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Derek Allison, MD, will be serving as the co-editor for the section Cytopathology in Focus in CAP Today. This provides Dr. Allison and our department with the opportunity to increase our footprint in Cytopathology on a more national level. Congratulations, Dr. Allison!
Every week in March, we will offer perspectives on this national observance and their own life experiences from women at UK HealthCare. This week’s Q&A features Wang-Xia Wang, PhD, a researcher with the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and an assistant professor in the UK College of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine.
Derek Allison, MD is Co-investigator on a newly awarded grant from the KY Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The grant is titled “Supplemental: FY25 Overcoming Treatment Resistance in Wilms Tumor by PT” and is a collaboration with the Department of Radiation Medicine and Vivek Rangnekar, MD, who is the PI. Congratulations Dr. Allison!
Derek Allison, MD, Bob McDonald, DO, Dava Piecoro, MD, Jing Di, MD, and Shengyi Zhang, MD, along with Emily Bachert, MD, Patrick Hensley, MD and Myint, MD and medical student Heather Short, are senior author (Dr.
Two of our residents have already been busy in 2024 with professional development! Asma Arshia, MBBS, and Jing Di, MD, have been selected as 2024 CAP Foundation Leadership Development Award recipients by the College of American Pathologists Foundation.
Derek Allison, MD, Nathan Shelman, MD, and Shulin Zhang,MD, PhD, are co-investigators on a newly funded grant from the Kentucky Pediatric Cancer Research Trust Fund (KPCRTF). The project is “Project Inherited Cancer Risk” and John D’Orazio, MD, is the PI. This project is a collaboration with Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville. Congratulations to all of you!
A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky is working to better understand the impact of opioid use disorder on mothers and babies.
Every 24 minutes in the United States, a baby is born with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) after being exposed in mothers with opioid use disorder.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is excited to announce that Sandra Beck, MD, and Janna Neltner, MD, will join the Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) leadership team.
Dr. Beck will serve as assistant dean for program development. Dr. Neltner will serve as assistant dean for accreditation.
The following individuals were honored at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Awards Convocation on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Winners included those in Bowling Green, Lexington, Morehead, and Northern Kentucky.
Biomedical EducationOutstanding Graduate Student Award:
Jamila Tucker, MS
Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, Greg Davis, M.D., came to University of Kentucky in 1976 as an English major, with the intent of becoming a teacher. But after taking a job as a nursing assistant to help pay the bills, Davis discovered he had a knack for medicine.
Burnout is a problem in any profession, but it is rampant in health care. This national problem has been evident recently as the COVID-19 pandemic pushed many learners, practitioners, faculty, and staff to the limit.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is excited to announce that faculty, staff, learners, and trainees will have free access to a leading online resource for medical Spanish proficiency.
CanopyLearn, a Spanish language training program for health care professionals, will be available to the UK College of Medicine community starting Aug. 1.
Katie Bussing, MD, Kalee Rusnak, MD, Adeel Ashraf, MD, and Tony Nesta, MD have joined the UK College of Medicine Pathology Department. Kalee and Tony both graduated from the University of Kentucky and have rotated through our department for medical school electives.
Na’Tasha Evans, PhD, MEd, is a researcher, published author, champion for female empowerment, and our new vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Learn more about her goals, her past work, and more in the following Q&A.
Q: What inspired you to pursue a career in research?
Congratulations to the following basic science and clinical faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine! These individuals were honored with promotions and tenure in fiscal year 2023.
Names are organized alphabetically by department.
AnesthesiologySarah Jean Hall, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
“A lot of people who have dementia do not have Alzheimer’s disease.” That is a statement that guides researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging as they aim to better define other causes of dementia.