Jeff Kerby, MD, PhD
Trauma Surgery
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Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- English
About Jeff Kerby
Faculty Appointment
Professor
Research Interests
interventional trials in the pre-hospital emergency care setting; the effect of blood storage age on outcomes in trauma patients
Memberships
Dr. Kerby was named director of the Division of Acute Care Surgery in November 2014. A native of Missouri, Dr. Kerby received both his undergraduate degree and medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1989. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999, along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in 1996, earning a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from UAB in 1997. Following residency, Dr. Kerby served in the United States Air Force as an active duty surgeon until 2003, deploying as a combat trauma surgeon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002. Dr. Kerby returned to UAB in 2003. Since his return, he has served as a clinically active acute care surgeon and was the chief of general surgery at the Birmingham VA Medical Center from 2009 through 2014. An active researcher, Dr. Kerby served as the principal investigator for the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Center network, an NIH funded multi-center trials network focused on outcomes of hospital clinical trials in trauma and cardiac arrest, from 2005 through 2015.
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Expertise
Education
- Residency: University of Alabama Hospital, 1999
- Graduate School: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1997
- Fellowship: University of Alabama Hospital, 1996
- Internship: University of Alabama Hospital, 1990
- Medical School: Univ. Missouri at Kansas City SOM, 1989
Board Certifications
- Surgery (General Surgery): American Board of Surgery, 2000