Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. Kerby is the Brigham Family Endowed Professor and director of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital. Dr. Kerby received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at UAB in 1999, along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in 1996. Following residency, Dr. Kerby served in the US Air Force as an active-duty surgeon until 2003. Since his return to UAB in 2003, he has served as a clinically active trauma and acute care surgeon.

He served as the principal investigator for the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium network, an NIH-funded multicenter trials network of traumatic injury and cardiac arrest, from 2005 through 2015. Dr. Kerby has established military-civilian partnerships between UAB and the US Air Force and US Army, developing trauma-training programs for Air Force Pararescue personnel beginning in 2006. In addition, his division has hosted Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams on a permanent basis since 2010, with nearly 30 active duty Air Force personnel embedded at UAB.

Dr. Kerby has been a member of the ACS Committee on Trauma (COT) since 2016, where he served as Membership Committee Chair from 2018 to 2022. In March of 2022, Dr. Kerby began a 4-year term as COT Chair.