Nicole Wyatt

Nicole Wyatt

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Media Specialist, UAB News
(205) 934-8938
nwyatt@uab.edu

Before coming to UAB in 2011, Wyatt was a broadcaster, working as a reporter/anchor for CBS 42 News in Birmingham and WVUA-TV in Tuscaloosa. She is from Pittsburgh, Penn., and came south to attend the University of Alabama, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication & Film. She is currently working on a master’s degree in Health Studies.

Beats include: Center for AIDS Research, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Optometry, School of Public Health, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, Sparkman Center for Global Health, Urology

Richard W. Waguespack, M.D., clinical professor of surgery in the Division of Otolaryngology, is the new president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery and its foundation.

The UAB community came out to support the CPS-3, becoming the largest single site enrollment in the U.S. with 1,209 participants.
New research shows while there’s an association between breakfast habits and obesity, some practices by scientists have led the evidence for a causal claim to be exaggerated.
Jane Schwebke, M.D., has been honored for high achievement in research and prevention by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association.
Mirjam-Colete Kempf, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Michael Saag, M.D., received a $3 million, five-year award to join the Women’s Interagency HIV study.
Julie L. Locher, Ph.D., associate director for enrichment at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition Obesity Research Center, was unanimously awarded Fellow status in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section by the Gerontological Society of America.
Of the 27 antiretroviral drugs now approved for AIDS, seven were tested first in patients at the 1917 Clinic in Phase 1 clinical trials.
Deep, high-quality sleep is needed to lower heart rate and blood pressure, which reduce stress on the heart.
The 2013 list recognizes 325 UAB physicians in 65 specialties who are among the top 5 percent of clinicians in the United States, as voted by their peers. Nearly three-dozen additional top doctors were added to UAB’s total count compared to last year’s list.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $28 million grant renewal for the nation’s largest study aimed at exploring racial and geographic differences in stroke illness and stroke death from The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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