The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham,Alabama. Founded in 1969 in the University of Alabama System,UAB has grown to be the state's largest employer,with more than 24,200 faculty and staff and over 53,000 jobs at the university. The university is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity".
Victor Almon McKusick was an American internist and medical geneticist,and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital,Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish. He was the original author and,until his death,remained chief editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM) and its online counterpart Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). He is widely known as the "father of medical genetics".
Tinsley Randolph Harrison was an American physician and editor of the first five editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Harrison specialized in cardiology and the pathophysiology of heart disease.
UAB Hospital is a 1,295 bed tertiary hospital and academic health science center located in Birmingham,Alabama. It serves as the only ACS verified Level I Trauma Center in Alabama,and is the flagship property of the UAB Health System which is owned by the University of Alabama System. The system includes clinics,an eye hospital and affiliations with other health care facilities throughout the state. It is Birmingham's largest employer,with a staff of over 20,000.
Incidental medical findings are previously undiagnosed medical or psychiatric conditions that are discovered unintentionally and during evaluation for a medical or psychiatric condition. Such findings may occur in a variety of settings,including routine medical care,during biomedical research,during post-mortem autopsy,or during genetic testing.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine is a public medical school located in Birmingham,Alabama,United States with branch campuses in Huntsville,Montgomery,and at the University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa. Residency programs are also located in Selma,Huntsville,and Montgomery. It is part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) is an organization composed of biochemical,clinical,cytogenetic,medical and molecular geneticists,genetic counselors and other health care professionals committed to the practice of medical genetics.
Gregory E. Pence is an American philosopher.
Alan Edward Guttmacher is an American physician who was the director of the National Institute of Child Health (NICHD),one of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In that capacity,he oversaw the institute’s activities as the focal point at the NIH for research in pediatric health and development,maternal health,reproductive health,intellectual and developmental disabilities,and rehabilitation medicine,among other areas.
James J. "Jim" Cimino is an American physician-scientist and biomedical informatician. He is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
David Lawrence Rimoin was a Canadian American geneticist. He was especially noted for his research into the genetics of skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism),inheritable diseases such as Tay–Sachs disease,and diabetes.
Harry Harris FRS,FCRP,was a British-born biochemist. His work showed that human genetic variation was not rare and disease-causing but instead was common and usually harmless. He was the first to demonstrate,with biochemical tests,that with the exception of identical twins we are all different at the genetic level. This work paved the way for many well-known genetic concepts and procedures such as DNA fingerprinting,the prenatal diagnosis of disorders using genetic markers,the extensive heterogeneity of inherited diseases,and the mapping of human genes to chromosomes
Ray Lannom Watts is an American physician-researcher in neurology,educator and university administrator. Watts has served as the seventh president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) since February 2013.
Genetics in Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering medical genetics. It is the official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG). It was established in 1998 and has been published jointly by Nature Publishing Group on behalf of the ACMG since 2012,though it was originally published by Lippincott Williams &Wilkins. The editor-in-chief is Robert D. Steiner MD.
Louise Tsi Chow is a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a foreign associate with the National Academy of Sciences,known for her research on the human papillomavirus. Her research contributed to the discovery of gene splicing,and in 1993,her collaborator,Richard J. Roberts,received the Nobel Prize for the research,leading some to assert that Chow should have received the honor as well.
Harvey Louis Levy is an American biochemical geneticist,pediatrician,physician scientist and academic. He is Senior Physician in Medicine and Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Selwyn Maurice Vickers is an American gastrointestinal surgical oncologist. He is the President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,starting in September 2022. Previously,he was the senior vice president for Medicine and Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the CEO of both the UAB Health System and the UAB/Ascension St. Vincent's Alliance.
Elaine H. Zackai is a Professor of Pediatrics,Director of Clinical Genetics,and the Director of the Clinical Genetics Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
India NAP Gail Houston Cassell is an American microbiologist whose research focuses on Mycoplasma species and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. She is vice president of TB drug development at the Infectious Disease Research Institute. In 1994 she was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Trygve Tollefsbol is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the department of Biology. Coining the term “epigenetics diet”in 2011,Tollefsbol has been a leader in the field of phytochemical-based epigenetic mechanisms to prevent cancer. In his role as founder and chief editor for Elsevier's Translational Epigenetics,an internationally recognized series,he has directed the publication of almost 50 books on the topic of epigenetics.
