On June 24, a team from UAB Department of Pediatrics and the School of Medicine traveled to Livingston, Alabama for a third year as Workshop Presenters with rising high school juniors in the West Alabama Rural Health Initiative's health career exploration experience. Attendees hail from Choctaw, Marengo and Sumter Counties in the Alabama Black Belt where infant mortality and life expectancy are among the worst in the nation. They will be first in their families to attend college and from our trainees, received living proof and true encouragement they can change the outcome as adults. Faculty, residents and students then visited the Rush Rural Medical Group's Livingston Clinic where providers Todd Vaughan, M.D. and Sharon Henson, FNP discussed the eye opening unpredictable challenges of primary care delivery in a harshly underserved area along with the immense rewards.

Attendees included: Morissa Ladinsky, M.D., Academic General Peditrics, Tina Simpson, M.D., Adolescent Medicine, Jaime McKinney, M.D., Academic General Pediatrics, Derrill Wilson, Patient Relations, David Windler, M.D., MedPeds PGY-4 Resident, Leen Matalka, M.D., Pediatric PGY-3 Resident, Catherine Gooch, M.D., PedsGenetics PGY-3 Resident, and students from the UAB Schools of Medicine and Public Health.