Front L-R: Rayna Dyck, MD (President, MHRC YP Board ), Amber Anderson (Social Chair, MHRC YP Board), Mona Fouad, MD, MPH (MHRC Director). Back L-R: Marquelon Sigler (Publicity Chair, MHRC YP Board) Dee Jimmeh, MD (Vice President, MHRC YP Board)The UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center Young Professionals (YP) Board was excited to bring back their popular casino night fundraiser with a fresh theme: Harlem in the ‘Ham. Guests played games, socialized, and learned about the important work of UAB’s MHRC.

The proceeds benefit the UAB Healthy Happy Kids Program which encourages children to live healthy lifestyles that prevent childhood obesity.

L to R: Angali Das (PGY 1), Rachel Naramore (PGY 1), Clair Petit (MS-1), Lauren Pacheco (PGY 2), Johnston Moore (MS-2), Awalpreet Chadha (PGY 2) with his wife Harpreet Arora, Jeremey Walker (PGY 3), and Joshua Detelich (PGY 3)Several of our IM Residents recently participated in a community service project with the East Lake Farmers Market. Together with medical students, they helped sort produce into bags and deliver them to local low-income independent living facilities for the elderly.

Stephen Stuart, MDResearch and Innovations in Medical Education (RIME) Week was a huge success last week. The conference, now in its seventh year, drew more than 100 faculty and fellows to workshops to enhance their med-ed skills and boasted 50 dynamic poster presentations.

L to R: Ravi Bhatia, MD; Wendy Madden, RN; Michele and Jimmy Roberson; Alina Franke and Christoph Kleeburg; and Antonio Di Stasi, MDAlina Franke registered to donate her bone marrow in Hamburg, Germany, in 2009. She wound up being the one person in 24 million to be the perfect match Jimmy Roberson needed to save his life. Now, almost three years after his transplant via the UAB Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program, Roberson invited Franke to visit him in the United States. They met for the first time last week. Read the full story at UAB News.

L to R: CCC Director Michael Birrer, MD; UABHS CEO Will Ferniany, PhD; Gov. Ivey; President Ray Watts, MD; SOM Dean Selwyn Vickers, MDAlabama Governor Kay Ivey visited campus and met our new UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Michael Birrer, MD, PhD (Professor, Hematology and Oncology) an expert in the early detection and treatment of gynecologic cancers who came to UAB from Massachusetts General Hospital in August 2017. Together with UAB and UAB Medicine leaders, Governor Ivey toured the Center and Advanced Imaging Facility, which houses the cyclotron and other state of the art equipment.