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• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation receives funding for two longstanding centers

  Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation receives Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has received $5.6 million to continue two of its longstanding spinal cord injury grants.

• UAB employees rally around Yvonne Akins as she fights breast cancer

  She has been a mentor, a confidant and an encouragement to others and is a dear friend to many. Now, for all of the times she has helped others in their times of need, Yvonne Akins is the one receiving support from a network of people she has impacted through four decades.

• Kristen Dubose honored as UAB Employee of the Month

  Kristen Dubose ‘embodies all that is genuinely good about working at UAB.’ For her dedication, hard work and contributions to the university, Kristen is recognized as UAB's outstanding employee.

• Dr. Danielle Powell receives MHRC Excellence in Mentoring Award

  The UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) Training Program relies on dedicated mentors like Dr. Powell who go above and beyond to help guide young investigators.

• Spain Rehab opens the third clinic in the world for patients with transverse myelitis

  There were only two multidisciplinary, comprehensive clinics in the world for transverse myelitis until UAB Spain Rehabilitation Center opened the third.