Anderson, Douglas James, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Program Director, UAB Abdominal Transplant Fellowship
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include kidney transplantation and immunosuppression.
Cannon, Robert, M.D., FACS
Associate Professor
Surgical Director, Liver Transplant Program
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include liver transplantation, minimally invasive hepatic surgery, surgical management of portal hypertension, surgical management of polycystic liver disease, comprehensive management of benign and malignant hepatobiliary tumors, including hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma.
Hanaway, Michael J., M.D.
Professor
Surgical Director, Kidney Transplantation
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation, and induction therapy.
Hauptfeld-Dolejsek, Vera, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Director and Clinical Consultant, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include histocompatibility, deceased and living donor solid organ transplantation and related and unrelated bone marrow/HSC transplantation.
Kumar, Vineeta, M.D, F.A.S.T
Professor of Medicine
Robert and Cutessa Bourge Endowed Professor in Transplant Nephrology
Medical Director, UAB Incompatible Renal Transplant Program
Major Research Interest
Dr. Kumar is a kidney transplant nephrologist that specializes in medical evaluation of living kidney donors and care of kidney and pancreas transplant recipients as well as the transplantation of incompatible organs both HLA and ABO and in the care of highly sensitized transplant recipients. Her research interests include access to living kidney donation and solid organ transplants, outcomes in donors after living kidney donation and in recipients of kidney transplant.
MacLennan, Paul, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Director, Transplant Analytics, Informatics & Quality
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include: quality and patient safety, solid organ transplantation outcomes, ocular epidemiology and health disparities, injury epidemiology (occupational, motor vehicle collision, trauma), cancer epidemiology (prostate cancer, prostate cancer screening), occupational epidemiology (pesticide manufacturing workers, injury), and epidemiology research methods.
Porrett, Paige, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, VCA Transplantation, UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute
Director, Clinical & Translational Research, UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute
Vera Hauptfeld-Doejsek Endowed Professor in Transplant Immunology
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include uterus transplantation, VCA transplantation, reproductive immunology, transplant immunology, pregnancy alloimmunization, renal function during pregnancy, living donor kidney transplantation, sex and race disparities in transplantation, and transplantation tolerance.
Pozo-Jatem, Marcos M.D.
Assistant Professor
Medical Director for Pediatric Liver Transplant at Children’s Of Alabama
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, pediatric liver/kidney transplantation, living donor liver transplant, adult and pediatric hepatobiliary surgery, and transplant oncology.
Qu, Haiyan, Ph.D, MSHA
Associate Professor
Major Research Interests
Dr. Qu’s research interests include patient-centered outcomes research, health disparities, rehabilitation care, quality of care, medication adherence, and shared decision-making. She has published articles in Journal of General Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, American Journal of Health Behavior, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, The Journal of Rheumatology, and American Journal of Transplantation. She has served as a grant reviewer for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute since 2013.
Rabbani, Muhammad U., M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include uterus transplantation and living donor liver transplantation.
Reed, Rhiannon, DrPH, M.P.H., B.A.
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director, Transplant Epidemiology & Analytics in Medicine
Major Research Interests
Dr. Rhiannon Reed is an epidemiologist/clinical data analyst with a focus on long-term care of living kidney donors and organ transplant policy. She has interests in qualitative and mixed methods research, as well as dissemination and implementation science, particularly regarding education efforts to increase organ donation awareness.
Sheikh, Saulat, M.B.B.S., FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, pediatric transplantation, live donor liver transplant, live donor kidney transplant, and hepatobiliary surgery.
Tao, Zhuo, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory
Major Research Interests
Major research interests include organ transplant, BM/HSC transplant, transplant risk assessment, donor selection, recipient/donor pair selection, transplant outcome, engraftment monitoring, transplant organ rejection monitoring, and HLA antibody detection/identification.
