Published in UAB Insight, Summer 2007
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Neurology
Andrei V. Alexandrov, MD, has accepted an appointment as professor of neurology, director of the Cerebrovascular Diseases Program, and director of the UAB Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Alexandrov, an international leader in cerebrovascular ultrasound and microsphere technology in the evaluation and treatment of stroke, most recently was director of the Stroke Research and Neurosonology Program at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.
Alexandrov received his MD degree from the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in 1989. He specialized in clinical neurology at the Institute of Neurology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, and completed his postgraduate fellowship training in stroke and cerebrovascular ultrasound at the Neurovascular Laboratory and Stroke Research Unit of the University of Toronto, Canada before continuing his stroke research as a fellow of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
In 1996 he joined the University of Texas stroke treatment team in Houston. There he started a teaching and research center in cerebrovascular disease. He has presented his research on sonothrombolysis and other aspects of emergent stroke diagnosis and treatment at numerous national and world conferences.
Nutrition Sciences
Jeanette N. Keith, MD, has accepted an appointment as associate professor of nutrition sciences. Keith is the director of Medical Nutrition Services, which provides nutrition and indirect calorimetry consults. She also practices gastroenterology, directs the enteral access service, and codirects the UAB EatRight Program. Her clinical focus is the medical management of obese patients, especially those with gastrointestinal and nutritional complications following bariatric surgery.
Keith graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and subsequently trained in general internal medicine at Indiana University Medical Center. She completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a National Institutes of Health-supported fellowship in clinical nutrition at the University of California-Davis. Prior to joining the UAB faculty, Keith was assistant professor of medicine in the Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago.
Internal Medicine
Gorman R. Jones III, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine. Jones earned his medical degree from UAB and completed his residency in internal medicine at UAB before serving 2 years as an assistant professor of medicine and as a primary care physician at The Kirklin Clinic®. In 1997 he joined the Baptist Health System, where he taught in the internal medicine and transitional year residency programs and served as director of clinics for the internal medicine residency program. In 1998 and 2003 he was named to “Best Doctors in America.”
Jones joins the Camellia Medical Group. The retainer-based clinic is housed in the McDonald Clinic. Patients enrolled in the Camellia Medical Group receive specialized care in addition to access to UAB’s programs and expertise. Persons interested in enrolling in the Camellia Medical Group may call 205.996.2760.
Orthopaedics
Mansuetta received his DO degree from Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in Miami. He completed a general surgery internship and an orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he also completed a hand and microvascular surgery fellowship.
Mansuetta is currently accepting patients at UAB Highlands and may be reached at 205.975.2663 for patient appointments.
Radiology
Laurel E. Zollars, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of radiology. Zollars’ clinical interests include radiological imaging of the central nervous system, skull, and spine; the radiology of ear, nose, and throat conditions; and musculoskeletal radiology. She also is interested in pain management and musculoskeletal interventional procedures using ultrasound and computed tomography guidance.
Zollars graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University and earned her MD degree from Yale University Medical School. Her postgraduate training includes an internship and residency in internal medicine and a neuroradiology fellowship at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, a radiology residency at Boston City Hospital, and an abdominal imaging fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Surgery
Thomas Nien-Tsu Wang, MD, PhD, has accepted an appointment as associate professor of surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology.
Wang’s clinical interests include thyroid and parathyroid diseases, adrenal neoplasms, pancreatic and hepatobiliary tumors, gastrointestinal malignancies, melanoma, and soft tissue sarcomas.
Wang graduated from Brown University and received his MD degree from Temple University School of Medicine and his PhD in molecular pathobiology from Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP) Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. At MCP Hahnemann Wang also completed a general surgery residency, serving as chief resident, and a research fellowship. He completed a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he received the Marvin M. Romsdahl Clinical Excellence Award.
He served as assistant professor of surgery and associate professor of surgery in the Section of Surgical Oncology at the Medical College of Georgia, where he later became interim chief of Surgical Oncology and received the Georgia Cancer Coalition’s Distinguished Cancer Clinician and Scientist Award and Distinguished Cancer Scholar Award.