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GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY
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Peter J. Mannon, MD, MPH
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Peter J. Mannon, MD, MPH, has accepted an appointment as professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Mannon received his MD degree from Boston University and completed his residency in internal medicine at Duke University. He then did a clinical gastroenterology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and his research gastroenterology fellowship at Duke, where he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1991. While on the Duke faculty, he became chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the affiliated VA Medical Center and earned an MPH from the University of North Carolina.
In 2000 Mannon relocated to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to join the Mucosal Immunity Section, rising to chief of the Inflammatory Diseases Research Unit. While at the NIH, he chaired the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Institutional Review Board. He also was professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. An internationally recognized expert in inflammatory bowel disease, Mannon’s clinical research interest is administration and evaluation of new biological agents for inflammatory bowel disease. His NIH group led the clinical trial of anti-IL-12 p40 monoclonal antibody for treatment of Crohn disease. He also has been instrumental in developing novel therapies for more rare gastrointestinal disorders, including combined immunodeficiency syndrome, and has worked with mucosal immunologists studying HIV and its involvement in gastrointestinal-associated mucosal lymphoid tissue.
SURGERY
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Jamie A. Cannon, MD
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Jamie A. Cannon, MD, has accepted an appointment asas assistant professor of surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Gastrointestinal Section. Cannon received her MD degree from University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson. She then completed her residency in general surgery at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina. She went on to do a fellowship in colorectal surgery with Georgia Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates in Atlanta.
Cannon’s primary interest is the study and treatment of colorectal cancer, including sphincter sparing surgery for low rectal cancer, minimally invasive treatment of colon cancer, and management of advanced disease. Cannon also treats inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, fecal incontinence, and common anorectal disorders.
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John R. Porterfield, MD, MSPH
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John R. Porterfield Jr, MD, MSPH, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Gastrointestinal Section.
Porterfield received his MD degree from the UAB School of Medicine and his MSPH in epidemiology from the UAB School of Public Health. He completed his general surgery residency and a fellowship in endocrine surgery at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, where he received the Howard K. Gray Travel Award given to the best clinical resident in the Department of Surgery.
Porterfield has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters and has lectured on a variety of endocrine and gastrointestinal surgical topics. His primary interest is refinement of clinical and biochemical diagnosis, imaging, and treatment of disorders of the pancreas and adrenal, thyroid, and parathyroid glands. Dr. Porterfield also has research interests in the changing paradigms of teaching resident surgeons in the era of limited work hours and future credentialing.
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Jeremy Goodman, MD
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Jeremy Goodman, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Transplantation. Goodman received his MD degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, with highest distinction. He then completed an internship and surgical residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis, where he was chief resident. He then undertook a research fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine, also in Saint Louis, and completed a fellowship in multiorgan transplantation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Goodman received the American Society of Transplantation Trainee Travel Award for American Transplant Congress, participated in the Novartis Transplant Fellow’s Awards Program, and was an American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Scholar.
In addition to the Washington Manual Surgery Survival Guide (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003), Goodman has written numerous book chapters and journal articles on immunologic and transplantation topics.
His primary research interests are kidney and pancreas transplantation in high-immunologic-risk patients and antibody-mediated rejection of kidney and pancreas transplants. His clinical interests are the management of patients with kidney failure and type 1 diabetes and evaluation for individuals considering kidney donation.
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Derek DuBay, MD
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Derek DuBay, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Transplantation. DuBay received his MD degree from University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City. He completed a general surgery internship and residency at University of Michigan Medical School. He continued his training there with a general surgery research fellowship and served as chief administrative resident from 2005 to 2006. DuBay comes to UAB from the University of Toronto, where he completed a hepatobiliary oncology and liver transplantion fellowship.
His primary research interest is the study of the perioperative care and clinical outcomes of liver transplant and liver resection patients. His clinical interests are adult liver transplantion and hepatobiliary surgery.
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Curtis J. Rozzelle, MD
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Curtis J. Rozzelle, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of surgery. Rozzelle has a dual appointment at UAB and Children’s Hospital.
Rozzelle received his MD degree from Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. He then completed his internship in general surgery and residency in neurosurgery at UAB School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Branch in Dallas and a fellowship in epilepsy surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa.
Rozzelle comes to UAB from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, where he was assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and surgical director of the comprehensive epilepsy program. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery.
His primary research and clinical interests are pediatric neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, occult spinal dysraphism, and surgical-site infection prevention. Rozzelle has written and lectured extensively on these and related topics, with several peer-reviewed articles appearing in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.