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  • Dr. Stefan Kertesz named 2025 Bucksbaum-Siegler Clinical Excellence Award Honoree
  • Why a Healthy Diet Could Help You Manage Chronic Pain, Regardless of Your Weight
  • Li receives a federal grant to expand substance use disorder training for medical students
  • Sun wins a highly competitive, five-year NIH Director’s Pioneer award
  • Alabama’s first street psychiatry program

  • Dr. Stefan Kertesz named 2025 Bucksbaum-Siegler Clinical Excellence Award Honoree

    The Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute for Clinical Excellence has named Stefan G. Kertesz, MD, MSc as the recipient of the 2025 Bucksbaum-Siegler Clinical Excellence Award, recognizing his extraordinary commitment to clinical excellence and the doctor-patient relationship.

    Kertesz is a professor of Medicine at the Heersink School of Medicine and a physician-investigator with the Birmingham VA Health Care System. Trained in internal medicine and addiction medicine, he began his career as a front-line physician with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program.

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  • Why a Healthy Diet Could Help You Manage Chronic Pain, Regardless of Your Weight

    Chronic pain can affect all aspects of a person’s daily life and overall health. But new research suggests embracing a healthy diet might be one way to lower the intensity of that pain, regardless of a person’s weight.

    The new study, published in Nutrition Research in October, could offer an accessible, readily available tool for tackling chronic pain.

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  • Li receives a federal grant to expand substance use disorder training for medical students

    Li Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, was recently awarded a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to expand substance use disorder (SUD) training for medical students. The goal is not only to better equip medical students with the skill sets necessary to treat patients with SUD but also to ultimately address SUD as a national health crisis.

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  • Sun wins a highly competitive, five-year NIH Director’s Pioneer award

    HaoSheng Sun, Ph.D., has been awarded a highly competitive National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer award from the NIH Common Fund.

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  • Alabama’s first street psychiatry program

    Montgomery Regional Medical Campus Psychiatry Residency Program establishes Alabama’s first street psychiatry program

    In October 2024, the UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Montgomery Psychiatry Residency received funding from the city of Montgomery to start Alabama’s first Street Psychiatry clinic. The city provided this funding in response to a call for proposals aimed at addressing the Opioid Epidemic in Montgomery’s vulnerable populations.

    The UAB Montgomery Psychiatry Residency program proposed a Street Psychiatry clinic designed to provide treatment for Opioid Use Disorder and co-occurring mental illness to Montgomery’s unhoused and unstably housed residents, and the city awarded the residency $345,676 to actualize this proposal.

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CAPPI: Improving addiction and pain outcomes through research, education, community outreach, and patient care resources

The mission of CAPPI is to conduct cutting-edge research that can be developed into better treatments for addiction and pain. The faculty and staff in CAPPI seek to educate other professionals and the public about addiction and pain in a way that promotes compassion and minimizes the stigma of these two health conditions. CAPPI also serves as the focal point for community outreach in order to build effective partnerships with the communities we serve.

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