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Hussein Abdullatif, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinology, was nominated in the category of Best Educator in Endocrine Systems.
Kimberly Whelan, M.D., Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, was nominated in the category of Best Educator in Hematology & Oncology.
Lauren Nassetta, M.D., and Chang Wu, M.D., of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, were nominated in the category of Best Birmingham Clinical Educator.
The Department of Pediatrics was honored as a nominee for the Best Clinical Department in Birmingham.
The Argus Awards, created in 1996 to recognize faculty members, give medical students the chance to honor their mentors, professors, courses and course directors for outstanding service to medical education. Faculty members are nominated by course evaluations, and students vote to select award winners in each category.
The recipients will be announced and the nominees honored at a ceremony on Friday, October 7. Click here to view the full list of nominees.
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The lecture will also be streamed live online. Click here to download the flyer.
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Besides Dr. Lal, co-authors of the paper, “The Airway Microbiome at Birth,” from the UAB Department of Pediatrics are Drs. Colm Travers, Tamas Jilling, Brian Halloran, Waldemar A. Carlo, Jordan Keeley, Gabriel Rezonzew and Namasivayam Ambalavanan.
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Vaccination remains the best preventive measure against influenza, so everyone 6 months and older should receive any age-appropriate trivalent or quadrivalent (no preference) inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) as soon as available.
Read the AAP cover story written by Henry Bernstein, DO, MHCM, FAAP, and David Kimberlin, M.D., FAAP, on pages 1 and 4 here.
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To continue reading the AAP News article written by Karen Wilson, MD, MPH, FAAP, and Susan Walley, M.D., CTTS, FAAP, of the AAP Section on Tobacco Control Executive Committee,click here.