This year’s RIME Week was a huge success! The Research and Innovations in Medical Education events drew over 100 participants from more than a dozen departments and two branch campuses. Congratulations to the winners selected from over 60 entries in the poster session:

• Clinical Vignettes: Stephen Russell, MD (General Internal Medicine) for "Cold Cellulitis: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Masquerading as Cellulitis”
• Medical Education, Research and Innovation: Lea Yerby, PhD (Medical Education, Tuscaloosa Campus) for "TLC2: The Tuscaloosa Longitudinal Community Curriculum.”
• Medical Education, Research and Innovation: Alice Weaver (MS3) for "Evaluating the Success of UASOM Medical Student Research Programs: A Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes"
• Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Simulations: Thao Tran, MD (PGY3) for "Does Hyperglycemia in AECOPD Affect Length of Hospital Stay?"

RIME is also announcing an RFA for Faculty Development for Educators. The program intends to identify up to three junior-to-mid-level faculty members who wish to apply to advanced degree or immersion programs. Awardees will receive up to $10,000. The deadline for applications is Friday, October 30, 2015 (at 5:00 p.m.) Download the RFA here.

E. Turner Overton, MD (Infectious Diseases) just received his first RO-1 grant entitled “Effect of Pitavastatin on Kidney Function in HIV-infected Persons.”

In a landmark NIH study, Suzanne Oparil, MD (Cardiovascular Disease) UAB’s principal investigator in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT), has demonstrated that maintaining systolic blood pressure at a lower than currently recommended levels can greatly reduce cardiovascular complications and deaths in older adults. Read the NHLBI press release here

Coming Next Week: Make plans to attend the Annual Compliance Seminar “Big Data: Rise of the Machines” presented by HSF Corporate Compliance Officer Brian Bates, CPA, CHC, MAc, and HSF Medical Compliance Officer Stephen Stair, MD, FACP. The event will be recorded and posted online afterwards for those who cannot attend the live presentation.

View this week's slides here.

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