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Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Graduation

Medical Student Honors Convocation

Rural Medical Scholars Convocation

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From the Dean

Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Graduation Medical Student Honors Convocation Rural Medical Scholars Convocation

History of the College of Community Health Sciences

E. Eugene Marsh, MDDean, College of Community Health Sciences

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We are very proud to honor all of our graduates with this special addition to our OnRounds publication. With the 2010 graduating class, our Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency has placed 391 family physicians into practice during the past three decades, with more than half of those in Alabama and many others throughout the Southeast. Of those practicing in Alabama, 47 percent are serving rural areas. In addition, the first graduate of our University Hospitalist Fellowship program has returned to Carrollton, Alabama, to serve that community. Our medical student graduating class this year brings the total number of students who have completed their clinical training on our campus to 699. The Class of 2010, which includes 33 graduates, is an impressive group whose members have achieved excellence and have moved on to residencies in primary care and a variety of specialties, which you will read about in this special issue. Eight students completed their first year in our Rural Medical Scholars program in 2009-2010 and started medical school this summer. This is the 14th class in this program, which is designed to address physician shortages in rural areas of our state. Congratulations to all of our 2010 graduates. We are very proud of your accomplishments and look forward to all that you will do to improve health care in our state and nation.

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The 2010 graduates of the College’s Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency were honored during the 35th Annual Graduation Ceremony

June 19.

The event was held at The Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium on The University of Alabama campus. John B. Waits, MD, director of the Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency, welcomed graduates and guests.

The graduation speaker was James Robinson, MD, of West Alabama Family Practice and Sports Medicine in Tuscaloosa. Robinson also directs the College’s Sports Medicine Fellowship, which he helped develop.

A native of New Orleans, Robinson graduated from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and completed his residency training at theTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency. He received

fellowship training in primary care sports medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He returned to Tuscaloosa and established his private practice at West Alabama Family Practice and Sports Medicine.

Robinson practices family medicine while caring for numerous athletes in the Southeast. He has served as head team physician for The University of Alabama since 1989 and also serves as medical director for DCH Sports Medicine in Tuscaloosa, as well as team physician for numerous local high schools. He served as a physician for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia.

The graduation event was hosted by DCH Healthcare Authority, DCH Regional Medical Center and the Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency.

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Residents of the Class of 2010 have spent the past three years at the College. While four residents have remained to complete fellowship programs offered by the College, others have relocated to communities across the country, and most will practice family medicine.

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Ty Jacob Krehbiel, MD - University Hospitalist Fellowship, College of Community Health Sciences

Michael Weston Luther, MD - Albertville, AL Family Medicine

Deanah D. Maxwell, MD - Academic Medicine Fellowship, College of Community Health Sciences

Kristin Wemple Morvant, MD - Baton Rouge, LA Family Medicine

Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Moussa Abou Zeid, MD- Emergency Medicine Fellowship for Primary Care Physicians, College of Community Health Sciences

Amarjit Kaur Singh, MD - Las Vegas, NV Hospitalist Medicine

Earl Ray Stewart, MD - Sports Medicine Fellowship, College of Community Health Sciences

Laurie Elizabeth Cochran, MD - Forsyth, GAFamily Medicine

Justin Thomas Cooke, MD - Chattanooga, TN Family Medicine

Steven Nicholas Dirmeyer, MD - Pontotoc, MS Family Medicine

Katherine W. Grelle, MD - Virginia Beach, VA Family Medicine

Jeb Stuart Hornsby, MD - Cullman, AL Family Medicine

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Internal Medicine (Intern) Award - Jason Ham, MD

Internal Medicine (Best Resident) Award - Michael Luther, MD, Ahmed Moussa, MD, and E. Ray Stewart, MD

Pediatrics Award - Michael Luther, MD, and E. Ray Stewart, MD

Psychiatry Award - E. Ray Stewart, MD

Psychiatry - R3 Award - Kristin Morvant, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology Award - Deanah Maxwell, MD

Research/Scholarship Award - Katherine Grelle, MD

Rural Training Track Award - Michael Luther, MD

Society of Teachers in Family Medicine Resident Teaching Award - E. Ray Stewart, MD

William F. deShazo, III Award - Michael Luther, MD

Vijaya Sundar, MD, right, presents the Internal Medicine (Intern) Award

to Jason Ham, MD.

