Alan Blum

Director of The UA Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

Dr. Alan Blum is a family physician and professor of Family Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences, which also functions as the Tuscaloosa Regional Campus of the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Dr. Blum is one of the foremost authorities on tobacco problems. He serves as director of The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, which he established in 1999.

Dr. Blum also studies the harmful effects of ultraviolet light and sun exposure.