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30 individuals graduate from UAB Medicine's High Performing Care Collaborative spring 2025 programThirty individuals comprising eight teams recently graduated from the UAB Medicine High Performing Care Collaborative (HPCC) spring 2025 program. The program, presented by the UAB Medicine Leadership Development Office, recognized its graduates at a ceremony on March 6, 2025.
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How much grandparenting is too much grandparenting? Study explores effects of grandparenting on healthFindings from a new UAB study show greater levels of grandparenting intensity are not associated with greater physical activity.
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Fall prevention: How to prevent falls in older adultsAn expert from the new UAB Falls Clinic provides tips on how to keep older adults safe from falls.
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UAB Arts in Medicine to host end-of-life care conversation with palliative care experts Sept. 12See the powerful documentary “The Last Ecstatic Days” at UAB's ALys Stephens Center and hear about the cultural and spiritual considerations of dying from UAB caregivers and Aditi Sethi, M.D., with The Center for Conscious Living & Dying, with guest artist Manjari Sharma.
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Heersink School of Medicine’s GME Office celebrates GME Professionals DayThe Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME) declared every third Friday in August the annual GME Professionals Day to recognize program coordinators and GME administrators who help make residency and fellowship training programs successful. This year, GME Professionals Day is celebrated on Friday, Aug.
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UAB Hospital continues to be the best hospital in Alabama, Birmingham metro, according to U.S. News & World ReportFor 11 consecutive years, U.S. News has named UAB Hospital the best hospital in Alabama, with several specialties and procedures ranked among the best.
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Researchers develop most robust dataset of exercise biology ever producedThis study is providing researchers with an infrastructure they can build upon as they work to fully understand how exercise impacts the entire body.
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UAB experts explain why advance care planning is important and how to get startedHealthcare Decisions Day is April 16, and UAB experts are providing recommendations for how to get started with advance care planning.
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First-ever Blazer Bridge Fund grant recipients announcedThe Blazer Bridge Fund is intended to identify and assist in the development of promising ideas, discoveries, innovations and/or technologies from UAB faculty and staff that have commercial potential.
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UAB Medicine leadership programs celebrate more than 100 participantsIn the last several years, UAB Medicine and Heersink School of Medicine have worked to bring leadership development to faculty and staff through the UAB Medicine Institute for Leadership and Momentum in Medicine programs.
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UAB experts explain why advance care planning is important and how to get startedHealthcare Decisions Day is April 16, and UAB experts are providing recommendations for how to get started with advance care planning.
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Buford named associate dean for ResearchThomas W. Buford, Ph.D., has been appointed associate dean for Research in the Heersink School of Medicine, effective April 1, 2023.
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Heartbeat in a bottle: UAB nurse creates keepsake to support grieving familiesTo help families cherish the loving memory of their dear ones, a UAB nurse started her “Heartbeat in a Bottle” initiative to give families a unique way to remember the loved ones they have lost.
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Black Christian patients are less likely to receive their preferred end-of-life care. Researchers hope change that.UAB researchers have published an article demonstrating how the term “aggressive care,” used loosely by clinicians to describe care that can negatively impact quality of life for patients with serious illness, is often used to inappropriately label the preferences of African American patients.
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Four residency program staff leaders certified by national GME training organizationFour staff leaders from UAB residency programs were recently awarded certification from the Training Administrators for Graduate Medical Education (TAGME).