UAB Well-Represented in Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame Class of 2010

Several current or former University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty and administrators are among the 2010 Class of the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame members.

May 20, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Several current or former University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty and administrators are among the 2010 Class of the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame members.

Seven of the 14 inductees served on the UAB faculty; others earned professional degrees from UAB.

UAB Faculty Inducted

  • Alice McNeal, M.D., chair of the Department of Anesthesiology. McNeal was the first female anesthesiologist in Alabama and the first female chair of an academic anesthesiology department in the United States.
  • Florence Hixson, Ed.D., who was the first dean of the nursing program at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1950 and led the transition of the program to establish the UAB School of Nursing.
  • Margaret Millsap, Ed.D., R.N., was on the faculty of the UAB School of Nursing and was president of every major nursing organization in Alabama during her career.
  • John Wheat, M.D., M.P.H., professor of community and rural medicine at the University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, works closely with the UAB School of Medicine in maintaining the Rural Scholars program.
  • Madeline G. Harris is a research assistant at the UAB School of Nursing. A certified oncology nurse, in 2002 Harris spearheaded "Climb for the Cause," a climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro by a group of breast-cancer survivors and caregivers.
  • C. Neal Canup, M.D., a family practitioner in Anniston, is a clinical professor at UAB. He is a past-president of the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Ronald Henderson, M.D., was active in the Alabama Department of Public Health, Medical Association of Alabama and Jefferson County Medical Society. He is a clinical professor at UAB.

The Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame was founded in 1997 to recognize those persons, living or deceased, who have made outstanding contributions to, or rendered exemplary service for, health care in the State of Alabama. This year's induction ceremony took place in Montgomery May 8.

About UAB

Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is the state of Alabama's largest employer and an internationally renowned research university and academic health center. Its professional schools and specialty patient-care programs are consistently ranked among the nation's top 50. Find more information at www.uab.edu and www.uabmedicine.org.