Ross Vaughn, MD, center, presents the Internal Medicine (Best Resident) Award to E. Ray Stewart,

MD, left, and Michael Luther, MD, right.

Karen Burgess, MD, center, presents the Pediatrics Award to E. Ray Stewart, MD, left, and Michael Luther, MD, right.

Melissa C. Kuhajda, PhD, left, presents the Psychiatry Award to E. Ray Stewart, MD.

Melissa C. Kuhajda, PhD, right, presents the Psychiatry – R3 Award

to Kristin Morvant, MD.

Marion Reed, MD, left, presents the Obstetrics and Gynecology Award to Deanah Maxwell, MD.

Residency Director John B. Waits, MD, left, presents the Rural Training Track Award to Michael Luther, MD.

Robert Ireland, Jr., MD, right, presents the William F. deShazo III Award to

Michael Luther, MD.

Assistant Residency Director Natasha Harder, MD, right, presents the Society

of Teachers in Family Medicine Resident Teaching Award to E. Ray Stewart, MD.

John C. Higginbotham, PhD, associate dean for Research, left, presents the Research/Scholarship

Award to Katherine Grelle, MD.

John B. Waits, MD, fourth from left, and Natasha Harder, MD, second from left, present the Chief Residents: from left, E. Ray Stewart, MD, Justin

Cooke, MD, and Michael Luther, MD.

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Scott Argo, MD, grew up in Collinsville, a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Alabama with a population of just under 2,000. When asked the type of practice he hopes to have once he graduates his answer is not surprising: rural. Argo completed his undergradu-

Elizabeth Western, MD, PhD, chose the College’s Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency because of its primary care focus, academic nature and a faculty richly diverse in specialty areas. “I appreciate the mix of community-oriented primary care while still being academic,” she says.

“I also like the fact that we are taught by attendings in many different specialties. It gives us a unique and varied perspective.”

Western, who has completed the first of three years of residency training, says she is interested in practicing family medicine in a rural area and eventually might like to teach. She is currently participating in the residency’s Rural Training Track and began seeing patients at a rural clinic in Centreville, Alabama, in July.

Western was raised in Dyersburg, Tennessee. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro in May 2001 with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and music. She earned a master’s degree in organic chemistry from The University of Alabama in 2003 and a doctoral degree in organic chemistry in 2005 while also receiving the University’s Most Outstanding Dissertation Award for that academic year. In June 2009, Western received a medical degree from The University of Alabama School of Medicine.

The William R. Willard Award is given to residents in the Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency who exemplify the qualities and traits of a model family medicine physician. The award is named for the late William R. Willard, MD, the founding dean of the College and a nationally recognized leader in family

medicine. This year’s recipients are Elizabeth Western, MD, PhD, and Scott Argo, MD.

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The Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Graduating Class of 2010, front row from left: Assistant Residency Director Natasha Harder, MD, Kristin Morvant, MD, Laurie Cochran, MD, Katherine Grelle, MD, Steven Dirmeyer, MD, Deanah Maxwell, MD, and Residency Director John B. Waits, MD; back row from left: Ty Krehbiel, MD, Earl Ray Stewart, MD, Justin Cooke, MD, Jeb Hornsby, MD, and Michael Luther, MD.

ate work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, receiving bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology in June 2005. While a student there, he worked as a labora-tory instructor, teaching organic chemistry lab sessions to incoming UAB students.

He also worked for a Birmingham-based company, Folia Inc., where he was responsible for ensuring the safety of Folia’s laboratory, as well as its compliance with OSHA regulations. In May 2009, Argo earned his medical degree from The University of Alabama School of Medicine. He says he chose the College’s Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency for his residency training because of its outstanding faculty. He is a second-year resident in the three-year program.

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Thirty-three graduates were recognized during the College’s 34th Annual Medical Student Honors Convocation May 14 at Indian Hills

Country Club in Tuscaloosa. The Class of 2010 was introduced by College Dean E. Eugene Marsh, MD, and Cathy Gresham, MD, assistant to the dean and director of the Office of Medical Student Affairs. The convocation address was given by Angela Powell, MD, a clinical affiliate assistant professor in the College’s Departments of Family Medicine and

Community and Rural Medicine. Powell has a pri-vate practice, Primary Care Center of Monroeville in Monroeville, Alabama, which is one of two rural sites in the College’s Tuscaloosa Experience in Rural Medicine (TERM) program. TERM is designed to introduce third-year medical students at the College to rural health care from the perspective of practicing physicians, and to provide students with hands-on clinical experiences at rural, primary-care practices. Powell is a 1996 graduate of the College’s Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency.

