Bob Shepard
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Public Relations Manager, Health and Medicine
bshep@uab.edu • (205) 934-8934Leads external communications in healthcare, biomedical research and for UAB's six professional schools; Dentistry, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry and Public Health. Shepard and his team proactively tell the story of UAB health and medicine, including patient stories, innovative research and new therapies, through original content and extensive collaborations with local, national and international media. The team works reactively to ensure appropriate experts are connected with media within their deadline.
Specific beats include: Civitan International Research Center; Center for Clinical and Translational Science; Department of Emergency Medicine; Health System Administration; School of Medicine; Administration; Student News; Education; Department of Neurology; Department of Neurosurgery; Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Reynolds Historical Library; Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences; Lister Hill Library; Acute Care Surgery, Department of Radiation Oncology, Precision Medicine; Informatics Institute
Events for kids and adults during Brain Awareness Week at the McWane Science Center.
Works by School of Medicine students, residents and faculty will be on display through May 11.
UAB students are working to develop assays — like apps for an iPhone — for one of the nation’s leading biotechnology companies.
Parkinson’s researchers from UAB and UA may have unlocked the secrets of a gene that seems to have a protective effect against the disease.
UAB scientists say helmets could greatly reduce the number of head traumas, or even death, in a tornado; Noah Stewart wore one when a tornado took him airborne.
Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis are at an increased risk for cancer, but a drug suspected of contributing to that risk may not be the culprit.
Medical students will perform together to raise funds for Equal Access Birmingham March 2.
Harrell has been named a professor emerita in neurology.
Randall will hold an endowed professorship in rheumatology.
UAB doctors can now employ a new procedure, using thermal energy, to open constricted airways in patients whose severe asthma is not controlled by medication.