While capsule pills are here to stay, generation nano-systems are an up-and-coming technology in the medical world, according to Dr. Meenakshi Arora, associate professor of Biomedical Sciences with the College of Community Health Sciences. In understanding how drugs can help our body, it’s important to understand how we get sick in the first place, with…

There has been phenomenal growth in next-generation medicine spurred in part by nanotechnology, according to Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, The University of Alabama Distinguished University Research Professor for Bioscience and Medicine in the College of Community Health Sciences. Nanotechnology is appealing because it allows researchers to “develop the next generation of oral delivery technologies,” Kumar…

Dr. Thad Ulzen is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at University Medical Center. He is also working to enhance care and services provided by Brewer-Porch Children’s Center in Tuscaloosa, which became part of The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in October 2020. Brewer-Porch provides behavioral health care for children and adolescents locally…

Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure and Alabama has the highest U.S. death rate from the chronic condition, often referred to as a “silent killer” because it can have life-threatening consequences, such as heart disease and stroke, but produce few symptoms. “As many as 40% of people with high blood pressure don’t…

Dr. Nathan Culmer, assistant professor at the College of Community Health Sciences, and Dr. Todd Smith, assistant professor at the Capstone College of Nursing have received $1.8 million in funding this year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant program. This funding will significantly increase the Emergency Medical Services’…

Informed consent and other processes to ensure the protection of humans involved in research resulted from past abuses of research subjects, Dr. Greg Bell, assistant professor of community medicine and population health, said during a Mini Medical School presentation in November. Mini Medical School is a collaboration of The University of Alabama’s OLLI program and…

CCHS Faculty, Departments Recognized With Argus Awards Students at the University of Alabama School of Medicine have named faculty, residents and clinical departments, including those at the College of Community Health Sciences, winners of 2021 Argus Awards. The Argus Awards, which were presented during a ceremony Nov. 5, provide an opportunity for medical students to…

Dr. Jared Ellis, associate professor of family medicine for CCHS and associate director of the UA Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency, authored “You Can Call Me Doctor and Friend,” published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. Jane Weida, professor and chair of family medicine for CCHS and associate director of the…

The intersection of racism, rurality and childhood obesity is the focus of a research project being led in part by Dr. Joy Bradley, assistant professor of community medicine and population health at the College of Community Health Sciences. The research team also includes Dr. Joyce Nickelson, associate professor of Health Sciences at the College of…

A College of Community Health Sciences faculty member is part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and The University of Alabama awarded a $7.1 million grant over five years to conduct a comprehensive study of risk and protective factors for healthy brain…