Dr. Bahl is an endocrinologist who provides a wide array of clinical services including diabetes, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal and HIV endocrinopathies. Dr. Bahl sees patients daily at the Kirklin Clinic at UAB and twice a month at the UAB 1917 Clinic. She also sees new patients in the Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic twice a week. She completed her fellowship training from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and joined the Division of Endocrinology as faculty in 2012. She is b...
Dr. Ovalle is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. In addition to maintaining a large and busy clinical practice, he serves as the Director of the Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic, and Director of Diabetes and Glycemic Control Programs at UAB Hospital.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology (FACE), and an active member of the Ameri...
Dr. Rosenthal received his BA in Zoology from The University of Texas at Austin and MD from UAB Medical School. He trained in Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. He completed his Endocrinology Fellowship at UAB. Dr. Rosenthal is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and has served as clinic director from 1999 to 2011. He served as Chief of Staff for The Kirklin Clinic from 2011-2014. Currently, he is the Associate Chief Medical Of...
Dr. Farooq is board certified in internal medicine. He has clinical interests in endocrinology, diabetes and managing metabolism. He earned his medical degree from the Islamic International Medical College (IIMC) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He went on to complete an Internal Medicine Residency and Endocrinology Fellowship at the University Of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando, Florida. A Clinical Excellence and Professionalism Award recipient, Dr. Farooq is also a proud member of the E...
Dr. Akin Ayodeji is an endocrinologist serving at UAB's Multispeciality Clinic Baptist Medical Center South. Dr. Ayodeji earned his medical degree from the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria. Following his graduation, he completed his internal medicine internship at Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, New York and his Endocrinology and Metabolism fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, Gerogia.
Alexandra Martirossian, MD (Assistant Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism) joined our faculty August 2022. Dr. Martirossian trained in our internal medicine residency program and completed her clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research at Washington University Barnes Jewish Hospital. Her current research focuses on the diagnosis and management of pituitary disorders.
Dr. Martirossian will expand endocrinology services to the Leeds and Gardendale sa...
Dr. Abdulhadi is an endocrinologist who provides a wide array of clinical services including diabetes, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, osteoporosis and obesity medicine. Dr. Abdulhadi sees patients daily at the Kirklin Clinic at UAB and at the Highlands Weight Loss Medicine Clinic. She completed fellowship training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She was elected as a member of the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She i...
Carlos Arguello MD, FACE is Associate Professor of Medicine in in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Alabama School of Medicine
He is a clinician-educator who joined UAB in 2005. His main clinical interests are the management of diabetes mellitus, lipid and adrenal disorders, and general endocrinology. In addition to a large and busy clinical practice, he serves as the Medical Director of the Endocrinology Clinic at the Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital...
Danica Maria Vodopivec Kuri, MD (Assistant Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism) joined our faculty September 1, 2022. Dr. Vodopivec Kuri completed her Internal Medicine Residency Program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine and her clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Fellowship Program at Boston Medical Center.
She completed a highly selective and unique fellowship in Oncologic Endocrinology at The University of...
Dr. Bahl is an endocrinologist who provides a wide array of clinical services including diabetes, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal and HIV endocrinopathies. Dr. Bahl sees patients daily at the Kirklin Clinic at UAB and twice a month at the UAB 1917 Clinic. She also sees new patients in the Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic twice a week. She completed her fellowship training from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and joined the Division of Endocrinology as faculty in 2012. She is b...
Dr. Ovalle is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. In addition to maintaining a large and busy clinical practice, he serves as the Director of the Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic, and Director of Diabetes and Glycemic Control Programs at UAB Hospital.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology (FACE), and an active member of the Ameri...
Loss of functional beta cell mass is a hallmark of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However, the mechanism that mediates this process has not been elucidated, and corresponding therapies have not been developed. MicroRNAs are ~ 22-nt small RNAs that mediate post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Dr. Xu found that diabetes induces the beta cell miR-204, which in turn represses insulin transcription by targeting and inhibiting the insulin transcription factor MAFA. His work also showe...
Dr. Zelada is an Assistant Professor of Medicine of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. Dr Zelada is board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. In addition to maintaining a large and busy clinical practice, his clinical and research work is focused on patients with diabetes, specially patients with type 1 diabetes on insulin pumps and continue glucose monitoring (CGM) systems and patients with atyp...
I graduated from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea with B.S and M.S degrees in Nutrition and Biochemistry, respectively. I have broad training and extensive experience in area spanning regulation of gene transcription, signal transduction, cell biology, metabolic and vascular animal physiology, and translational studies with an eye towards therapeutic discovery for human diseases. While in graduate school at Iowa State University and during post-doctoral training at Penn State University, I focuse...
Dr. Rosenthal received his BA in Zoology from The University of Texas at Austin and MD from UAB Medical School. He trained in Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. He completed his Endocrinology Fellowship at UAB. Dr. Rosenthal is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and has served as clinic director from 1999 to 2011. He served as Chief of Staff for The Kirklin Clinic from 2011-2014. Currently, he is the Associate Chief Medical Of...
Understanding the role of pancreatic beta-cells in obesity and type 2 diabetes
Dr. Riley grew up in Huntsville, AL, attended undergraduate at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and medical school at University of Alabama School of Medicine. She completed Neurosurgery Residency at UAB and a fellowship in Epilepsy Surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, England.
Dr. Riley joined the Neurosurgery faculty in 2004.
Dr. Riley specializes in non-vascular, cranial neurosurgery including general cranial neurosurgery and:
Endoscopic Pituitary Tumor a...
Ricardo Azziz is an internationally recognized physician, scientist, and executive. He served as CEO of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the largest multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of reproductive medicine worldwide; as Chief Officer, Academic Health & Hospital Affairs, and Director of the SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute, the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest university system in the nation; and as president...
Dr. Garvey is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He obtained his MD degree, cum laude, from St. Louis University in 1978, and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, in 1981. He then was a clinical fellow in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He subsequently held facul...
