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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.
Answers to common questions from caregivers and other expert advice from geriatrician Andrew Duxbury, M.D., who has been treating people with dementia for four decades.
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.
Holly Waller, R.N., MPH, associate vice president for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, is the recipient of the 2025 President’s Award for Shared Values, selected from the 12 UAB VIP recipients in 2025.
Investigators have saved nearly $100,000 by acquiring unneeded equipment and supplies from fellow UAB labs through this site instead of buying new. Hear from researchers who have benefited and learn how to get started today.
The Empathy Project helps trainees respond to the emotions beneath patients’ tough questions. Creator Kimberly Kopecky, M.D., MSCI, a UAB surgeon specializing in high-risk abdominal procedures, understands why doctors often substitute facts for feelings. But it is possible to have better doctor-patient conversations, she said: “It is a skill you can practice.”
A specialized training helps ICU specialists understand the complex dance of ventilator-assisted breathing as never before. Take a look behind the scenes of the first Multi-institutional Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation course at UAB — and see how educators are spreading the knowledge to doctors across the region.
More Americans age 65 or older take benzodiazepines for anxiety and sleep problems than any other group, even though they are at the highest risk of adverse events, including falls and hip fractures, motor vehicle collisions, and delirium and cognitive impairment. UAB psychiatrist Aniket Malhotra, M.D., explains how he talks with patients about the risks of these drugs and the process of tapering off of them.
Major strategic investments recently launched through UAB’s Research Strategic Initiative have been made possible through supplemental state appropriations, including bridge funding to preserve high-impact research, investments in artificial intelligence and a new patient-friendly clinical trials unit.
The SIF backs cross-campus projects — designed and led by UAB faculty and staff — that align with the university’s strategic plan, Forging Ahead. Funded projects this year focus on eSports, a rapid innovation pipeline for clinical/research ideas, and a makerspace for research and education in arts, sciences and engineering. Learn more about the projects.
The Compassion Closet opened in January 2023 to provide trauma and emergency patients at UAB with clothes when their own clothes have been cut off or ruined before or during care — so they do not have to go home in paper scrubs. It has helped thousands of patients since. See which items are needed most with winter approaching.
UAB neuroscientist Kauê Machado Costa, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, received a Parkinson's Foundation grant to test an intriguing hypothesis: The cognitive deficits now known to occur in the early years of Parkinson's disease may be a clue that learning-oriented dopamine circuits shift gears to cover for their movement-focused cousins. If Costa’s hypothesis is correct, it could point the way to tests that speed up Parkinson's diagnoses.
Julienne Carstens, Ph.D., is pioneering new techniques to track tumors in four dimensions. Her lab’s spatiotemporal work could help doctors zero in on the best therapies for specific patients, pinpoint when and where cancer cells are most vulnerable to manipulation and identify any cells in the area that could assist in the kill.
After studying thousands of pitchers across MLB seasons from 2017-2024, UAB orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist Amit Momaya, M.D., has the data on three particularly risky pitch characteristics — plus advice on how young arms can lower their odds of needing Tommy John surgery.
Mohammad Zain Hashmi, M.D., assistant professor in the UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and director of an innovative teletrauma program providing care in rural areas of Alabama, has received the 2025 President’s Award for Excellence in Support of UAB and Shared Governance.
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.
Starting this fall, the Developing Emerging Administrative Leaders program will be managed by UAB’s HR Learning and Development team, continuing DEAL’s legacy as a transformative, career-accelerating experience for high-potential staff of UAB and UAB Medicine. Applications for the 2026 cohort are open now.
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.