News at USA Health

USA Health is teaming with Jeffrey St. John, M.D., of Vision Partners to provide high quality care using state-of-the-art equipment.

“Our ultimate goal for this research is to make clear the biological and molecular mechanisms that are critical to rickettsial transmission by fleas so we can better understand the epidemiology of flea-borne rickettsial diseases and identify novel points of intervention,” Macaluso said.

Funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Community Health Workers project is a collaboration between the USA Center for Healthy Communities and the Mobile County Health Department.

Nabin R. Karki, M.D., will focus on treating patients with prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer and testicular cancer.

Led by Chandrani Sarkar, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, the research team has identified neuropeptide Y (NPY) derived from cancer cells as an independent regulator of colon cancer progression.

Meghan Hermance, Ph.D., an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at USA, recently received the five-year award to study the infection dynamics of a tick-borne bunyavirus called severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus or SFTSV.

A collaboration between the University of South Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the study builds upon Lin’s previous research grant from the NIH, which totaled $1.7 million over a four-year period.

Zachary M. Trisel, M.D., completed a fellowship in medical oncology at USA Health/Mitchell Cancer Institute and a residency in internal medicine at Drexel University/Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

USA Health psychiatrist Michael Marshall, M.D., is accepting new patients.

National study is seeking those who have had COVID and those who haven’t.

USA Health gives expectant moms a new option for pain relief before childbirth.

Kevin Macaluso, Ph.D., chair of the department of microbiology and immunology, served as president of the American Society for Rickettsiology from 2019-2022.