James Markert, M.D., M.P.H
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Dr. Markert performed his general surgery internship, as well as his neurological surgery residency, here at the University of Michigan Medical Center under Dr. Julian "Buz" Hoff during the period of 1988 to 1995. During his residency, he spent 18 months in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Martuza at Massachusetts General Hospital studying the potential application of genetically-engineered herpes simplex virus as a treatment approach for malignant glioma. He then returned to the University of Michigan where he completed his Chief Residency in 1995.
Upon completion of his residency, he became a faculty member of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Immediately after joining the faculty, he completed an additional research program under Dr. Bernard Roizman at the University of Chicago in the area of molecular herpes virology.
As of 2006, he is the Professor and James Garber Galbraith Endowed Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
