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SCIENCE MEETS MEDICINE
MSTP provides a truly integrated training program, in which students take both a selection of medical school and graduate school courses concurrently within their first 2 years in the program. This allows our students to get a head start on their graduate courses, while also getting to know both their fellow MD and PhD classmates. Our MD-PhD students are highly involved in multiple aspects of the program, including being student advisors to the MSTP Directors, organizing our new Southeastern MD-PhD Symposium, and planning the annual MSTP retreat.
By the Numbers
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Vickers named president of the American Surgical Association
Vickers, who is a world-renowned surgeon, pancreatic cancer researcher and pioneer in health disparities research, will take the reins of the foremost surgical association in the United States for 2021. -
Uterus Transplant Program offers new hope
In October 2020, amid a global pandemic, the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute launched the Southeast’s first uterus transplant program — only the fourth of its kind in the United States. -
Mentorship, research and volunteer experiences helped shape UAB graduate with medical school plans
A bilingual speaker of Japanese, Leanna Miku Crafford volunteered with a nonprofit health care clinic, did research in microbiology and led the Japanese Culture Club. She will graduate May 1 with honors magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. -
A finger phantom to train treatment of trigger finger using ultrasound guidance
This 3D-printed anatomical finger model is a low-cost ultrasound training tool for procedural guidance in corticosteroid injections. -
Locke secures third R01 grant in four years
Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, is director of the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute and Division of Transplantation. In all, Locke’s three R01 grants have totaled more than $10.5 million.
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We can’t let #WHM end without acknowledging our fantastic program co-director, Dr. Talene Yacoubian. Dr. Yacoubian splits her time between the MSTP, seeing patients in a specialized ataxia clinic, and running a research lab that studies the 14-3-3 protein family in Parkinson’s.