New Class of Residents and Fellows Welcomed

On June 20, UAB welcomed 2019–20 new residents and fellows into the Pathology Department with a breakfast and orientation held at the Wallace Tumor Institute. Incoming residents and fellows gathered with George Netto, M.D., Pathology Chair, Professor and James Hackney, M.D., Residency Program Director, Associate Professor, Neuropathology, as well as Pathology faculty and current residents/fellows. The 17 residents and fellows started in the department on July 1.

Around 60 people attended the breakfast with Netto welcoming incoming residents and fellows and Hackney introducing the four attending division directors: Professor Davis Gregory, M.D., M.S.P.H, Forensic Pathology, Professor Christina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D., Anatomic Pathology, Professor Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Neuropathology, and Professor X. Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory Medicine. Following the breakfast, residents and fellows met with faculty members, including Residency Coordinator Monica Henderson, Fellowship Coordinator Susan Mills, Information Systems Manager Israel Ponce-Rodriguez, along with Chief Residents Adam Jones, M.D., and Danielle Fasciano, D.O.

The new residents and fellows join UAB from around the country and the world, such as resident Denis Noubouossie, M.D., Ph.D., from Université de Yaoundé Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences Biomédicales in Cameroon.

Several new fellows completed their residencies at UAB, including Hematopathology fellow David Dorn, M.D., and Molecular Genetic Pathology fellow Benjamin Saylor, M.D., who were both UAB AP/ CP residents. UAB GYN/GU fellow Tyler Clemmensen, M.D., recently completed his UAB Hematopathology fellowship, and Nirupama Singh, M.D., Ph.D., was a Molecular Genetic Pathology fellow who is now starting a Transfusion Medicine fellowship.

Tiffany Graham, M.D., recent graduate of the UAB Pathology Anatomic and Clinical

Pathology residency program, is featured in an article by The Pathologist magazine.

Graham is highlighted for recognition of her educational tweets, which consist of pathology related study tips, artistic renderings and memorization tools. Graham won the inaugural Educational Pathology Tweet Award, or #PathTweetAward, in 2019. She was presented with a certificate by the magazine and recognized by fellow Twitter users in the field of pathology at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) annual meeting in March. During her residency, Graham began a Twitter account, @HeartPathology, to share what she was learning and using to memorize educational information. She built a following and was recognized with this award as one of three winners. Following her completed residency at UAB, Graham started a fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology at the Medical University of South Carolina in the fall. Resident Tiffany Graham Featured in The Pathologist