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Syed “Sikandar” Raza has been awarded the 2020 Sara Crews Finley, M.D., Leadership Scholarship.
The School of Medicine communications staff sat down with Dr. Wang to gain insights about her research, UAB, and the science community.
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As we know, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama spurred massive changes across all our operations, forcing us to quickly adopt new ways of working, learning, sustaining our research enterprise, and providing the care on which our city and state depend so heavily.
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The School of Medicine communications staff sat down with Dr. Gu to gain insights about his research, UAB, and the science community.
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By 2050, nearly 14 million Americans over age 65 could be living with Alzheimer's disease—with a world total of at least 50 million. We are facing an uphill battle, but UAB physicians and researchers are meeting this challenge head-on.
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The School of Medicine communications staff sat down with Dr. Rizk to gain insights about her research, UAB, and the science community.
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The news of the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have brought forth expressions of deep anguish, fear, sadness, and rage in communities across the nation. In a city marked by a painful history of violence against black Americans, we here in Birmingham know all too well that these are continued examples of the racial injustices that have plagued our country since before its founding.
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We know that racial and socioeconomic disparities for health and health care exist in this country. In fact, there are many exceptional physicians and researchers here at UAB who are exploring why those disparities exist and how they can be lessened. But sadly, this pandemic has exposed just how deadly the consequences of health disparities can be.
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11 rising second-year medical students have been selected for the fourth class of the UAB School of Medicine’s Health Equity Scholars Program, which develop students’ expertise in the social determinants of health and health disparities.
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14 Principal Investigators have been awarded grants to study various implications of COVID-19.
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