Kathy Nugent Named Chair of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences at UAB School of Health Professions

Kathy Nugent, Ph.D., has been named chair of the Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (CDS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions. Nugent is...

June 4, 2020

Kathy Nugent, Ph.D., has been named chair of the Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (CDS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions. Nugent is a leader in technology and research commercialization who has been associate vice president and executive director of the UAB Harbert Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) since 2014.

“Kathy has decades of industry work, expertise in translating technology, and unequivocal leadership experience that will transform a diverse department that spans the gamut from undergraduate biomedical sciences to graduate clinical programs,” said Andrew J. Butler, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Health Professions. “We are thrilled that Kathy has joined the leadership team in SHP. Her familiarity with the department gives her a great advantage and her unique relationships with UAB and the HIIE offers the department and our school a tremendous edge in meeting and exceeding our strategic goals.”

“I am excited to be selected for this role because CDS has a long history of leadership across disciplines and the faculty, staff, students and alumni continue to make tremendous contributions to the health care arena,” said Nugent.

Nugent earned her Ph.D. in Biopsychology at the City University of New York and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmacology at the Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University.

WittKieffer’s Diane Smith and Claudia Teschky led this search.

Read the press announcement.

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