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8 tips to enhance your quality of life as you age
To mark National Healthy Aging Month, UAB Employee Wellness offers these tips on aging gracefully.
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UAB employees who want to ensure their financial security in their golden years can take advantage of services provided by the UAB Benefits Office and UAB’s retirement providers, including retirement counseling and investment support for mandatory and voluntary retirement plans. If you are contacted by other vendors claiming to be authorized, do not give out your personal information.
Online submission for Equipment Disposition Forms starts Aug. 30
Participate in Type 2 Diabetes Research
About the Clinical Trial:
The purpose of this NIH funded trial is to examine the effects of three different diabetes treatments to determine if they improve night-time blood sugars.
This Trial Involves:
- A screening visit that includes a blood draw, urine test and physical exam
- Treatment with Metformin, Insulin Glargine (long-acting insulin) or the experimental drug Dorzagliatin which is FDA-approved for research, for up to 8 weeks
- 2-4 inpatient visits/ including two overnight stays at the Clinical Research Unit at 15th floor of Jefferson Tower.
All visits to be completed within a three-month period. Study-related tests and procedures are provided free of charge. Participants will be compensated up to $2,500 for study completion. All Participants must be Diagnosed with type 2 DM and Not on any type of insulin therapy.
Please contact Kathryn Hollifield-Laumer at khollifield@uabmc.edu or co-investigators Chanel Mason at 205-934-1921 or cnmason@uabmc.edu, or Alaaeldin Hodhod at ahodhod@uabmc.edu.
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Mullins to serve in new VP for Strategic Initiatives role
UAB Chief Financial Officer Stephanie Mullins will serve as UAB’s inaugural Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, effective Oct. 1.
Factors in Learning and Plasticity: Vision Study
This is a great opportunity for all to gain experience participating in a clinical research study. All participation would not only contribute to advancing our understanding of perceptual learning and how the brain processes vision, but also holds the potential to improve outcomes for those with central vision loss.
If you or someone you know may be interested, please consider participating.
For more information or to express interest, please email mcmaxwell@uabmc.edu or text or call 205-410-4041, or visit go.uab.edu/brainstudy to sign up!
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Faculty and staff to get extra holidays at year’s end
