The JCMS directed its gifts toward the principal of its endowed scholarship as well as a sponsored scholarship, enabling five students to receive support for the 2013-14 year while making an investment in generations of future students.
William B. Deal, M.D., made a lasting impact on the School of Medicine as its dean from 1997 to 2004, laying the groundwork for its current and future growth.
William W. Featheringill knew a thing or two about building successful health-care enterprises in Alabama, and he always considered UAB to be a good investment.
Phillips scholarship helps students fund their dreams of becoming doctors
Written by UAB Medicine Magazine
Doris Sturgis Phillips, M.D., was one of only four women admitted to the School of Medicine Class of 1950, and she immediately faced a challenge familiar to many students today: finding the funds to support her goal of becoming a physician. She's now established a need-based scholarship to help Alabama students pay for their medical education.
Bobby Jack Armstrong’s 11-year fight against head and neck cancer ended in 2012, but the daughters of the Montgomery businessman and community leader are determined to fight their own battle in his memory.
UAB Hospital is the first in Alabama to offer the Nanostim leadless pacemaker for patients with bradycardia.
UAB Cancer Center researcher receives grant to support pediatric brain tumor research
Written by Beena Thannickal
Pediatric cancer researcher Gregory Friedman, M.D., receives $40,000 grant to fight brain cancer in children.
Study shows how brain tumor cells move and damage tissue, points to possible therapy
Written by Bob Shepard
A federally funded study shows how invading glioma cells disrupt brain connections and break down the blood brain barrier.
Crawford Downs, Ph.D., has been named chair-elect of the Animals in Research Committee of the Association for Research in Vision Science and Ophthalmology.
I was very pleased recently to announce that Dr. Mitch Cohen will be our next chair of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief at Children’s of Alabama, starting Sept. 1. He will succeed Dr. Sergio Stagno, a tremendous statesman and leader in pediatrics who will remain on faculty where he will continue to care for patients and influence current and future pediatricians.