News at USA Health

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, classes at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine have transitioned to an online learning format.

The virtual visits can be for initial consultations, post-operation follow-ups, and other health needs that don’t require an in-person visit.

John A. Vande Waa, D.O., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, is one of four infectious disease specialists serving on Gov. Kay Ivey’s 18-member task force to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the state.

The logistics of this year’s Match Day may have been different, but the spirit of the day remained the same.

A system now in place at USA Health hospitals gives the USA Health Transfer Center a bird’s-eye view of patient traffic flow with the goal of managing bed capacity more efficiently to provide critical services to the region.

The 11^th annual Gulf Coast Trauma Symposium and William A.L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship will be held Aug. 18-19. The event will take place at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa in Mobile, Alabama.

Research completed at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute suggests that aggressive uterine cancer may respond better to immunotherapy than slower growing types.

Barnita Haldar, M.D., a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the University of South Alabama Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program, recently published an article in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

Arshad was one of the first students at South to be named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

Three physicians at USA Health will serve as liaisons between the health system’s information technology department and its care providers.

Sitting in a conference room filled with more than 20 African American medical students, Johnson Haynes Jr., M.D., remembers not being able to see a face like his among his peers in that same building just 30 years ago.

USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital has teamed up with the Mobile Public Library and the USA Alliance for Community Resilience to offer free family learning classes to the community.