The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System, at its regular meeting Feb. 2, appointed two UAB faculty members to the rank of emeritus. Posted on February 5, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System, at its regular meeting Feb. 2, appointed two UAB faculty members to the rank of emeritus:

  • Jorge Antonio Aldrete, M.D., who first joined the UAB faculty in 1980 and later returned as a volunteer professor, professor emeritus of anesthesiology; and

  • Michael J. Pitt, M.D., a UAB School of Medicine faculty member since 1993, professor emeritus of radiology.