Faculty

Wagener, Brant, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Simon Gelman Endowed Professorship
Director, Clinical Research
Director, Systemic Training in Anesthesia Research (STAR Program)
Director, Resident Mentored Research Experience Track (RMRET)
Director, Research Fellowship
Director, UAB MPOG Initiative

Research and Clinical Interests
Lung Injury and Repair, Bacterial Pneumonia, Cognitive Dysfunction, ARDS, Chronic Critical Illness
Ware, Oliver, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Community Anesthesia
Ware, Samantha, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Wasson, Emily, M.D., MPH

Assistant Professor
Associate Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency

Research and Clinical Interests
Neurocritical care/neuroanesthesia, Perioperative blood pressure management, Long term post-ICU outcomes
Weisberg, James N., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
President (2025-2027), Southern Pain Society

Research and Clinical Interests
Pain, Psychology, Personality and Pain, Coping with Chronic Pain

PubMed
Wesselmann, Ursula I., M.D., Ph.D., D.T.M.&H. (Lond.)

Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Pain Medicine, Neurology, Pain Research, Women's Health Research, Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, Vulvodynia, Interstitial Cystitis Pain Syndrome, Breast Cancer, Racial Health Disparities
Williams, Mark, MD

Associate Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Performance Improvement and Patient Safety, Physician Leadership and Development, Rural Health Care, Care Transformation, National Health Care Policy
Woods, Alexander, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Vascular anesthesia, neuro anesthesia
Wu, Songwei, M.D.

Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Lung Injury and Repair
Zhang, Linda, D.O., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Obstetric Anesthesia/Multispecialty Anesthesia
Zhao, Chen, D.O.

Assistant Professor

Research and Clinical Interests
Adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology, transesophageal echocardiography, critical care medicine

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