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USA Health and Mobile County Public Schools entered into a comprehensive agreement for USA Health to be the official provider of sports medicine services for 12 public high schools in Mobile County.
“These additions to our team will allow us to treat patients in a timely manner with the best tools and expertise,” said Nasser Lakkis, M.Sc.-M.D., FACC.
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USA Health and Mobile County Public Schools entered into a comprehensive agreement for USA Health to be the official provider of sports medicine services for 12 public high schools in Mobile County.
Meghan Hermance, Ph.D., an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at USA, recently received the five-year award to study the infection dynamics of a tick-borne bunyavirus called severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus or SFTSV.
A collaboration between the University of South Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the study builds upon Lin’s previous research grant from the NIH, which totaled $1.7 million over a four-year period.
Zachary M. Trisel, M.D., completed a fellowship in medical oncology at USA Health/Mitchell Cancer Institute and a residency in internal medicine at Drexel University/Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
USA Health psychiatrist Michael Marshall, M.D., is accepting new patients.
USA Health gives expectant moms a new option for pain relief before childbirth.
Kevin Macaluso, Ph.D., chair of the department of microbiology and immunology, served as president of the American Society for Rickettsiology from 2019-2022.
Accounting for 15% of all leukemias in adults, CML is a type of cancer that affects mature and maturing myeloid cells in the bone marrow.
A group of dedicated community volunteers from the greater Mobile area are serving as the host committee for USA Health’s A Night Honoring Healers, the health system’s signature fund-raising event.
Gastroenterologist M. Caitlin Marshall, M.D., is accepting new patients at USA Health’s Digestive Health Center in Mobile.
Expectant moms can tour many of the birthing areas at Children’s & Women’s Hospital at noon on Wednesdays as part of a pilot program to showcase all the hospital has to offer, from the most-advanced care to the amenities they would expect.
Baby blessings are available in religious and nonreligious versions, performed by Chaplain Kim Crawford Meeks. Families also will receive a baby blessing keepsake card.