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‘Tis the Season for Service! DOM sent volunteers again this year to help YWCA Central Alabama prepare for Santa’s Workshop. This special outreach enables children to meet Santa and make gifts that they can give to loved ones, and it allows their caregivers to "shop" for presents to give to their children. It’s a terrific way to bring holiday cheer to families living in area shelters.

The Department is proud to have 7 participants enrolled in the UAB Healthcare Leadership Academy Class of 2016, an intensive professional development experience designed to develop future leaders of the UAB academic health center. 

• Erin Snyder, MD (General Internal Medicine)
• Megann Cain, MPPM (DOM Chair’s Office)
• Ashley Nichols, MD (Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care)
• Carol Ballinger, PhD (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology)
• Clifton Kew, MD (Nephrology)
• Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH (Director, Infectious Diseases)
• James Willig, MD, MSPH (Infectious Diseases)

Two faculty from the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology have been honored by the American College of Rheumatology for their contributions to research. John Mountz, MD, PhD, was named the 2016 ACR Distinguished Basic Investigator, and Jasvinder Singh, MD, was named the 2016 ACR Henry Kunkel Young Investigator.

More than 20 faculty and staff presented the annual State of the Department of Medicine on Wednesday. The address focused on our five strategic priorities, with success stories from each area: Patient Care, Education, Research, Sustainability, and Culture. The session was recorded for those unable to attend; we will share a link when it’s posted to the web site. View the slides here.

The Department of Medicine is tremendously proud of the five philanthropic endowments that were recently established by the UA Board of Trustees:

• J. Edwin Blalock, PhD (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) now holds the Nancy E. Dunlap, MD, Endowed Chair in Pulmonary Disease.
• Mark Dransfield, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine) now holds the William C. Bailey, MD, Endowed Chair in Pulmonary Disease.
• Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH (Director, Infectious Diseases) now holds the C. Glenn Cobbs, MD, Endowed Professorship in Infectious Diseases.
• Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) now holds the Endowed Professorship in Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research.
• Ashita Tolwani, MD (Nephrology) now holds the DCI/Edwin A. Rutsky, MD, Endowed Professorship in Nephrology.