Seth Landefeld is Chair, Department of Medicine and the Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership.

Dr. Landefeld brings to UAB an infectious enthusiasm for all the wonderful opportunities in academic medicine – to care for people, to teach, to discover, and to build a healthy society. Recognizing the UAB Department of Medicine as a well established national leader, he envisions the Department as the go-to department in the United States for faculty, learners, and staff who have the ambition, ability, and drive to work together with their colleagues at UAB to make it the most exciting academic medical center in the country.

Dr. Landefeld’s work has aimed to transform and personalize health care to meet the needs of older Americans and their families in this Aging Century, a century that will be dominated by the medical and social issues of the aging global population. His research has improved outcomes of older persons with serious illness. In landmark studies of acutely ill hospitalized elders, Landefeld and his colleagues invented the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit, a novel method for improving patients’ functional outcomes. This model has been adapted at medical centers nationwide. In incremental studies of anticoagulant therapy, he developed the first valid, reliable measure of hemorrhagic complications, designed and validated risk assessment indices for anticoagulant-related bleeding, developed interventions to prevent major bleeding, and demonstrated their efficacy in clinical trials.