UAB Synopsis, Vol. 28, No. 6, February 16, 2009

Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Kirby I. Bland, MD, announces the appointment of Jeremy Goodman, MD, as assistant professor of surgery.

Dr. Goodman received his MD degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles. He then completed an internship and surgical residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis, Missouri, where he was chief resident from 2005 to 2006.

He completed a research fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine, also in Saint Louis, and a fellowship in multiorgan transplantation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. 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. He is board certified in general surgery.

Dr. Goodman has written numerous book chapters and journal articles on immunologic and transplantation topics in addition to editing the book, The Washington Manual Surgery Survival Guide (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003).

His primary research interests are kidney and pancreas transplantation in high-immunologic-risk patients and antibody-mediated rejection of kidney and pancreas transplants.

He can be reached at 205.934.9999 for patient appointments, 205.934.1393 for academic and administrative calls, or by e-mail at jeremy.goodman@ccc.uab.edu.