Welcome to the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at UAB. The Division has a multi-faceted mission that includes: provision of state-of-the-art clinical care for a wide variety of disorders of the endocrine system: clinical and basic endocrine investigation: and the education of medical students, graduate students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows.

The faculty possesses broad clinical expertise in diabetes, thyroid disease, pituitary disorders, adrenal disease, dyslipidemias, gonadal disorders, and metabolic bone disease and interacts closely with the Departments of Surgery (Divisions of Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Surgical Oncology, and Orthopaedic Surgery), Ophthalmology, Radiology, as well as other Divisions in the Department of Medicine. These interactions take the form of both shared multidisciplinary clinics and clinical case conferences. The Division supports one of the Department of Medicine’s largest out-patient clinics in The Kirklin Clinic, staffs the Endocrinology Section of the Birmingham VA Medical Center, and maintains a consultation service that evaluates patients with a wide variety of endocrine problems within all hospitals of the UAB Medical Center. In addition, Division faculty contribute inpatient General Medicine attending service at both University Hospital and the Birmingham VAMC.

The Division sponsors an Endocrinology Fellowship Program that provides three physician trainees with broad outpatient and consultative experience in all areas of clinical endocrinology with added exposure to Pediatric Endocrinology, Reproductive Endocrinology, and other disciplines on an elective basis. Fellows are also encouraged to gain investigative experience in clinical or basic research with faculty mentors either within the Division or in other academic units at UAB. Completion of the Fellowship allows ABIM Board Eligibility in Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Division faculty are engaged in cutting edge basic and clinical research sponsored by the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, industry, and foundations. Division research is fostered by the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center, the NIH-sponsored UAB Diabetes Research and Training Center, and the UAB Diabetes & Endocrine Clinical Research Unit. Faculty members are also closely affiliated with UAB’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, and Center for Aging.