Thomas S. Huddle
Professor of Medicine Emeritus at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thomas S. Huddle is a professor of medicine emeritus in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science at the Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Huddle earned his medical degree and a doctorate in the history of medicine from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then completed internal medicine training at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and postdoctoral historical work as a Robert Wood Johnson fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught medical students and residents during his career as a clinician educator at UAB and directed the medical school’s first-year Patient, Doctor and Society course. In his writing, he seeks to connect the world of professional work with issues related to medical professionalism, clinical ethics, medical education and the relationship between medicine and society.