Chad Steele, Ph.D.

  

Chad Steele, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

1900 University Blvd, THT 437A

Birmingham, AL 35294

Ph: 205-996-9598

Lab Ph: 205-996-9599

Fax: 205-934-1721

E-mail: chadsteele@uab.edu

Department Affiliation(s)
Primary: Medicine; Secondary: Microbiology and Pathology

 

B.S., Chemistry - Northeast Louisiana University (1995)  

M.S., Microbiology – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans (1998)                                         

Ph.D., Microbiology - Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans (2000)

 

Dr. Claude H. (Chad) Steele III was born in Pensacola, FL in 1972 and moved to northeast Louisiana the following year. Dr. Steele attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly Northeast Louisiana University), receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1995. After an 18 month stint as an industrial chemist, Dr. Steele started graduate school in the Department of Microbiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, earning a Masters degree in December 1998 followed by a Doctorate in December 2000, both under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Fidel. Dr. Steele remained at LSUHSC for his post-doctoral fellowship, conducting lung host defense research in the laboratories of Dr. Jay Kolls and Dr. Judd Shellito. In July 2003, Dr. Steele was recruited as faculty to the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until June 2007. In July 2007, Dr. Steele  was recruited into the Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division) at UAB and is currently a  tenured Associate Professor.