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Savannah Koplon

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Public Relations Manager, Health and Medicine

Leads external communications in healthcare, biomedical research and for UAB's six professional schools; Dentistry, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry and Public Health. Koplon and her 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: Health System Administration; Heersink School of Medicine (Administration, Student News, Education); Issues Management; Medical Facilities; Medical Partnerships; Precision Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Emergency Medicine; Civitan International Research Center; CCTS;  Department of Informatics; Department of Surgery (Transplantation, Xenotransplantation); Libraries (Reynolds Historical Library, Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, Lister Hill library)

Canon named president of University of Alabama Health Services Foundation and chief physician executive of the UAB Health System

Canon will serve in the dual roles beginning in May 2024.

UAB Health System names John Petrov as CHRO

UAB Health System has named a new chief human resources officer, bringing 20 years of talent in the human resources space to the enterprise.

A substantial number of Parkinson’s disease cases can be attributed to preventable risk factors, new research finds

New findings from UAB researchers indicates that preventable environmental factors like repeated blows to the head in contact sports and pesticides and herbicides account for a substantial number of Parkinson’s disease cases.

Study finds no cases of soil-transmitted hookworm in Black Belt children, despite ongoing sanitation and public health crisis in region

While it has long been thought that the most direct health effect linked to the sanitation crisis in the Black Belt was due to soil-transmitted hookworm, a study led by UAB found no evidence of transmission.