Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
treatment and management of deep partial thickness and full thickness burns
Biography
Dr. Natalie O’Neill joined the faculty of the UAB Department of Surgery in 2026. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and completed her surgical residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Following residency, she completed the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at UAB. She then practiced as a pediatric surgeon at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia and served as an assistant professor of surgery at the Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University.
Dr. O’Neill’s research currently focuses on the role of skin substitute use in pediatric deep partial thickness and full thickness burn management. She is a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American Burn Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the Chest Wall International Group.
Selected Publications
O'Neill NA, Eppler HB, Jewell CM, Bromberg JS. Harnessing the lymph node microenvironment. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2018 Feb;23(1):73-82. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000488. PMID: 29189412; PMCID: PMC6309445.
O'Neill NA, Zhang T, Braileanu G, Cheng X, Hershfeld A, Sun W, Reimann KA, Dahi S, Kubicki N, Hassanein W, Laird C, Cimeno A, Azimzadeh AM, Pierson RN. Pilot Study of Delayed ICOS/ICOS-L Blockade With αCD40 to Modulate Pathogenic Alloimmunity in a Primate Cardiac Allograft Model. Transplant Direct. 2018 Feb 2;4(2):e344. doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000000761. PMID: 29464205; PMCID: PMC5811273.
Laird CT, Hassanein W, O'Neill NA, French BM, Cheng X, Fogler WE, Magnani JL, Parsell D, Cimeno A, Phelps CJ, Ayares D, Burdorf L, Azimzadeh AM, Pierson RN 3rd. P- and E-selectin receptor antagonism prevents human leukocyte adhesion to activated porcine endothelial monolayers and attenuates porcine endothelial damage. Xenotransplantation. 2018 Mar;25(2):e12381. doi: 10.1111/xen.12381. Epub 2018 Jan 23. PMID: 29359469; PMCID: PMC10204697.
Conway RG, O'Neill N, Brown J, Kavic S. An educated guess - Distance estimation by surgeons. Surg Open Sci. 2020 Apr 30;2(3):113-116. doi: 10.1016/j.sopen.2020.04.001. PMID: 33981983; PMCID: PMC8083008.
DiChiacchio L, O'Neill NA, Kligman M, Bafford AC. Postoperative small bowel obstruction secondary to single malformed staple following laparoscopic total abdominal colectomy. J Surg Case Rep. 2020 Oct 24;2020(10):rjaa361. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjaa361. PMID: 33133498; PMCID: PMC7584459.
Burdorf L, Laird CT, Harris DG, Connolly MR, Habibabady Z, Redding E, O'Neill NA, Cimeno A, Parsell D, Phelps C, Ayares D, Azimzadeh AM, Pierson RN 3rd. Pig-to-baboon lung xenotransplantation: Extended survival with targeted genetic modifications and pharmacologic treatments. Am J Transplant. 2022 Jan;22(1):28-45. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16809. Epub 2021 Sep 20. PMID: 34424601; PMCID: PMC10292947.
Chaban R, Habibabady Z, Hassanein W, Connolly MR, Burdorf L, Redding E, Laird C, Ranek J, Braileanu G, Sendil S, Cheng X, Sun W, O'Neill NA, Kuravi K, Hurh S, Ayares DL, Azimzadeh AM, Pierson RN 3rd. Knock-out of N-glycolylneuraminic acid attenuates antibody-mediated rejection in xenogenically perfused porcine lungs. Xenotransplantation. 2022 Nov;29(6):e12784. doi: 10.1111/xen.12784. Epub 2022 Oct 17. PMID: 36250568; PMCID: PMC11093624.
Education
Medical School
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Residency
University of Maryland Medical Center
General Surgery Residency
Fellowship
UAB / Children’s of Alabama
Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
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