The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) traces its roots to the 1859 founding of the Medical College of Alabama and the 1936 opening of the Birmingham Extension Center of the University of Alabama. Executive Director of Oncology Services at MedStar . Dr. David Standaert was named director of the center. August 21, 1995: Dr. Michael A. Geheb became first director of the UAB Health Systems with oversight and coordination of the UAB Hospital, Health Services Foundation, Triton, and clinical activities of the faculty. Theatre department professor Lee Shackleford was founder and first director of the festival. Published: February 28th, 2023. January 2022: The UAB Health System entered into a management relationship with Northwest Regional Health in Winfield, Alabama. Ellen Clyde Cook received a degree in Microbiology, the first master's degree awarded. 1964: The Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center was established with Dr. William C. Fleming as director. Jul 2021 - Present1 year 9 months. October 9, 2006: Anthony B. Purcell became the fifth Chief of Police. December 2011: John Fields, adjunct instructor in the Department of Art and Art History and a UAB alumnus, became interim director of the UAB Visual Arts Gallery. Hospital Maintenance is responsibile for the inspection, testing and maintenance of the UAB and Highlands Hospital physical environments, which includes more than 6 million square feet of clinical space. 1969: Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award was established for excellence in classroom teaching. October 2017: UAB announced the expansion of its campus supercomputer to 450 teraflops, making the universitys supercomputer the fastest in the state of Alabama and one of the five fastest at an academic institution in the Southeast. He is also the Assistant Section Chief for Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. January 8, 1980: A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Hulsey Center for Arts and Humanities. She also serves as the Associate Director for Outcomes Research at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. October 1, 2002: Dr. Eli Capilouto became acting Provost. March 6, 1968: Rust Research Center groundbreaking was held. September 17, 2021: Kenneth O. Simon was elected to the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. 2014: An area on the planet Mars was named for Dr. Thomas Wdowiak, a former professor of physics at UAB. He was replaced by Richard L. Margison, UAB's vice president for Financial Affairs and Administration, who became interim Athletic Director. 1948: Drs. "Consider it pure joy whenever you . September 1, 1984: Ken Letson became UAB's second Sports Information director. 1989: Alabama's first skin grafting procedure using laboratory-cultured skin for treatment of severe burns occurred at University Hospital. 1992: The third annual Step Show was renamed as the Camille Armstrong Memorial Scholarship Step Show in honor of the late Camille Armstrong, a UAB student who died in an automobile accident in 1986 just prior to graduation. June 4, 1989: National Basketball Association (NBA) superstar Michael Jordan headlined a Slam Dunk Contest at the UAB Arena as a benefit for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham. October 1973: Groundbreaking was held for the Physical Education Facility. October 2, 1997: Ground was broken for the Richard M. Scrushy Building, future home of the School of Health Related Professions. February 28, 1905: Hillman Hospital Training School for Nurses graduated its first class. February 2020: UAB announced that its public radio affiliate WBHM-FM Radio was partnering with three other stations, Mississippi Public Radio (Jackson), WNNO (New Orleans), and WPFK (Baton Rouge), to establish the collaborative Gulf States Newsroom. December 10, 1983: Students, staff, and faculty in the arts and humanities held the first Madrigal Feaste in the newly opened University Center. It replaced the formerly issued Student Handbook. April 29, 2002: The groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building. 1977: Sports Medicine Institute established as an official UAB center. December 6, 1988: In their first home game in the new UAB Arena, the Women's Basketball team defeated Southern University 66-64. June 3, 1949: The Class of 1949, the first class to spend all four years of medical school in Birmingham, graduated with 24 male and 7 female students. October 1, 1996: UAB Health System, a nonprofit entity, established in a joint operating agreement between The University of Alabama Board of Trustees and the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation. May 1971: A groundbreaking ceremony was held for a classroom for the humanities (Humanities Building) and a library (Sterne Library). M.D., co-director of the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Program. November 9, 2002: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Alabama Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery. Dr. Virginia D. Horns-Marsh carried the mace into the ceremony. 2008: The Southeast Biosafety Laboratory Alabama Birmingham Building (SEBLAB) was completed as UAB's level-3 biosafety facility. Total enrollment was down approximately 2.4 percent, but freshmen enrollment increased 12 percent. 1999: Gwen Merritt became the head coach of the Women's Golf team. September 1970: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees held the first board meeting at the newly independent UAB. 1969: Dr. T. Joseph Reeves was named chair of the Department of Medicine. November 1, 1968: Dr. S. Richardson Hill, Jr., became vice president for Health Affairs. March 1969: Delois Skipwith became the first African American faculty member in the School of Nursing and the first tenure-track African American faculty member at UAB. November 5, 2004: The Center for Computational and Structural Biology was approved by The University of Alabama Board of Trustees. We are excited to welcome Lee to UAB, where his experience and knowledge will serve him and our campus well, said Greg Parsons, associate vice president and chief facilities officer. April 1, 1997: J. February 15, 2001: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the International Tuberculosis Center. