UAB medical student Lily Mahler is the 2021 recipient of the William Boyd Medal at the 2021 University of Alabama School of Medicine Dean's Awards ceremony, held virtually on May 20, 2021. The Boyd Medal is given each year to the UAB medical student whose performance in all aspects of their pathology education has been most outstanding.
Mahler attended Auburn University for her undergraduate studies in microbiology and graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine with her medical degree in May. She served as a Medical Student Research Assistant in 2020 under Brandi McCleskey, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Forensic Pathology, where she participated in research efforts with the UAB School of Medicine (SOM) and the Jefferson County Medical Examiners Office. In this role, Mahler learned literature review and manscript drafting. She gained additional research experience in 2018 from the laboratory of John Hartman, I.V., M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, where she studied NF1 gene regulation via phenomic characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae homolog IRA2. Mahler will move to Boston to work as a pathology resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
In his fourth decade of service to UAB, Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., Robert W. Mowry Endowed Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pathology, can add the title of Distinguished Professor to his long list of accomplishments. Siegal’s appointment was approved by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees in April 2021, and is the first such honor for a pathologist at UAB.
During his 30+ year tenure at UAB, Siegal has set a high standard through his professional, academic, research, and service contributions. In his current role as Executive Vice Chair, he delivers tremendous administrative support and experience to the operations of both the department and the institution.
“By the very nature of his more than three-decade commitment to excellence in this academic community, his unwavering dedication to groups underrepresented in medicine, and the recognition and goodwill he has generated for UAB by the model of physician-scholar that he sets, Dr. Siegal is worthy of being named a Distinguished Professor,” says George Netto, M.D., Robert and Ruth Anderson Endowed Chair, UAB Department of Pathology. “We are very proud to see him recognized by the institution for his lifelong commitment to clinical, educational and administrative endeavors.”
Clockwise starting front left: Zheng Ping (class of 2017), Professor Shi Wei, Ruby Ma (2016), Jennifer Gordetsky, Assistant Professors Ginger Duncan (2017) and Brandi McCleskey (2016), Ren (2014), Dejun Shen.
In the Department of Pathology, we are fortunate to have several faculty members who worked as trainees at UAB at one point or another in their academic careers. Follow along with a few of them as they describe when they first came to UAB, and how they wound up as full-time faculty on our team. Their stories are varied, and we are thrilled to count them all as colleagues.
This year April 18-24 is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, an annual celebration of medical laboratory professionals and pathologists who play a vital role in health care and patient advocacy led by the American Society for Clinical Pathology. Celebrations took place throughout the week, including lunches for lab staff on Wednesday, April 21, and a photo contest. The Lab Week Photo Contest, sponsored by Marisa Marques, M.D., Interim Division Director, Laboratory Medicine, asked department and hospital lab staff to submit images that "identify beauty found in the midst of a global pandemic."
First Place Winner:
Christine DeGreen, night shift Core Lab – untitled
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