Jason Noah, who began working in Medical Student Services (MSS) in 2013, reflects on how he has seen the department grow substantially in that time. In his goal to foster connections between student and Medical Education leadership, he sees himself as one small part of a larger mission to develop student leaders and commit to their lifelong success.

The UAB Office of Patient Experience and Engagement, in conjunction with UAB Medicine executive leadership, has honored eleven UAB Sports and Exercise Medicine providers as Patient Experience Leaders for delivering outstanding patient care in the 2023 fiscal year.

The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation is devoted to driving the transformation of health and health care by future-proofing the health care workforce and fostering and facilitating high-value innovation that will improve health outcomes and economic development. One way the institute has done this is through the Dothan Community Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, which was held at the Health Center South Medical Tower.

UAB Department of Surgery faculty are leading the way in education for trauma surgeons by creating guides for a new series published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Both pieces are “need to know” articles on damage control resuscitation (DCR) in both adult and pediatric trauma patient populations.
UAB’s Center for Injury Science (CIS) Director Jan Jansen, MBBS, Ph.D., Executive Director Shannon Stephens, and senior scientist John Holcomb, M.D., were featured in the 2nd Annual (Trauma and Prothrombin Complex Concentrate) TAP Investigators Meeting.
UAB was represented at the recent 2023 HAVI (the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention) Conference last month in Chicago.

The grant will support a comprehensive five-year project in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) aimed at identifying and addressing barriers to medical diagnosis and care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, emphasizing the experience and impact on African American adults and adolescents and implementing community engagement programs with Birmingham-based organizations to raise awareness of IBD and provide education on effective management among local healthcare professionals, potential patients, and caregivers.

The wait is almost over - the 2023 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress is just a few weeks away!
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