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Michael Antonetti, MD – AnesthesiologyUAB Health System, Birmingham, AL

Brent Gray Ballard, MD– Family MedicineTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency

William Charles Barrow, MD, magna cum laude – Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Austin Clark Bourgeois, MD – Diagnostic Radiology University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN

Scott Coleman Boyken, MD – Family MedicineTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency

Catherine Gentry Brooke, MD – PediatricsThe Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

Charles Edward Bryant, MD – AnesthesiologyWalter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

Wesley Carroll Chambers, MD – Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Alabama Hospitals, Mobile, AL

Christopher Brian Clayton, MD – Family MedicineUniversity of Alabama at Huntsville Family Medicine Residency, Huntsville, AL

Kelly Marcus Coleman, MD – AnesthesiologyUAB Health System, Birmingham, AL

Fernando Gomez, MD – PediatricsUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

Walter Blake Gribben, MD – Medicine - PediatricsSt. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

April Elizabeth Irons, MD – PediatricsUAB Health System, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, AL

Bryant Keith Mahaffey, MD – PsychiatryUAB Health System, Birmingham, AL

Robert Ambrose Martin, MD – Family MedicineSelf Regional Healthcare, Greenwood, SC

Corey Andrew Mayer, MD – Family MedicineNorth Colorado Medical Center, Greeley, CO

Shermeen Bashir Memon, MD – Internal MedicineUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX

Adesh D. Patel, MD – Internal MedicineUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

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Arpan Jitendra Patel, MD – AnesthesiologyUAB Health System, Birmingham, AL

Ashley Morgan Poe, MD – Obstetrics and GynecologyFlorida State University, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL

Terrence MacArthur Pugh, MD – Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Carolina’s Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

Raymond Anton Reiser, MD – PediatricsThe Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

Matthew Justin Satcher, MD – Family MedicineTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency

William Alexander Shaffer, MD – Diagnostic RadiologyLouisiana State University Affiliated Hospitals, New Orleans, LA

Neil Kirit Shah, MD – Internal MedicineTulane University School of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals, New Orleans, LA

Adam Franklin Shaw, MD – Orthopedic SurgeryUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City Programs, Kansas City, MO

Amanda Mae Stevens, MD – Family MedicineTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency

Sara Lindsey Thurgood – Deferred

Dana Lytrice Todd, MD – Family MedicineTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency

Todd Bagwell Vaughan, MD – Family MedicineTuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency

Heather René Waldrup, MD – SurgeryBaptist Health System Inc., Birmingham, AL

Timothy Alphonzo Williams, MD, magna cum laude – Internal Medicine, UAB Health System, Birmingham, AL

Jonathan William Wright, MD, cum laude – Orthopedic Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN

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The Gold Humanism Honor Society Award – Catherine Brooke, MD, and Walter Gribben, MD For students who excel in clinical care, leader-ship, professionalism, compassion, patient care and dedication to service.

TERM Award – Raymond Reiser, MDPresented to a student who participated in the Tuscaloosa Experience in Rural Medicine (TERM) Program.

Resident Recognition Award– Ahmed Moussa, MDFor outstanding contri-butions to undergradu-ate medical education.

James H. Akers Memorial Award – Terrence Pugh, MDFor excellence in the practice of art and science in medicine.

Larry Mayes Memorial Scholarship Award – Amanda ReimerIn recognition of work in underserved areas.

Cathy Gresham, MD, center, with The Gold Humanism Honor Society Award winners Walter

Gribben, MD, left, and Catherine Brooke, MD, right.

Ashley Evans, MD, right, presents the TERM Award to Raymond Reiser, MD.

Terrence Pugh, MD, right, presents the Resident Recognition Award to Ahmed

Moussa, MD.

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Jonathan Wright, MD, left, presents the James H. Akers Memorial Award to

Terrence Pugh, MD.

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Pediatric Recognition Award – Catherine Brooke, MD

For excellent performance in Pediatrics.

