2025 Annual Report

AWARDS AWARDS, HONORS & RECOGNITION

HEERSINK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AWARDS

SHEA DUERRING, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, received Dean’s Excellence Award for Service.

STACY GAITHER, research director, Department of Pediatrics, REGAN GASKIN, MPA, clinical research coordinator, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and LINDSEY HAGEMAN, MPH, research operations administrator, Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, received 2025 Dean’s Excellence Awards for Staff.

CHRYSTAL RUTLEDGE, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, named Best Educator: Patient, Doctor and Society at the 2025 Argus Awards.

TONY MCGRATH, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Neurology, named Best Clinical Educator, Birmingham Campus at the 2025 Argus Awards.

DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS named Best Clinical Department, Birmingham Campus at the 2025 Argus Awards.

UAB AND HEERSINK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE LEADERSHIP ROLES

SARAH NOVARA, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Neurology, and DAVID GALLOWAY, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, elected to Graduate Medical Education Committee.

DAVID KIMBERLIN, M.D., distinguished professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, named as the associate vice president for Clinical Trial Operations at UAB.

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