In 1944, Roy R. Kracke was named dean of the Medical College of Alabama and began assembling teaching staff.

Vickers spent his formative years as a young faculty member at UAB, beginning in 1994, and he directed the section of gastrointestinal surgery from 2000 to 2006.

Agarwal returned to his position as director of the Division of Nephrology and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine on October 15, 2013.

[citation needed] The main campus of UAB Heersink School of Medicine is located in Birmingham, Alabama within the city's medical district.

[11] The UAB Tuscaloosa Regional Campus is the home for the Primary Care Track with foundation in clinical medicine that is housed at the University of Alabama's College of Community Health Sciences.