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April 16, 2012
Dean Ray Watts addresses the audience on Match Day. Click to see a slideshow of photos from the event.
Aside from commencement, the most exciting day on our School of Medicine calendar for our students and their fam...
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March 1, 2012
Dean Ray Watts (at right) presents Dr. Albert Tully with a plaque at Medical Alumni Weekend. The plaque thanks Dr. Tully for his fundraising efforts for the Dr. Tinsley R. Harrison Endowed Chair in Medical Resident Education....
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February 3, 2012
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts speaks at the Scholarship Dinner in January.
A great medical education benefits physicians for a lifetime, but paying for it can sometimes last just as long.
Affording med...
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January 17, 2012
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts talks with alumni at a reception in Point Clear.
The beginning of a new year offers an opportunity to look back at the milestones we achieved in the previous one. For me, ...
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November 14, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts
As I have traveled the state and region visiting with alumni, many have asked me the same question: Has the School of Medicine admissions process changed over the years?
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October 10, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts with School of Medicine students
In many ways, educating medical students is a specialty much like surgery, pediatrics, or another field of medicine. To teach medicine as w...
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September 7, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts
One of the most exciting parts of being a physician is learning about scientific discoveries that could help improve, and even save, the lives of our patients. Many of the...
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August 2, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts speaks to students during orientation.
Do you remember how you felt on your first day of medical school? That day—a mix of excitement and trepidation, a sense of accomplish...
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July 5, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts
Dr. Vijay Misra
A month ago, Dr. Vijay Misra, director of the UAB Heart and Vascular Center Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, passed away suddenly at the age o...
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June 2, 2011
(Left to right) Dr. Sara Finley, Dr. Wayne Finley, senior vice president and dean Ray Watts, and Nancy Watts
Over the last six months, School of Medicine faculty and staff have engaged in AMC21, a comprehensive strat...
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May 3, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts
The impact of the devastating storm system that hit the Southeast on April 27 will be felt for some time by residents in communities across Alabama and neighboring states.
Man...
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April 1, 2011
(Left to right) Eddie Hyatt, senior vice president and dean Ray Watts, Jennifer Eldredge, and Brittany Richardson
Our annual Scholarship Dinner in March showcased some of our brightest and most talented students and...
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March 1, 2011
(Left to right) Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts with Dr. Theodis Buggs Jr., outgoing Medical Alumni Association president; Alabama Governor Robert Bentley; Dr. Gerhard Boehm, incoming MAA president; and Dr. Betty Ru...
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February 1, 2011
Senior vice president and dean Ray Watts with School of Medicine students
Throughout its history, the School of Medicine has trained the best and brightest physicians to care for the people of Alabama. However, t...
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January 5, 2011
Medical Alumni Association president Theodis Buggs Jr. with senior vice president and dean Ray Watts
One of our biggest challenges in 2011 is a familiar one: Alabama’s shortage of primary care physicians.
M...
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Ray L. Watts, M.D. Senior Vice President & Dean
Under the leadership of our new dean, Dr. Ray L. Watts, the School of Medicine has begun a new chapter in its story, in which we will continue to accelerate discovery through cutting...
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