Students/Faculty
Nutrition Sciences’ Rivers named Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year
The Alabama Dietetic Association (ALDA), an affiliate of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, has named Carleton Rivers, MS, RDN, program director of the UAB School of Health Professions’ Master of Science in Nutrition Sciences – Clinical Track – Dietetic Internship program, the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year. Each year, affiliates of the Academy name a Recognized Young Dietitian to recognize the excellence of dietitians age 35 or younger.
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UAB OT students learn therapy tricks from illusionist Kevin Spencer
A day ahead of performing his “Theatre of Illusion” at the UAB Alys Stephens Center, he delivered a performance in front of a crowd of only 50, but it was a performance that has the potential to impact tens of thousands of people around the world. Read more
NMT’s Krystle Glasgow earns SECSNMMI-TS Distinguished Service award
PCORI awards $5.7 million for study on exercise delivery in people with multiple sclerosis
Researchers studying methods of exercise delivery and the effects on people living with multiple sclerosis have been awarded $5.7 million in funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
UAB / Lakeshore Research Collaborative awarded $5.8M for MS research
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.
The Read moreAHA awards UAB a $3.7 million grant to further generational obesity research
SHP honors top faculty, staff at annual luncheon
David Morris, PT, Ph.D. – Joseph F. Volker Award Read more
Alumnus honors favorite professor with an endowed scholarship
UAB School of Health Professions' (SHP) Master of Science in Health Administration (MSHA) Sino-American Joint Program in 1989. The unique program sponsored by Project HOPE lost its funding when USAID funds were shifted to the Newly Independent States after the demise of the Soviet Union.
Trevor Chen was a member of the only class of the Read moreTime-restricted feeding study shows promise in helping people shed body fat
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are trying to find out whether changing a person’s eating schedule can help them lose weight and burn fat.
Read morePondering bold moves, health-care organizations turn to our data detectives for evidence
Original story by Matt Windsor for The Mix UAB
In the Big Data era, information is plentiful. Insight is harder to come by.
Health apps are a case in point. More than two-thirds of American adults own a smartphone, and 62 percent of those smartphone owners use their devices to look up health information. They have plenty of options: A 2015 study found more than 165,000 health apps available on the Apple and Android app stores — a quarter of them focused on disease treatment and management, with the rest focused on fitness and wellness.
Read moreEMSHA student Morris named Executive Administrator of the Year
Lamario Williams, BMD Class of 2017, wins ASAHP Scholarship of Excellence
Student Spotlight: Rebecca Shapiro, Genetic Counseling
PA students serve medical mission in Guatemala
PA student selected for national minority mentoring program
S. Robert Hernandez appointed Distinguished Service Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions. The position of Distinguished Service Professor is appointed by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees and recognizes a professor’s academic service to UAB and their international accomplishments.
S. Robert Hernandez, DrPH, has been appointed Distinguished Service Professor in the Read moreWeech-Maldonado wins most distinguished HCM award
UAB Theatre and Occupational Therapy students collaborate to help each other
Story by Shannon Thomason, UAB News
An occupational therapy student needed to get a patient, diagnosed with dementia, out of the bed and across the room for evaluation, but this was different from most patient-caregiver interactions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
This patient was an advanced acting student portraying someone with dementia to test an occupational therapy student’s competence.
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