Graduates of The University of Alabama, Maren and Gene Pugh have been residents of Tuscaloosa since they married in 1999. Maren is a mortgage banker and Gene is a firefighter with Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue. Their son, Gabe, is a UA mechanical engineering student who will graduate in December. He’s also a student athlete, a…
Margaret Garner, MS, RD, LD, former executive director of The University of Alabama Student Health Center and Pharmacy and longtime faculty member with UA’s College of Community Health Sciences, died Oct. 16, 2022, at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. She was 74 years old. Garner was a leading authority on nutrition education for physicians, residents…
The College of Community Health Sciences was established at The University of Alabama in 1972 to respond to the acute need in the state for more physicians for the small towns and rural communities that suffered from a serious lack of health care. CCHS looked to the specialty of family medicine to achieve that goal.…
Kelly Archer, a case manager at University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, received an honorable mention in Case Management Institute’s 2022 Case Management Week Essay Contest. The title of her essay is “Case managers are at the forefront of quality measures.” In her essay, Archer describes case managers as “professionals who prevent patients’ needs from slipping…
The College of Community Health Sciences Annual Report magazine received two prestigious awards for excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The 2020 publication was awarded a Circle of Excellence Award and a Best of District III Award. Circle of Excellence Awards recognize outstanding work in communications, marketing and alumni relations…
The College of Community Health Sciences has welcomed new fellows in obstetrics and sports medicine. The College has seven fellowship programs that are designed to enhance the education of family medicine physicians, especially those who plan to practice in rural and underserved communities where there might be few specialists practicing. In addition to obstetrics, sports…
The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program offers a one-year Integrated Residency (IR) Program for fourth-year medical students planning a primary care practice to better prepare them for their first year (intern year) of residency. Established in 2021, students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marinex E. Heersink School of Medicine are…
Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster, professor of community medicine and population health with the College of Community Health Sciences, is part of a University of Alabama at Birmingham research team recently awarded funding as part of the National Institutes of Health’s newly launched Bridge2AI (Artificial Intelligence) program. The aim of the Bridge2AI program will be to accelerate…
Members of the Tuscaloosa community have the opportunity to learn about trends and advances in health and medicine as part of the Mini Medical School program. Mini Medical School is a collaborative effort of the College of Community Health Sciences and The University of Alabama OLLI program and features a series of lectures provided by…
Reported cases of monkeypox peaked in August and have since been trending downward, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why? “People took it seriously,” said Dr. Richard Friend, a family medicine physician and dean of the College of Community Health Sciences. “In groups and geographic areas where this virus…
