Heersink School of Medicine News

Reddy named state chair of the Cancer Liaison Program

Sushanth Reddy, M.D., FACS, has been named state chair of the Cancer Liaison Program for the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.

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Lindeman named assistant dean for Graduate Medical Education

Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP, FACS, has been named assistant dean for Graduate Medical Education in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, a new position created to support initiatives improving residents’ and fellows’ ability to practice medicine in a safe learning environment.

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UAB highlights Spina Bifida Awareness Month

The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as the Departments of Neurosurgery and Urology are sharing the stories of three incredible patients with spina bifida.

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The gift of life through transplant

Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, director of the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute, is the latest guest on ‘The Checkup’ podcast, hosted by Selwyn Vickers, M.D., FACS, dean of the School of Medicine. Together, they discuss the impact of CTI on kidney transplant regionally, how UAB’s transplant program is unique, transplant during COVID-19, and much more.

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Multi-disciplinary team publishes holistic review of acute traumatic aortic injury

The publication provides a comprehensive guide for physicians across radiology, vascular, and cardiothoracic surgery.

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GME Professionals Day is Aug. 20: meet a few of UAB’s residency program staff leaders

The Association for Hospital Medical Education declared Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, as its inaugural GME Professionals Day to recognize staff leadership in residency and fellowship training programs, as well as GME administration. Meet a few of the leaders working in our programs at UAB.

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Meet the new Learning Community Mentors: Part 2

Four faculty members joined the Learning Communities program earlier this year as new mentors. In Part 2 of a Q&A with the new mentors, read what motivated Jessica Fazendin, M.D., and Desiree Morgan M.D., to join the program and why they feel the LCs are important to medical school.

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Martin and Sims secure R21 to study potential NEC treatment

The NIH has announced it will fund the research of Colin Martin, M.D., FACS, and Brian Sims, M.D., Ph.D. The two-year grant funds their project “The Therapeutic Potential of Pasteurized Human Donor Breast Milk Exosomes.

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PDC names new leadership

The UAB Pancreatobiliary Disease Center (PDC) has named two new leaders in the areas of medical oncology and pathology.

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Humanism, mentorship drives Corey’s career in medical education

Britney Corey M.D., MACM, FACS, the faculty winner of the 2021 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, said working with our medical learners and her patients is an honor that makes her career a privilege.

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