Department of Family and Community Medicine

09/10/2025

Mark your calendar…It's almost Primary Care Week 🥳 🎉

From hands-on workshops to a research poster session and provider panel, these events are designed to fuel an interest in primary care while fostering connection and learning.

09/05/2025

Why choose a career in Family Medicine? ⚕️

"Family medicine is intellectually challenging and impactful...it's about whole-person care!"

Going through residency match? Dr. Rana has this tip:

💡 Be authentic, research programs well, and choose a place where you feel you'll thrive both professionally and personally.

09/02/2025

WELCOME! Congratulations to these three students who make up our third cohort of Blaze to MD Primary Care Pathway participants. We couldn’t be more excited about your journey! 🩺🥼

08/29/2025

When the faculty is away, the CMAs will…TRAIN!

During our most recent faculty meeting, Certified Medical Assistants at the Family Medicine Clinic at UAB Hospital-Highlands had an opportunity to refresh and review needs and set up for the variety of procedures performed in our clinics. This was a fantastic opportunity for newer staff to work alongside more experienced team members.

08/29/2025

Can online behavioral weight management programs be improved by simply adding a human touch? The iREACH Rural program hopes to answer that question by examining how high-touch support elements in digital interventions can be optimized for delivering weight loss programs to rural patients. Department researchers are working through the HEART-NET Primary Care research network to help bring this free program to people across Alabama, where more than 39% of adults are considered obese.

Studies show that losing as little as 5% of body weight can yield significant health benefits, including reducing obesity-associated conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and even certain cancers, among those with excess weight. While lifestyle interventions are sho...

08/27/2025

Have you met the UAB Selma Family Medicine Residency class of 2028? This is one of the country’s few truly rural Family Medicine residency programs, and this group is incredibly important to the Selma community!

🩺 Malik Ahmad, M.B.B.S.
🥼 Mohamed Elawady, M.Med.
⚕️ GP Sohi, M.B.B.S.
🩺 John Omole-Matthew, M.B.B.S.
🥼 Mehak Marwah, M.B.B.S.

08/23/2025

Picture day for new faculty members 📸

08/22/2025

Caring for the champions! 🏆

Our own Ian McKeag, MD, CAQSM, associate professor and head team physician for the USA Lacrosse Women’s Sixes National Team, was on the ground in Chengdu, China, as the national team took gold at The World Games.

A former collegiate lacrosse player, Dr. McKeag was appointed head team physician in 2024. He called the position, “a career goal of mine since I started medical school.”

Congratulations to the Women’s Sixes National Team!

08/20/2025

Cahaba-UAB Highlands Family Medicine Resident Khawla Suhaila, MD (second from left), recently returned from the STFM POCUS Summit sponsored by ABFM, where she was one of just five resident leaders.

Dr. Suhaila has a passion for integrating point-of-care ultrasound training into medical education and spent her time at the summit learning about how other programs across the country use POCUS. She also shared more about UAB’s POCUS initiative, highlighting how every Family Medicine resident in the program has an individual device plus gets POCUS additional training both online and in person.

08/19/2025

“Growing our clinical footprint and expanding access to quality care are key to serving communities and offering patient-centered, cost-effective care. This new clinic reflects our commitment to providing comprehensive care in an accessible, modern setting.” - Erin DeLaney, M.D., vice chair for clinical affairs and quality and ambulatory medical quality officer.

📍48 Medical Park Drive East, Suite 154, Birmingham, AL 35235
☎️ 659-997-9700

UAB Family and Community Medicine is expanding access to comprehensive primary care across Birmingham with the opening of a new family medicine clinic at UAB St. Vincent’s East.

08/15/2025

Want to be part of our family?

Potential residents had the opportunity to connect with Ying Ge, MD, Khawla Suhalia, MD, and Olaitan Okungbowa, MD, at the AAFP FUTURE Conference for medical students and family medicine residents.

They shared their experiences in the Cahaba-UAB Family Medicine Residency Program with more than 100 students.

08/11/2025

Join Family & Community Medicine Grand Rounds tomorrow, when Rachael Lancaster, MD, presents on breast cancer screening. During this informative session, you’ll learn more about:  
 
• Breast cancer statistics and a brief history of screening 
• Current guidelines for screening, including risks and benefits of screening 
• Implications for women at increased risk of breast cancer 

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