Success at an enterprise as large and complex as the University of Alabama at Birmingham requires vision, purposeful planning and determination. It also takes leadership and teamwork. A decade ago, when the nation was still working its way through the aftershocks of the 2007-2009 Great Recession, and Ray L. Watts, M.D., was named UAB’s seventh president, the time was […]

University of Alabama at Birmingham President Dr. Ray Watts and University of Alabama System Chancellor Finis St. John, in consultation with the UA System Board of Trustees, have announced plans to maintain continuity and positive momentum in UAB Medicine by leveraging the expertise of veteran leaders with the upcoming departure of Dr. Selwyn Vickers who will become president and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering […]

In grateful recognition of a transformational $95 million lead gift from longtime University of Alabama at Birmingham supporter Dr. Marnix E. Heersink, the UAB School of Medicine will now be named the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine. The record gift is the single largest philanthropic commitment in university history and will name the UAB Marnix E. Heersink […]

In an effort to remove additional barriers to vaccination and encourage more people to seek vaccines, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Medicine are now offering vaccines at all four of their community vaccination locations with no appointment necessary. UAB has four community vaccination sites available to all Alabamians, and there is no cost to receive the […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will receive 10,725 initial doses of the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine next week. The initial single doses will be administered to front line UAB Hospital personnel and clinical staff, Emergency Medical Services teams from the seven-county region, and other hospitals within Jefferson County. “We are in the midst of our darkest time […]

COVID-19 is a global problem but three major pieces of technology – the GuideSafe app, the Pathcheck platform and the National Key Server – are now the world’s “triple threat” for preventing exposure to and the spread of the disease. The University of Alabama at Birmingham on Nov. 19 announced its partnership with the PathCheck Foundation, founded at the Massachusetts Institute […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, one of the world’s most influential research scientists and advocates in vaccine development and policy, delivered keynote addresses to more than 2,000 trainees, faculty, staff and invited guests today […]

Ervin “Jock” Allen spent 32 days at UAB Hospital battling COVID-19, including 24 of those days on a ventilator. Today, Allen breathes on his own. And he went home this week to continue his recovery. The 28-year-old Jasper native is lead technician for Steve Johnson Racing, a Birmingham-based National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) team. Allen has captured the […]

Medical and administrative leaders within University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital gathered in early March to address what — at the time — seemed like more than an imminent threat. It seemed to be a foregone conclusion. Some personal protective equipment, or PPE, was going to run out, and it was going to run out fast. N95 […]

Shelby Roberts, a registered nurse in UAB Hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, recently saw a patient on her medical intensive care unit fighting to live, and struggling to do so. The patient’s family wanted to be by their loved one’s bedside, but it just was not possible. Not in these times, when a novel coronavirus […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham[uab.edu] has been ranked the top young university in the United States and No. 10 worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2018 Young University Rankings. Times Higher Education’s university rankings are among the world’s most comprehensive, balanced and trusted — a vital resource trusted by academics, students, […]