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Blake Phillips, MD

Skin Cancer Subtypes and Surgeries

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Blake Phillips, MD earned his medical degree from the University of Texas McGovern Medical School, followed by a Dermatology Internship and Residency at UAB. He also did a Fel.... Read More
William  Maddox, MD

UAB Doctor Makes History with Breakthrough Heart Procedure

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Ansley Franco   This April, William Maddox, MD, an electrophysiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was the first physician in Alabama to perform a pu.... Read More
Along with the UAB Medicine and UAB St. Vincent’s surgical teams, Hassan Alkhawam, MD (center) holds the Navitor TAVR device.

UAB St. Vincent’s New Treatment for High-risk Aortic Stenosis

May 15, 2025 at 08:45 pm by kbarrettalley

By Marti Webb Slay   When Hassan Alkhawam, MD, interventional and structural cardiologist at UAB St. Vincent’s, had a patient needing a new aortic valve, he.... Read More
Patrick Peavy MD in surgery.

Peavy Performs Alabama’s First Cementless Oxford Unicondyl Knee Surgery

May 15, 2025 at 08:44 pm by kbarrettalley

By Laura Freeman   Since the first advances in knee replacement surgery in the 1960s and 1970s, a steady progression of innovations in techniques and technology has con.... Read More
Andrew Frey, DO

Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty at Grandview

May 15, 2025 at 08:44 pm by kbarrettalley

By Laura Freeman   This April, Grandview Medical Center became one of the first in Alabama to offer a new weight loss procedure for bariatric patients called the Endosc.... Read More
Cover image of the June 2025 issue of Birmingham Medical News

June 2025

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Your June 2025 Issue of Birmingham Medical News is Here!