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Nine Heersink staff members honored with 2024 Dean’s Excellence Awards for StaffSep 11, 2024Heersink School of Medicine awarded nine staff members as the 2024 Dean’s Excellence Awards for Staff winners. Individuals selected for this honor showcased outstanding accomplishments beyond their daily duties and contributed considerably to Heersink’s core mission areas – education, clinical care, and basic, translational, and clinical research.
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Research in the classroom: Students conduct precision medicine research that benefits patients with neurological diseases through Undergraduate Neurosciences Program coursesSep 04, 2024Camerron Crowder, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Neurobiology and assistant director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute (PMI), offers a unique research opportunity for undergraduate students by teaching the PMI research process, how to develop animal models, and the use of artificial intelligence to identify treatment options through courses in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program.
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Heersink Institute Leadership Attend Symposium on AI in Health Care at Maastricht UniversityJul 03, 2024University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty members recently participated in the AI in Medicine and Healthcare Symposium at Maastricht University, which brought together experts and stakeholders to discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming health care.
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Heersink School of Medicine hosts ACP Alabama Chapter Winter Meeting on AI in medicineMar 08, 2024The American College of Physicians Alabama Chapter recently held its annual Winter Meeting at UAB’s new Active Learning Center in Volker Hall. The meeting, hosted by the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, focused on “Medicine in the Machine Age: The Integration and Influence of AI in Medicine,” and featured presentations and expert involvement from the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation team and other Heersink School of Medicine leaders.
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Office of Research reviews a year of progress at the 2024 Annual Research RetreatFeb 21, 2024The Heersink School of Medicine Office of Research held its Annual Research Retreat on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at the UAB Alumni House. Research leadership from across Heersink, UAB Central Administration, other UAB schools, and Southern Research attended the retreat.
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Patton receives NEJM scholarship for SAILOct 19, 2023Michael Patton, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the Heersink School of Medicine, received the 2023 New England Journal of Medicine scholarship for the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems (SAIL) and gave a Spotlight Talk at the conference.
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Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation hosts Generative AI for Healthcare SymposiumSep 25, 2023The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation held a symposium titled "Generative AI for Healthcare: Progress or Peril" with multiple speakers, all innovators in the field of health care, on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
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NSF awards $2.6 million grant to UAB computer science expert for furthering research on scalable declarative AI languagesAug 18, 2023The project will empower a wide range of users to implement the next generation of genomic analysis, smart querying of medical literature, neuro-symbolic AI with stochastic reasoning, graph analytics, software verification tasks and security auditing.
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COVID-19 bacteremic co-infection is a major risk factor for mortality, ICU admission, and mechanical ventilationJul 05, 2023Nathaniel Erdmann, M.D., Ph.D., Amit Gaggar, M.D., and Matthew Might, Ph.D., are the latest winners of the Heersink School of Medicine's Featured Discovery. This initiative celebrates important research from Heersink faculty members.
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COVID-19: Bacterial co-infection is a major risk factor for death, ICU admission and mechanical ventilationFeb 28, 2023Having a bacterial infection at the same time as COVID-19 is a greater risk factor for COVID-19 severity and mortality than previously described risk factors such as advanced age, male sex or various comorbidities.
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Researchers use precision cardiovascular medicine to prevent the development of heart diseasesDec 15, 2022Precision medicine approach may identify those at high genetic risk of hypertension, heart failure, stroke and heart attacks and use precision medicine to help prevent fatal cardiovascular diseases.
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