Michele Kong, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, has been named one of the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ) Women to Watch 2021.
Randy Cron, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, received the 2021 James T. Cassidy Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Rheumatology.
Vivek Shukla, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Neonatology, received the Mead Johnson Nutrition Early Career Speaker Award at the Perinatal Research Society Annual Meeting. Dr. Shukla was honored for his presentation titled, “Advanced Machine Learning Based Prediction of Perinatal Outcomes.”
David Kimberlin, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, was awarded the 2021 Wallace Alexander Clyde Distinguished Service Award from the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Michelle Veters, M.D., fellow in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, won the poster session award for the Research and Scholarship Category at the Educational Research and Innovations in Clinical and Health Sciences (ENRICH) Week.
Two department faculty were honored with Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Awards at the annual Awards Dinner on Sept. 25.
The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomed eight new faculty members in the month of September. Please join us in making them feel at home! 
Top L to R: Channing Brown, Laura Crocker, Anna Hoppmann, Chibuzo Ilonze, Jennifer McCain, Aida Miles, Jordan Newman and Emily Warren.
Congratulations to the 18 faculty promoted effective October 1, 2021!
Stephanie Berger, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, has been selected to serve as a Healthcare Educator Academy mentor.
Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., MPH, professor in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, has been appointed to the Committee on Progress toward Human Health and Community Resilience in the Gulf of Mexico Region of the National Academy of Sciences.