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James Sommerville McLester, M.D., Chair (1945-1949)

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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 (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 Training: General Education Board, Europe 

 

 

 


 

 

Walter Benedict Frommeyer, Jr., M.D., Chair (1957-1969)

Undergraduate: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

Medical School: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 

Resident Training: Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 

Fellowship Training: Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston, MA 

 

 

 

 


 

 

T. Joseph Reeves, M.D., Chair (1969-1973)

Undergraduate: Baylor University, Waco, TX 

Medical School: Baylor University, Waco, TX  

Resident Training: Parkland Hospital, Dallas, TX 

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

 

 

 

 


 

 

Thomas N. James, M.D., Chair (1973-1981)

Undergraduate: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 

Medical School: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 

Resident Training: Henry Ford, Detroit, MI 

Fellowship Training: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Charlie William Scott, Jr., M.D., (Acting) Chair (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 Training: University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 

 

 

 

 


 

 

J. Claude Bennett, M.D., Chair (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 Training: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

 

 

 

 


 

 

William E. Dismukes, M.D., (Acting) Chair (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 Training: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

 

 

 

 


 

 

William J. Koopman, M.D., Chair (1995-2006)

Undergraduate: Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA 

Medical School: Harvard University, Boston, MA 

Resident Training: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 

Fellowship Training: National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Edward Abraham, M.D., Chair (2006-2011)

 

 

Undergraduate: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

Medical School: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

Resident Training: University of California Los Angeles, CA 

Emergency Medicine Training: UCLA Hospital, Los Angeles, CA  

Critical Care Medicine Training: UCLA Hospital, Torrance, CA 

Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow: Pasteur Institute, Paris, France 

 


 

 

Anupam Agarwal, M.D., (Acting) Chair (2011-2012)

 

 

Medical School: Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore University, India 

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

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

 

 

 

 


 

 

C. Seth Landefeld, M.D., Chair (2012-2024)

 

Undergraduate: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Oxford University, Oxford, UK 

Medical School: Yale University, New Haven, CT. 

Resident Training: University of California San Francisco 

Fellowship Training: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

 

 

Mark Dransfield, M.D., Chair (2025-Present)

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Medical School: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Resident Training: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Fellowship Training: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL