School of health professions
In the 14-person study, all participants randomized to receive Constraint-Induced Cognitive Therapy who wanted to return to work were able to do so; none of the participants in the control group returned to work.
University of Toledo College of Health and Human Services Dean and Professor Mark Merrick, Ph.D., will lead the UAB School of Health Professions effective July 1, 2026.
Twenty-nine employees were selected for the 2026 cohort of the Developing Emerging Administrative Leaders program, which exposes promising staff members to the essential components of administrative and management positions across UAB. Meet the new class.
The GUIDE Model provides care coordination and management, caregiver support, and respite services. It is available at no out-of-pocket cost to patients with traditional Medicare who are not living in a nursing home or on hospice. Learn how this builds on UAB research and find out how to enroll.
The 2025 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent UAB schools, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Honors College. Hear what their students and colleagues have to say.
The latest cohort selected for the Blaze Leadership Academy includes 20 faculty and staff from across campus. See the full list of participants in this story.
Explore the capabilities of the Multi-Disciplinary Driving Simulator Lab in the 916 Building from 1-4 p.m. each Friday from Aug. 22 through Sept. 26. The lab is supported by UAB’s Strategic Investment Fund.
A two-semester standalone course, the only one of its kind nationwide that is open to all graduate students, explores the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics.
Andrew J. Butler, Ph.D., has announced that he will step down as dean of the UAB School of Health Professions at the end of the year. Following a spring leave, Butler will assume a new role as director of the UAB Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (CEDHARS).
This spring, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees awarded the rank of Distinguished Professor to five and the rank of University Professor to four faculty members.
Find out how UAB faculty help Honors College students connect through engaging extracurricular activities — and meet the 2025-2026 Honors Faculty Fellows cohort.
Meet two UAB employees who are recent graduates of the master’s program in the School of Health Professions, along with the program’s leaders. Grads with health physics training are “in really high demand,” said program director Emily Caffrey, Ph.D.
James Rimmer, Ph.D., professor and inaugural Lakeshore Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation Sciences in the School of Health Professions, has earned the 2024 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award, which recognizes a UAB faculty member who engages in interdisciplinary, collaborative efforts across campus.
Michele Forman, Samantha Giordano-Mooga and Joe March demonstrated extraordinary commitment to engaging undergraduate students in service learning, undergraduate research and core teaching.
Specialized test-prep courses can be effective, but they are expensive and not covered by student loans. Samantha Giordano-Mooga, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Health Professions, has created a for-credit class that includes test prep and other support.
The 2024 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent each school, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors College, and the Graduate School.
Job satisfaction, high pay and intense demand are all attractions, according to the leaders of UAB’s Master’s in Genetic Counseling program. Four alumni who now work at UAB explain what they do and why they love their jobs.
Three students who will present their work at the Summer Expo on Thursday explain the benefits of joining a UAB lab, from peer learning to practicing professional skills and more.
Anxiety is everywhere. But you can work on your emotional resiliency with these strategies from a course students are raving about. It is “the class I wish I had had,” instructors say.
Many people, including clinicians and researchers, think “the main reason people regain weight after weight loss is because the body fights back” in a phenomenon called metabolic adaptation, said UAB researcher Cátia Martins, Ph.D. Martins, a leading scientist studying metabolic adaptation, explains what she has found and her plans for a groundbreaking clinical trial.