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
Kathleen G. Nelson, M.D., will serve a one-year term on the board of directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Rodney O. Tucker, M.D., will serve as the interim director of the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care.
Researchers were surprised that income, more than education, raised the risk of heart-failure risk.
UAB’s health administration faculty will help train the hospital administrators of a new 1,500-bed Saudi Arabian hospital.
Nassrin Dashti Hubbard, Ph.D., was appointed professor emerita in medicine.
David G. Standaert, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed to an endowed chair in neurology.
Cynthia Brown, M.D., MSPH, will direct UAB's Geriatric Medicine Section.
Dan Marson, Ph.D., J.D., is president-elect for the National Academy of Neuropsychology for 2012.
A UAB researcher will attend a White House briefing on spinal cord-injury rehab research.
With a grant from the Gates Foundation, UAB researchers will target a bacteria blamed for birth defects in the Indian subcontinent.