Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
living kidney donation, disparities in access to kidney transplantation, optimizing high KDPI organs, robotic surgery
Biography
Dr. Margaret Romine is an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Transplantation. She joined the faculty of the UAB Department of Surgery in 2025.
After receiving a Master of Science from the Department of Infectious Diseases from the University of Georgia, Dr. Romine attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. Following medical school, she attended UAB for the General Surgery Residency Program and for the Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship. After training, Dr. Romine was hired at East Carolina University / ECU Health as an assistant professor. She was the Director of Living Donation and the Co-Director of Surgical Clerkship at ECU. She was an involved educator at ECU, serving as the in-service lecturer for health transplant surgery residents, the content advisor for the Master of Public Health, and the surgical clerkship preceptor for the Brody School of Medicine.
Dr. Romine is involved in a variety of efforts to enhance living kidney donation and address disparities in access to kidney transplantation. She is also interested in optimizing the use of high KDPI organs to improve organ utilization as well as reexamine the approach to kidney transplantation in the setting of prostate cancer. Dr. Romine is an advocate for the application of robotic surgery in the field of transplantation.
Selected Publications
Monette MM, Harney RT, Morris MS, Chu DI. Local repair of stoma prolapse: Case report of an in vivo application of linear stapler devices. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2016 Sep 1;11:32-5.
Monette MM, Evans DL, Krunkosky T, Camus A, Jaso-Friedmann L. Nonspecific cytotoxic cell antimicrobial protein (NCAMP-1): a novel alarmin ligand identified in zebrafish. PLoS One. 2015 Feb 17;10(2):e0116576.
Moss LD, Monette MM, Jaso-Friedmann L, Leary JH 3rd, Dougan ST, Krunkosky T, Evans DL. Identification of phagocytic cells, NK-like cytotoxic cell activity and the production of cellular exudates in the coelomic cavity of adult zebrafish. Dev Comp Immunol. 2009 Oct;33(10):1077-87.
Ladowski JM, Mullins H, Romine MM, Kloda D, Young C, Hauptfeld-Dolejsek V, Houp J, Locke J. Eplet mismatch scores and de novo donor-specific antibody development in simultaneous pancreaskidney transplantation. Hum Immunol. 2020 Dec 31:S0198-8859(20)30443-2. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2020.12.009. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33390268.
Sheikh SS, Romine MM, Locke JE. Invited commentary: The ‘Broken Rung’ in Transplantation. American Journal of Surgery. 2022 July 1;224 (1):164-165.
Hao SB, Arasa M, Siripurapu V, Leeser DB, Romine MM. Improved Renal Allograft Function with Dialysis Access Ligation to Reduce Venous Hypertension. Transplantation Reports. 2023 May 22:8(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpr.2023.100140.
Leeser David B, Kennamer K, Kartchner L, Romine MM, Aaron A, McLawhorn K, Jones H, Irish W. Diagnostic Yield Among Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy and/or Hypertension: Genetic Testing in Kidney Transplant Waitlist Patients: SA-PO537. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 33(11S):p 753, November 2022. |DOI:10.1681/ASN.20223311S1753a.
Romine MM, Leeser DB, Kennamer K, Nguyen C, Jones H, McLawhorn K, Kendrick S, Irish W. Early outcomes associated with de novo once-daily extended-release versus twice-daily immediaterelease tacrolimus in a predominantly African American kidney transplant population: A singlecenter observational study. Clin Transplant. 2024 Mar;38(3):e15268. doi: 10.1111/ctr.15268. PMID: 38450751.
Black M, Romine MM, Leeser DB. Renal Transplantation In Older Adults, An Updated Review. Current Transplantation Reports. 2024 August 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40472-024-00438-4.
Education
Medical School
Medical College of Georgia
Graduate School
University of Georgia
Department of Infectious Diseases
Residency
University of Alabama at Birmingham
General Surgery Residency
Fellowship
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship
Contact
Phone
Patient Appointments and Questions: (205) 975-5691 (Liver Transplant & Hepatobiliary) & (205) 975-9200 (Kidney)
Academic Office: (205) 934-2131
Email