2014-2015 Teaching Excellence Awards have been given to 25 DOM faculty members with the highest overall teaching effectiveness scores from residents and students. Five of these out-standing clinician-educators are Fred Weber, MD (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) Gustavo Heudebert, MD (General Internal Medicine) Ryan Kraemer, MD (General Internal Medicine) Lisle Nabell, MD (Hematology and Oncology) and John Kennedy, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care). We will share the final five names next week.
Carla Falkson, MD (Hematology and Oncology) is primary investigator for a new precision medicine clinical trial at UAB. The NCI-MATCH Study aims to identify precision medicine targets for cancer patients and tailor drug therapies to patients’ individual molecular profiles.
Mohamed Khass, PhD, and Harry Schroeder Jr., MD, PhD (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) have published findings in a new journal, Science Immunology, reporting a new quality-control checkpoint function in developing B cells that could help make vaccines more potent.
James Willig, MD, MSPH (Infectious Diseases) was featured in the article, “Game On: Building the Case for Games in Medical Education” in the AAMC Reporter. The creator of the Kaizen online quiz game reports that “gamification” taps doctors’ competitive mindsets to improve clinical knowledge.
Jennifer Pollock, PhD (Nephrology) has won the American Heart Association’s Harriet Dustan Award for contributions to the field of hypertension by a female scientist.
Alayne Markland, DO, has been accepted into the 2016-17 Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging Program. The program focuses on pressing challenges that new leaders experience and helps them develop strategies to better care for older adults.
Mike Saag, MD (Infectious Diseases) has been selected as one of Positive Maturity’s Top 50 Over 50 in 2016 for improving the health of Birmingham and beyond through his founding leadership of UAB’s 1917 Clinic.
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