List of University of Alabama at Birmingham people explained

This is a partial list of people affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Administrators

Presidents

• Joseph F. Volker, 1969–1976
• George Campbell, 1976-1977 (interim)
• S. Richardson Hill, 1977-1986
• Charles "Scotty" McCallum, 1986-1987 (interim), 1987-1993
• Claude Bennett, 1993-1996
• Paul Hardin, 1997 (interim)
• W. Ann Reynolds, 1997–2002
• Malcolm Portera, 2002 (interim)
• Carol Z. Garrison, 2002–2012
• Ray Watts, 2013–present^[1]

Alumni

Business and public figures

• Toshiko Abe, Japanese minister of education, culture, sports, sciences, and technology

Other

Faculty and researchers

• David B. Allison, Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean for Science
• Eli Capilouto, former Dean of UAB School of Public Health, former Provost of UAB, and current President of the University of Kentucky
• April Carson, epidemiologist
• Larry DeLucas, astronaut and research scientist
• Ibrahim Fawal, professor of film and literature
• Edith Frohock, book maker and educator
• Stephen Glosecki, scholar of Old English^[2]
• Wendy Gunther-Canada, professor in the department of government
• Tinsley Randolph Harrison, physician and editor of the first five editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
• Basil Hirschowitz, father of the modern endoscope
• Robert Hyatt, co-author of Cray Blitz, two-time winner of the World Computer Chess Championships
• Adrienne C. Lahti, F. Cleveland Kinney Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
• Timothy R. Levine, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Communication Studies, creator of Truth-Default Theory
• Kerry Madden, professor of creative writing
• Carl E. Misch, founded The Misch International Implant Institute
• Shin Joong Oh, Distinguished Professor of Neurology Emeritus and Professor of Pathology^[3]
• Henry Panion, University Professor of Music, music director for Stevie Wonder, Grammy Award-winning arranger and producer
• Gregory Pence, professor of philosophy
• Ray Reach, former director of the UAB Jazz Ensemble^[4] (1998–2005), arranger, composer, jazz pianist and vocalist, Director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
• Michael Saag, AIDS researcher
• Jessica A. Scoffield, microbiologist
• Eric Sorscher, director of the Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center 1994–2015

References

1. Web site: List of UAB presidents - Bhamwiki.
2. News: Stephen O. Glosecki Obituary. 7 April 2007. The State Journal-Register. 15 April 2014.
3. News: Dr. Shin Oh Named Distinguished Professor. Birmingham Medical News. 2006. July 7, 2023.
4. http://www.bhamwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=UAB_Jazz_Ensemble UAB Jazz Ensemble