Carlos Estrada, MD, MS

Carlos A. Estrada, MD, MS, is Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine (GIM) at the BVAMC and Professor of Medicine, with tenure, at the Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He served as Associate Provost for...

Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dr. Patricia A. Patrician was the inaugural VAQS Senior Nurse Scholar at the Birmingham site from 2009 – 2024. She joined the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing (SON) in 2008, following a 26-year career in the US Army Nurse...

Meghan Black, MD

Meghan K.M. Black, MD is an internist at the Birmingham VA medical center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham. She completed her residency and quality improvement fellowship at the University of...

Suzie Miltner, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Rebecca S. (Suzie) Miltner, PhD, RN, CNL, NEA-BC is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing and a Nurse Scientist at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. She is also an Associate Editor for the Journal for Healthcare...

Melanie Morris, MD

Dr. Melanie Morris joined the faculty at University of Alabama at Birmingham as an associate professor of surgery in 2010. In 2016, she was named the chief of general surgery for the Birmingham VA hospital. A native of Tennessee, she completed her undergraduate degree...