Two faculty from the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology have been honored by the American College of Rheumatology for their contributions to research. John Mountz, MD, PhD, was named the 2016 ACR Distinguished Basic Investigator, and Jasvinder Singh, MD, was named the 2016 ACR Henry Kunkel Young Investigator.
Stan Massie Jr., MD (General Internal Medicine) was recently awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The award provides national recognition to faculty members who have distinguished themselves in medical student education.
Turner Overton, MD (Infectious Diseases) demonstrated that the administration of an HIV-specific antibody is safe, well-tolerated, and modestly delayed the return of HIV viral rebound in HIV-1 infected individuals after they stopped receiving antiretroviral therapy.
Mel Wilcox, MD (Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology) senior-authored an article on acute pancreatitis, reviewing recent changes in its management as well as common misunderstandings and areas of ongoing controversy.
Starr Steinhilber, MD, MPH (General Internal Medicine) and Ross Farris, MD (PGY-3) were recently published in the Canadian Medical Journal. Their clinical vignette describes a patient who was initially treated for osteomyelitis who was later determined to have gout.
David Fettig, MD (Fellow, Gastroenterology and Hepatology) was recently published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy with his mentor, Klaus Mönkemüller, MD, “Cholangitis Many Years After Choledochoduodenostomy.”
Mike Mugavero, MD (Infectious Diseases) has been appointed to the State of Alabama’s HIV Prevention and Care Planning Group. In this role, he hopes to use public health surveillance and client-level data to inform coordinated community-public health-clinical treatment and prevention action in a systematic manor statewide.
For those who missed it—or who want to relive the experience—the 2016 State of the Department of Medicine Video is now online. View it here.
Next Week at Medical Grand Rounds, Nicholas Van Wagoner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases and SOM Assistant Dean for Students, will present the Dr. Alex Litz Memorial Lecture, “Students as Our Teachers: How Our Learners Challenge Us to Be Better.”
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