Brendan M. McGuire MD,MS
Liver Center Director and Medical Director of Liver Transplant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, ALBrendan M. McGuire, MD, MS, is Liver Center Director and Medical Director of Liver Transplant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, master’s degree in biomedical engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh.
He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology and nutrition at the University of Minnesota. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at UAB in 1996 and has moved up to his current position today.
His career has been devoted to the care of patients with acute and chronic liver disease, who have received liver transplants, and with porphyria. As medical director of liver transplantation at the UAB, he has participated in the management of over 2,500 transplant recipients.
He is an active member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Transplant Hepatology Committee, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American Society of Transplantation, American College of Physicians, American Porphyrias Expert Collaborative, and the United Porphyria Association.