Mariah Payne
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Many of the research and learning opportunities at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) that improve the lives of students, patients, and medical professionals are funded through grants. UAB’s Physician Scientist Development Office (PSDO) works to provide grant support and other resources to recruit, train, and retain a pipeline of physician-scientists. PSDO received two recent grants that will equip trainees with the necessary training and resources to excel in their journeys to become the next generation of physician-scientists.
Albert Schweitzer Fellows Faris Zaibaq, an M.D./Ph.D candidate at the Heersink School of Medicine, and Ethan Madison, a periodontology resident at UAB Hospital, recently led an urbanization project called “The Road Diet.” On July 26, 2024, a team of city workers and volunteers redesigned 1st Avenue South in Woodlawn as a way to invest in public health by improving the built environment.
Caroline Harada, M.D., associate dean for strategic initiatives in the Heersink School of Medicine Department of Medical Education, has been awarded the 2024 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Megan Saalwaechter is an MS1 student at the Heersink School of Medicine. The first year is always an adjustment, so the Heersink communications team met with her during orientation last July and again during the second semester to see how her first year of medical school was going.
Durell King is an MS1 student at the Heersink School of Medicine. The first year is always an adjustment, so the Heersink communications team met with him during orientation last July and again during the second semester to see how his first year of medical school was going.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) hosted its Annual Education Conference March 7-9. More than 4,000 people in health care education leadership, caregiving, and administrative positions attended the conference in Orlando, Florida. Among these attendees were Tekuila Carter, M.D., Anesthesiology Program Director, Kimberly Butler Pediatric Residency Program Manager, and Gabriel Daniels, M.D., PGY 4 fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. There were a total of 14 attendees from UAB.
Eddie Higginbotham, an MS2 student at the Heersink School of Medicine on the primary care track, recently visited his childhood elementary school to perform vision screenings in partnership with Impact America’s Focus First.
Faaiz Saad, a fourth-year MD/MBA student at the Heersink School of Medicine and the Collat School of Business, recently wrote, produced, starred in, and directed a new short film entitled “A Confusing Truth, A Comforting Lie” that was nominated for the Gold Diamond Award for Best Student Short Film at the Asian Film Festival Los Angeles in December 2023.
The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation offers an AI in Medicine Graduate Certificate to meet the growing impact of artificial intelligence in academic medicine. Stevan Fairburn, a UAB MS2 student currently enrolled in the program, met with the Heersink communications team to shed some light on the certificate program and its curriculum.
Natasha Mehra, M.D., and Sumayah Abed, M.D., take on new leadership roles at Equal Access Birmingham
Natasha Mehra, M.D., assistant professor in the division of General Internal Medicine, was named faculty director, and Sumayah Abed, M.D., an assistant professor in the department of Family Medicine, was named Women’s Health Director of the UAB Equal Access Birmingham (EAB) clinic effective Jan. 1, 2024.