UAB Briefs: Hospital ranked No. 1 in state, summer commencement
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Ranked No. 1
UAB Hospital is again ranked as No. 1 in the state of Alabama in the 2017-2018 Best Hospitals ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
In addition, 10 medical specialties at UAB Hospital are ranked in the top 50 in the nation in the report.
The highest-ranked specialties are rheumatology (10), nephrology (14), pulmonology (17) and urology (20), diabetes and endocrinology (21), gynecology (26), cardiology and heart surgery (30), neurology and neurosurgery (34), geriatrics (47) and ear, nose and throat (50).
The complete rankings and methodology are available at health.usnews.com/best-hospitals.
Summer commencement
UAB will host its summer commencement ceremony at Bartow Arena, Saturday, Aug. 12, at 9:30 a.m., according to a university news release.
Nearly 1,400 UAB students will graduate this summer, and an estimated 850 are expected to walk in the ceremony.
The arena doors will open at 8:30 a.m.
The event will be live streamed at facebook.com/uab.edu.
The ceremonies will be available for viewing online at uab.edu/commencement about a week after the ceremony.
The UAB Graduate School will host its hooding ceremony for students earning doctorates at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center at noon.
For summer 2017, the university’s highest degrees will be conferred on 90 students from 17 states and eight countries in 27 disciplines.
Donate Life
The African American Task Force, in conjunction with the Alabama Organ Center, will present the Donate Life Gospel Celebration at Bethel Baptist Church on Saturday, Aug. 12., 4-6 p.m.
The church is located at 1708 Spencer Ave. in Pratt City.
The event, in its second year, was created to recognize National Minority Donor Awareness Week, a nationwide observance to educate minorities of the desperate need of organ donation and transplantation within the multicultural community.
“We are excited to include several talented local gospel choirs in the program, and are expecting an evening of great music and communion as we celebrate the life-giving miracle of organ and tissue donation,” said LaToya Bishop, multicultural education coordinator at the Alabama Organ Center.
For more information, call 731-9200 or go to alabamaorgancenter.org.
Hope through art
The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and its co-sponsors will host Visions of Hope: Expressions of a Cancer Journey – a particpatory art event designed to help people affected by cancer cope with the emotional side of the disease – in the North Pavilion Atrium on Thursday, Aug. 17, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Anyone touched by cancer – patients, survivors, families, caregivers and clinicians – is welcome and encouraged to share their story.
“Therapeutic art is an excellent way for patients, survivors and families to cope with the trauma of cancer diagnosis,” said Teri Hoenemeyer, director of education and support services at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The finished artwork will be placed on display in clinical areas at UAB.
No registration is required. No art experience is necessary, and art supplies will be provided.
The event co-sponsored by Lily Oncology on Canvas and UAB Arts in Medicine.
For information, call 934-5772 or click here.