Dr. Abraham announced the appointment of Carlos Estrada, MD, MS, as Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective November 1, 2009.

Dr. Estrada received his MD from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and MS from the University of Michigan.  He completed his Internal Medicine residency and a General Internal Medicine fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.  From 1996 through 2004, Dr. Estrada was at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where he was Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine.  Since 2004, Dr. Estrada has been at UAB, where he is presently Professor of Medicine and Fellowship Director for the National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Dr. Estrada has occupied multiple national leadership positions in general    internal medicine, including serving as Chair for the national meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in 2009.  He has served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.  Dr. Estrada has received multiple awards for exemplary educational performance, including the Department of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Estrada’s major research interests focus on the evaluation of cultural competency education, quality improvement, and implementation research.  He has published extensively in these areas and has also received funding from the NIH and other organizations to support his work.