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James Sommerville McLester, M.D., Chair

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Medical College of Alabama 

Department of Medicine 1945-1949 

Undergraduate: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Medical School: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 

Resident Training: Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for
Graduate Medicine, Philadelphia, PA


 

 

Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D., Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1950-1957 

Undergraduate: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 

Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 

Resident Training: Peter Bent Brigham, Boston, Europe, MA 

Fellowship General Education Board, Europe 

 

 

 


 

 

Walter Benedict Frommeyer, Jr., M.D., Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1957-1969 

Undergraduate: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

Medical School: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

Resident Training: Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 

Fellowship: Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston, MA 

 

 

 

 


 

 

T. Joseph Reeves, M.D., Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1969-1973 

Undergraduate: Baylor University, Waco, TX 

Medical School: Baylor University, Waco, TX  

Resident Training: Parkland Hospital, Dallas, TX 

Fellowship Cardiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL;
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, England 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Thomas N. James, M.D., Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1973-1981 

Undergraduate: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 

Medical School: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 

Resident Training: Henry Ford, Detroit, MI 

Fellowship: Cardiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Charlie William Scott, Jr., M.D., (Acting) Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1981-1982 

Undergraduate: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Medical School: Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 

Resident Training: University of Alabama Hospitals, Birmingham, AL 

Fellowship: Hematology, University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 

 

 

 

 


 

 

J. Claude Bennett, M.D., Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 

Department of Medicine 1982-1993 

Undergraduate: Samford University, Birmingham, AL 

Medical School: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

Resident Training: University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL 

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 

 

 

 

 


 

 

William E. Dismukes, M.D., (Acting) Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1993-1995 and 2005-2006 

Undergraduate: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Medical School: Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 

Resident Training: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA 

Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

 

 

 

 


 

 

William J. Koopman, M.D., Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 1995-2006 

Undergraduate: Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA 

Medical School: Harvard University, Boston, MA 

Resident Training: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

Fellowship: Immunology, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Edward Abraham, M.D., Chair 

 

 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 2006-2011 

Undergraduate Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

Medical School Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

Resident Training University of California Los Angeles, CA 

Fellowship Emergency Medicine; UCLA Hospital, Los Angeles, CA  

Critical Care Medicine, Harbor- UCLA, Torrance, CA 

Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Pasteur Institute, Paris France 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Anupam Agarwal, M.D., (Acting) Chair 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 2011-2012 

Medical School: Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore University, India 

Resident Training: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Chandigarh, India

Fellowships: University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinic, Minneapolis, MN;
College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 

 

 

 

 


 

 

C. Seth Landefeld, M.D., Chair 

 

University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Department of Medicine 2012-2024 

Undergraduate Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

Oxford University, Oxford, UK 

Medical School Yale University, New Haven, CT. 

Resident Training University of California San Francisco 

Fellowship Harvard University, Cambridge, MA