Dr. Anne Halli-Tierney is an associate professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences. She is associate director of Clear Pathways of Excellence for The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, which CCHS operates. Halli-Tierney also directs the College's Geriatric Fellowship, is director of the geriatric resident curriculum, instructs medical students and residents, and cares for patients in the Family Medicine and Geriatrics clinics at University Medical Center, which CCHS operates.
Halli-Tierney graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, completing her last two years of clinical training at CCHS, which also functions as the Tuscaloosa Regional Campus for the School of Medicine. While a medical student, she received the College’s Outstanding Research Award and was an American Federation of Aging Research Scholar.
Halli-Tierney completed a residency in general internal medicine, a geriatrics fellowship and a Clinician Educator Geriatrics Fellowship at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Prior to joining the College, Halli-Tierney was an assistant clinical instructor at the Alpert School of Medicine. Since joining CCHS, Halli-Tierney has served as core faculty for the Alabama Research Institute on Aging, and she is a Clinical Skills Scholar in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course. Her research interests are in interprofessional education methods, end-of-life care and access to care for rural older adults.