USA Health Surgeon Named To Women Who Shape The State List

Dr. Ashley Williams Hogue, a trauma, acute care and burn surgeon at USA Health and assistant professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama (USA) Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, was recognized among the 2025 honorees of This is Alabama’s “Women Who Shape the State” class. Since 2023, Williams Hogue has served as director of the Center for Healthy Communities. Among her many impactful initiatives is Project Inspire, a hospital-based injury prevention program co-founded by Williams Hogue and her husband, Dr. Antwan Hogue, which seeks to reduce youth violence in the Mobile area. A skilled surgeon, Williams Hogue has received multiple professional and personal honors. She was selected as a Future Trauma Leader—one of the highest honors for a junior trauma surgeon—by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Her presentation, “Project Inspire Pilot Study: A Hospital-Led, Comprehensive Intervention Reduces Gun Violence Among Juveniles Delinquent of Gun Crimes,” won the 2023 Cox-Templeton Injury Prevention Paper Competition hosted by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. She is part of Mobile Bay’s 2024 40 Under 40 class.