Moon H. Nahm, Professor of the Department of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in Microbiology, obtained both his BA degree (in 1970) and MD degree (in 1974) from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. In 1980, he completed both Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine residency training in the Pathology Department, as well as post-doctoral research training in the Microbiology Department at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Rochester before he joined UAB. He was the director of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory for UAB hospitals.