Chancellor’s Business Breakfast Series

Dr. Karen M. Landers, M.D.,F.A.A.P. Dr. Karen Landers is a 1977 graduate of the UAB School of Medicine. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, LeBonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 1980, where she was recognized as one of the outstanding pediatric residents by Chairman of the Department, Dr. John F. Griffith. Dr. Landers is life-time certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and continues voluntary maintenance of certification in this specialty. Dr. Landers has served many roles within the Alabama Department of Public Health for over forty years. She worked in the COVID 19 Pandemic Response as a co-lead for scientific response and was the Medical Consultant for the ADPH Media Team, providing media interviews at the local, state, national, and International level. Dr. Landers is currently the Chief Medical Officer for Alabama Department of Public Health.

Fitzgerald Washington has served as Secretary of the Alabama Department of Labor since 2014. During his tenure, the Department has launched a statewide marketing campaign, initiated a new job fair initiative that brings available jobs to Alabamians, and has participated in a new alignment of workforce regions that allows for better distribution of state workforce resources.
Washington currently serves on the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) Board of Directors as Past Chair after serving as Chair for 2020 – 2021. He is also a member of the National Association of Government Labor Officials (NAGLO).

Lt. Gen. Andrea D. Tullos is Commander and President, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. She provides full spectrum education, research and outreach at every level through professional military education, professional continuing education, and academic degree granting. She leads the intellectual and leadership-development center of the U.S. Air Force, graduating more than 50,000 resident and 120,000 non-resident officers, enlisted and civilian personnel each year. Additionally, she is responsible for officer commissioning through Officer Training School and the Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Lt. Gen. Tullos entered the Air Force in 1991 and received her commission through Officer Training School as a distinguished graduate. She is a career Security Forces officer and has previously served as a staff officer at the combatant command, Joint Staff, Air Staff and major command levels and as the Director of Security Forces, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. She has completed multiple command tours at the squadron, group, wing and numbered Air Force level.

Prior to her current assignment, Lt. Gen. Tullos was the Deputy Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

Her full Bio can be viewed here.