Dr. Steven Baldwin, who became the  Editor-in-Chief of the Southern Medical Journal in January 2020, oversees all aspects of the SMJ’s publication. Prior to accepting this position, he began serving as an SMJ reviewer in 2014 and in 2018, he began working as Associate Editor of the Journal.

Dr. Baldwin completed undergraduate studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and medical school at Albany Medical College in 1982. After completing an internship in Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham he served as a general medical officer assigned to the 2d Marine Division for 2 years. He returned to the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed his Pediatrics residency. He then completed his remaining 2 years of active duty military service as a Pediatrician at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Millington Tennessee. Thereafter, Dr. Baldwin completed both a Pediatric Critical Care and a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He entered hospital-based practice at Baptist Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina as Pediatric Critical Care / Pediatric Hospitalist physician. In 1996 he returned to the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a faculty member in the UAB Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division. He has held this position continuously ever since. While serving as a faculty member at the University of Alabama, Dr. Baldwin’s efforts have included patient care, bedside and didactic teaching, and various administrative and academic projects.

Dr. Baldwin has engaged in additional professional activities in addition to his work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Examples include serving on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Alabama Medicaid Physician Task Force physician advisory panel, and the Pediatric Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He and his wife, Mary Sue have four children and currently reside in Birmingham, Alabama.