This collection includes previously published content from Heersink School of Medicine News. For current news, visit uab.edu/medicine/news.
Submissions from 2021
4-13-2021 Road to Accreditation Episode 3: We're going on a trip and we're bringing..., Cayla Hurst
4-12-2021 Lipid mediators and biomarkers associated with type 1 diabetes development, Mary Ashley Canevaro
4-7-2021 A year built on resilience and fortitude: Vickers interviews Watts for 'The Checkup', Mary Ashley Canevaro
4-7-2021 Scholars follow Internal Medicine track in Huntsville, Mary Ashley Canevaro
4-6-2021 Strategic planning for the future of medical education at UAB, Kendra Carter
4-5-2021 Pioneering breakthroughs in organ transplantation, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
4-2-2021 Student Insights: Which Birmingham neighborhood is right for you, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-31-2021 Battle named regional chair of pediatrics in Huntsville, Kendra Carter
3-31-2021 New partnership with Oakwood University helps recruit students to the UAB School of Medicine, Kendra Carter
3-31-2021 Science goes viral: Reviewing a year of historic research, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-30-2021 A Special Dean's Message: Celebrating the accomplishments of women and advocating for gender equity, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
3-30-2021 The rural route: MS2 committed to addressing barriers in rural health care, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-24-2021 Iyer speaks at virtual hearing of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Jessica Martindale
3-24-2021 Match Day 2021 highlights medical student success, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-24-2021 STRAP regulates alternative splicing fidelity during lineage commitment of mouse embryonic stem cells, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-23-2021 Women's History Month, Part 4: "Women Making History" in administration, outreach, and diversity, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-22-2021 Light at the end of a pandemic tunnel: experts offer wellness tips for spring, Aubrey Joyner
3-19-2021 Asif named associate dean for Primary Care and Rural Health, Jessica Martindale
3-17-2021 Women's History Month, Part 3: "Women Making History" in research and clinical areas, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-16-2021 Biomedical Engineering ranks 7th in NIH funding for 2020, Christina Crowe
3-16-2021 CDIB ranks 6th in NIH funding for 2020, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-16-2021 Dermatology ranks 2nd in NIH funding for 2020, Jessica Martindale
3-16-2021 Microbiology ranks 8th in NIH funding for 2020, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-16-2021 OB/GYN ranks 10th in NIH funding for 2020, Shawna Masters
3-16-2021 Road to Accreditation Episode 2: Preparing Students for Their Future, Kendra Carter
3-16-2021 School of Medicine tops $269 million in NIH funding for 2020, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-16-2021 Student Insights: Coming to UAB as an out-of-state student, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
3-10-2021 A compounding crisis: Agarwal advocates for kidney health on World Kidney Day, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-10-2021 PAGER-CoV: a comprehensive collection of pathways, annotated gene-lists, and gene signatures for coronavirus disease studies, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-10-2021 Women's History Month, Part 2: "Women Making History" in teaching and education, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-3-2021 Virtual 2021 Match Day ceremony set for March 19, Kendra Carter
3-3-2021 Women's History Month, Part 1: Celebrating the women who have come before us, Mary Ashley Canevaro
3-1-2021 The meaning of the white coat, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
2-24-2021 Bailey uses teaching background to guide his medical education, Kendra Carter
2-24-2021 Identification of an anti-diabetic, orally available small molecule that regulates TXNIP expression and glucagon action, Mary Ashley Canevaro
2-24-2021 Locke and Mrug receive AMC 21 2020/21 Multi-PI Awards, Mary Ashley Canevaro
2-17-2021 Bates Cain named chief development officer for the School of Medicine, Jessica Martindale
2-17-2021 Black History Month, Part 3: Vickers' story of family, Mary Ashley Canevaro
2-17-2021 Medical students to show creative side virtually at The Best Medicine Show on March 5, Kendra Carter
2-16-2021 Road to Accreditation Episode 1: Learning the Basics of the LCME, Kendra Carter
2-12-2021 Student Insights: Meet the Student Senate Leadership, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
2-10-2021 Black History Month, Part 2: UAB's first Black/African American students in medicine, Mary Ashley Canevaro
2-10-2021 COVID-19 and children: what parents need to know, Caleb Jones
2-10-2021 UAB trauma team responds to a patient in need, Jessica Martindale
2-2-2021 Black History Month, Part 1: Remembering the roots of our community and taking action, Mary Ashley Canevaro
2-2-2021 Dean's Excellence Awards 2021: nominations now open, Caleb Jones
2-1-2021 Evaluating who we are: our commitment to racial justice, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
