News
The February Image of the Month from UAB Archives, Lining up for UAB's first homecoming parade, 1989, has been posted.
Dr. Jayme Locke, M.D.
"Surgery, Science & Advocacy: Promoting Health Equity Across the Continuum of Transplant Care" will be presented by Jayme Locke, M.D., professor of Surgery, Arnold G. Diethelm MD Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery, and director of the Division of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery.
The lecture will be held 4 p.m. Feb. 23 in Volker Hall Lecture Hall E (1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama). It also will be livestreamed via Zoom. A reception will follow.
The Reynolds-Finley Historical Lecture is part of the Annual University of Alabama Medical Alumni Weekend and is co-hosted by the Medical Alumni Association.
About Dr. Jayme Locke
Dr. Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon specializing in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Dr. Locke completed an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry at Duke University and her medical degree at East Carolina University prior to matriculating to Johns Hopkins Hospital where she received training in general surgery and multi-visceral abdominal transplantation. Dr. Locke completed her Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis in biostatistics and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Her research interests include complex statistical analysis and modeling of transplant outcomes and behavioral research focused on health disparities. She has authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 24 book chapters, and is an NIH R01-funded investigator. In addition, Dr. Locke is a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation, and is an editorial board member for Annals of Surgery. She is also a member of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS; Councilor-at-Large), and American Society of Nephrology (ASN), as well as, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Society of University Surgeons (SUS; Councilor-at-Large), the Southern Surgical Association (SSA), Society of Clinical Surgery (SCS), American Surgical Association (ASA), and was recently inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Dr. Locke is the recipient of numerous honors including the UAB Dean’s Excellence Award in Research 2016, and was named the 2016 James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Fellow, Top 40 Under 40 by the Birmingham Business Journal, AL.com’s 2015 Women Who Shape the State, B-Metro Top Women in Medicine 2017, American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellow 2018, Association for Clinical & Translational Science (ACTS) Distinguished Investigator Award: Translation into Public Benefit and Policy (2018), and the AST Clinical Science Faculty Award 2020.
Dr. Locke is currently Professor of Surgery and the Arnold G. Diethelm MD Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and serves as the Director of the Division of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery.
CMEs Available
The University of Alabama School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Parking
Parking is provided adjacent to Volker Hall in UAB Lot 5A; entrance is located on 16th Street between University Boulevard and 7th Avenue South. Please be aware if you are entering a parking deck, this is Children’s Hospital parking, and we cannot validate for this deck.
Disability Accommodations
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact reynoldsfinley@uab.edu.
Lister Hill Library at University Hospital, a specialized branch of UAB Libraries located in UAB Hospital’s West Pavilion that primarily serves hospital staff, closed Jan. 1 for construction. The ongoing renovation will remodel the existing space into the Graduate Medical Education Wellness Center, a multifunctional location in the hospital where residents and fellows can find tools and resources to decompress, exchange ideas, visit privately with their families, and exercise.
During construction, LHL @ University Hospital will continue its mission to provide hospital employees with accurate, reliable and timely information in support of patient care, education and research, and librarians will return to the space once renovations are complete. To contact a librarian about mediated literature searches, consultations on specific information needs, assistance with locating resources, and hands-on training for individuals or groups, use this request form, call 934-2275, or email lhlwest@uab.edu.
Library Mobile is available in the App Store and Google Play Store.Students and employees now can download a new app from UAB Libraries designed to streamline and improve interactions with Libraries offerings.
The multifunctional Library Mobile app, available in the App Store and Google Play Store, enables Blazers to check their library account to see statuses of loans and requests, search the library catalog, access useful resources and services, keep up with UAB Libraries events, access research guides and chat live with librarians.
“With the new Library Mobile app, Blazers will have fast, on-the-go access to some of our best resources,” said Danielle Hassan, systems librarian for UAB Libraries. “Things like our catalog and research guides, which have traditionally been best accessed via computer, are now much easier to use on mobile devices. This is a great new offering for us to provide because we’re always working to help UAB students and employees streamline their educational and work-related projects.”
To log in to the app, employees and students can search “University of Alabama at Birmingham” when they open the app, then log in with their BlazerID and password.
During the spring semester, UAB students who want help with writing projects — including brainstorming and planning a project, revising and editing, checking formatting and citations, or overcoming writer’s block — can get assistance from a University Writing Center tutor 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in Lister Hill Library 162; 25- or 50-minute consultations can be booked online or by email at writingcenter@uab.edu. Walk-ins also are welcome.