Partridge named 2010 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer - Edward E. Partridge, M.D., UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center director and professor of medicine, is the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, the UAB Academic Health Center's most prestigious faculty award. Partridge will deliver an address, "Civil War, Civil Rights and the New Moral Imperative: Leadership of a Different Color" during a special dinner in his honor Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, in the Grand Ballroom of The Club in Birmingham. Partridge, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the Evalina B. Spencer Endowed Chair in Oncology, also is president of the American Cancer Society National Board of Directors and chair of the Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Committee of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. He was named Birmingham Business Journal's 2009 Health Care Heroes Physician Provider for his outstanding efforts in the fight against cancer.
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Appeal named American Heart Association fellow - Susan Appel, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Adult/Acute Health, Chronic Care and Foundations at the UAB School of Nursing, has been named a fellow of the American Heart Association. Appel is board certified as an adult acute-care and family nurse practitioner. For more than 24 years she has been a certified critical care registered nurse by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Her research interests center on women's health, health disparities and cardiovascular disease. Appel is co-author of a nursing theory that focuses on the impact of contextual risk factors on cardiovascular risk among rural low-income, Southern African-American women.
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Moss named American Academy of Nursing fellow - Jacqueline Moss, , Ph.D., assistant dean for Clinical Simulation and Technology and associate professor in the UAB School of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. AAN Fellows are recognized for their
extraordinary nursing career as leaders in education, management, practice and research and serve the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge. Moss has a wide range of experience in adult critical care practice, nursing education and research. She has a particular interest in informatics and has been involved in multiple projects designed to implement new information and communication technologies for use in health-care practice and education. Her research focuses on the determination of information needs and use of decision support in acute-care clinical practice and the use of standardized terminologies in health outcomes management. Additionally, Moss has worked to incorporate clinical simulation into nursing education. She is a two-time recipient of the Harriet H. Werley Award for nursing informatics research from the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Raper named American Academy of Nursing fellow - Jim Raper, D.S.N., J.D., an associate professor of nursing and medicine and director of the 1917 HIV/AIDS Outpatient and Infectious Disease Clinics, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. AAN fellows are recognized for their extraordinary nursing career as leaders in education, management, practice and research and serve the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge. Raper is a leader in collaborative HIV care and research at the local, state and national level. His career contributions span two decades and have resulted in improvements to the standards of care for HIV populations. His efforts have been recognized by public and private funding agencies that include the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many private foundations. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, member of the Alabama Bar Association and co-chair of the steering committee of the Ryan White Medical Providers Coalition of the HIV Medical Association.
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Turner-Henson named American Academy of Nursing fellow - Anne Turner-Henson, D.S.N., a professor in the Department of Community Health, Outcomes and Systems at the UAB School of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Turner-Henson is an advocate for children's health, conducting research to test innovative models of care for children with asthma, exposure reduction of secondhand smoke, and household chemicals. She is the project director of UAB School of Nursing's Leadership Education in Child-Health Nursing program, funded by Maternal Child Health Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is designed to prepare the next generation of nursing faculty leaders in child-health nursing education and bio-behavioral research. Additionally, she serves on the United States Environmental Protection Agency Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee and is vice-president of the Southern Nursing Research Society.
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323 UAB physicians listed in Annual 'Best Doctors' - Best Doctors Inc. has named 323 UAB Medicine physicians to its latest rankings, up from the 297 physicians named last year. The Best Doctors database includes the names and professional profiles of approximately 50,000 physicians representing about 5 percent of all the nation's doctors. UAB Medicine is the clinical arm of UAB. Faculty members of the UAB School of Medicine serve patients principally at UAB Hospital, The Kirklin Clinic, UAB Health Centers and Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital. "We are proud of the high quality and reputation of our physicians and congratulate them on this honor," says UAB Senior Vice President for Medicine and School of Medicine Dean Ray L. Watts, M.D. "At UAB Medicine we have outstanding strength across a broad range of medical specialties, enabling us to bring the advantages of academic medicine to health awareness, prevention and treatment for our community." To find out more information on any of the 323 UAB doctors, visit www.uabmedicine.org/bestdocs.
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Nelson named to AAMC board of directors - Kathleen G. Nelson, M.D., professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for faculty development for the UAB School of Medicine, has been named to the Association of American Medical Colleges Board of Directors. The 17-member board is the governing body for the association, which represents all 133 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 62 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and nearly 90 academic and scientific societies. Nelson will serve a two-year term.
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UAB outreach program to continue with renewed grant - Yogesh Vohra, PhD, professor of physics in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, is the principal investigator of a renewed grant from the NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium to fund the UAB Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Teacher (REUT) program in 2011. The funds, valued at $33,000, will support six participants during 10 weeks of research at UAB. REUT participants are selected from hundreds of annual applicants representing universities and schools from throughout the country. The program gives participants access to state-of-the-art UAB research laboratories and technology that may not be readily available at their home campuses. UAB faculty members also mentor REUT participants, offering opportunities to work on relevant and important ongoing research projects.
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Lamartiniere receives NIEHS award - Coral Lamartiniere, Ph.D., a professor in the UAB Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center senior scientist, recently received a $1.8-million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study the role environmental chemicals play in causing breast cancer. The four-year grant will allow Lamartiniere to investigate how combinations of chemical exposures commonly reported early in life among humans can alter susceptibility to breast cancer, shedding light on understanding the complex role that environmental chemicals play in breast cancer causation and prevention.
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Demark-Wahnefried appointed to ASCO committee - Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Ph.D., R.D., a professor in the UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control, was recently appointed to the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Survivorship Committee for 2010-2013. Demark-Wahnefried is a nationally renowned expert in nutrition science, recognized for her research involving nutrition-related concerns of cancer patients and determining effective lifestyle interventions that improve the overall health of cancer survivors and their families. ASCO is the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer. With more than 28,000 members, ASCO is committed to improving cancer care through scientific meetings, educational programs and peer-reviewed journals.
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