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COVID-19 has affected virtually every facet of life in Alabama, and since the crisis began, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been leveraging its expertise to fill a critical leadership role in response to the pandemic.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has showcased the vital importance of UAB to Alabama and the world,” says UAB President Ray Watts, M.D. “We continue to leverage research and innovation, community service, patient care, and education to make a big difference.”

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The sheer scale of the GuideSafe Entry Testing initiative is staggering. Part of the multi-tool GuideSafe platform — a partnership between UAB and the Alabama Department of Public Health that has received more than $30 million in CARES Act funding from Gov. Kay Ivey — Alabama’s GuideSafe Entry Testing is the largest higher-education testing initiative in the nation.

UAB Pathology Celebrates its First Female Division Director, Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D.

September is Women in Medicine month—the perfect time to recognize the first female division director of the Department of Pathology, Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D.

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The Department of Pathology is excited to welcome four new faculty as assistant professors on September 1. Please welcome to UAB Pathology:

Dr. Rati Chkheidze, M.D., Assistant Professor, Neuropathology

Dr. Chkheidze comes to UAB from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he completed a Neuropathology Fellowship after having completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency there. Dr. Chkheidze is originally from the country of Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia in 2007. He worked as a senior visiting scientist in the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UTSW from 2013-14, and as a visiting scientist in the laboratory of Dr. James Lee, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch (2011-13). In 2017 Dr. Chkheidze received the Arthur G. Weinberg, M.D. Resident Research Award from the Department of Pathology at UTSW, Bruce D. Fallis, M.D. Resident Teaching Award from the department in 2018, and Janet Caldwell Memorial Award for Research in Pathology Fellowship in 2020. He has multiple publications including a book chapter in Tumors of the Central Nervous System (Springer 2011). Dr. Chkheidze's research interests focus on image analysis and machine learning applications in neurodegenerative and tumor neuropathology.

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