Hannah Echols

Hannah Echols

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Public Relations Specialist

echolsh@uab.edu | (205) 704-2939

Identifies and develops stories that highlight research, faculty news, patient stories, clinical stories and beyond a UAB. Connects media with experts to enhance their story.

Specific beats: 

  • School of Public Health 
  • Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology  
  • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetesand Metabolism
  • Department of Informatics
  • Department of Genetics
  • Department of Neurology  
  • Department of Surgery
    • Pediatric
    • Neurosurgery 
  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Department of Pediatrics
  • Department of Precision Medicine 
  • Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science

The UAB School of Public Health’s new Magic City LGBTQ Health Studies Endowed Professorship aims to champion research and education and address health disparities among the LGBTQ community in Alabama and the Deep South. 

Meet Debbie Morrow, the founder of the group Loving the Preemies, a group that crochets holiday-themed outfits each year for babies in UAB’s RNICU.
Penni Watts will advance clinical simulation by supporting other simulationists as an SSH fellow.

NIH selects UAB and UA as research sites for a longitudinal study on child development since pregnancy. 

Guinness World Records officially named Curtis Means, born at 21 weeks and one day at UAB Hospital, the most premature infant to survive.
UAB Medicine and Children’s of Alabama receive national rare diseases designation.
Richard J. Whitley, M.D., receives highest honor from the American Pediatric Society.
Michael Straughn will advance women’s patient care practices as the new vice chair of UAB’s Section of Quality and Patient Safety.
Martha Dawson and Blake Smith will address racism and lack of diversity in the nursing profession through the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing.

Dina Avery, DHSc, will serve a two-year term on the board of the Association of Graduate Regulatory Educators.

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