MS3 Ryan Wong talks with Christina Grabowski, Ph.D., associate dean for Admissions & Enrollment Management, on how the Admissions Committee uses holistic review to evaluate our medical school applicants.

Pittman CAMS made lasting impressions on medical giants for over four decades. As we prepare for the new Altec Styslinger Genomic Medicine and Data Sciences Building, we honor the important place in UAB's history Pittman CAMS has had, as well as Dean James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D.—to whom the building was dedicated.

Four faculty members joined the Learning Communities program earlier this year as new mentors. In Part 1 of a Q&A with the new mentors, read what motivated Sherell Hicks, M.D., and  Pallavi Iyer, M.D., to join the program and why they feel the LCs are important to medical school.

Last winter, Azim Merchant, MS4, organized a Winter Coat Drive in Huntsville and donated over 450 pieces of winter clothing to Huntsville Community of Hope.

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.

Gareth Dutton, Ph.D., professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine, and Surya Bhatt, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, are the winners of this year’s Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. Breakthrough Awards for Research that Transform Health.

The UAB School of Medicine Huntsville Regional Campus recently hosted its fourth annual Research Day on May 18. Roger D. Smalligan, M.D., MPH, professor and regional dean of the Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, and Farrah Ibrahim, M.D., FACP, director of the Huntsville Internal Medicine Residency Program, developed the oral and poster competition in 2018.

William M. Geisler, M.D., MPH, professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and co-director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, has been named the assistant dean for Physician Scientist Development in the UAB School of Medicine.

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