Sixteen new medical school graduates will begin their graduate education in July 2022 at The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences.
They will receive specialty training in family medicine as part of the UA Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program Class of 2025. The three-year residency is operated by CCHS and is one of the oldest and largest family medicine residencies in the United States.
The College founded the residency more than four decades ago and, to date, 527 physicians have received training through the program. The residency has a long tradition of working to improve the health of individuals and communities in Alabama and the Southeast. In Alabama, one of every seven practicing family medicine physicians is a graduate of the residency, and 90% of graduates practice in the Southeast.
During their time in the program, residents are educated and trained in academic and community environments by physicians in family medicine and other specialties and learn to provide high-quality and patient-centered care. Residents have opportunities to practice in hospitals and continuity and community clinics and connect with patients in the context of their families and communities.
CCHS also offers post-residency fellowships for additional training in behavioral health, emergency medicine, geriatrics, hospital medicine, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics and sports medicine.
The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program Class of 2025 and where they completed medical school:
Omar Bilbeisi, DO: Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Auburn, Ala.
Austin Brooks, MD: The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala.
Rachel Butler, DO: Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Auburn, Ala.
Hunter Cutlip, MD: West Virginia University Health Sciences Center – Eastern Division, Martinsburg, W.Va.
Madeleine Dehner, MD: Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans
Melissa DeViney, MD: American University of the Caribbean, Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands
McKenzie Donald, MD: The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala.
Joseph Mestayer, MD: University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Oxford, Miss.
Madison Peoples, MD: The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala.
Dee Ruhigisha, MD: Medical University of the Americas, Charlestown, Nevis
Morvarid Sanandaji, MD: American University of the Caribbean, Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Victoria Smith, MD: American University of the Caribbean, Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Aaron Stuber, MD: The University of Alabama Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala.
Andy Thomas, MD: The University of Alabama Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala.
William Wallace, MD: St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies
Mary Wilson, MD: St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies