College’s Residents and Fellows Celebrated at Graduation Ceremony Twenty-two physicians were honored June 27 at the 46th annual graduation ceremony of The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program and Fellowships. The graduation ceremony was held at the North River Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa. The College of Community Health Sciences provides graduate and post-graduate…

DCH Health System selected Capstone Health Services Foundation, which is affiliated with University Medical Center and the employer of University Hospitalist Group physicians, to provide hospitalists to both DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa and Northport Medical Center. In addition, the contract calls for IN Compass Health, an Atlanta-based physician staffing and management company, to…

Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster, professor of community medicine and population health at The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, was interviewed for a June article published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Payne-Foster is also deputy director of the College’s Institute for Rural Health Research. The JAMA article, titled Community-Based Organizations Step…

The University of Alabama Student Health Center and Pharmacy, which is operated by the UA’s College of Community Health Sciences, was re-accredited again for another three years. The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care re-accredited the Student Health Center for the period April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2024. The continuing accreditation designates the center…

Summer Programs Prepare Students For Health Careers High school students from rural Alabama are participating in annual programs this summer at The University of Alabama where they are learning about the need rural communities have for more doctors and other health-care professionals. Through the Minority Rural Health Scholars Program and the Rural Health Scholars Program,…

Dr. Alan Blum, the Gerald Leon Wallace, M.D., Endowed Chair of Family Medicine for The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, was invited by The Lancet to provide commentary for an article about the rising toll of smoking worldwide. Blum is also director of the UA Center for the Study of Tobacco and…

Construction has begun on a two-story addition to The University of Alabama Student Health Center that will house a new MRI research suite, allowing University researchers to extensively explore the human body, with a focus on the brain and neuroscience. The suite will include the MRI room, shell space for a future MRI scanner and…

A researcher at The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences will study a novel nanomedicine treatment for acute kidney injury, a common disease with no federally approved medication. Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, a professor at CCHS, was awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the study. Kumar…

Studies show that between 10% and 15% of physicians in the United States experience substance use disorder at some point in their careers, but many don’t know how to or choose not to seek help, Dr. Sandra Frazier, medical director of the Alabama Professionals Health Program, said during a lecture at The University of Alabama…

By Caleb Jones Growing up, Dr. Jared Watson fantasized along with his twin brother Jeremy that they would one day be “football-playing doctors, in space.” Now, as a former University of Alabama football player and UAB School of Medicine Class of 2021 graduate, it’s safe to say that at least two of those aspirations have…