This week, the Department of Medicine hosted its annual reception to celebrate the 2023 DOM STAR for Staff Excellence awardees. Recipients were joined by leadership, coworkers, and family in the Wallace Tumor Institute lobby. Leaders shared remarks about the unique value each recipient adds to the department, highlighting exceptional patient care, advancing research, collaboration and culture building, and organization and planning. Thank you to the 2023 DOM STAR awardees for shining so brightly in our department.
Good News for March 01, 2024
APPs Earn ACC Certification
Cardiovascular Advanced Practice Providers Lisa Findley, CRNP, DNP, Lindsay Howard, CRNP, and Amy McElderry, CRNP, earned the American College of Cardiology's Cardiovascular Knowledge Certificate which demonstrates their professional commitment to cardiovascular excellence and clinical knowledge.
We'll Take SSGIM Champions for $500, Alex!
Internal Medicine residents Drs. Thomas Ruli, David Pottinger, Lauren Anderson, and Aaron Landis won the Medical Jeopardy competition at the Southern Society of General Internal Medicine meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Congrats, team!Cardio-Renal Physiology Hosts 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
The UAB Division of Nephrology hosted its tenth anniversary celebration for the UAB Section of Cardio-Renal Physiology and Medicine to celebrate over $50M in funding, 192 publications, and more than 500 citations. Well done, all!
DOM Secures 5 HSF-GEF Grants
DOM employees Betsy Hopson, MSHA, Cynthia Joiner, Ph.D., Mike Mugavero, M.D., Gabriela Oates, Ph.D., and Carlie Somerville, M.D., received Health Services Foundation General Endowment Fund grants which aim to support the advancement of research, education, clinical care, and outreach across UAB.
Dsouza, Stephens Discuss Impact of Industrial Industry
PACCM clinicians Kevin Dsouza, M.D., (Assistant Professor) and Crystal Stephens, CRNP, joined UAB MedCast to discuss the history of Birmingham's industrial industry and how the UAB Environmental Lung Disease Clinic addresses health concerns of those impacted by the industry's hazardous conditions.