People of UAB - News

Changes in how medical codes are assigned means a chance for UAB  health information faculty to teach coding professionals at hospitals.

Alexander also delivered the 2012 Stanley L. Robbins lecture at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in September.

The American Mathematical Society has named the UAB professor to its inaugural class of 1,119 fellows from around the world.

Thomas W. Weatherford III, D.V.M., D.M.D., joined the faculty in 1962.

Marilyn J. Kurata, Ph.D., joined the faculty in 1978.

Candace L. Floyd, Ph.D., will hold an endowed chair in the Spain Rehabilitation Center.

The Dr. Thomas W. Jones Endowed Professorship was created in the School of Dentistry.

Dunlap also leads the Alabama Health Policy Initiative, an independent component of the School of Public Health.

Kilgore is also co-director of the Pharmaco-Epidemiology and Economics Research Group.

The ACP is the largest medical-specialty organization in the United States.

The organization is the European equivalent to the National Academy of Sciences.

Halanych succeeds W.J. Many, M.D., who recently was named dean of the new Montgomery branch campus of the UAB School of Medicine.

Bonner is chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology.

World-renowned obesity expert becomes one of nearly 30 past and present UAB researchers to attain one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Vogtle will lead the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.

Alexandrov was honored for her nursing instruction.

Early childhood education expert Jennifer Kilgo, Ph.D., spoke to a U.N. committee.

Dean Sicking, developer of auto-racing SAFER barriers, to bring lab and research to UAB Nov. 1.

Antarctica expert, author McClintock to sign new book Oct. 5.

Lauren Slaughter is working on her first collection of poems.

For the first time, a UAB faculty chamber ensemble will travel overseas to perform after the Faculty Brass Quintet is invited to Latvia.

The UAB Center for Sales Leadership is based in Innovation Depot.

The marine biologist will discuss the changing polar ecosystem at an event Sept. 28.

Philip H. Lander, M.D., has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Radiology
Judith A. Kapp, Ph.D., has been appointed professor emerita in the Department of Ophthalmology
Alfred A. Bartolucci, Ph.D., has been appointed professor emeritus of biostatistics
Eddy S. Yang, M.D., Ph.D., was named the inaugural holder of the ROAR Southeast Cancer Foundation Endowed Professorship
Christos C. Vlachos, D.M.D., was named the first holder of the UAB Orthodontic Alumni Endowed Professorship in the Department of Orthodontics
Lisa Laycock Willett, M.D., was named to the Dr. Tinsley R. Harrison Endowed Chair in Medical Resident Education
Charles Seth Landefeld, M.D., was named to the Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership
Page 50 of 59