Clinical
Our goal is to provide comprehensive clinical care for the treatment of digestive related diseases.  Our faculty trained and equipt with the most advanced techniques and procedureal services available for the treatment ailments.  We operate inpatient and consultative services at UAB Hospital and Birmingham VA Medical Center, with approximately 25 inpatients and 80 consultative service each month.  Our outpatient clinics, located within the Kirklin Clinic and UAB Highlands, report an average of over 12,000 annual patients.  Additionally, our endoscopy ultrasound program is currently recognized as one of the highest volume programs in the country.  All of our patients are seen by attending faculty members with the assistance of GI fellows.

Educational
Our goal is to train future gastroenterologist and provide them with the most advanced knowledge and skills for treating disgestive diseases.  Our faculty are actively involved with the teaching of gastroenterology fellows, house-staff, post-doctoral fellows in the laboratory, and subspecialty fellows in endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, and hepatology.  We are able to provide unique learning opportunites for future gastroenterologist and subspecialty physicians in the academic setting.  All educational activities benefit from our experienced faculty clinical and research faculty members.

Research 
Our goal is to advance the services,  treatment and therapies for digestive and liver related diseases.  With both industry and NIH funded research, we are active in basic science and clinical research to further the treatment and knowledge of digestive diseases.  We are able to utilize our diverse research programs and foster collarborative research projects not only at UAB but throughout the world.  Our faculty members provide leadership to the UAB Liver Center, UAB Muscosal HIV & Immunobiology Center (MHIC), and the UAB Pancreaticobiliary Center (PBC).  We also utilize an inclusive clinical research program (GHCRP), which provides a specialized infrastructure to facilitate clinical research for faculty members.  This allowed for increased efficiency in our clinical research endeavors.