Congratulations to five residents who each won a C. Glenn Cobbs Book Award for best history and physical write-ups at the Birmingham VA Medical Center: Brent Bermingham, MD; Zachary Doegg, MD; Jonathan Kalehoff, MD; Lauren Pacheco, MD; and Stacey Watkins, MD.
Roozbeh Sharif, MD, Med, MSc (Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) was selected as a semifinalist for the 2016 CHEST Young Investigator Award for his abstract “Cost of Hospitalization Among Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Patterns and Predictors.”
Chad Steele, PhD (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) just earned his third RO1 grant from the NHLBI. The $1.5 million award will support investigation of the “Biology of Innate IL-22 During Lung Fungal Infection.”
Brigitta Brott, MD (Cardiovascular Disease) has been invited to serve a four-year term as a charter member of the Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI) Study Section Panel. She joins Martin Young, DPhil (MIM), Yiu-Fai Chen, PhD (CCHF), Louis Dell’Italia, MD (PPG Parent), Palaniappan Sethu, PhD (SBIR), and Sumanth Prabhu, MD (MPOR) as Cardiology faculty on NIH study sections.
The UASOM Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha announced its Faculty, Fellow, Resident and Alumni AOA Class of 2017. Among the inductees are Steven Rowe, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) and Gregory Payne, MD, PhD (Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease).
Weld publisher Mark Kelly recently interviewed Raegan Durant, MD (Preventive Medicine) about Cooper Green Mercy Health Services and its mission to provide healthcare to the indigent in our community. Hear the full conversation here.
Mary Bergeron was selected as Department of Medicine Employee of the Month for December 2016. Mary is a Business Officer II in the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) where she leads a team that manages over $20 million in extramural grants and contracts. According to Mike Saag, MD (Infectious Diseases) “Loyalty and Dedication are Mary’s middle names!”
The VA Quality Scholar Fellowship Program is now accepting applications. Residents, fellows, faculty, or nurses interest in quality and safety are encouraged to apply by February 28, 2017. Find out more here.
Next Week at Medical Grand Rounds: Selwyn Vickers, MD, Senior Vice President and Dean of the UAB School of Medicine, will present and update on the “Organizing for Success” initiative.
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