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Brenda Bertrand and Beth Barstowwith Provost's AwardsThe Provost’s Awards for Transformative Online Courses honored two UAB professors this year – both are School of Health Professions’ faculty members. The recipients are Beth Barstow, Ph.D., OTR/L, SCLV, FAOTA, associate professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, and Brenda Bertrand, Ph.D., RDN, professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
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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.
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James Rimmer, Ph.D.The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors has approved a $5.8 million grant over the next four years to the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions’ James Rimmer, Ph.D., to fund a study to determine whether people with multiple sclerosis get as much benefit from an exercise-based rehabilitation program delivered via internet and telephone as they do when the therapy is provided in a clinic.
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Top, from left: The UAB Strategically Focused Research Center team includes: Kirk Habegger, Ph.D.; Nefertiti Durant, M.D.; Tim Garvey, M.D.; David Allison, Ph.D.; Stella Aslibekyan, Ph.D.; Nengjun Yi, Ph.D.; Cora Elizabeth Lewis, M.D.; Paula Chandler-Laney, Ph.D.; Bertha Hidalgo, Ph.D.; Lorie Harper, M.D.The University of Alabama at Birmingham will launch the UAB Strategically Focused Obesity Research Center with a grant from the American Heart Association for $3.7 million over the next four years. The UAB SFOC is one of four sites in the AHA’s Strategically Focused Obesity Research Network that will work together to advance the field of obesity research.
