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Professor and Director, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
UAB Heersink School of Medicine/Department of Surgery
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Jeffrey D. Kerby, MD, PhD, FACS 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). Dr. Kerby received his medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1989. He completed his surgical residency at UAB in 1999, along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in 1996. 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. An active researcher, Dr. Kerby served as the principal investigator for the Alabama Resuscitation Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, an NIH funded multicenter research network focused on outcomes of hospital clinical trials in trauma and cardiac arrest, from 2005 through 2015. In addition, his group has a robust clinical trials and trauma outcomes effort established through the UAB Center for Injury Sciences and participates as an active investigative site for the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN). Dr. Kerby also current serves as the Trauma Consultant for the Office of Emergency Medical Services in the Alabama Department of Public Health. He has served on the American College of Surgeons Central Committee on Trauma (COT) since 2016, also serving as Chair of the Membership Committee since 2018. Dr. Kerby is currently Chair-Elect of the COT.