Team Physicians
Brenda K. Baumann, M.D.
Internal Medicine
UAB Medical Center - Family Practice Center - (205) 934-9700
Dr. Brenda Baumann joined the faculty of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in 1993 and has served as the team physician for the UAB Blazers since 1996. She has held many exciting medical and administrative positions in her career. She has practiced rural family medicine and has served as an Emergency Room Director, a Regional EMS Director, Director of Student Health, and held the title of Chief Medical Officer for an insurance company. She has participated in Medical Technology Assessment, CQI, Disease State Management, Telephone Triage and Primary Care Research. Dr. Baumann likes to kayak, canoe and play tennis. She has devoted many volunteer hours as a soccer coach at the travel and high school level.
Marshall J. Crowther, M.D.
Orthopedics
UAB Sports Medicine - 1600 7th Avenue South, Suite 402 - (205) 934-1041
Dr. Marshall Crowther was named team physician for UAB athletics in the Fall of 2008. He previously had completed a primary care sports medicine fellowship program at the famed American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham under renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Tracy Ray. During his time as a sports medicine fellow, Dr. Crowther served as one of the team physicians for Troy University. In addition to his work with the UAB athletes, Dr. Crowther is an assistant professor at UAB in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and is actively involved in the teaching of medical students and residents in primary care sports medicine. He also sees patients from the community of all ages for non-operative orthopaedic and sports medicine care and assists several local Birmingham schools with their medical needs. He has also assisted in sports medicine coverage for the Birmingham Barons AA Minor League baseball team as well as a multitude of sporting events in the greater Birmingham area.
Dr. Crowther graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. Degree in Biochemistry from Clemson University in 1998 and went on to medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he graduated in 2003. After that, he completed a residency in general pediatric medicine at the Greenville Hospital University Medical Center. He is an active member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
A. Reed Estes, M.D.
Orthopaedics
UAB Sports Medicine - 1600 7th Avenue South, Suite 402 - (205) 558-2328
Dr. Reed Estes joined UAB Sports Medicine in 2011. He serves as team physician for multiple Birmingham-area high schools and is involved in the care of UAB Athletics. His role as Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics allows him to be involved in the education of resident physicians and medical students, while also remaining active in research and the advancement of sports medicine. He began at UAB Sports Medicine following a one-of-a-kind fellowship specializing in youth and young adult sports medicine with the Harvard University-affiliated program at the Children's Hospital of Boston. He was involved in coverage of multiple athletic events, including the Boston Ballet, Boston Marathon, Boston Ice Chips Figure Skating, Northeastern University Hockey/Basketball, Babson College Hockey and Dover-Sherborn High School football.
Dr. Estes graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in 2005, where he received the Scholarship for Academic Achievement. Following medical school, he completed an Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Subspecialty interests include hip arthroscopy, involving the care of labral tears and impingement, as well as the management of ACL tears in the skeletally immature athlete.
He also has interest in the subset of dance medicine, having experienced significant exposure to this during care of the Boston Ballet and multiple other dance troupes while in Boston. Dr. Estes continues to be active in research endeavors, most recently completing an Instructional Course Lecture for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons involving management of spondylolysis.
William P. Garth Jr, M.D.
Orthopedics
UAB Sports Medicine - 1600 7th Avenue South, Suite 402 - (205) 934-1041
Dr. Garth received his medical degree in 1973 from the Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed a basic surgical residency at Duke, followed by an orthopedic surgical residency at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tenn. After serving five years in the private practice of orthopedic surgery, Dr. Garth completed a Sports Medicine fellowship at the Sports Medicine Clinic of Atlanta in affiliation with Georgia Tech and assumed the medical directorship of the UAB Sports Medicine Clinic in 1985.
Dr. Garth is presently the Medical Director of the UAB Sports Medicine Clinic as well as the team orthopedic physician for the University of Alabama at Birmingham athletics program. He also serves as a Clinical Professor for UAB and is active in teaching medical students and orthopedic residents. Garth specializes in surgically correcting instability of the patella and shoulder, as well as reconstruction of the cruciate ligaments (ACL, PCL) of the knee and rotator cuff of the shoulder. He is well respected among his peers, as they have consistently selected him to be included in "The Best Doctors in America" for the past several years. His research of the instability of the patella and its correction has been published in many orthopedic and sports medicine journals. He currently has over 20 years experience treating athletes and safely returning them to competition
