UAB Health System has named a new chief human resources officer, bringing 20 years of talent in the human resources space to the enterprise. 

Over 55 years after earning his first degree, Donald Diltz will graduate from the UAB School of Nursing and begin an internship at UAB Medicine at the age of 77.

The research team’s goal is to create a customizable solution that can be applied across various health care settings to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments.

Phase II of the WE CARE grant will focus on providing support and helping them learn to manage stress and respond compassionately to others in distress.

Most seizures occur in non-medical settings. A UAB epilepsy expert provides information on best practices to help individuals during a seizure.

This record-breaking funding marks a 73 percent growth in research awards over nine years. 

Hyperbaric medicine is a therapy that treats oxygen like a drug, delivering high-pressure oxygen to treat wounds for patients in need.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is recruiting Alabama women who have never had breast cancer for the study, to test a personalized approach to breast cancer screening.

Physicians in the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB are advancing the field of thyroid care with cutting-edge, patient-specific procedures and collaborative research investigations.

Human bodies are made to move, says UAB Arts in Medicine artist-in-residence Melissa Turnage, and “magical” energy can happen in the brain. Here are her tips for adding dance to your day.

The UAB Neonatal Helping Hands program provides volunteers the opportunity to hold, rock, talk, sing and read to infants in the RNICU and CCN. The program, which was paused in 2020 due to COVID, has relaunched and is accepting volunteer applications.

Two real estate properties will build upon UAB’s already expansive over 100-block campus.

UAB Medicine has added the ExcelsiusGPS® by Globus Medical for minimally invasive spine surgeries.

UAB Health System’s CFO has been identified as key female leader in the health care space, among 181 others.   

This study, performed in a pre-clinical human model, is the first time xenotransplanted pig kidneys have shown clearance of creatinine and shown a standard immunosuppression regimen may be sufficient.

For another consecutive year, UAB Hospital has been named the best hospital in Alabama, with several disciplines and procedures ranked among the best.

As COO, Baverso says his priorities will be in continuing UAB Medicine’s clinical excellence and expanding services to serve even more patients and Alabamians.

The baby boy, born in late May 2023, is the first baby born from a uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial and UAB’s first baby from its uterus transplant program.

To address the critical need for more emergency medical services in Birmingham and Alabama, UAB Hospital — with support from the State of Alabama — is creating 59 new exam rooms and more than 66,000 square feet of clinical space to meet service demand. 

Both the CEO of UAB Health System and the CEO of UAB Hospital have been identified as key female leaders in the health care space, among 175 others.