This collection includes previously published content from Heersink School of Medicine News. For current news, visit uab.edu/medicine/news.
Submissions from 2016
4-25-2016 Student Spotlight: Rob Esposito and Alissa Schuh, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
4-25-2016 Who will you meet in medical school?, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
4-21-2016 Free financial planning meeting set for students, residents and fellows, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
4-21-2016 Hablitz named interim chair of Neurobiology, Kendra Carter
4-21-2016 Madan-Swain uses caring attitude to help children, families cope with cancer diagnosis, Kendra Carter
4-21-2016 Sotile to lecture on faculty resilience as part of UAB Medicine Leadership Week, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
4-20-2016 New role for immature brain neurons in the dentate gyrus identified, Jeff Hansen
4-20-2016 School of Medicine Commencement set for May 15, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
4-15-2016 Palliative care makes every moment count, Charles Buchanan
4-15-2016 UAB Medical Genomics Laboratory refines its genetic testing technology, Jeff Hansen
4-14-2016 Personalized mentoring creates win-win relationships in Zhou's lab, Carolyn Walsh
4-13-2016 Remember to file annual ethics report by May 2, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
4-13-2016 UAB REACT aims to catalyze high-impact clinical trials in medical rehabilitation, Christina Crowe
4-12-2016 UAB Benevolent Fund: 5 Things You Need To Know, UAB Medicine
4-7-2016 Celebrating student success in residency match, service learning, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
4-7-2016 Faircloth named interim chair of Family and Community Medicine, Kendra Carter
4-7-2016 Inaugural Women in Surgery event offers insight, networking for faculty, residents and students, Laura Coulter
4-7-2016 Leon-Ruiz's early career continues to heighten with asthma research, Liann Cates
4-6-2016 ACS provides grant to UAB junior faculty to jump-start cancer research, Beena Thannickal
4-6-2016 Bruce Korf videos on medical genetics will teach clinicians worldwide, Jeff Hansen
3-30-2016 Jean Ann Larson assumes key leadership development role, UAB Medicine
3-30-2016 Nichols leads in training the next generation of pediatricians, Sara Davies
3-28-2016 UAB Tissue Imaging Mass Spectrometry detects early lipid changes in acute kidney injury, Jeff Hansen
3-23-2016 Chen named associate director, chief bioinformatics officer of Informatics Institute, Kendra Carter
3-23-2016 Kong sees service as a foundation for life, community, Sara Davies
3-23-2016 Making strides in funding research activities, improving training programs and infrastructure, Etty Tika Benveniste PhD
3-23-2016 Understanding and improving treatment adherence: A research opportunity and patient need, Jeff Hansen
3-22-2016 UAB celebrates successful medical student Match Day, Kendra Carter
3-21-2016 Get connected with your future classmates on Slack, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-21-2016 Student Spotlight: Kendall McPheeters and Adam Beg, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-17-2016 Six medical students named in inaugural class of Alabama Schweitzer Fellows, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-17-2016 UAB Physician Scientist Development Office aims to create new community for investigators, partner with existing resources, Kendra Carter
3-16-2016 Schwiebert's mentorship continues to impact UAB's campus, Liann Cates
3-16-2016 Walter values mentorship, diversity in her medical career, Laura Coulter
3-9-2016 Ascherman continues to promote culture of diversity, inclusion in Department of Psychiatry, Liann Cates
3-9-2016 Vaccine expert Offit to give 2016 Kennamer Distinguished Lecture in Montgomery, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-7-2016 Novel reprogramming factor yields more efficient induction of human pluripotent stem cells, Jeff Hansen
3-2-2016 Complete the child-care survey to help assess needs, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-2-2016 Heart damage can be prevented by overexpression of heme oxygenase-1, Jeff Hansen
3-2-2016 Medical student Match Day set for March 18, Kendra Carter
3-2-2016 Nominate your SOM colleagues for the 2016 Dean's Excellence Awards, Kendra Carter
3-2-2016 Physicians: Vote for UAB in the U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals" survey, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-2-2016 UAB researcher named one of five Outstanding New Environmental Scientists, Jeff Hansen
3-2-2016 UAB study on increasing participation of minorities in clinical trials hailed among best in cancer research, Beena Thannickal
3-2-2016 UAB takes lead with 80 by 2018 initiative to increase employee colorectal cancer screenings, Beena Thannickal
2-25-2016 We're growing, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
2-24-2016 Mitophagy in macrophages is a key step toward pulmonary fibrosis, Jeff Hansen
2-24-2016 Regulation of Parkinson's disease inflammatory responses by a microRNA, Jeff Hansen
