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UAB emergency department makes history with new chair
By Jessica Martindale February 1, 2021
Dr. Marie-Camille Elie, just named as head of UAB s Emergency Medicine Department, is triple certified in emergency medicine and critical
care, as well as hospice and palliative care medicine. Elie is the first Black woman to be named a permanent chair of an emergency medicine department at a major U.S. medical school. (UAB)
“Dr. Elie is first and foremost an outstanding academic physician-leader but uniquely will be the first Black woman to be named a permanent chair of an academic emergency medicine department at a major American medical school,” said Dr. Selwyn Vickers, senior vice president for Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine. “I am confident that her expertise and knowledge will benefit the Department of Emergency Medicine, which is continuously providing the highest-quality emergency medical care to patients.”
History made as UAB emergency department names new chair
Marie-Carmelle Elie. M.D. is the first Black woman to be named a permanent chair of an emergency medicine department at a major U.S. medical school Marie-Carmelle Elie, M.D. (Source: UAB) By WBRC Staff | January 28, 2021 at 3:21 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 5:26 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Marie-Carmelle Elie, M.D., has been named chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at BirminghamSchool of Medicine.
Elie obtained her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and her medical degree from the State University of New York in Brooklyn with a distinction in research. Following her emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, she completed the prestigious Critical Care/Trauma Fellowship at the R. Adam Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland. She is triple board-certified in emergency medicine and critical care, as well as hospice and p