Posted on February 5, 2007 at 12:55 p.m.

Birmingham, Ala. – Shin Oh, M.D., professor of neurology and pathology and director of the Division of Neuromuscular Disease in the Department of Neurology at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has been designated a distinguished professor, by action Feb. 2 of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System.

Oh, also director of the muscle/nerve histopathology laboratory at UAB Hospital, is the author of four textbooks related to the diagnosis of neuromuscular disease. He is an internationally known clinician, researcher and educator. He also is the recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award for 2006 from the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Oh joined the UAB faculty in 1970 after earning his medical degree from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, and completing residency training in Korea and at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.