James J. Hicks Professor of Otolaryngology
University of Alabama Birmingham, Department of Otolaryngology
Bradford A. Woodworth, MD
James J. Hicks Professor of Otolaryngology and Associate Scientist, Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.
Dr. Woodworth is a Professor of Otolaryngology at UAB School of Medicine and holds the James J. Hicks Endowed Chair of Otolaryngology. He also serves as Residency Program Director. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Woodworth completed fellowship training in Rhinology and Sinus Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Woodworth is an NIH funded researcher with over 3 million dollars in grants investigating therapeutic interventions that enhance mucociliary clearance in both cystic fibrosis (where chronic rhinosinusitis is virtually universal) and non-cystic fibrosis chronic rhinosinusitis. He is also nationally and internationally recognized regarding his research on cerebrospinal fluid leak/skull base defect repair.
He has published over 130 journal articles and 30 text book chapters dealing primarily with sinus and skull base disorders. He is the editor of 2 Rhinology textbooks. Dr. Woodworth and his mentored students/residents have also been awarded numerous regional, national, and international honors for the research and manuscripts related to these topics.