UAB’s fourth-year medical students found out where they will do their residency training, and in what medical field, at the 2014 Match Day activities.
Check in with the UAB Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine in Peru, where participants see different patients with different tropical diseases each day.
The UAB School of Medicine will lead in the establishment of a national research consortium focused on the discovery of new and better drug therapies to treat viral infections.
Wine tasting to benefit the Alabama Kidney Foundation
Written by UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
Tickets are $10 for the Taste For a Cure wine event on Friday, April 4.
ECMO, or extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, takes on the function of the heart and lungs by routing the patient’s blood into the machine where carbon dioxide is removed and oxygen is added.
Spain Rehab turns 50
Written by Bob Shepard
UAB’s Spain Rehabilitation Center celebrates its 50th anniversary with a scientific symposium on traumatic brain injury.
Tropical Medicine in Peru
Written by Clinton Colmenares
The UAB School of Medicine is global. Nothing illustrates that better than the Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine -- the only tropical medicine course in the world run by a U.S. institution that actually takes place in the tropics. Read on and follow us @UABSOM #UABGorgas or on Facebook.com/UABSchoolofMedicine.
Preparing for our future
Written by Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D.
After two years of preparation and much anticipation, next week, March 9-12, the School of Medicine will host the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. This “LCME site visit” is the most important event for any medical school because it leads to accreditation and the privilege of being called an academic medical center.
Mona Fouad, M.D., MPH, has been appointed to a new position in the UAB School of Medicine, senior associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion, beginning April 1.
The School of Medicine’s Huntsville Regional Medical Campus announced a new fund raising initiative, the William B. Deal, M.D., Huntsville Art of Medicine Endowed Scholarship.