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Buford named director of the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine
Thomas Buford to head the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine as the new director starting Aug. 1, 2020. -
4 honored with Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence
Caroline Harada, Burel Goodin, Tina Kempin Reuter and Allison Shorten demonstrated extraordinary commitment to engaging undergraduate students in service-learning, undergraduate research, education-abroad experiences and team-learning environments. -
Special unit to treat nursing home patients with COVID-19 to serve Jefferson County
The special unit for COVID-19-positive nursing home residents will help slow disease spread and provide care to this vulnerable population. -
First culturally based end-of-life care protocol created by community members published
In partnership with community members, researchers at UAB created the first culturally based protocol for patients living with a serious illness or facing end-of-life care. -
Tucker receives Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award
Rodney Tucker, M.D., honored for work and care given to patients nearing the end of their lives. -
Meet My Loved One: Making palliative connections in times of isolation
A program inspired by a doctor who lost her father during the coronavirus pandemic is now being used to help patients who cannot be with loved ones in the hospital. -
Machines help scientists spot new patterns in Alzheimer’s, cancer and more
Investigators attract major grants to use AI on failed drug trials, cell-free DNA and puzzling CT scans. -
3 honored as emeritus faculty
Edward Hook, Virginia Wadley Bradley and Mark Prichard were honored as emeritus professors for exceptional service to the university and their profession. -
Faculty projects funded through 2018 Multi-PI Awards
The purpose of these grants is to enable School of Medicine faculty members to organize and integrate multidisciplinary teams of accomplished investigators who will compete successfully for long-term support from funding agencies.
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All Department of Medicine divisions now live in OnCore
Clinical trials from the final Department of Medicine divisions recently went live in OnCore, marking the successful completion of another major phase of the implementation plan. OnCore is replacing the older, and no longer supported, SiteMinder system.