Twenty-six Alabama students participated in this summer’s Rural Health Scholars and Minority Rural Health Scholars programs. Sixteen were Rural Health Scholars and 10 were Minority Rural Health Scholars. The programs are part of the Rural Health Leaders Pipeline at the College of Community Health Sciences created to address the shortage of primary care physicians in…
The College of Community Health Sciences kicked off its second Primary Care Track summer camp July 5. Camp PCT is a three-week program in Tuscaloosa for first- and second-year students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marinex E. Heersink School of Medicine who plan to complete their final two years of medical school at…
Dr. Tiffany Watson joined CCHS as assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal and Rural Medicine. She will also care for patients at University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa. Watson is a graduate of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., and completed medical school at American University of Antigua College of Medicine in Antigua and…
Increasing physician workforce in rural Alabama: The College has placed 85 physicians in rural Alabama through its Rural Medical Scholars Program, which is exclusively for rural Alabama students who wish to become doctors and return home or to similar communities to practice.
Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster, professor of community medicine and population health with CCHS, presented “Vaccinations: Still Our Most Powerful Primary Prevention Tool We Have” July 29 at the 2023 National Medical Association 121st Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly: Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Section. The convention is one of the nation’s foremost forums on medical science and…
New mindful cognitive preventive intervention improves children’s social-emotional skills and stress physiology Research shows that Mindful Coping Power, a new mindful cognitive prevention program, improves children’s stress physiology and makes lasting improvements in their social skills, and impulsive anger and aggression, according to Dr. Caroline Boxmeyer, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine in the…
Residents and Fellows celebrated at graduation ceremony Twenty-six physicians were honored June 25, 2023, at the 48th annual graduation ceremony of The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program and Fellowships. The event was held at UA’s Bryant-Denny Stadium. The College of Community Health Sciences provides graduate and post-graduate medical education through both the…
Smoking as a family edition The millions of fathers who have died from heart disease, emphysema and lung cancer due to smoking was the focus of a new online exhibit in June, “Like Father, Like Son: Smoking as a Family Tradition.” The exhibition is the work of The University of Alabama Center for the Study…
Dr. Anne-Laura Cook, a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., joined CCHS as assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine. She will also care for patients at UMC-Northport as an internal medicine physician, which is operated by the College. Prior to joining CCHS, Cook was a chief medical officer of Post Acute Care…
Thriving medical clinics: Since opening CCHS’s first medical clinic in 1975, University Medical Center has grown to six locations that together form the largest multi-specialty community medical practice in West Alabama.