Student Research Award – Brent Ballard, MD, Sara Thurgood

In recognition of research leading to a presentation or publication during the

clinical years of medical training.

Finney/Akers Memorial Award – Wesley Chambers, MD

For outstanding ability in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Family Medicine Award – Todd Vaughan, MD

For excellent performance in Family Medicine.

William R. Shamblin Award – Jonathan Wright, MD

For excellent performance in Surgery.

Robert F. Gloor Award in Community and Rural Medicine –

Brent Ballard, MDFor excellent performance in

Community and Rural Medicine.

Peter Bryce Award in Psychiatry – Bryant Mahaffey, MD, and

Matthew Satcher, MDFor excellent performance in Psychiatry.

Neurology Award – William Barrow, MD

For outstanding performance during the Neurology Clerkship.

Willliam W. Winternitz Award– Timothy Williams, MD

For excellent performance in Internal Medicine.

Heather Taylor, MD, left, presents the Pediatric Recognition Award to Catherine Brooke, MD.

Julia Boothe, MD, left, presents the Family Medicine Award to Todd Vaughan, MD.

Joseph Wallace, MD, left, presents the William R. Shamblin Award to Jonathan Wright, MD.

James Leeper, PhD, right, presents the Robert F. Gloor Award in Community and Rural Medicine to

Brent Ballard, MD.

College Dean E. Eugene Marsh, MD, right, presents the Neurology Award to William Barrow, MD.

John C. Higginbotham, PhD, right, presents the Student Research Award to Brent Ballard, MD.

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Nancy Rubin, PsyD, center, presents the Peter Bryce Award in Psychiatry to Bryant Mahaffey, MD, right,

and Matthew Satcher, MD, left.

John McDonald, MD, left, presents the Finney/Akers Memorial Award to Wesley Chambers, MD.

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Timothy Williams, MD, came to medicine by way of the U.S. Navy. He received a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering with distinction from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in May 1999. He earned a master’s

degree in Aeronautical Engineering/Avionics,

again with distinction, from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in July 2000.

While at The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Williams served as president of the Family Medicine Interest Group, a student-run organization that promotes awareness of and interest in the medical specialty of family medicine. He was an Honors Council representative for the School of Medicine as well as vice president of the UAB Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, a national medical honor society whose members are selected based upon their academic performance and leadership. Members must be in the top 25 percent of their class and demonstrate such qualities as fairness, compassion, integrity and a commitment to service.

College Dean E. Eugene Marsh, MD, right, and Timothy Williams, MD.

Dana Todd, MD, was first introduced to the College through its Rural Health Scholars and Rural Minority Scholars programs. Both programs bring high school juniors and seniors from rural areas to The University of Alabama for summer classes, meetings with medical school admissions staff, visits

to rural health facilities and for preparation for the MCAT, the medical school entrance exam.

Todd completed her undergraduate studies at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama, where she graduated summa cum laude in May 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in Biology.

Todd returned to The University of Alabama in June 2005 and was accepted into the College’s Rural Medical Scholars Program. The program recruits students from rural Alabama counties who become part of the class of University of Alabama School of Medicine students who complete their third and fourth years of medical school on the Tuscaloosa Campus. While a medical student, Todd completed a master’s degree in Human Environmental Sciences, graduating summa cum laude in May 2006.

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SChOLaSTIC aChIEvEMENT awaRdTIMOThy wILLIaMS, Mdpresented to a senior medical student with the highest academic performance in the clinical years.

College Dean E. Eugene Marsh, MD, right, and Dana Todd, MD.

presented to a senior medical student for outstanding contributions to the goals and mission of the College.

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aLFa RURaL MEdICaL SChOLaR awaRd – JUSTIN vINES

While in high school, Justin Vines participated in the College’s Rural Health Scholars Program, which encourages high school students from rural Alabama to consider careers in medicine and return to rural Alabama to prac-tice. This summer, Vines entered The University of Alabama School

of Medicine. He received the Alfa Rural Medical Scholar Award, which provides support for the Rural Community Health year and four years of medical school at the University. Scholarship recipients com-mit to rural service when they accept the award. Vines says he hopes to return to his hometown of Tallassee after his medical education and training to practice family medicine. Vines’s first introduction to medicine came in 2005 when, as a high school junior, he joined the Rural Health Scholars Program, a five-week program that, in addition to encouraging medical careers, gives par-ticipants a chance to experience college life. Scholars live on campus, take courses for credit, participate in seminars and field trips and receive information about health careers. A year later, Vines graduated as valedictorian from Edgewood Academy in Tallassee and was admitted into The University of Alabama Honors Program. During his senior undergraduate year, Vines partici-pated in the College’s Rural Medical Scholars Program, which seeks to produce physicians for rural Alabama.

