L to R: Win Williams, MD (#3 overall); Erin Snyder, MD; Jason Morris, MD (#14 overall); Stephen Stuart, PGY2; Rachel Naramore, PGY1; Anjali Das, PGY1; Lisa Willett, MD; Brooks Vaughan, MD (#6 overall)

Several DOM faculty and trainees participated in Equal Access Birmingham “Heart + Sole 5K and Fun Run" last Saturday. The race raised funds for EAB, the free health clinic which is operated by UAB medical students which was created in 2005 to both improve healthcare access for underserved populations in the Birmingham area and provide UAB medical students with service learning experiences. Student volunteers see approximately 400 patients per year at the EAB Clinic.

Dr. Navin C. Nanda with Dr. Julian BookerJulian Booker, MD (Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Disease) has been appointed the inaugural Navin C. Nanda Endowed Scholar in Echocardiography by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. A reception was held in PCAMS on Thursday, August 17, to celebrate both cardiologists for their extraordinary contributions to echocardiography.

Drs. Marty Heslin, Vineeta Kumar, and SOM Dean Selwyn VickersVineeta Kumar, MD (Associate Professor, Nephrology) has received the 2017 Brewer-Heslin Endowed Award for Professionalism in Medicine. The award, which is named for the late Alabama Governor Albert P. Brewer and UAB’s Chief of the Medical Staff Martin J. Heslin, MD, recognizes physicians at UAB who demonstrate extraordinary commitment to providing highly skilled and deeply compassionate medical care to their patients.

Many members of our Division of Infectious Diseases celebrated Birmingham’s commitment to ending HIV at Mayor William Bell’s signing of the Fast Track City Initiative on August 3. In the declaration, mayors of high HIV burden cities commit themselves to attaining 90-90-90 as well as zero discrimination and stigma targets: 90% of people living with HIV knowing their HIV status; 90% of people who know their HIV-positive status on treatment; and 90% of people on treatment with suppressed viral loads.

Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH, and Greg Payne, MD, PhDLatesha Elopre, MD, MSPH (Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases) and Gregory Payne, MD, PhD (Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease) have been named 2017 Harold Amos Scholars. The prestigious Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to historically disadvantaged physicians who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and to serving as role models for students and faculty of similar background. The two were selected as national semi-finalists for the program and presented their research to a panel of judges in Chicago in July. They are among 14 finalists selected for 2017. Dr. Payne’s AMFDP award is sponsored by the American Heart Association for his work with novel mechanisms of inflammation in cardiovascular disease and cardiac transplant rejection. Dr. Elopre’s project focuses on developing an intervention to increase HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among Black women.