A trifecta of infectious illnesses—COVID-19, flu and RSV- peaked during the winter months and RSV could spike again in the spring, according to Dr. Tom Weida, a professor of family medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences and chief medical officer for University Medical Center. Weida provided updates about the three infectious diseases during…
Hospital medicine is a fast-growing specialty and Capstone Hospitalist Group is demonstrating that having doctors practice in hospitals is reducing the length of hospital stays and increasing patient satisfaction, said Dr. Richard Friend, dean of the College of Community Health Sciences. During a Mini Medical School presentation in February, Friend and Dr. Lisa Gillespie, medical…
Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area, and it affects 1.2 million people a year in the United States. Dr. Jane Weida, professor and chair of the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences and a family medicine…
Top Grads: One in seven family medicine physicians practicing in Alabama graduated from The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency, one of the oldest and largest family medicine residencies in the United States. The residency is operated by the College of Community Health Sciences.
Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, Distinguished University Research Professor and faculty with the College of Community Health Sciences, received a research award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for an international project focusing on nanomedicines to treat kidney diseases.
Expanding health care services and access in Northport University Medical Center has been part of the Northport, Ala., community since 2015, when we opened a clinic in the Fitness One building on McFarland Boulevard. It was our first expansion outside of our main location in Tuscaloosa. As we outgrew the space, we began planning for…
The University of Alabama’s University Medical Center is partnering with Ceras Health to offer an innovative digital health monitoring program to patients 65 and older and those with limited health-care access Through its partnership with the Boston-based Ceras Health, UMC will provide state-of-the-art health services and better care to vulnerable Alabama patients. Using leading-edge patient…
Members of the Latino community value discretion in regard to topics such as sex and relationships, so communicating about these subjects proves challenging for Latino families. However, few resources are available to guide parents in communicating about sexual health with their teenagers, especially in a culturally relevant format. iRT’s self-paced, interactive online program, Media Aware…
Dr. Maryam Bidgoli, assistant professor of health economics with the CCHS Department of Community Medicine and Population Health and the Institute for Rural Health Research, co-authored “Short and long-term effects of cancer on employment among cancer survivors,” accepted for publication in the Journal of International Population Health and Public Health. To view the article, click…
Dr. Stacy Horsley joined CCHS as assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine. She will also care for patients at University Medical Center locations in Tuscaloosa and Northport. UMC is operated by the College. Prior to joining CCHS, Horsley was in private practice as a family medicine physician in rural Double…
