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Ray Reach, former director of the UAB Jazz Ensemble [4] (1998–2005), arranger, composer, jazz pianist and vocalist, Director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame; Michael Saag, AIDS researcher; Jessica A. Scoffield, microbiologist; Eric Sorscher, director of the Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center 1994 ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama.Founded in 1969 and part of the University of Alabama System, UAB has grown to be the state's largest employer, with more than 24,200 faculty and staff and over 53,000 jobs at the university.
Stephanie Kopelousos, former secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation (2007–2011) [21] Bill Lamb , member of the Alabama House of Representatives (2022–present) Andrew L. Lewis , retired admiral in the U.S. Navy who last served as the commander of the Second Fleet and NATO Joint Force Command for the Atlantic [ 22 ]
UAB is a vital economic engine of the state of Alabama with an estimated $7.15 billion annual impact. UAB is currently the state's largest employer with more than 24,000 faculty and staff and over 64,000 jobs at the university and in the health system. Almost 10% of the jobs in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area are related to UAB. [4]
In 1986, Watts joined the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta as director of a team that helped create an internationally renowned research and clinical center for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. [2] In 2003, Watts returned to UAB as the John N. Whitaker Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology. [3]
The first simultaneous heart-kidney transplant in the Southeast was performed at UAB by doctors David C. McGiffin and David Laskow in 1995. The journal Science named three UAB faculty, doctors Michael Saag, George Shaw, and Beatrice Hahn, among the top 10 AIDS researchers in the country, and highlighted the AIDS research program at UAB in 1996.
Michael S. Saag (born () October 2, 1955) is a physician and prominent HIV/AIDS researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He holds the Jim Straley Chair in AIDS Research, is Director of the Division of Infectious Disease and of the William C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, and Director of the Center for AIDS Research.
The Kirklin Clinic is the primary adult outpatient clinic of the medical staff of UAB Hospital, and of the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine. Kirklin Clinic also is the site for many clinical rotations in the medical school's doctoral and residency programs.