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FINANCIAL AID. 5 opened. October 1968: Enrollment in the College of General Studies totaled 3,378 students, including business administration (591), allied health sciences (104), education (574), engineering (408), humanities (215), natural sciences & mathematics (341), and social sciences (316). After joining as a junior faculty member, he began focused work on the division's critical care efforts as the medical director for UAB's MICU. It is his hope that with these studies, the physician workforce distribution issues can be addressed and access to care across the country can be improved. May 14, 2021: Kari Bellville became the head coach of the Women's Golf team. June 4, 1945: Twenty-two juniors registered for classes in Jefferson-Hillman Hospital for the new four-year Medical College of Alabama. 1994: Dr. Suzanne Oparil became the fifth Medical Center physician to become president of the American Heart Association. January 1, 1990: Effective on this date, all buildings, grounds, offices, parking lots, and parking decks at UAB became smoke free. Dr. Bruce A. Freeman was named as first director of the Center for Radical Free Cell Biology. Thomas C. Seals became the first Chief of Police. July 1968: Dr. Herschell Lee Hamilton received a clinical appointment in the Department of Surgery and became the first African American board-certified general surgeon at University Hospital. We were created to care for hospitalized Primary Care patients, but - like so many Hospital Medicine programs across the country - our . April 19, 2002: The Comprehensive Youth Violence Center was approved by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. The team was stationed at University Hospital, the states only adult Level-1 Trauma Center, in order to develop their medical and teamwork skills. April 3, 1986: The Lister Hill Center for Health Policy and the Center for Nuclear Imaging Research were established by The University of Alabama Board of Trustees. The Glacier freezer unit had been aboard the ISS since April 2014 and the Polar freezer unit had been aboard the station since July 2019. Jones would resign from the board in April 2017. December 4, 1976: School of Community and Allied Health Resources was renamed the School of Public and Allied Health, Dr. Keith D. Blayney renamed as dean. A production of Best Foot Forward, with music and lyrics by Ralph Blane and Birmingham native Hugh Martin, featured Tommy Dix. February 1957: University Hospital's Beacon was first published. He then completed his internal medicine residency at UAB in 2014 and served as a Chief Medicine Resident at UAB through 2015. December 14, 1995: The Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center was formally established by The University of Alabama Board of Trustees. He was the first UAB faculty member to be so honored. 2016: Anita Clemon became the fifth chair of the UAB Commission on the Status of Women. April 1929: Hillman Hospital School of Nursing Residence was dedicated. John D. S. Davis, William E. B. Davis, William H. Johnston, Benjamin L. Wyman, Sr., Russell M. Cunningham, John C. LeGrande, B. G. Copeland, J. H. McCarty, and Lewis G. Woodson were the original stockholders of the medical school. The Board approved a $91 million system-wide budget for the three universities, over $53.7 million (59%) of the total budget was for UAB. January 20, 2011: UAB National Alumni Society House was officially dedicated. April 7, 1950: An installation banquet was held for the Alabama Alpha Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honorary medical society. Provides strategic oversight of patient operations for 5 UAB facilities totaling 1500 beds, 63 . Steve Nixon, a junior management major, was editor of the first yearbook. She was later named as the team's third head coach. August 1, 2003: Dr. James B. McClintock became interim dean of the UAB Graduate School. December 1959: Birmingham native Patricia "Pat" Neal (later renamed as Fannie Flagg) appeared in a Town and Gown Theatre production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." In 1986 the center was renamed in honor of Gregory Fleming James, the late son of Governor Fob James. July 1962: Spain Rehabilitation groundbreaking ceremony was held. September 1995: Caron Van Gilder became first director of the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center. Dr. Watts, who holds an undergraduate degree from the UAB School of Engineering, had joined the UAB faculty in 2003. 2000 Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society He is an active participating member of the medical staff with the Neurology Service for UAB Hospital and an Associate Scientist in the Neuro-oncology Program at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. September 1, 1977: Dr. Charles A. McCallum, Jr., became vice president for Health Affairs. Dr. Oestenstad then joined the school's faculty. All rights reserved. He will join UAB March 1. He has been a UAB faculty member since 2012. February 1, 1978: The Russell Ambulatory Center was dedicated. 2003: The theatre department first presented its Festival of 10-Minute Plays to highlight plays written, directed and performed by UAB students, staff and faculty. 2007: The School of Public Health first presented the Lou Wooster Public Health Hero Award, which is named in honor of Birmingham's famed 19th century madam. Dr. William F. Bridgers became the new school's first dean. February 8, 2013: Dr. Anupam Agarwal, director of the Division of Nephrology, was named as interim Senior Vice President for Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine following the appointment of Dean Ray L. Watts as the seventh president of UAB. September 1, 1988: Virginia L. Algermissen became third director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences. Womens bowling would begin in the fall of 2011 and womens beach volleyball in the spring of 2012. 1986: Men's Volleyball and the Riflery teams were eliminated as team sports chiefly due to NCAA regulations for sports allowed per member institution. July 12, 1893: The Birmingham Dental College was incorporated by the State. 1922: Josiah Nott Hall was completed on the Tuscaloosa campus as a home to the two-year basic sciences medical program. April 19, 1996: The Center for Metabolic Bone Disease and the Center for Radical Free Cell Biology were approved by The University of Alabama Board of Trustees. Enrollment increased 4.88 percent from the previous year. September 12, 1969: Alabama Act 1054, the Skidmore Bill, officially changed the name of the Medical College of Alabama to The University of Alabama School of Medicine. June 1, 1997: Dr. Thomas C. Meredith became fourth chancellor of the three-campus University of Alabama System.