Thirty-two UAB Heersink School of Medicine students who completed their clinical education at UA’s College of Community Health Sciences were selected for residency programs across the country.
CCHS serves as a regional campus of the Heersink School of Medicine in the education of medical students, and clinical education consists of the third and fourth years of medical school. Residency programs provide specialized training for medical school graduates.
Eighteen of the students will train in residencies in Alabama, and four of those students will train at the UA Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, which is operated by the College.
The students learned of their residency placements during a commemorative event in March with the release of the National Resident Matching Program results. The students graduate in May and begin their residency training in July.
The medical students matched into residencies in 12 states: Texas, Washington, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas, Maryland, Pennsylvania and California.
The students matched into nine different residency specialties: six into family medicine, four each into neurology, psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology, and two each into internal medicine and general surgery. In addition, one student each matched into residencies in anesthesiology, urology, orthopaedic surgery, pathology, radiation oncology and internal medicine-pediatrics.
Medical students 2026 match results:
| Last Name | First Name | Specialty | Program |
| Aljabi | Brejjette | Urology | UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas |
| Bednarski | Hannah | Anesthesiology | Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Ill. |
| Bergman | Brooks | Internal Medicine | North Alabama Medical Center in Florence, Ala. |
| Brown | Michayla | Radiation Oncology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Bruderer | Maddie | Pediatrics | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Campbell | Kendall | Neurology | Prisma Health- University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, S.C. |
| Clayton | Colton | Internal Medicine | University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colo. |
| Contreras | Alegna | Neurology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Ellison | India | Surgery | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston, N.C. |
| Giggie | Julia | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. |
| Giles | Kierra | Family Medicine | University of South Alabama Hospitals in Mobile, Ala. |
| Gilliland | Cayla | Surgery | Baptist Health in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Harden | Phillip | Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics | University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, Tenn. |
| Hayes | Caleb | Family Medicine | University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| Hensley | Phillip | Family Medicine | Cahaba Medical Care in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Higginbotham | Edward | Neurology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Hodges | Cate | Orthopaedic Surgery | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Jones | Marli | Psychiatry | Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. |
| Koh | Brian | Neurology | Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. |
| LouAllen | Belle | Family Medicine | University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| Martens | Brannan | Family Medicine | University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| Newman | William | Family Medicine | University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| Pardo | Nadia | Pathology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Pinto | Libby | Psychiatry | University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Md. |
| Price | Anna Grace | Psychiatry | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Reddy | Venu | Psychiatry | University of Arkansas College of Medicine in Little Rock, Ark. |
| Samuel | Ciearria | Pediatrics | Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. |
| Tinch | Garrett | Neurology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Van | Andrew | Neurology | Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Wallace | Maya | Obstetrics and Gynecology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |
| Washington | Timmy | Obstetrics and Gynecology | University of California in San Francisco, Calif. |
| Williams | Tameron | Obstetrics and Gynecology | UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. |