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Gene Siegal

Gene Siegal, MD, PhD

Anatomic PathologyPathology

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Age Groups Seen

  • Pediatrics
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Geriatrics

Languages

  • English

About Gene Siegal

Biography

Dr. Siegal was born in New York where he attended college. He received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and his PhD from the University of Minnesota. He was a Resident and Research Fellow at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and completed both a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, NIH and a surgical pathology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Prior to coming to UAB in 1990, he was a tenured faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Siegal has been married for over 40 years and has 2 adult daughters and 4 grandchildren.

Title

Interim Chair, Department of Genetics, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pathology, Mowry Endowed Professor of Pathology, Former Division Director, Anatomic Pathology

Faculty Appointment

Professor

Research Interests

Dr. Siegal is an extramurally funded experimental and diagnostic pathologist whose research interest for more than 4 decades has been focused in Cancer Biology. Specifically, he has been interested in studying tumor-matrix interactions during angiogenesis, tumor invasion and metastasis in breast cancer. Previous efforts by his group have been directed towards developing new reliable in vitro model systems for studying the effect of nutritional and other factors on prostate and breast cancer progression in humans. He has participated in multiple gene therapy studies utilizing a variety of distinct strategies including mutation compensation, genetic immunopotentiation, and molecular chemotherapy to treat solid human neoplasms, principally ovarian carcinoma. He was most recently funded to develop a conditionally replicating canine adenovirus model that could be used to study host-vector interactions for more effective antitumor oncolytic effect. Dr. Siegal also directs the Pathology Core Research Laboratory/Department of Pathology. Dr. Siegal's clinical research interests have focused on studies of bone tumors and related conditions. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Laboratory Investigation and serves on the editorial board of multiple additional journals.

Awards & Recognition

A.S.I.P. Robbins Distinguished Educator Award 2015
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award 2017
C.A.P. Lifetime Achievement Award 2017

Memberships

American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP), College of American Pathologists (CAP), American Medical Association (AMA), Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), Sigma Xi

Expertise

Education

  • Fellowship: University of Minnesota Medical School at Minneapolis, 1982
  • Fellowship: Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, 1981
  • Residency: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1979
  • Residency: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1978
  • Fellowship: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1977
  • Residency: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1976
  • Internship: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1975
  • Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine, 1974

Board Certifications

  • Anatomic Pathology: American Board of Pathology, 1978