Published in UAB Insight, Fall 2007
Cancer Center Director Named
Edward E. Partridge, MD, is the new director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. A graduate of the UAB School of Medicine, Partridge completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at UAB, serving as chief resident. He also completed cancer fellowships at UAB and with the American Cancer Society.
He is a principal investigator for the Deep South Network for Cancer Control, a community-based participatory research network and is the principal investigator for the Morehouse School of Medicine/Tuskegee University/UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership, a grant that joins research efforts of UAB investigators with those of researchers at historically black colleges and universities to enhance cancer health disparity research.
He has a distinguished academic record, with more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, and is a leader in Alabama medicine. He currently chairs the Board of the Mid South Division of the American Cancer Society and serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Cancer society.
New Radiology Chair Appointed
Reginald F. Munden, DMD, MD, a national leader in diagnostic imaging, has been named the new chair of UAB Department of Radiology, effective February 2008. Munden currently serves as interim chair of diagnostic radiology in the division of diagnostic imaging at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He began his career as a dentist, earning his doctorate in medical dentistry from the College of Dental Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). After 3 years in private practice and 2 years on the faculty of the College of Dental Medicine, Munden returned to MUSC to earn his medical degree and complete a diagnostic radiology residency. He then served as a clinical thoracic fellow in radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Munden joined the University of Texas Houston Medical School before joining M.D. Anderson in 1997. He was named section chief in thoracic imaging in 1998 and associate division head for translational and clinical research in 2005 prior to being appointed interim department chair. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 academic writings.