AAPI Heritage Month, Part 2: Garnering inclusivity through celebration
Written by Mary Ashley Canevaro
For Part 2 of our AAPI Heritage series, Hubert Tse, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, shares his story of lineage, how he celebrates his heritage, and why diversity is important in his department.
Christina Grabowski, Ph.D., associate dean for Admissions and Enrollment Management, recently assumed the role of chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges Southern Group on Student Affairs.
Medical Alumni Association’s Meredith Burns wins 2021 Kenneth Burke Award for Outstanding Achievement in Advancement for UAB
Written by Caleb Jones
Meredith Burns, executive director of the University of Alabama Medical Alumni Association (MAA), was selected for the 2021 Dr. Kenneth E. Burke Outstanding Achievement in Advancement Award for UAB.
To comply with capacity limits, only those guests on the lists submitted by students in advance will be allowed to enter Bartow Arena. Commencement will be streamed live online.
Kelly Chen, MS3, has been awarded the prestigious Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholar Award, and is one of only 100 scholars within the U.S. and Canada to receive it.
AAPI Heritage Month, Part 1: Chen’s 2019 presidential address holds new truth in 2021
Written by Emma Harchanko
The School of Medicine is celebrating AAPI heritage, lineage, and legacy by telling the stories of several AAPI faculty around campus. To begin, Herbert Chen, M.D., FACS, Fay Fletcher Kerner Endowed Chair of the Department of Surgery, shares his story of family, adolescence, and medical training in an honest and candid oration.
Ankit Bansal, rising MS3, helped accomplish two major changes at Equal Access Birmingham during the pandemic.
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health, virtually presented "Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Medicine in the Times of COVID" at the annual S. Rexford Kennamer Lecture.