For the past two months, The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences has provided COVID-19 screening and testing in Alabama Black Belt communities. CCHS has partnered in these efforts with University Medical Center, which the College operates, UA’s Office for Research and Economic Development, Alabama Power and the Livingston Mayor’s Office. Community organizations…
Twenty-six medical students were honored during the College of Community Health Sciences Senior Banquet on May 14, held virtually this year due to COVID-19. The students, now physicians, have begun their residency training in programs across 11 states. “This is not the way we usually celebrate this important event, but that in no way diminishes…
Dr. Brittney Anderson, assistant professor of family, internal, and rural medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences, received the 2020 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from The University of Alabama Medical Alumni Association. The award is given “in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of medicine and demonstration of the high principles of the…
The family medicine residency operated by the College of Community Health Sciences has a new name – Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program. The residency previously held the name of The University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency. The College founded the residency more than four decades ago and, to date, nearly 500 physicians have received specialty…
Faculty from the College of Community Health Sciences will help teach a seminar-style course over the summer term that will allow University of Alabama students to explore the COVID-19 pandemic through lectures from guest speakers with diverse expertise. The course will provide students online lectures on topics surrounding the pandemic that range from health care…
Substance abuse often starts in adolescence and, if left untreated, can cause acute and chronic health problems as well as impair growth and development because neurodevelopment continues into a person’s 20s, said Dr. Shawanna Ogden, a psychiatry fellow at the College of Community Health Sciences. The good news, she said, is that research shows adolescents…
Two students have graduated from the first-ever degree program of the College of Community Health Sciences. Troupe Grimes and Derek Stallworth completed the College’s Master of Science in Population Health Sciences Degree in May. The College began offering the graduate program in fall 2018. “I chose this graduate program because I believe it best prepared…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the role that University Medical Center plays in the care of West Alabama communities, UMC in late March created a weekly newsletter that is emailed to patients. UMC is operated by The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences. The patient newsletter is currently sent to approximately…
The 24th Annual Rural Scholars Convocation was scheduled to be held on April 19, 2020, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the accomplishments of this group of Rural Medical Scholars in The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences is in no way diminished. The 11 Rural Medical Scholars who were…
