Inside Pediatrics Winter 2019

COYNE-BEASLEY NAMED HOFMANN VISITING PROFESSOR IN ADOLESCENT MEDICINE Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D. , Adolescent Medicine, has been selected as the 2020 Adele D. Hofmann Visiting Professor in Adolescent Medicine and Health. The Hofmann Professorship is one of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine’s (SAHM) highest honors. Her selection will be announced at the 2020 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Congratulations to Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D. , Adolescent Medicine, and Matthew Kutny, M.D. , Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, on being accepted into the UAB Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA). The HLA is a collaboration between the Collat School of Business and the School of Medicine. The program offers training opportunities and develops leadership skills essential to academic healthcare. Twenty-four members were accepted into the academy for the 2019- 2020 class and represent a well-balanced and diverse group. The program began in October 2019 and will conclude in May 2020. ATKINSON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF USOM Prescott Atkinson, M.D., Ph.D. , Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, was elected as the new president of the United States Organization for Mycoplasmology (USOM) at its fifth biennial meeting in La Jolla, California. The USOM is a local branch of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology dedicated to the study of Mollicutes. USOM members work in industry, government, academia and research institutes. AUSTIN EARNS APA SCHOLARSHIP, APPOINTED TO DEEP POVERTY INITIATIVE Heather Austin, Ph.D. , Adolescent Medicine, is the recipient of the 2019 Dr. Helen L. Coons Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology Scholarship awarded by the American Psychological Association. Austin has been invited to serve a three- year term starting in 2020 on the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Health Services-Mental Health Committee. She has also been offered the position of mentee in the UAB Healthcare Educators Academy. Austin and her colleague, Dan Marullo, Ph.D. , Pediatric Psychology, in the Behavioral Health Ireland Center at Children’s of Alabama, have been appointed as liaisons to the American Psychological Association (APA) Deep Poverty Initiative. APA President Rosie Phillips Davis, Ph.D., ABPP, has made examining psychology’s role in ending deep poverty a key initiative of her presidential year. This initiative will establish ongoing collaboration between psychological science and the public and private sectors through advocacy efforts, user-friendly science-based resources and partnerships to effect population-level change. The APA proposes moving beyond understanding causes and consequences of poverty, and toward using psychological science as a catalyst to address and help solve deep poverty. MURDAUGH, PERNELL APPOINTED TO KL2 SCHOLARS COHORT Donna Murdaugh, Ph.D. , Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, and Brandi Pernell, DNP , Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, are part of the latest six-member cohort of Scholars for the Deep South Mentored Career Development (KL2) awarded this summer by the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). Selected through a rigorous, competitive process, scholars enroll in an educational program, usually the MSPH in Clinical and Translational Science, and also conduct a mentored research apprenticeship with a primary mentor. Designed for junior faculty in a clinical or related discipline, the CCTS KL2 program aims to provide knowledge, experience and perspective to candidates who show promise for becoming independent investigators. A key component of the program is protected time, typically two years, to allow both formal training and conducting hands-on research. COYNE-BEASLEY, KUTNY APPOINTED TO UAB HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

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