Adam Pope

Adam Pope

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Manager of Public Relations

arpope@uab.edu | (205) 934-6986

Leads external communications for units within the medical entities. Pope and his team proactively tell stories through external media outlets, featuring news about research, clinical happenings, patient stories and beyond at UAB. The team works reactively to connect appropriate experts with media on subject matter expertise.

Specific beats: 

  • Health System Administration 
  • Heersink School of Medicine
  • Medical Facilities
  • Medical Partnerships/Alliances
  • School of Health Professions
  • Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center  
  • Live HealthSmart Alabama
  • Department of Pathology
  • Department of Surgery
    • Transplantation

Get the latest on what UAB’s Timothy Garvey, M.D., calls “a very powerful tool to treat obesity.”
Scarinci’s Cervical Cancer Elimination project aims to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem in Sri Lanka.
A new mural on the UAB campus captures what it means to be a Blazer and shares positive messages of resilience, wellness, empathy and joy, in vibrant greens, yellows and blues.
Using spatial transcriptomics, UAB researchers set out to understand the differences and similarities between two viral infections causing acute lung injury, as it could improve patient care, as well as identify novel therapeutic targets.
Heart failure is a leading cause of death in the United States. Highly effective medications are now available, and the disease is manageable if patients seek care and take their prescribed medications regularly.
A study conducted by UAB investigators found that the newly recommended scores are very effective in diagnosing a type of heart failure that is challenging to detect, and can also help predict patients’ long-term outcomes.
Anorectal melanoma is often misdiagnosed and most often as hemorrhoids, adenocarcinoma polyps and rectal cancer.
This digital solution will help doctors offer patients timely genetic testing for hereditary cancer, greater clinical support and counseling, coupled with shorter wait times and more counselors to expand into other clinical areas when needed.
Masking can prevent more than COVID-19 from spreading this spring: Allergic rhinitis symptoms have shown to be significantly reduced with facemask usage during the pandemic.
Children who can read on grade level by the end of third grade are 13 times more likely to graduate from high school than those who cannot. 
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