We had a productive last three days for our Board of Directors meeting, with informative guest speakers, and discussions on Focused Practice Designation, Continuing Certification, strategic planning and more. Looking forward to a year of hard work! #TheABMGG

Join UAB Genetics for the 10th Annual Rare Disease Symposium, to be held at the Bradley Lecture Center on Friday, March 10th! This year's event will focus on next gen technology, long-read genome sequencing, therapeutic sequencing, patient empowerment, and health equity.

Please join us for a talk on hospital exposures prior to THA given by one of our residents Joe Robin in room 4203 at 11:25am today!!! #AAOS2023

A historic appointment for our board member @MendelsohnNancy! We are excited to see all the work you will do for the #ACMGFoundation. #WomenInMedicine

UAB Genetics at #acmg2023

I have reached my peak. All downhill from here Wordle 709 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

NIH funding by institution for FY 2023 1 Johns Hopkins U $518M 2 UCSF $451M 3 U Michigan $436M 4 Penn $434M 5 UCLA $424M 6 Stanford $407M 7 Mass General $406M 8 Wash U. $404M 9 Yale $390M 10 Pitt $382M 11 Columbia $362M 12 Duke $360M

I’m truly honored and thankful to UAB Heersink School of Medicine! Excellent patient care takes a team, and UAB has amazing primary care and subspecialty docs. I love clinical genetic medicine, so it’s humbling to be recognized among clinicians like the great Marty Heslin! 🧬#iamamedicalgeneticist

Dr Hurst is most deserving of this honor.

I have some exciting news to share. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Undiagnosed Disease Program (UDP) was recently designated as a Diagnostic Center of Excellence. Read more: uab.edu/medicine/genet…

Genetics and genomics both play roles in health and disease, but what’s the difference between the two? Why are they both important for our health? Learn more about their differences and importance for our health in our Genetics vs. Genomics Fact Sheet! genome.gov/about-genomics…

Wordle 937 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was easy!

Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains. The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.

We’ve hit the big time!

Congratulations to my baby boy. Named executive chief resident on his birthday, a week after getting married! A very good stretch indeed

Our study on why residents and young faculty chose genetics as a career has been published. No surprise- mentorship! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

April is National Autism Acceptance Month   Did you know Alabama created and implemented the first state-recognized Autism Identification Card in the United States, and county health departments issue them?

Very proud of these incredible medical students for all their work - raw data to publication. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

A wise bit of advice for the Anti vaccine crowd.

A great article on Generic Counseling and our GCs uab.edu/reporter/know-…