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Woman’s Day Features UAB Biology Student’s Story Jessica Martinez, a UAB senior, is featured in this month’s issue of the national magazine for her uplifting story of surviving life-long heart disease. After being born with a congenital heart defect, Martinez underwent three open heart surgeries before the age of 24, the most recent performed by doctors at UAB. “I would not be here today without them,” she says. “I am planning to become a pediatric cardiologist one day. I feel stronger than ever, and I want to use my life experiences while treating other young patients who face what I have faced.” UAB Center for Applied Gerontology Wins $2 Million Grant Renewal The five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging is for the center to continue its social and behavioral research focused on helping older adults maintain mobility and physical function, sharpen cognitive abilities, improve driving performance and enhance financial and medical decision-making skills.
Huw Thomas, Dean of UAB School of Dentistry, Receives SELAM Award of Excellence The Society for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine 2010 Award for Excellence honors individuals that have served as a role model, mentored, supported and advocated for women in medicine, dentistry and the health professions. Thomas will be honored and receive his award at the SELAM reception March 1 during the American Dental Education Association meeting in Washington, D.C. UAB Researcher Warns of Risks of Low Potassium in Heart Failure Patients with CKD Low potassium levels produce an increased risk of death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease, according to research published in the January issue of Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association. "Our findings indicate that low potassium may be even more common in these patients, and clinicians need to be aware of the risks associated with even mildly low potassium levels and monitor and treat their patients accordingly," said senior author Ali Ahmed, M.D., associate professor of medicine.
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Effects of Climate Change Threaten Sea’s Creatures, says UAB Marine Biologist Increasing global levels of carbon dioxide are making the world’s oceans more acidic, says UAB biologist Jim McClintock, Ph.D., and his research reveals this could have profound effects on marine organism.
“The increased acidity of the seawater itself literally can begin to eat away at the outer surfaces of shells of existing clams, snails and other calcified organisms, which could cause species to die outright or become vulnerable to new predators,” McClintock says.
McClintock, who has spent more than two decades studying Antarctic marine life, recently detailed these impacts in an article in Oceanography magazine.
New Hi-Def, Low-Dose CT Scanner is First in Southeast Chief of of CT Lincoln Berland, M.D., says the new GE Healthcare CT 750 HD computed tomography scanner recently installed in The Kirklin Clinic is a momentous advancement for patients, physicians and researchers.
“This really is one of the most exciting breakthroughs in CT technology in the past 20 years,” Berland says. UAB’s high-definition, low-dose CT scanner is the first of its type in the Southeast. It offers considerable benefits to patients concerned about radiation exposure, particularly those with conditions requiring multiple scans.
“What this does is create an image that has very similar characteristics in diagnostic quality to the conventional image, but it can be done with 50 to 60 percent of the radiation exposure you would ordinarily use,” Berland says.
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