Shirley Hester

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Shirley Hester is a researcher at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and was, for 10 years, clinical director of the Obstetric/Gynecologic nurse practitioner program at UAB. Before that she was head nurse in the post-partum unit at Baptist Medical Center Princeton and an obstetric nurse at West End Hospital.

When the nurse practitioner program moved to the School of Nursing, Hester moved into research full-time, continuing work that she began in the 1980s on clinical trials for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. She has also contributed to the ASCUS/LSIL Triage Study funded by the National Cancer Institute which helped set standards for pap smear screening.

In 2007 she was inducted into the Capstone College of Nursing's Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame in Tuscaloosa.

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References

  • "Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame adds six members." (October 29, 2007) Birmingham News
  • "UAB pioneer inducted into state’s nursing hall of fame." (March 31, 2008) UAB Reporter
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