“Knowing where to go to be treated for an injury or illness could help maximize emergency departments for true emergencies and get patients to other resources who can help them more quickly with minor ...

Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., professor in the UAB Department of Microbiology, has been elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). This honor recognizes his excellence, ...

Doctors at UAB are leading the southeast in kidney transplant surgery.

The COVID pandemic proved that clinical research is critical to finding practical answers to questions that can affect millions of people. But a shrinking number of physicians are choosing to split ...

The 2015 list recognizes 391 UAB physicians, the most in Alabama, in 38 specialties listed who are among the top 5 percent of clinicians in the United States, as voted by their peers. For a link to ...

The Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) seeks to meet the needs of patients with severe chronic medical conditions in whom a diagnosis has not been made despite extensive efforts by the referring ...

22 UAB Department of Surgery faculty were named best doctors within multiple categories on the Best Doctors in Alabama list. Best Doctors was founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, and ...

UAB Hospital has climbed three spots to break into the top ten among the largest hospitals in the nation. Medical West Hospital Authority, an affiliate of UAB Health System, broke ground on its ...

UAB Medicine’s Leadership Development Office welcomed 16 individuals in its 10th cohort of Institute for Leadership in January 2025. UAB Medicine Institute for Leadership is a flagship program of the ...

The Empathy Project helps trainees respond to the emotions beneath patients’ tough questions. Creator Kimberly Kopecky, M.D., MSCI, a UAB surgeon specializing in high-risk abdominal procedures, ...