Children's of Alabama was recognized by NRC Health as a recipient of its 2020 Excellence Award, which recognizes top-performing hospitals in overall patient-experience ratings.

Rachel Vines, PA-C has joined Fagan Sports Lifestyle Medicine.

William Ennis, MD and Gregory Mayberry, MD have joined the medical staff of Grandview Medical Center.

The UAB Center for Exercise Medicine is one of the clinical sites participating in the nationwide, NIH-funded Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium study, or MoTrPAC, which aims to increase our understanding of how exercise affect our bodies by measuring molecular changes in healthy adults and children before, during and after exercise.

Obstetrician/Gynecologist Taylor Massengill, MD, to the Cullman Regional Medical Staff, practicing at Cullman Primary Care OB/GYN.

Michael Polcari, MD has joined Alabama Allergy & Asthma Center.

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at UAB has been awarded a $7 million grant from United States Department of Health and Human Services to train additional family medicine physicians to serve in rural and underserved areas of Alabama.

Research funding to the University of Alabama at Birmingham from the National Institutes of Health topped $300 million in 2019, placing UAB 22nd in the list of universities receiving funding from the NIH. Among public universities, UAB ranks ninth.

S. Evan Carstensen, MD has joined Alabama Bone & Joint. After, receiving his undergraduate, magna cum laude with honors, and medical degrees from Wake Forest University, he completed his internship and orthopaedic training at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Cecelia Walker, executive director of chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education for Brookwood Baptist Health, has been elected to the Samford University board of trustees. Samford's 40-member board serves a four year appointment as the governing body for the university.

Chad Cox joined Vulcan Imaging Associates in July.

Drs. Alan Hanley and Elizabeth Carstensen have joined Norwood Clinic.

A study led by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Pittsburgh will examine how many adults in the United States have been infected by the novel coronavirus but did not know they had it.

Reid Jones has been named chief executive officer of UAB Medicine.

Birmingham-based AirMed International, one of the leading air medical transport companies in the world, has added a medically configured Hawker 800XP aircraft to join two other AirMed owned and operated Hawker jets at the Birmingham International Airport.

Jeffery Lebensburger, DO, director of the UAB hematology section in the Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health.

Stephen Gould, MD has joined the Cullman Regional Medical Group.

The Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame has named its 2020 inductees, including six individuals from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, including:

General Surgeon Greg Thompson, MD has joined the Cullman Regional Medical Group. A native of Madison, Alabama, he received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences from Auburn University and his medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

Three physicians have recently joined the medical staff of Grandview Medical Center.

T. Daniel Smith, MD is joining Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center effective August 10.

Anna Melnikoff, MD has joined Birmingham Obstetrics Gynecology and will see patients at the St. Vincent's Birmingham and St. Vincent's Trussville locations for pregnancy confirmations, annual well woman exams, gynecological problem visits and surgery consultations.