2-24-2016 UAB celebrating International Women's Day on March 8, Laura Coulter
2-19-2016 A Legacy of Giving, UAB Medicine Magazine
2-19-2016 Pitt Hopkins Foundation Funds UAB Research in Rare Disease, UAB Medicine Magazine
2-16-2016 Cell marker found for leukemia-initiating capacity in chronic myelogenous leukemia, Jeff Hansen
2-16-2016 UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center to host ArtBLINK Gala 2016, Beena Thannickal
2-16-2016 World-renowned geneticist to speak at 2016 Bertram M. Marx Lectureship, Ella Robinson
2-12-2016 Medical students, family medicine residents start new culinary medicine course, UAB Medicine Magazine
2-12-2016 UAB researchers identify protein that plays key role in brain cancer stem cell growth and survival, Beena Thannickal
2-11-2016 Academic Enrichment Fund, space utilization are topics for upcoming SOM faculty town hall meetings, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
2-11-2016 Bedwell named interim chair of Biochemistry, Kendra Carter
2-11-2016 Take the 2016 Employee Engagement and Faculty Engagement surveys February 15-29, UAB Medicine
2-11-2016 UAB Medicine launches strategic partnership with Medscape, Paige Dorman
2-9-2016 UAB awarded Gates Foundation Grand Challenge awards to address maternal-fetal health in South Africa, Kendra Carter
2-8-2016 Landefeld elected to United States Preventive Services Task Force, Carolyn Walsh
2-8-2016 UAB researchers work to unravel the complex genetic disease neurofibromatosis type 1, Jeff Hansen
2-4-2016 Students leading SNMA chapter dedicated to message of inclusion, community outreach, Laura Coulter
2-3-2016 Employee engagement: Who's doing it well, UAB Medicine
1-28-2016 Employee Engagement Survey: Six things you need to know, UAB Medicine
1-28-2016 Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. to speak at Diversity Day Grand Rounds, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
1-28-2016 Zayzafoon appointed director international medical education in the School of Medicine, Liann Cates
1-27-2016 How obesity makes memory go bad, Jeff Hansen
1-27-2016 John Kearney named an American Association of Immunologists career award recipient, Jeff Hansen
1-27-2016 New model: how asthma develops from exposure to house dust mites, Jeff Hansen
1-27-2016 Two Department of Medicine professors elected to ASCI, Carolyn Walsh
1-27-2016 UAB Cancer Center joins in endorsement of HPV vaccination for cancer prevention, Beena Thannickal
1-21-2016 Five junior faculty named the 2016 Pittman Scholars, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
1-21-2016 New faculty recruits to lead nuclear, molecular imaging in the Department of Radiology, Liann Cates
1-14-2016 Best Medicine Show set for Jan. 29, Liann Cates
1-14-2016 Meeting explains how the Academic Enrichment Fund impacts research faculty, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
1-13-2016 Physicians and patients partner to find answers, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
1-12-2016 New pathway to differentiation found, shedding light on some cancers, Jeff Hansen
1-7-2016 Budhwani presents to Alabama Commission for Higher Education, Liann Cates
1-7-2016 Nominations sought for faculty community service award, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
1-7-2016 Yoder appointed interim chair Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
Submissions from 2015
12-17-2015 Applications open for UAB Faculty Development Program grants, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
12-17-2015 Children's of Alabama publishes Inside Pediatrics, Sara Davies
12-17-2015 Orlowski first to present in expanded academic medicine lecture series, Kendra Carter
12-9-2015 Service: a worthwhile endeavor for the new year, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
12-3-2015 AMWA launches chapter at UAB School of Medicine, Laura Coulter
12-3-2015 Galin to direct Clinical Skills Center in the School of Medicine, Kendra Carter
12-3-2015 Strategic investments will boost UAB research and economic development, Jeff Hansen
11-20-2015 Larry Dossey to present lecture on integrative medicine Dec. 3, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
11-19-2015 Promoted female faculty honored at Women in Medicine reception, Laura Coulter
11-19-2015 Supporting the next generation of physicians, scientists, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
11-18-2015 Ferniany named to top health system CEO list by Becker's Review, Kendra Carter
11-18-2015 UAB researchers seek Friedreich's ataxia biomarkers, Jeff Hansen
11-18-2015 U.S. biomedical postdoctoral fellow numbers decline, UAB researcher finds, Jeff Hansen
11-5-2015 Meet UAB experts at "Drinks with a Physician Scientist" event Nov. 12, Kendra Carter
11-3-2015 Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer, Beena Thannickal
10-29-2015 Centor to retire as head of Huntsville Regional Campus, Kendra Carter
10-29-2015 Health Services Foundation awards $1.4 million in General Endowment Fund grants, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
10-29-2015 UAB Medicine seeking additional input from faculty on work-life balance, stress, Kendra Carter
