Alice R. Goepfert, M.D., professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, will deliver the annual S. Rexford Kennamer Distinguished Lecture in Internal Medicine, hosted by the Montgomery Regional Medical Campus of the Heersink School of Medicine.
Goepfert will present “Eliminating Preventable Maternal Mortality in the U.S. and in Alabama," at the lecture on Thursday, March 24 at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Goepfert joined the Heersink School of Medicine as a resident in 1991, followed by fellowship training in 1995. She joined the faculty in 1997 as an assistant professor, rising quickly through the ranks to be named a professor in the Department’s Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2011. She has provided institutional leadership in residency and fellowship training as associate dean for Graduate Medical Education in the Heersink School of Medicine and Designated Institutional Official for UAB Hospital.
Established in 1978, the Kennamer Distinguished Lecture series bring nationally recognized leaders in healthcare to Montgomery to interact with the medical, business and political community and discuss their views on important issues in medicine. The lecture series was endowed through the generosity of the late S. Rexford Kennamer, M.D.—a Montgomery native and cardiologist—to ensure the series continued for the benefit of future generations of physicians Montgomery and the River Region.
Past speakers at Kennamer Distinguished Lectures include Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health; Selwyn Vickers, M.D., dean of the Heersink School of Medicine, CEO of the UAB/Ascension St. Vincent’s Alliance; and Paul A. Offit, M.D., renowned virologist and co-inventor of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine.