Grand Rounds

Vickers Takes Reins of UAB Health System

Feb 08, 2022 at 08:05 pm by steve

Selwyn Vickers, MD, senior vice president for Medicine and dean of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, has assumed the role of CEO of both the UAB Health System and the UAB/A.... Read More

Clinical

UAB Performs First Transplant of Pig Kidney to Brain-Dead Human

Feb 08, 2022 at 08:05 pm by steve

One of the biggest tragedies in modern healthcare is that, while transplants are hugely effective for failing kidneys with a 96 percent success rate, there are only about 25,0.... Read More

Clinical

Leadless Pacemaker for Patients with AV Block

Feb 08, 2022 at 08:05 pm by steve

"I'm a huge fan. It's revolutionary," says Amit Shah, MD, about leadless pacemakers. Shah, who is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist with Cardiology Consultants, has deplo.... Read More

Business

Ascension St. Vincent's Opens Two New Centers

Feb 08, 2022 at 08:05 pm by steve

"Chilton has plenty of folks with diabetes and peripheral vascular disease, which results in a lot of wound care patients," says Jon Binkerd, MD, the medical director for the.... Read More

Clinical

UAB One of Six in the World with New Fiber Optic Visualization Technology

Feb 08, 2022 at 08:05 pm by steve

The UAB Cardiovascular Institute is one of only six centers in the world with a new light-based, visualization technology called Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS). Adam Beck, MD, t.... Read More