Leadership

Meet our Leadership

Will Ferniany, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer

John Faulstich
Chief Financial Officer

Velinda Block, R.N., Ph.D.
Chief Nursing Officer

Marty Box,
Executive Director, UABHS Human Resources

Art Boudreaux, M.D.
Chief of Staff

Scott Buchalter, M.D.
Chief Quality Officer

David Randall
Strategic Planning and Business Development

Joan Hicks
Chief Information Officer

Kathleen Kauffman, JD
Legal Counsel

Jeanetta Keller, Ph.D.
Chief Administrative Officer

Don Lilly
Clinical Network Development

Address:
UAB Health System
The John N. Whitaker Building
500 22nd Street South, Suite 408
Birmingham, Alabama 35233-3110
Phone: (205) 975-5362

UA System Ex Officio

Carol Z. Garrison, Ph.D.
Chair, UAB Health System Board
President, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ray Watts, M.D.
Dean and Senior Vice President
UAB School of Medicine

Malcolm Portera, Ph.D.
Chancellor
The University of Alabama System

C. Ray Hayes
Vice Chancellor for Financial Affairs
The University System

UA Trustee Public Appointees

Judge John H. England, Jr.
Circuit Court Judge
Tuscaloosa County Court House

Finis St. John IV
President
St. John & St. John, LLC

Ronald Gray
President of Gray Research

John J. McMahon, Jr.
Chairman
Ligon Industries

James W. Wilson, III
President and CEO
Wilson Holdings, Inc.

UA Health Services Foundation Ex Officio

Sergio Stagno, M.D.
President
Health Services Foundation Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Edward Abraham M.D.
Chairman, Department of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Kirby I. Bland, M.D.
Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Amie B. Jackson, M.D.
Chairman, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Alabama at Birmingham

UA Health Services Foundation Appointees
Charles Edward Adair
Partner
Cordova Ventures

Donald M. James
Chairman and CEO
Vulcan Materials Company

Van L. Richey
President and CEO
American Cast Iron Pipe Company

Charles D. Perry, Jr.
Principal Highland Associates

James T. Stephens
Chairman
EBSCO Industries, Inc.