UAB Heersink School of Medicine

06/24/2026

On June 6, Heersink School of Medicine’s Equal Access Birmingham hosted its third annual EAB on the Green golf tournament. Golfers of all levels gathered at Highland Park Golf Course for a day of games, prizes, and fundraising for an impactful cornerstone in the Birmingham community.

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06/23/2026

Carrie Atcheson, M.D., MPH, FASA, assistant professor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, has spent years making the monthly drive from Birmingham to Montgomery, not as an obligation, but as a calling.

Recently, Atcheson was elected to both the Board of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners as censor-at-large.

"I care deeply about the people of this state, their health, access to care, and our communities,” Atcheson said. “Public health has always been part of who I am. Now, being able to bring that to the state level, to support the people of Alabama, feels like exactly where I am supposed to be."

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06/22/2026

Frances Lund, Ph.D., professor in the UAB Department of Microbiology, has been named the latest recipient of the school's Featured Discovery award.

Her study, “Topography of the HLA-A protein enforces shared and convergent immunodominant B cell and antibody alloresponses in transplant recipients,” centers around making kidney transplants more tolerable for the recipient’s immune system.

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Frances Lund, Ph.D.Frances Lund, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology, has been named the latest recipient of the school's Featured Discovery award. This recognition celebrates notable faculty research contributions and highlights the impact of their scientific advancements.

06/18/2026

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06/17/2026

He came back to Alabama to become a doctor. He is leaving with something the medical world is just now beginning to understand. Stevan Fairburn, M.D., M.S., recently became the first student to earn a Master of Science in AI in Medicine from the UAB Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation, all while simultaneously completing medical school, stepping toward the operating room with one foot in clinical care and the other in the future of healthcare.

He came back to Alabama to become a doctor. He is leaving with something the medical world is just now beginning to understand. Stevan Fairburn, M.D., M.S., recently became the first student to earn a Master of Science in AI in Medicine from the UAB Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innova...

06/16/2026

A historic gift has set the stage for a new era in Alzheimer’s disease research, education, patient care, and community outreach at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. The Gorrie family have contributed $10 million to expand and elevate the work of UAB faculty, staff and trainees working to better understand, treat and potentially cure Alzheimer’s disease.

On Friday, June 12, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees approved the renaming of the Frances Gorrie Alzheimer’s Disease Center that will catalyze medical innovation, strengthen the pipeline of rising Alzheimer’s specialists, attract internationally recognized experts in the field, enhance the quality of patient care in the region, and connect communities across the state to critical resources.

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06/16/2026

Happy Birthday, UAB! 🎉 Built on milestones, from the Medical College of Alabama in 1945 to the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1969 to today's UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, made possible by the transformational gift of $100 million in 2021, we're proud to continue advancing care, research, and education.💚

06/15/2026

Where art meets medicine 🎨🩺

Leopold Nkengbeza, a fourth-year medical student at UAB Heersink School of Medicine, is blending his passion for art and medicine to make a difference. By creating detailed surgical illustrations for cardiothoracic research, he’s showing how creativity can improve both learning and patient care.

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06/12/2026

Honoring service, leadership, and dedication.

Congratulations to our military leaders at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine promotion ceremony.

06/10/2026

2400 years ago, Hippocrates taught students the art of medicine under a plane tree in Kos, Greece.

Here at UAB, that tradition is honored with three trees across our Birmingham, Montgomery, and Huntsville campuses. Each tree is a descendant of the original, and serves to remind us of the rich history of medicine.