Anupam Agarwal, M.D., a noted physician, scientist and academic leader, has been named interim senior vice president of Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Nephrologists have reported for the first time in medical literature cases of acute kidney injury directly linked with synthetic marijuana use.
UAB physician Basil I. Hirschowitz, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus of medicine, physiology and biophysics at UAB, the medical pioneer who invented the first fiber-optic endoscope, passed away Jan. 19, 2013.
UAB School of Medicine enters Sullivan Alliance to create more diversity in medical professions
Written by Kendra Carter
UAB will lead the academic partnership between 13 Alabama colleges and universities to promote increasing minority representation in medical careers.
Founder Mike Jezdimir believes the foundation will have a profound effect on better understanding of TM and potential therapies for the disease.
General Endowment Fund awards $1.4 million in research grants for UAB faculty
Written by Clinton Colmenares
Awards were given in four key areas – clinical care, medical education, laboratory research and patient-oriented research projects – that demonstrated a multidisciplinary effort and the likelihood of long-term success.
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.
SimWars is part of a week-long Research and Innovation in Medical Education workshop held on the UAB campus in August 2012.