Adam Pope
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Manager of Public Relations
arpope@uab.edu | (205) 934-6986Leads external communications for units within the medical entities. Pope and his team proactively tell stories through external media outlets, featuring news about research, clinical happenings, patient stories and beyond at UAB. The team works reactively to connect appropriate experts with media on subject matter expertise.
Specific beats:
- Health System Administration
- Heersink School of Medicine
- Medical Facilities
- Medical Partnerships/Alliances
- School of Health Professions
- Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center
- Live HealthSmart Alabama
- Department of Pathology
- Department of Surgery
- Transplantation
Monoclonal antibody infusion is effective, but UAB doctors say getting the COVID-19 vaccine is the best way to prevent someone from being hospitalized because of COVID-19.
NBA basketball legend Charles Barkley brings his plea for widespread vaccination against COVID-19 to a vaccine rally on Saturday, Aug. 28 at Legion Field.
The largest such survey ever conducted, led by Stefan Kertesz, M.D., shows that weather, rents and personal factors contribute to unsheltered homelessness.
Nationally renowned expert in COPD Mark Dransfield, M.D., has been the medical director of the UAB Lung Health Center since 2009.
People respond to weight loss strategies in different ways, but typical studies test only one intervention at a time. UAB’s Drew Sayer is testing multiple strategies in a single study.
Jorge de la Torre, M.D., professor and director of the UAB Division of Plastic Surgery, will serve a one-year term as president of the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
W. Timothy Garvey, M.D., was chosen to receive the Master of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology award. Garvey founded the UAB Diabetes Research Center in 2008.
An award from the Health Resources and Services Administration will increase underrepresented minorities in medicine and support student work in areas of mental health, opioid addiction and primary care in rural areas.
The 14th annual Fiesta Ball, now happening for an entire week July 17-24, will have an online auction and participation from five local Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants.
New findings include a significant increase in risk of death among patients who had recently had chemotherapy.