School Trivia Crossword

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  1. 3. On May 8, 1968, Dr. Arnold G. __________ successfully performed the Medical Center's first kidney transplant. To date, UAB has performed over 10,000 kidney transplants.
  2. 7. In February 1944, the Medical College of Alabama moved from Tuscaloosa to __________________ and transitioned from a two-year program to a four-year program.
  3. 8. At the first commencement ceremony held in Birmingham (October 1946), 21 students graduated from the Medical College of Alabama. The only female in the class, Virginia Dare Hamilton, became the first woman to receive the MD _____________.
  4. 9. In response to the growing AIDS epidemic in 1988, the 1917 Clinic was opened at UAB. The clinic, which took its name from the building’s street address in order to protect the confidentiality of patients, was founded and first directed by Dr. Michael S. _____.
  5. 12. Hospital In 1986, The University of Alabama Hospitals was renamed as The University of Alabama Hospital; but it remained more commonly known as "_________ _________."
  6. 13. In 1945 ___________ for the Medical College of Alabama was $400 per scholastic year.
  7. 14. College UAB traces its roots to the 1859 founding of the ___________ __________ of Alabama, originally located in Mobile, AL.
  8. 17. Dr. Selwyn M. Vickers, a member of the Institute of Medicine, is a world-renowned surgeon, ___________ cancer researcher, pioneer in health disparities research and a native of Alabama, is the current dean of the UAB School of Medicine.
  9. 19. In June 1970, Richard Charles Dale and Samuel William Sullivan, Jr., became the first African-American _____________ of the Medical College of Alabama.
  10. 20. Dr. Joseph F. _________ was named first president of UAB, after serving as the founding dean of the Alabama School of Dentistry, and director of the entire Alabama Medical Center. The Basic Health Sciences Building was renamed in his honor in 1977.
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  1. 1. In 1946 the first _________________ ceremony held in Birmingham had 21 students graduate from the Medical College of Alabama.
  2. 2. Drs. Wayne H. and Sara C. ________ were the forefront leaders of genetics at UAB; receiving a NIH grant in 1962 to establish a cytogenetics laboratory and establishing the Laboratory of Medical Genetics under their direction in 1966.
  3. 4. The UAB Campus is home to 4,400 trees, earning the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA designation for __________ consecutive years.
  4. 5. The UAB Burn Center was established with Dr. Alan R. __________ as director in 1970.
  5. 6. In July 1968 Dr. Herschell Lee ______________ received a clinical appointment in the Department of Surgery and became the first African American board-certified general surgeon at University Hospital.
  6. 10. UAB has had 4 different mascots, Pink Dragon, Beauregard T. Rooster, Blaze the ___________, and the current mascot, Blaze the Dragon.
  7. 11. Dr. S. Richardson ______ Jr. was the second UAB President. Hint not only is there a building on campus named after him but there is also a SOM scholarship that honors him.
  8. 14. UAB School of Medicine has branch campuses in Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, and _________________.
  9. 15. During March 2020, Governor Kay Ivey established a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force chaired by UAB School of Medicine alum Dr. Scott _______. Also, on the Executive Committee of the Coronavirus Task Force are Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Dr. Selwyn Vickers, Senior Vice President of Medicine and UAB School of Medicine Dean.
  10. 16. In 2020, UAB established the first ___________ transplant program in the Southeast, this program is the first in the United States to offer this transplant outside of a clinical research trial. There currently are only three other such programs in the United States.
  11. 18. June 1992, the Kirklin _________, an outpatient clinic for The University of Alabama Health Services Foundation was named in honor of Dr. John W. Kirklin, a renowned surgeon, former chair of the UAB Department of Surgery, former director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Division, and founding president of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation.