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Rhiannon Deierhoi Reed, M.P.H., a member of Dr. Jayme Locke’s Transplant Epidemiology and Analytics in Medicine lab, recently placed first at the 13th annual UAB Health Disparities Research Symposium, winning a 2018 Charles Barkley Health Disparities Investigator Award for her presentation, “Geographic Disparities in Rates of End-Stage Renal Disease and Organ Supply in Gulf States Compared to Non-Gulf States.”

Reed’s winning research presentation is the result of a pilot grant she received from the Gulf States Health Policy Center and will serve as pilot data for her K23 submission in Spring 2019.