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| Alumni Affairs 2004 Recipient - Richard M. Allman, MD (Class of 1980)  Richard M. Allman, MD, is a national leader in geriatric medicine. He is director of the Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC). He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where he is Director of the Center for Aging, the Geriatric Education Center, and the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. He also serves as Co-Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation-funded Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine (SCEGM), a research training and career development program for Geriatric Medicine fellows and early career faculty for the UAB and Emory University.
A Magna Cum Laude graduate of West Virginia University, Dr. Allman received his medical degree in 1980 and then completed an internal medicine residency at WVU Hospital. He then went to Johns Hopkins University for a fellowship in general internal medicine. Dr. Allman is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine with a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Allman is involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of research, education, patient care and service programs designed to improve the health and well-being of older adults. His current research program, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Veterans Administration, focuses on understanding the causes of mobility loss among community-dwelling older adults and involves testing new ways of helping older adults maintain or enhance mobility. Dr. Allman is the principal clinical coordinator of the Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation, an agency that helps hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, physician offices, and health care professionals throughout Alabama to improve quality of care for more than 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries. |
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