School of Medicine
An unforgettable year draws to a close
How to sum up 2020? It’s been one of the most challenging, complex, confounding years in my memory, but it’s also been a clarifying year, one of immense opportunity and hope that has affirmed my faith in medicine and our school on many levels. As an institution, we were tested in ways we’ve never been before, and I’m extremely proud of the creativity, tenacity, and resilience our faculty, staff, students, and trainees demonstrated in overcoming those challenges. With the imminent arrival at UAB of the first coronavirus vaccine doses to Alabama, we may soon turn a page in the pandemic saga of 2020, but I know I’ll never forget this year and the lessons it taught us.