UAB is one
of America’s premier research universities,
ranking among the top 20 in funding from the National Institutes of Health and
earning more than $470 million per year in contract and grant support. With a
world-renowned academic health center and 80 interdisciplinary research
centers, UAB’s pioneering breakthroughs offer new
solutions and new hope for families and communities worldwide.
As one of
the Regional Coordinating Centers for Resuscitation (RCC) in North America, UAB
received $3.5 million dollars from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NHLBI) over 5 years to establish an infrastructure capable of
conducting multiple collaborative trials aimed at the rapid translation of
promising scientific and clinical advances directed at improving resuscitation
outcomes.As a direct result of this
grant, in July of 2004, the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine,
Dr. Thomas Terndrup organized a small group of multidisciplinary participants
from around the UAB campus that include investigators from Emergency Medicine,
Cardiology, Trauma, and the Joint Health Sciences who have demonstrated an
interest in Resuscitation Science.This
group is called the Resuscitation Interest Group (RIG).This is a group of individuals who meet monthly, usually informally, to
discuss topics of interest for basic research (cell and molecular biology and
mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia), translational research (in serious injury and
in cardiac arrest), in the hopes of translating and bridging the knowledge
derived from the two into promising clinical applications and/or clinical
research trials.
The
meetings are opened to persons interested in Resuscitation Science.The meetings are held the first Tuesday of
each month at 3:00 pm in room JTN 265.The RIG is actively seeking faculty, physicians and fellow collogues willing to
present their ideas and scientific findings in an open forum.The presentation can be a minimum of 20
minutes in duration.If you have an
interest in Resuscitation Science and would like to present your ideas at the
Resuscitation Interest Group meetings, please contact CarolynWilliams, Clinical Research Nurse
Coordinator at the Alabama Resuscitation Center (ARC) at (205)
996-4982,
e-mail address cswilliams@uabmc.edu
