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Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH, and Greg Payne, MD, PhDLatesha Elopre, MD, MSPH (Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases) and Gregory Payne, MD, PhD (Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease) have been named 2017 Harold Amos Scholars. The prestigious Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to historically disadvantaged physicians who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and to serving as role models for students and faculty of similar background. The two were selected as national semi-finalists for the program and presented their research to a panel of judges in Chicago in July. They are among 14 finalists selected for 2017. Dr. Payne’s AMFDP award is sponsored by the American Heart Association for his work with novel mechanisms of inflammation in cardiovascular disease and cardiac transplant rejection. Dr. Elopre’s project focuses on developing an intervention to increase HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among Black women.

L to R: Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellows Katelyn Briggs, MD, and Carolyn Kezar, MD, with Associate Program Director Heather Herrington, MD, and Program Coordinator Elizabeth McAlisterThe Department was delighted to host our incoming fellows at a welcome reception on Monday evening in Wallace Tumor Institute. The event celebrates our 53 new trainees in 17 programs across 10 clinical divisions. They join 50 existing fellows, and we are eager to watch them flourish in our outstanding educational environment.

Each of our 42 interns received CVL procedural training in a simulation environment this week. Facilitators included CMRs Karla Williams, MD, Mack Brown, MD, Amanda Brito, MD, and Rob Smola, MD, pulmonary fellow David LaFon, MD, and General Internal Medicine faculty Jason Morris, MD, Peter Phan, MD, and Winter Williams, MD.

Elizabeth Turnipseed, MD, MPH (Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine) and Department Chair Seth Landefeld, MD, were recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Their invited commentary applauds the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Safety Program for Long-term Care which appears to have decreased the incidence of catheter-related urinary tract infection in 404 nursing homes across the nation.

Lisa Willett, MD with Anezi Uzendu, MD

When third-year resident Anezi Uzendu, MD, suffered cardiac arrest in November, everyone in the residency program rallied around him like family. View the amazing story of his care and recovery on UAB News.