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Kimberly Kirklin, M.A.

Arts in medicine • Arts in health • Improving quality of life for all ages through the arts 

Media contact: Shannon Thomason, thomason@uab.edu 

KimberlyKirlkinKimberly Kirklin, M.A.

Director, UAB Arts in Medicine

 

Areas of expertise:

  • Arts in medicine
  • Arts in health
  • Improving quality of life for all ages through the arts

 

 

As inaugural director of the UAB Arts in Medicine, Kirklin develops and oversees programs to enhance the healing environment for patients and their families. AIM offers active and passive arts experiences by bringing live performance and visual art to the health care setting, and artists in residence to the bedside. AIM has served more than 107,000 patients, families and staff at UAB Hospital since its inception. 

Kirklin led the effort to expand the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center’s reach into the health care community at UAB by starting partnerships with Children’s Hospital of Alabama and the Alabama Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders, and co-created the Arts in Medicine pilot program at UAB Hospital. The pilot program expanded in 2014 and is now UAB Arts in Medicine which is a partnership between the ASC and UAB Medicine.

 

 

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