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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2010

Jamie Annemarie Cannon, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery
  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Colon-Rectal Surgery

Bdb 525

1720 2nd Avenue South

Birmingham, AL 35294

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. Jamie A. Cannon, MD, is a colorectal surgeon focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer. Dr. Cannon is a graduate of University of Arizona College of Medicine. From there she did her general surgery training at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she served as chief administrative resident. She went on to do a fellowship in colorectal surgery with Georgia Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates in Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently faculty at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where she performs laparoscopic resections for colon cancer, and specializes in sphincter sparing techniques for low rectal cancer. She also offers transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEMS) for removal of rectal lesions. In addition to cancer surgery, Dr. Cannon also offers surgical treatments for Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, and common colon and anorectal conditions.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

  • anal abscess
  • anal fissure
  • anal fistula
  • anal sphincter repair
  • anal tears
  • anal warts
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • hemorrhoidal banding
  • pruritus ani
  • rectal bleeding
  • rectal prolapse
  • recto-vaginal fistula
  • sphincter repair

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

  • colectomy
  • colon polyps
  • colon surgery
  • colonoscopy
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • diverticulitis
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • ileostomy
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • pelvic floor dysfunction
  • peritonitis
  • pilonidal disease
  • removal of colon polyps
  • sigmoidoscopy
  • surgery for diverticulitis

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • anal cancer
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • ileostomy
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • peritonitis

Colon and Rectal Other

Vaginal-Rectal Disorders/procedures

  • rectocele
  • rectovaginal fistula

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

  • colonoscopy
  • endoscopic surgery
  • endoscopy
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • sigmoidoscopy
  • ultrasound

Bowel Control

  • bowel incontinence
  • constipation
  • incontinence, fecal

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn's disease
  • ulcerative colitis

Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures

  • colon/rectal cancer screening
  • colonoscopic polypectomy
  • colonoscopy
  • colonoscopy/virtual
  • endoscopic surgery
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • laparoscopic surgery for colon and recta
  • minimally invasive surgery

Pediatric colorectal and GI

  • appendicitis
  • Crohn's disease
  • inflammatory bowel disease
  • malrotation & volvulus
  • ulcerative colitis

Hospital Appointments

Univ Ala Hosps

Attending

Academic Appointments

Ala

Assistant Professor