1-27-2021 2021 Pittman Scholars announced, Mary Ashley Canevaro
1-27-2021 Elie named chair of Department of Emergency Medicine, Jessica Martindale
1-27-2021 State of the School of Medicine: synopsis with key takeaways, Mary Ashley Canevaro
1-20-2021 Faculty awarded incentive grants to submit a second R01, Mary Ashley Canevaro
1-20-2021 Fluid-electrolyte homeostasis requires histone deacetylase function, Mary Ashley Canevaro
1-13-2021 School of Medicine to launch Grand Rounds, Mary Ashley Canevaro
1-11-2021 Craft receives top honor from ACGME, Kendra Carter
1-5-2021 LCME Re-Accreditation: holding ourselves to high educational standards, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
Submissions from 2020
12-30-2020 Darley-Usmar named senior associate dean for Research Compliance and Administration, Jessica Martindale
12-29-2020 Sustained cellular immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infection, Mary Ashley Canevaro
12-28-2020 Lahti named chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, Jessica Martindale
12-18-2020 School of Medicine Vaccine Town Hall overview, Mary Ashley Canevaro
12-16-2020 Alabama Schweitzer Fellows: class of 2020-21 project updates, Mary Ashley Canevaro
12-9-2020 PRDM16 suppresses HIF-targeted gene expression in kidney cancer, Mary Ashley Canevaro
12-8-2020 Shelton joins Huntsville Regional Campus as first-ever director of research, Kendra Carter
12-7-2020 Dutta named chair of Department of Genetics, Jessica Martindale
12-7-2020 Student Insights: Meet our Vital Signs contributors, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
12-7-2020 Together, we can achieve success, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
12-2-2020 McCallum Basic Health Science building renovations in 2020, Mary Ashley Canevaro
11-18-2020 Galin named president-elect of global healthcare simulation society, Kendra Carter
11-18-2020 Hanson and McMurray join Professional Development Office, Mary Ashley Canevaro
11-18-2020 Institutional Research Core Program adds new cores; creates major growth in program, Mary Ashley Canevaro
11-18-2020 Survey contributes to EHR changes; promotes user well-being, Mary Ashley Canevaro
11-17-2020 Inspiring teamwork during unprecedented times, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
11-6-2020 Payne named assistant director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, Jessica Martindale
11-3-2020 Canon selected as recipient of 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
11-2-2020 Gavin named assistant dean for undergraduate biomedical programs, Jessica Martindale
10-28-2020 Chef Chris Hastings to host virtual cooking class to support P.E.E.R., Inc., CHOP, Kendra Carter
10-28-2020 COVID-19 Research Symposium engages over 2k participants; highlights outstanding research at UAB, Mary Ashley Canevaro
10-28-2020 Many named interim dean at Montgomery Campus, Kendra Carter
10-26-2020 23 honored with endowed chair or professorship in the School of Medicine, Mary Ashley Canevaro
10-26-2020 Alumni highlight: Gregory C. Gray, M.D., MPH, and his work with Martha Myers, M.D., Mary Ashley Canevaro
10-26-2020 Faculty honored at 2020 Argus Awards ceremony, Joy Marsch
10-26-2020 Structure of the host cell recognition and penetration machinery of a Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage, Mary Ashley Canevaro
10-26-2020 Weinmann selected as chair of NIH Cellular and Molecular Immunology - B Study Section, Joy Marsch
10-21-2020 Wellness efforts at UAB Medicine surge with three simple questions, Mary Ashley Canevaro
10-14-2020 Huh named chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jessica Martindale
10-7-2020 Orihuela selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Society of Microbiology, Joy Marsch
10-4-2020 Resilience and adaptability in the COVID-19 era, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
9-30-2020 Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation regulates the fate decision between pathogenic Th17 and regulatory T Cells, Mary Ashley Canevaro
9-29-2020 Join Equal Access Birmingham for the annual Heart + Sole 5K, Joy Marsch
9-16-2020 Justement elected to AAMC GREAT Group Steering Committee, Mary Ashley Canevaro
9-16-2020 Ventral hippocampal projections to the medial prefrontal cortex regulate social memory, Mary Ashley Canevaro
9-2-2020 Inaugural ENRICH Week events planned for Sept. 22-24, Kendra Carter
9-1-2020 Okor and Snyder receive 2020 Brewer-Heslin Award, Aubrey Joyner
8-31-2020 Second round of urgent COVID-19 research launches, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
8-31-2020 Senior leader employs Well-Being Index to create large-scale change, Mary Ashley Canevaro
8-11-2020 Syed "Sikandar" Raza named 2020 Finley Scholar, Jane Longshore
8-2-2020 Thyme awarded esteemed Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience, Mary Ashley Canevaro
7-29-2020 ß-amyloid redirects norepinephrine signaling to activate the pathogenic GSK3ß/tau cascade, Mary Ashley Canevaro
7-28-2020 COVID-19 pandemic accelerates telehealth growth, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
7-8-2020 TREK-1 and TRAAK are principal K+ channels at the Nodes of Ranvier for rapid action potential conduction on mammalian myelinated afferent nerves, Mary Ashley Canevaro
7-1-2020 Alzheimer's and dementia, a growing challenge, Selwyn M. Vickers MD
