TILT: An Alliance with Ambitious Aims and the Talent to Achieve It.

Faculty members in Radiology are involved in several of the Alliance projects organized by the College of Medicine. One of the most ambitious of the Alliance groups is T Cells to Induce Liver Tolerance or TILT for short...

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – Introducing the AIM Alliance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to improve patient care. AI algorithms make use of large, high quality data sets and powerful computers to analyze medical images with high accuracy...

RSNA Case Collection May 2021

Radiologist Residents Katherine Copely, MD; Amanda Gibson, MD; Kavya Sudanagunta, MD, and Abdominal Radiologist Aman Khurana, MD's case study, "Metastatic Kaposi Sarcoma", was recently selectd as an RSNA case study.

Radiology's Adrian Dawkins, MD; 2nd Year Resident Leslie Nelson, DO;...

Dr. Adrian Dawkins, MD, Abdominal Division Chief; Leslie Nelson, DO, PGY2; Aman Khurana, MD, Abdominal Division; Fanny Chapelin, PhD, Biomedical Engineering and Angel Stepp, Sonographer Lead,...

Welcome to Ahmed Elbadry Radiology Visiting Scholar 2021/2022

I am Ahmed Elbadry, raised in Cairo-Egypt surrounded by family, friends, and childhood memories. during my early days I used to accompany my parents while they were lecturing and teaching in college which inspired me to love science and guiding people to better versions...

Welcome to Johnson Deshommes, Radiology Visiting Scholar 2021/2022

My name is Johnson Deshommes, I am a physician from Haiti. Haiti is a mountainous country. It is located in the Caribbean next to the Dominican Republic. We used to be a wealthy island until...

Radiology Residents Journal Club

Second Year Residents Charles Myers, Leslie Nelson, Katherine Copely, Timothy Waits and Luke Flood have begun a Resident Journal Club. Our primary goals...

Writing a Grant?

Should you wish to write a grant there are many resources available. A good starting point is to consult with the Vice Chair of Research. The university also provides numerous resources. A group called the Program Development Office (PDO)...

Recognition of Research at University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky is a major research university. In the most recent fiscal year, FY20, UK received $429.2 million in grants and contracts for research work. Of that impressive figure over $272 million...

RSNA Case Collection

Congratulations to 2nd Year Radiology Residents Ben Myers, MD and Leslie Nelson, DO for their “RSNA case of the week”; featured on RSNA Case Collection Twitter and the GI section of the RSNA Collection YouTube Channel...

Writing Papers

The publication of manuscripts describing our research is an important part of being a professor or a trainee at an academic institution. Other members of our community of radiologists are eager to read...

BunkerHill Agreement - Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Xiaoqin Wang, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and member of Women's Radiology has been steadfast to establish a partnership with BunkerHill - a startup company formed from Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) Center. It is a consortium...

Biostatistics Consulting for Radiology

Though many of us have a rudimentary understanding of and experience doing statistics no one in Radiology is a card-carrying statistician. Yet the nature of many of our research, education and quality assurance projects requires consulting with a statistician to analyze the data properly...

Mauro Hanaoka, MD, 3rd Year Radiology Resident Receives AIRP Neuroradiology Imaging Best Case Award

Join us in congratulating Mauro Hanaoka, MD, 3rd year Radiology Resident in receiving the American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP), Neuroradiology Imaging best case award...

Leslie Nelson, DO, 2nd year Radiology Resident to attend Introduction to Academic Radiology Program

Please join us in congratulating Leslie Nelson, DO, 2nd year Radiology Resident for her acceptance into the “Introduction to Academic Radiology Program”. Dr. Nelson joins...

Drs. Aman Khurana and Fanny Chapelin Receive Early Career Research Award at Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) 2020

What led you and Dr. Chapelin to this research topic?
When we started at University of Kentucky (UK) last fall, (August 2019), we saw two untapped potentials...

Resources

The following list contains links to a variety of web sites and tools helpful to anyone developing a research project and needing IRB approval or writing a grant. This list is also available on the Research section of Radiology’s SharePoint.

RSNA - Protect Patient Information in Medical Presentation Online

New Search Engine Capabilities Can Expose Patient Identifiers Thought to Be Anonymized Search engines can now index patient identifiers in slide presentations that were previously believed to have been de-identified. RSNA, ACR and SIIM...

Wang Arranges Agreement with AI Company BunkerHill

Xiaoquin (Jennifer) Wang, MD, from the Division of Women’s imaging has arranged a research agreement with an artificial intelligence company, Bunkerhill Medical. BunkerHill is a Y Combinator-backed startup out of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) center. The founders...

Responsible Conduct of Research

Responsible Conduct of Research or RCR is, according to an NIH definition, "the practice of scientific investigation with integrity. It involves the awareness and application of established professional norms and ethical principles for all activities related to scientific research."

The FINDERS Team

The FINDERS Alliance team combines clinical experts in Epilepsy, the analysis of EEG waveform, and neuroimaging. It brings together energetic and ambitious faculty from multiple departments and even from multiple colleges within our university.

Visit of Editors of Radiology and Radiographics

On Friday, September 18th, 2020, the Department of Radiology hosted David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD and Jeffrey S. Klein, MD, the editors of Radiology and Radiographics respectively. Drs. Bluemke and Klein came to our department...

Epilepsy Neuroimaging Alliance – Grant Winners

In late 2019, Dr. Flavius Raslau, from the Department of Radiology, initiated a multidisciplinary collaboration that leverages the strengths of the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute's (KNI) Level IV Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and the research expertise housed at the Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Spectroscopy Center (MRISC). This initiative brings together...