Jason K. Daniel, MBA, vice president of Physician Practice Administration for UAB Health System and University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, has been named the 2023 Will Ferniany Academic Medicine Leadership Award recipient.
In the last several years, UAB Medicine and Heersink School of Medicine have worked to bring leadership development to faculty and staff through the UAB Medicine Institute for Leadership and Momentum in Medicine programs.
William H. Coleman, Sr., M.D., Ph.D., a longtime physician leader and educator at the UAB Huntsville Regional Medical Campus (HRMC) and champion of rural medicine, died May 11, 2023.

The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation held a Grand Rounds presentation with speaker Vitaly Herasevich, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, on May 15, 2023.

Sixteen remarkable faculty members have been named winners of the 2023 Dean’s Excellence Awards for Faculty.

Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, professor in the Department of Surgery’s Transplantation Division, has been awarded the 2023 Dean’s Excellence Award in mentoring.

Hari Jeyarajan, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, has been chosen as the junior faculty winner of the 2023 Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching.

Shaundra Blakemore, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, has been awarded the junior faculty 2023 Dean’s Excellence Award for Mentorship.

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