Dean's Excellence Award winner profile: Jennifer Pollock, Ph.D.

Jennifer Pollock, Ph.D., professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and co-director of the Cardio-Renal Physiology and Medicine Program, is a senior faculty winner of the Dean’s Excellence Award for Mentoring. 

Over the course of her career, Pollock, who was recruited to UAB in 2014, has mentored more than 65 trainees at all career levels. She currently serves as primary mentor to two graduate students, an M.D./Ph.D. student, three postdoctoral fellows and four faculty members. She’s also worked to promote basic science to undergraduate students through the Summer Cardio-Renal Physiology Undergraduate Research Experience (SeCURE) she established at UAB.