Timmy Lee, M.D., MSPH, will serve as the next division director for the UAB Division of Nephrology, effective July 1, 2025.

As NTM cases rise, the UAB Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Program, led by Bryan Garcia, M.D., in partnership with German Henostroza, M.D., has formed a multidisciplinary team to provide individualized care, improve diagnosis, and enhance treatment outcomes for patients with NTM.

UAB’s new Lunaphore COMET multiplex immunofluorescent platform can hyperplex up to 40 antibodies on a single pathology tissue sample.

Rebekah Weil, M.D., has been named the associate division director for medical education for the Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science.

Rui Lu, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Medicine, has been named the latest recipient of the school's Featured Discovery award. This recognition celebrates notable research contributions made by faculty and highlights the impact of their scientific advancements.

Sandeep Bodduluri, Ph.D., is working to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve health care processes and the patient experience. Through courses offered by the Marnix E.

Dana Rizk, M.D., has been appointed associate dean for Clinical Trials and Cynthia Joiner, Ph.D., MPH, R.N., has been named assistant dean for Clinical Research Operations in the Heersink School of Medicine, effective March 1, 2025.

Helping children develop healthy habits at a young age can help lower their risk for heart disease, stroke and other major health problems later in life.

Just weeks after discharge, the patient is back at the hospital. This time, the infection has worsened, sepsis has set in, and emergency surgery is needed.

Martina Gonzalez-Gomez, M.D., M.Sc., program manager for the Global Neurosurgery program in the Department of Neurosurgery, and James Johnston, M.D., professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery division, co-instruct the Global Surgery course.

When UAB employee Jamie Smith collapsed one morning while she was at work, UAB employees from multiple specialties stepped in to help save her life.

UAB Medicine’s Leadership Development Office welcomed 16 individuals in its 10th cohort of Institute for Leadership in January 2025. UAB Medicine Institute for Leadership is a flagship program of the Leadership Development Office, aimed at empowering leaders across UAB and the UAB Health System.

Experts at the UAB Cardiovascular Institute and UAB St. Vincent’s say it is never too early or too late for women to begin protecting themselves from heart disease.

With a $2.47 million gift from Novo Nordisk Inc., Live HealthSmart Alabama is applying its holistic health model in Selma, Camden, Demopolis and other underserved communities.

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is proud to announce the 2025 Pittman Scholars. This prestigious honor recognizes assistant professors who have held that rank for fewer than five years for their exceptional research achievements and potential for future contributions to their fields.

A study published in December 2024 demonstrates how natural language processing techniques, combined with dedicated human personnel, can flag unusual findings in radiology images and connect patients with follow-up care. The work, pioneered in nodules on the adrenal glands, has many applications, the researchers say.

UAB researchers reveal how managing cardiovascular risk factors can mitigate heart failure risk in Black individuals carrying the transthyretin V142I genetic variant.

UAB is ranked No. 164 based on exceptional academic research portfolio and its overall global and regional reputation.

Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance.

A 3D printer for prosthetics, navigation for patients on dialysis and a new electron microscope are three of the 11 projects to receive funding. The HSF-GEF faculty grants program is a way for UAB to support innovative ideas from its researchers and clinicians.

This study highlights how high-volume centers, where operators perform these procedures more frequently, achieve better outcomes, including lower 30-day mortality and reduced complication rates. 

Heart failure is responsible for 13 percent of deaths worldwide, and half of patients die within 5 years. New therapies are needed.

The 2024 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent each school, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors College, and the Graduate School.

The Stimulating Access to Research in Residency program, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is designed to help address the shortage of physician-scientists nationwide.

J. Claude Bennett, M.D., who served as UAB president from 1993 to 1996, passed away on Aug.

The facility, one of 15 shared resource labs at UAB and among the busiest, is one of a handful of leading labs to be recognized by the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, or ISAC.

Vern Bush, Kevin Davis and Brittany Martin are the first-quarter 2024 honorees of the UAB Values in Action Program. Nominations for second-quarter 2024 honorees are open through April 24.

Carlie Stein Somerville, M.D., an associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, turned an HSF-GEF grant into a nationally recognized program that provides multidisciplinary support to help young adults transition to adult care. Four years later, “we have been able to show the impact that we can make with patients and families,” she said.

Michael Mugavero, M.D., professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, received HSF-GEF funding to launch the UAB Learning Health System project, where the people setting the research questions are not individual investigators with their own niche interests, “but the people in the trenches.”

Gabriela Oates, Ph.D., director of UAB’s institutional Social Determinants of Health Core, is leading a project funded by an HSF-GEF grant to improve care by combining patient records with their residential information. The goal: “to improve patient care and people’s health.”