News at USA Health

Ashley Williams Hogue, M.D., received one of the nation’s highest honors for a junior trauma surgeon.

USA Health employees recognized in the Class of 2023 include Ahmed Abdalla, M.D.; Phillip Henderson, D.O.; Antwan J. Hogue, M.D.; Kristen Roberts, CPA; and Melody Zeidan, J.D., M.D.

The highly competitive grants provide each researcher $50,000 in funding per year for two years. The awards function as seed funding for early-stage studies, allowing researchers to generate the additional data needed to attract major national funding.

Walker Plash, M.D., an emergency medicine physician, shares some tips on preventing holiday-related injuries.

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Project Inspire is back and making a difference in the Mobile community.

The partnership between the Center for Healthy Communities and the Mobile County Health Department – now in its second year – aims to increase the number of community health workers who will empower struggling communities to build resilience in the event of a disaster.

Thakur gave three lectures during the meeting covering different aspects of skull base surgery.

Ardie Pack-Mabien, FNP-BC, will lead as the interim director, and Allison Bolton, M.D., and Antwan Hogue, M.D., will serve as collaborating physicians.

The practice sees patients with diabetes, adrenal disorders, osteoporosis, and thyroid and pituitary disorders, and helps patients manage their weight and metabolism.

A guestbook for those who would like to send their sympathies to the Waldrop family will be in the lobby of USA Health University Hospital until Thursday, Dec. 8. Those at Children's & Women's Hospital who also wish to sign the guestbook can visit the front desk in the lobby on Friday, Dec. 9, through Tuesday, Dec. 13.

Dr. Haynes will be remembered as an excellent clinician and scientist who was passionate about his patients, and a trailblazer who paved the way for young African Americans to follow in his footsteps and become physicians.

As a member of the committee, Richard Menger, M.D., will serve as a spine and methodology expert to help formulate guidelines dictating best practices for spinal surgeries.