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The group won a $1,000 prize for their paper, “Starting Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Spine Program From Scratch at an Academic Institution.”

In November, Gregory W. Bouska, M.D., M.P.A., will join USA Health from Huntsville Hospital, where he serves as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology.

Ramani is board certified in general pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics. He completed a fellowship in neonatology at UAB and a pediatric residency at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas.

The robot-assisted surgical system allows for a single point of entry with the potential for less pain and shorter hospital stays for prostatectomy patients at USA Health.

The event, being held as part of Child Passenger Safety Seat Week, is sponsored by USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital and Tobias & Comer Law.

“Our preliminary studies make strong suggestions for a pathobiological involvement of nicotine exposure in prostate cancer aggressiveness and therapy resistance.”

USA Health is the first health system in Alabama and the upper Gulf Coast region to earn the three-year accreditation.

Glen Borchert, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology, is studying the survival of Salmonella bacteria during cellular stress.

The Samuel Hassenbusch Young Neurosurgeon Award is given to the top socioeconomic abstract selected from among the thousands of abstracts submitted to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting.

The gift includes $23,900 in proceeds from the recent Piggly Wiggly Golf Tournament in Mobile and a matching donation from longtime MCI supporter Abraham A. Mitchell.

This award supplements a grant the Whiddon College of Medicine received from HRSA in September 2019. The initial grant, plus all supplemental funding, now totals $19.8 million.