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Harold Jones to step down after 17 years as dean of Health Professions

Harold Jones, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health Professions, has announced that he will be stepping down from his role as dean, pending arrival of his successor. Jones became dean of what then was known as the School of Health-Related Professions in April 2001, when it had a total of approximately 800 students. Today, it has more than 2,200 students.
BMD student Katlyn Norris wins national award for research abstract

Katlyn NorrisKatlyn Norris, a student in the UAB School of Health Professions’ Honors Program and a senior in the B.S. in Biomedical Sciences program (BMD), was one of only five recipients of an AAI Undergraduate Award at the 2017 Autumn Immunology Conference in Chicago, IL.
Kara Caruthers honors her late mother with a UAB sponsored scholarship
Mary Henderson Caruthers with her daughtersAs a 22-year-old med school student, Kara Caruthers, MSPAS, PA-C, failed anatomy. But that is the last time she failed anything academically.

In her 30s, Caruthers became an alumna of the UAB School of Health Professions’ Physician Assistant Studies program. In her 40s, she is a doctoral candidate in the School’s PhD in Nutrition Sciences program.

Caruthers’ unending drive to learn more comes from someone who never had the opportunity to learn more – her mother.

And that is why she has created the Mary Henderson Caruthers Sponsored Scholarship in Biomedical and Health Sciences.
SHP Hooding Ceremony celebrates Class of 2017
On Friday, December 15, 2017, the UAB School of Health Professions held their Graduate Professional Programs Hooding Ceremony. More than 2,000 friends and family witnessed 183 of the school’s 224 graduates join the UAB alumni family. The event was held at the Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom.
REACT program awarded grant to train USAF personnel
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions’ Recognition and Evaluation of Autism Contact Training, or REACT, program — a partnership with the Interaction Advisory Group — has been awarded a grant by the Alabama Council on Developmental Disabilities to train more than 200 United States Air Force security forces and first responders on how to recognize and respond to people with autism as well as other developmental disabilities.
NMT’s Krystle Glasgow earns SECSNMMI-TS Distinguished Service award
Glasgow with Distinguished Service AwardKrystle Glasgow, MIS, CNMT, NMTCB (CT), NMAA, clinical coordinator and teacher in the UAB School of Health Professions’ Master of Science in Nuclear Medicine Technology program, received the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging – Technologist Section (SECSNMMI-TS) 2017 Distinguished Service honor. This is not an annual award – it is only delivered when the chapter president wishes to honor an individual for above and beyond service to the Nuclear Medicine Technology profession and the society.
Norman Bolus awarded the highest honor of the SECSNMMI
Norm Bolus with the SECSNMMI Brucer AwardNorman Bolus, MSPH, MPH, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS, interim-program director of the UAB Health Physics program and program director of the UAB Nuclear Medicine Technology program, has been awarded the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SECSNMMI) Marshall Brucer Award. This is the highest honor the SECSNMMI can bestow upon a member.
24 UAB PA students deliver medical care to Nicaragua
Twenty-four students of the UAB School of Health Professions’ Physician Assistant Studies program delivered medical supplies and care to Somotillo, Nicaragua from August 19 – 26, 2017.
Marcellus Edwards, BHS Alumni, earns medical school scholarship
Marcellus A. Edwards, IVMarcellus A. Edwards IV, a 2016 graduate of the UAB School of Health Professions’ Master of Science in Biomedical and Health Sciences program, was recently awarded The Howard University Trustee Tuition Scholarship. Edwards, a first-year student in the Howard University College of Medicine, was a member of the first UAB BHS class in 2015.
Kevin Wang, Biotechnology, is first INTO UAB graduate

Kevin WangAfter completing his master’s degree in just three semesters, Kevin Wang graduated Saturday, Aug. 12, as the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s first INTO UAB graduate.
UAB PA alumnus Samuel Hoskins receives Award of Excellence
Samuel Hoskins, RPA-C, alumnus of the UAB School of Health Professions’ Physician Assistant Studies program, has received the 2017 Advanced Practice Clinician Award of Excellence from Bassett Healthcare Network. The award is given annually in recognition of service to the network’s patients, students, colleagues and community.
UAB Excellence in Business honors record 8 SHP alumni

The UAB National Alumni Society celebrated the UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 on Friday, June 23, 2017, and recognized a record eight alumni from the UAB School of Health Professions.
Healthcare trendsetter soars with Biotech alumna
Mazi Rasulnia with Uma Srivastava
in the Pack Health officesMazi Rasulnia refuses to do things the same way everyone else does just because everyone else is doing it.

Perfect example – who he employs.

Rasulnia’s company, Pack Health, is a team of health advisors (think financial advisors for your health) that provide personal, one-on-one service to members.

So what does that have to do with the UAB Biotechnology program? Everything.

The knowledge to take scientific ideas to the people. The skills to manage others in health care. And the understanding of the processes that make medicines work and how they react.

And that is why, in only two years, one UAB Biotech grad has risen to Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Pack Health.
UAB launches the Alabama Genomic Health Initiative

The University of Alabama at Birmingham — Alabama’s leading provider of genomic and personalized medicine — has launched the Alabama Genomic Health Initiative in partnership with HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to better meet health needs across the state.
University Hospital patients receive faster results thanks to CLS student research
Inside the CLS Sim LabUntil recently, the cotinine assay performed on all University Hospital patients prior to surgery used a blood serum sample. That changed last month, thanks to a partnership between SHP’s Clinical Laboratory Sciences program (CLS) and the UAB Hospital Laboratory.
Biomedical Sciences student Ashley Haynes named National MS Society Top Scholar
Ashley Haynes, 2015-16 MS Top ScholarAshley Haynes, a junior in the UAB School of Health Professions Biomedical Sciences Program, is one of only 10 students in the U.S. named a 2015 Top Scholar by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The unseen story behind PA student and Miss Alabama contestant Miranda Ward
Miranda Ward with her parentsMiranda Ward, a third-semester student with a 4.0 GPA in the nationally ranked UAB Physician Assistant program, recently received the Miss America academic award for the state of Alabama. The honor, based on GPA and course difficulty, is given annually to the top scholar in the Miss Alabama competition.
UAB has only Physician Assistant student to win ASAHP Scholarship
David Wood, ASAHP scholarship winnerDavid Wood, a second-year student in the UAB Physician Assistant program, was awarded a Scholarship of Excellence by the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions. Only 12 students in the U.S. received this honor and Wood is the only Physician Assistant student in the group.
Tera Webb wins national award from ASCLS
Tera Webb, ASCLS National Key to the FutureTera Webb, MS, MLS(ASCP)cm, a teacher in the UAB Clinical Laboratory Sciences program, has been named a National Key to the Future by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science. The ASCLS rewards those with less than three years’ of membership “who have demonstrated their leadership potential to the organization.”
High-Tech hide-and-seek being played in UAB classroom
Norman E. Bolus, MPH, CNMT, Halie Stephenson, Shannon PettwayThe University of Alabama at Birmingham offers a class where students play hide and seek.

However, they are not looking for each other and they cannot see what they are looking for.

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