Dr. Davit Batlawala joined the College of Community Health Sciences as assistant professor. He will serve as a hospitalist at DCH Regional Medical Center as part of the College’s University Hospitalist Group. Dr. Jacquelynn Luker joined the College of Community Health Sciences as assistant professor of family, internal, and rural medicine. She will also care…

Dr. Caroline Boxmeyer, professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences, was selected to provide a presentation at The University of Alabama System’s Behavioral Health Research Symposium, to be held October 28 at the UAB Hill Center in Birmingham. Boxmeyer, who also serves as assistant dean for academic affairs for…

Medical scribes document patient visits into electronic medical records, in real time and under physician supervision, helping doctors spend less time in front of a computer and more time engaged in conversation with their patients. University Medical Center launched a medical scribe program in 2015 as a six-month pilot project with five scribes. Today, the…

Faculty from the College of Community Health Sciences presented in September at the American Heart Association’s Worksite Wellness Summit held at The University of Alabama. Suzanne Henson, assistant professor of family, internal, and rural medicine and a registered dietitian at University Medical Center, which is operated by CCHS, provided an overview of UA’s Better Bites…

College of Community Health Sciences faculty, resident physicians, medical students and graduate students took part in a Community Action Poverty Simulation held in September at The University of Alabama Ferguson Student Center. The poverty simulation mimicked what it would be like to live for one month in a low-income household. The simulation took place in…

Though it doesn’t cover a physical exam, the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit should not be skipped, Dr. Tom Weida said at the semester’s first Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Mini-Medical School held at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus. Weida, a physician and chief medical officer at University Medical Center and faculty…

Psychiatrists are often wary to assign a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder to a patient due to the stigma that will often follow them for the rest of their lives and influence the medical treatment they receive, said Dr. Marisa Giggie. She led the latest installment in the College of Community Health Sciences Grand Rounds…

Dr. Louanne Friend, assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Population Health at the College of Community Health Sciences, spoke to University of Alabama Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Mini-Medical School participants about hypertension and managing blood pressure on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Friend talked to an assembled class of more than 50 OLLI…

The University of Alabama is entering its eighth year of providing free flu shots at locations across campus to protect students, faculty and staff from the flu. The UA flu shot campaign kicks off September 3 and continues through mid-November with vaccines provided – at no cost and with no health insurance required – at…