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Dancing with the Silver Stars
The annual “Silver Stars” event benefits the UAB Center for
Aging. Themed “Adding Years to Life and Life to Years,” it
pairs local corporate and civic leaders with area professional
dancers for a spirited celebration of aging. November 5, 2012,
at The Club in Birmingham. For more information,
visit www.uab.edu/dwtss.

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UAB Geriatrics leads effort to bridge gaps in
health care for older African Americans.

Selma, Alabama’s Edmund
Pettus Bridge, where
African Americans marched
for equality, is an iconic

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reminder of the gap in health
care in disadvantaged
communities.
S T E V E WO O D

For more information on UAB’s Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine visit ggm.dom.uab.edu

Visit the UAB Medicine Online
Headquarters for Physicians

P H YS I C I A N H Q

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H I G H L I G H T S

The southeastern United States, containing 50%

Deep South RCMAR Renewed to Help Overcome Region’s
“Health Disparities Belt”

of the nation’s older African Americans and 90% of rural

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• Information on how to refer geriatrics patients to UAB Medicine

UAB Named a National Center of Excellence in Pain
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Five Are Hartford Foundation Scholars

• Full digital and downloadable editions of physician publications including all
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Medicine Chair Is Geriatrics Specialist

• Links to other helpful resources for referring physicians including Ambassador,
UAB School of Medicine CME, and UAB research information.
Register for quarterly news, events, and updates from UAB Medicine at
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Minority Aging Research.
UAB geriatrician Richard Allman, MD, director of

African Americans, has been termed “America’s Third

• Information to help your geriatrics patients navigate UAB Medicine

• News and updates about recent medical and research discoveries, advancements,
patient care, events, and seminars

Deep South RCMAR Renewed
to Help Overcome Region’s
“Health Disparities Belt”

Behavioral Therapy for Overactive Bladder in Men

New Physicians

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UAB’s Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative

World” for its extremes of poverty and deprivation.

Care, is principal investigator of the center. He says, “The

For the past five years, UAB and three partnering
institutions have addressed the legacy of poverty, inadequate
health care, and disadvantaged educational and economic

Deep South RCMAR is working to bridge the gap between
health disparity research and healthy minority aging.”
The RCMAR partnership includes UAB, the University

Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR).

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opportunities for this population through the Deep South

of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Morehouse University School
of Medicine in Atlanta, and Tuskegee University in

Now the center has received $2.38 million from the

southeastern Alabama. Morehouse and Tuskegee are

National Institute on Aging to continue its work for another

Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

five years as one of seven national Resource Centers for

Under the initial RCMAR grant (2007 to 2012) the

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