UAB professor receives award for impact on children’s eye care.
Free English classes will be available for the UAB community and interested learners this summer.
Franks has been recognized with the 2019 Udall Undergraduate Scholarship for her efforts in environmental preservation.
Mark Tarr, president and CEO of Encompass Health, is the chair of the Alys Stephens Center’s 2019 Viva Health Starlight Gala starring Jeff Goldblum.
Antibody-producing immune cells are vital to fight pathogens and are involved in autoimmunity.
Lolley has worked as a comprehensive ophthalmologist at Callahan Eye Hospital for more than 20 years.
Anna’s Fund, which was established by Rodney Tucker, M.D., and Billy Connelley, provides financial assistance to Hand in Paw volunteer teams to help defray costs associated with training and supplies to become a pet therapy team.
The All of Us Research Program hits a one-year milestone, and UAB continues to urge residents of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi to sign up and participate.

UAB Hospital is the only Alabama facility named to Becker’s Hospital Review list of 100 Great Hospitals in America.

Douglas Hurst, Ph.D., and his colleague published their findings in Cancer Research, from the American Association for Cancer Research.
UAB will lead research examining placebo methods for delivering drugs to help prevent HIV during anal sex.

May is Stop the Bleed Month, and UAB ramps up these bleeding-control training classes.

Nearly half of all patients who have multiple myeloma also have kidney injury, and approximately 8 percent of patients require renal replacement therapy.
Priority registration deadline for the event is May 1.
This year’s symposium will feature Karen Glanz, Ph.D., and Jonathan Engel, Ph.D., as speakers.
Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.

Goldblum is the star of the 2019 Viva Health Starlight Gala, elegant evening benefiting the Alys Stephens Center on Sunday, June 2.

Chris Farley, who graduated in December, will pursue his dream of becoming a professional opera singer.

Children in the afterschool program at the Campus of Hope at Marks Village are learning to be “Healthy Happy Kids” through a six-week childhood obesity prevention program.
Founded in 2017, the navigator program works with both recipients and donors to identify needs and guide each through the process to transplantation and post-transplant.