Congratulations to all of the students who presented at today’s Service Learning and Undergraduate Research Expo!

We loved seeing Dr. Camerron Crowder’s students’ research with the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute!

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Our Wellness Committee welcomed Dr. Megan Hays from UAB PM&R UAB Dept. of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the @UABMedicine Office of Wellness, as our guest wellness speaker today. Thank you Dr. Hays for offering some practical strategies from behavioral medicine we can use to optimize our health! UAB Heersink School of Medicine

The UAB Huntington’s Disease clinic and HDSA are raising money for #HuntingtonsDisease this Saturday, April 20, at the Team Hope Walk at Oak Mountain State Park. Registration starts at noon, and the walk starts at 1 p.m. Register here: south.hdsa.org/events/2024-te…

Congratulations to all Heersink faculty and staff honored at the annual service awards ceremony on April 10. UAB OB/GYN
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UAB Heersink School of Medicine hosted a reception this evening to honor endowment awardees over the last year. Drs. Craig Mackinnon, Rakesh Patel and Casey Weaver were recognized from UAB Pathology. Read more about their endowments here: bit.ly/445x6Ev

It was a pleasure to honor the new holders of endowed chairs and professorships within the Heersink School of Medicine at today’s Spring Endowment Reception.

Congratulations to our honorees, and thank you for your service and contributions to life-changing medicine.
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Look who got spotted by the paparazzi! Nicole Lohr, MD, PhD receives the Mary Gertrude Waters Endowed Chair in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine School of Medicine. So proud of our UAB Cardiovascular Disease Division Director. UAB Cardiovascular Institute

Thrilled to be kicking off the ⁦UAB Heersink School of Medicine⁩ Spring 2024 Endowment Reception with opening remarks by ⁦Anupam Agarwal⁩

Join the fight against brain cancer by participating in the Blazer Bolt 5K or fun run on Saturday, May 18, at Railroad Park. Proceeds from the event will support brain cancer research and patients of the Division of Neuro-Oncology. UAB Heersink School of Medicine
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Learn about the UAB Learning Health System project, initiated by Michael Mugavero, M.D., where the people setting the research questions are not individual investigators with their own niche interests, “but the people in the trenches.”
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Congratulations to Dr. Tony Jones, president of the UA Health Services Foundation and chief physician executive of UAB Medicine, on his retirement.

Thank you, Dr. Jones, for your immeasurable contributions to UAB Heersink School of Medicine and the profound impact you have made on our institution!

Last night was a BIG night as our friends at ROAR presented $500,000 to our department for cancer research! We are enormously grateful for ROAR's passion, commitment and enduring support of our research mission. Thank you! go.uab.edu/roar2024
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Join us in congratulating Shuko Harada, Prof., Genomic Diagnostics & Bioinformatics and Vice Chair, DEI, who was named Clinical Scientist of the Year by Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS) at their annual meeting, April 1-4, where she was also sworn in as ACS president! bit.ly/49BoTJ4

Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Pearce, who has been elected to serve as president-elect of the Vascular SVS' Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery!

He is the program director for UAB's Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency and Fellowship.

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Beyond the medical and physical challenges of #infertility , it is a difficult and deeply personal journey that can have a major emotional impact on both individuals and couples. See tips for coping or supporting someone going through it.
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Sadis Matalon, Ph.D., ScD, FAPS, is the 2024 recipient of the the most prestigious award that the American Physiological Society bestows, Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award. Congratulations for this incredible lifetime achievement. 👏

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Happy Medical Laboratory Professionals Week! We UAB Pathology thank all our fantastic lab teammates for the work you do every day to improve patient care! We hope you all have an amazing week celebrating. Read more: bit.ly/3TYq7Zk

UAB's S.M. Qasim Hussaini, M.D., and colleagues revealed in a recent study that past redlining impacts #ColonCancer care today, finding that discriminatory housing practices correlate with poorer health outcomes in affected communities. O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB
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Dr. David Standaert MD, PhD, chair of UAB Department of Neurology, discusses an important discovery that could help with the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Learn more in the latest episode of Intention to Treat: nej.md/itt-ep28

Join us at the March of Dimes' annual March for Babies on April 27! Your support will fund research, educate on healthy pregnancies, provide comfort to families with newborns in intensive care, and advocate for newborn health. Join or contribute at marchforbabies.org/team/uabmedici….👶🦋