“This center will help expand access to ALS care along the Gulf Coast, making a positive impact on patients and their families, but it will also honor a great man in Kelly Butler,” said Owen Bailey. “The lives he touched are too many to count, and through this center, his legacy will live on and impact many more lives for decades to come.”
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Barnita Haldar, M.D., a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the University of South Alabama Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program, recently published an article in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Arshad was one of the first students at South to be named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
Three physicians at USA Health will serve as liaisons between the health system’s information technology department and its care providers.
Sitting in a conference room filled with more than 20 African American medical students, Johnson Haynes Jr., M.D., remembers not being able to see a face like his among his peers in that same building just 30 years ago.
USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital has teamed up with the Mobile Public Library and the USA Alliance for Community Resilience to offer free family learning classes to the community.
Antonio Ward, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in the Drug Discovery Research Center at USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute, is the recipient of a supplemental grant award from the National Institutes of Health to promote diversity in health-related research.
University of South Alabama researchers recently received funding from local Lions Clubs that will be used to buy equipment for conducting high-quality vision research and training the next generation of vision scientists.
Members of the University of South Alabama chapter of the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society paid special visits to patients and hospital staff last week as part of Solidarity Week.
USA Health University Hospital has earned a Comprehensive Stroke Center designation from DNV GL Healthcare, reflecting the highest level of competence for treatment of serious stroke events. University Hospital is the only certified comprehensive stroke center in southwest Alabama and one of only three in the state.
The USA Health pediatric surgery program is the only provider of cryoneurablation for pectus excavatum in the region and one of only a few hospitals in the country that use the procedure.
Katrina Weaver, M.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, recently completed advanced training in pediatric/adolescent bariatric surgery and is now offering new surgery options for young patients dealing with obesity.
The article titled “Extracellular NAD+ enhances PARP-dependent DNA repair capacity independently of CD73 activity” outlines the importance of NAD+, also known as an “energy molecule.” NAD+ is essential for survival of every cell in the body, and plays an important role in cancer research and treatment efficacy.
