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Heersink School of Medicine awarded nine staff members as the 2024 Dean’s Excellence Awards for Staff winners. Individuals selected for this honor showcased outstanding accomplishments beyond their daily duties and contributed considerably to Heersink’s core mission areas – education, clinical care, and basic, translational, and clinical research.
- dean's excellence awards
- department of surgery
- department of medical education
- institute for cancer outcomes and survivorship
- office of academic initiatives and programs
- department of medicine
- department of genetics
- hugh kaul precision medicine institute
- center for clinical and translational science
- department of dermatology
- department of neurosurgery
Cassandra Newsom, Psy.D., director of the Translational Research Core in Autism and Neurodevelopment of Civitan International Research Center, has completed participation in Phase 2 Clinical Trials of a new drug, NNZ-2591, that shows promising results for a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder called Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS).
Orlando Gutiérrez, M.D., will be appointed senior associate dean for Clinical and Translational Research in the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and director and contact principal investigator of the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science. In this role, Gutiérrez will also serve as the associate vice president of Medicine and Biomedical Research for UAB. In turn, Robert Kimberly, M.D., will transition into the newly created role of senior associate dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Heersink School of Medicine. Both appointments are effective April 1, 2024.
As the Heersink School of Medicine grows, the leadership has defined four new research focus areas to grow over the next five to seven years. This part explores the second focus area, Health Equity.
Pittman CAMS made lasting impressions on medical giants for over four decades. As we prepare for the new Altec Styslinger Genomic Medicine and Data Sciences Building, we honor the important place in UAB's history Pittman CAMS has had, as well as Dean James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D.—to whom the building was dedicated.
The Institutional Research Core Program (IRCP) recently selected 5 new cores to the institution-wide program.
- department of pediatrics
- department of neurology
- department of psychiatry
- department of neurobiology
- department of cell, developmental and integrative biology
- department of psychology
- department of medicine
- department of microbiology
- department of radiology
- comprehensive cancer center
- center for clinical and translational science
Robert P. Kimberly, M.D., has been inducted as president for the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS).