Andrea Mathews, program manager for Behavioral and Population Sciences in the UAB School of Dentistry, has been named Employee of the Year. Mathews was chosen from the 12 Employee of the Month award winners named this past fiscal year. An invitation-only presentation ceremony and reception honoring her with the highest non-academic employee award will be held later this fall.
Mathews helped develop the National Dental PBRN, the first statewide dental practice-based research network in the nation. Since 2002 the network has received more than $94 million in funding, and will soon involve more than 5,000 U.S. dental practitioners providing general dental and specialty care in a wide range of clinical settings. Mathews works with six regions, more than 40 network staff and a six-member executive committee to ensure that all parties are connected to the administrative base and comply with the requirements and goals of the project.
“Each day I join a team of talented and hardworking individuals who go the extra mile in their jobs and even more in the community at-large,” Mathews said. “I believe that employees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham should go the extra mile because in doing so we sustain a professional community committed to service, integrity and achievement.”
Congratulations to all 2013-14 Employee of the Month award winners:
August 2013 – Kym Proctor, program administrator in Graduate Biomedical Sciences
September 2013 – Angela Kidd, office associate II in the Department of Pathology in the School of Medicine
October 2013 – Andrea Mathews, program manager for the Division of Behavior and Population Sciences in the School of Dentistry
November 2013 –Donna Satterfield, records-management specialist in the Gift and Biological Records department
December 2013 – Denise Goska, program manager in Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care in the School of Medicine
January 2014 – LaKisha Mack, operation manager in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine
February 2014 – Connie White-Williams, Ph.D., director of the Center for Nursing Excellence
March 2014 – Cynthia Calhoun, administrative associate and fellowship administrator in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the School of Medicine
April 2014 – Kristina Panizzi Woodley, Ph.D., program director in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine
May 2014 – Joey Jones, information systems specialist in the School of Optometry
June 2014 – LaShundra Wormley-Dooley, administrative associate in the Department of Human Studies in the School of Education
July 2014 – Carol Mayes, program manager in the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health