About Us

Contact Us

This is a web site of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Division of Continuing Medical Education and Division of General Internal Medicine.

Ann Smith, MPH
Project Manager
Division of Preventive Medicine. University of Alabama at Birmingham

Carlos Estrada, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine – Principal Investigator
Division of General Internal Medicine. University of Alabama at Birmingham

E-mail: ccomp@uab.edu
Office: (205) 934-9903

Cultural Competence Curriculum Steering Committee

Graciela Alarcon, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jeroan Allison, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine of General Internal Medicine
Director, Division of Continuing Medical Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Laura Andea
PhD Candidate, Health Communications, Wayne State University

JudyAnn Bigby, MD
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Andrea Cherrington, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Katie Crenshaw, JD
Assistant Director
Continuing Medical Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Mona Fouad, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Director, UAB Minority Health and Research Center
Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Gustavo Heudebert, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Gail Hill, PhD, CRNP
Associate Professor of Nursing
Nursing Adult/Acute Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Thomas Houston, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sandral Hullett, MD
CEO and Medical Director, Cooper Green Mercy Hospital

Michele Korf, MA
Executive Director of Distance Learning and Outreach, The University of Alabama System

Joan Mangan PhD, MST
Assistant Professor
UAB Lung Health Center. Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Kathleen Nelson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean General Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Johnny Scott, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Birmingham VA Medical Center

Richard Shewchuk, PhD
Professor of Health Services Administration
School of Health Related Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lisa Staton, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit of the College of Medicine

Norman Walton, MD
Assistant Professor.
Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lisa Willett, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Faculty Disclosure

According to the Standards for Commercial Support of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the faculty has been asked to disclose significant financial arrangements related to the content of this continuing medical education program. The faculty for this online course has no commercial relationships to disclose. They have also agreed that if an unlabeled or investigational use of a commercial product was discussed, they would disclose it as such.

Acknowledgements

We would like acknowledge with appreciation:

• Culturally Sensitive Intervention – Birmingham: a research project of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, funded by Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change. A national program supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® with direction and technical assistance provided by the University of Chicago. Sandral Hullett, MD and Jeroan Allison, MD, MS
• TRUST project, Alabama Collaboration for Cardiovascular Equality (ACCE), funded by NHLBI, PIs: Sandral Hullett, MD and Catarina Kiefe, MD, PhD
• Health BELIEF™ Attitudes Survey. We thank Martha A. Medrano, MD, MPH the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (survey reproduced with permission).