Adeyi Oyedele, M.D., FRCPC, Division Director, Anatomic Pathology, will serve as section head of Gastrointestinal Pathology and director of the GI fellowship program, effective July 15.

 

Adeyi joined the department as director of the Division of Anatomic Pathology on June 6, 2025, from the University of Minnesota Medical School where he served as professor since 2019 and as director of surgical pathology. Prior to his appointment at Minnesota, Adeyi joined the University of Toronto in Canada as an assistant professor in 2006 and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. 

 

In 1987, Adeyi earned his medical degree from the University of Ibadan’s College of Medicine in Ibadan, Nigeria, before completing both a medical internship and residency in pathology at Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria in 1996. In 2000, Adeyi completed a research fellowship in renal pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2005, Adeyi completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and in 2006, Adeyi completed a clinical fellowship in liver and transplantation pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

Adeyi assumes the role from Goo Lee, M.D., Ph.D., who served as interim GI section head and director of the GI fellowship program. GI pathology is a subspecialty of anatomic pathology, providing comprehensive gastrointestinal, pancreatic and hepatobiliary diagnostic pathologic service to UAB, including its Pancreatobiliary Disease Center, Liver Transplantation Program, and O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. It renders consultations on challenging cases to UAB Pathology outreach services (CPPP), Children's of Alabama, Birmingham VA Medical Center and other local and regional institutions. Approximately 10,000 gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary specimens (biopsies and resections) are processed each year, including approximately 1,000 liver biopsies/resections/transplants.