Research and Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
James R. Downing is an American clinical executive. He is the president and chief executive officer of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Mona N. Fouad is an Egyptian-American physician. Fouad is the inaugural holder of the Edward E. Partridge,M.D.,Endowed Chair for Cancer Disparity Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a result of her "lifetime of exceptional work in health and medicine," Fouad was also elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.
Mary M. Horowitz is an American oncologist who specializes in blood and marrow transplants.
Selwyn Maurice Vickers is an American gastrointestinal surgical oncologist. He is the President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,starting in September 2022. Previously,he was the senior vice president for Medicine and Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the CEO of both the UAB Health System and the UAB/Ascension St. Vincent's Alliance.
Julie Ann Panepinto is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and physician-scientist. She specializes in health outcomes research and sickle cell disease. Panepinto became the acting director of the division of blood diseases and resources at the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute in 2022. She was a professor of pediatrics and hematology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
India NAP Gail Houston Cassell is an American microbiologist whose research focuses on Mycoplasma species and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. She is vice president of TB drug development at the Infectious Disease Research Institute. In 1994 she was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Tara Olive Henderson is an American pediatric oncologist. As the Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor in the Department of Pediatrics,she is also the Director of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Center,Director of Survivorship at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center,and chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University of Chicago.
