The Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement (SMCI) have announced three awards for the best improvement publications in 2021. Vidit Bhargava, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, is the first author on the paper selected for the Best Publication focused on a Pediatric Population Award.
Michele Kong, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, has been elected to the Jefferson County Board of Health.
Leaders of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) have selected 35 papers to recognize as the Papers of the Year for 2021. Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, is the first author on one of the papers selected for this honor.
Ambika Ashraf, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, will serve on the Subboard of Pediatric Endocrinology Credentials Committee.
Lece Webb, M.D., third-year fellow in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, was named a recipient of a Silver Snapshot Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Critical Care Congress.
Congratulations to our residents who will be moving into fellowship programs this upcoming year!
Pediatric Fellowships
Gabriela Oates, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, was elected as to the Steering Committee of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation’s Success with Therapies Research Consortium.
Please join us in congratulating Elizabeth “Lizzy” Gunn, M.D., fellow in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, on receiving the 2021-2022 Fall Research Roundtable & Fellow Core Conference Attendance Award.
The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomed two new faculty members in the month of December. Please join us in making them feel at home!
Nicole Barnes, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes
Nour Hasan, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Our Pediatric Subspecialty Programs recently completed their match for fellows beginning July 2022. Congratulations to all of our incoming fellows!