Patient Care Kudos to a great care team in Cardiovascular Disease. One of their patients who is now fully recovered from a STEMI with severe cardiogenic shock reports, “I was lucky to fall ill at UAB and to receive such world class care here.” Thank you doctors Sumanth Prabhu, Oleseun Alli, Firas Al Solaiman, Julian Booker, Joshua Deitlich, Robert Smola, Chad McRee, and Jeremy White.
Shyam S. Bansal, PhD (Cardiovascular Disease) has been awarded a $1 million K99/R00 grant to study the effect of TRN-Receptor 1 on T-Cells in Chronic Heart Failure. Sumanth Prabhu, MD, is his mentor.
Peter Pappas, MD (Infectious Diseases) commented on the recent report from The Pew Charitable Trusts commending UAB for leading the way in appropriate use of antibiotics in the inpatient setting. Read the UAB News brief here.
Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc (Preventive Medicine) was recently featured in local television and radio interviews on the topic of chronic pain and opioid addiction as an increasingly important health care concern.
David Fettig, MD (Fellow, Gastroenterology and Hepatology) received the 2016 Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Fellowship from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Foundation.
Amy Dean (General Internal Medicine) has been elected one of two SOM representatives to the first ever UAB Staff Council.
The Chair’s Office offers hearty congratulations to our graduating senior, Ivery Johnson, one of our Holy Family Cristo Rey High School work-study students.
Zengrong Guan, PhD (Nephrology) has received a UAB Faculty Development Grant for her proposal “Role of Sphingosine-1-phosphate in ischemia-reperfusion kidney injury.”
The next “Pathways in Academic Medicine” Retreat for Residents and Fellows will be held next Thursday, May 19.
2016 Update in Rheumatology for Primary Care will be held May 20 -21, 2016. This is a continuing medical education course, designed for internists, family practitioners, and health care professionals involved in the care of patients with rheumatic diseases.
A Neuroendocrine Tumor Conference will be held May 21, 2016. This one-day event focuses on educating community health care providers on the standard care for neuroendocrine tumor (NET) patients, as well as new therapeutic approaches.
Coming next week to Medical Grand Rounds: Come hear the “UAB Global Health Update: Medicine that Touches the World” presented by Michael Saag, MD (UAB Associate Dean for Global Health; Director, UAB Center for AIDS Research; Professor, UAB Division of Infectious Diseases). Be sure to stay afterward for the poster presentation.
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