Seated from left, Brittney Anderson, Theresa Berry, Arnelya Cade and Katie Leonard. Standing from left, John McDaniel, Heath Mitchell, Justin Vines and Elliott Dansby.

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Members of the 2009-2010 Rural Medical Scholars class were honored at the 14th Annual Rural Medi-cal Scholars Convocation held April 23 at the Hotel Capstone on The University of Alabama campus. The Rural Medical Scholars Program was created for rural students interested in medical careers and is a five-year medical education program that leads to a medical degree. Selection for the program is based on a competitive application process exclusively for stu-dents from rural Alabama who wish to become rural primary care physicians. The program was founded and is directed by John Wheat, MD, a professor in the College’s Department of Community and Rural Medicine. Members of the 2009-2010 Rural Medical Scholars class began their first year of medical school this sum-mer at The University of Alabama School of Medi-cine’s main campus in Birmingham. They will return to the College for clinical training during their final two years of medical school. Donald Williamson, MD, state health officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health, was the convocation keynote speaker. He commended the Rural Medical Scholars for responding to the state’s desperate need for rural physicians. College Dean Emeritus Wilmer Coggins, MD, was presented with the Rural Medical Scholars Program Distinguished Service Award.

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2009 – 2010 RURaL MEdICaL SChOLaRS Brittney Anderson, Prattville, ALTheresa Berry, Berry, ALArnelya Cade, Thomaston, ALElliott Dansby, Andalusia, ALKatie Leonard, Cullman, ALJohn McDaniel, Sylacauga, ALHeath Mitchell, Greensboro, ALJustin Vines, Tallassee, AL

The College is located in a state-of-the-art, 95,000-square-foot facility that includes University Medical Center, the Student Health Center, the Institute for Rural Health Research

and telemedicine and educational facilities.

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The College of Community Health Sciences was established at The University of Alabama in the early

1970s in response to the country’s acute need for more primary care physicians. Many areas of Alabama, particularly small towns and rural communities, suffered from a serious lack of health care.

With a mandate from the state Legislature to improve rural health care in Alabama, the College looked to family medicine to achieve its goals. The College was committed not just to training more physicians but also to cultivating health care professionals with the desire to serve smaller, underserved communities.

The College became official with the arrival of William R. Willard, MD, a nationally recognized leader in family medicine who came from the University of Kentucky in 1972 to lead the Tuscaloosa program as its first dean. Willard developed College disciplines to meet the needs of the state. Family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry and behavioral medicine, internal medicine and obstetrics-gynecology all became part of the new curriculum. A residency in family medicine, a new specialty at the time, was begun within two years. More than three decades later, the College has made significant strides in making health care more available and accessible in the state. Approximately 700 medical students have received their third and fourth years of clinical training at the College. Of these graduates, more than half have chosen careers in primary care, and those who choose to specialize in other areas of medicine are well prepared to do so.

The College’s Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency has seen similar success, placing nearly 400 family medicine physicians into practice, with more than half of those in Alabama and the majority of

those in towns with fewer than 25,000 residents. In fact, one of every seven family medicine physicians now practicing in Alabama graduated from the College’s residency.

The College has implemented other successful programs to attract even more family medicine physicians to serve the state. The Rural Health Scholars, Rural Medical Scholars and Rural Minority Scholars programs were developed to guide students into careers in health care. Hundreds of high school and college students from rural Alabama have taken advantage of these programs.

The College furthered its commitment to rural health research by creating the Institute for Rural Health Research in 2001. The Institute has since become a driving

force in the state in identifying and researching a variety of rural health issues that, in turn, help shape the strategic direction of the College.

During the past three decades, the College of Community Health Sciences has contributed greatly to improved health care in the state. Now in its fourth decade, the College will continue to address the state’s unique health care issues, as well as issues associated with rural health care in Alabama, by training skilled medical practitioners and researchers for the future.

Nott Hall, our home from 1972 to 2004,and still part of the College.

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