Clinton Colmenares is senior director of communications for the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. His primary responsibility is to create and lead a strategy for communicating news from the medical school to the media, the general public and various constituent groups. A former medical reporter for newspapers in San Antonio, Montgomery, Ala., and Nashville, Colmenares has also held media relations positions at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Maine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.