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The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is excited to share the winners of the fourth annual Mission, Vision, Pillar, and Enabler (MVPE) Awards.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is pleased to announce its selection of Amy Gewirtz, MD, as the official chair of its department of pathology and laboratory medicine. She has held this leadership role in an acting capacity for one year.
On Dec. 13, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine hosted a premiere event that was much more than a film screening—it was a celebration of the dedication, innovation, and human spirit driving health care and education in Kentucky.
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We have multiple abstracts accepted for the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology’s (USCAP) 114th Annual Meeting, March 22-27, 2025, in Boston, Massachusetts. Excellent work everyone!
Katie Bussing, MD, and Justin Rueckert, DO, titled “Death Certification Errors and Utilization of the Autopsy Report”
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Derek Allison, MD, has been asked to guest edit a special issue of Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology titled “Molecular Advances in Surgical Pathology: Tumor-Specific Insights and Updates”. Great work, Dr. Allison!
Work by several researchers within the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics.
The GME Emerging Leaders program is designed to provide a leadership development opportunity to Chief Residents and Fellows in their important new leadership role. As part of the six-month program, a variety of personal and professional leadership topics are facilitated by UK HealthCare’s Enterprise Learning team, in coordination with other leaders across the enterprise.
Derek Allison, MD, has been selected as director of the Molecular Tumor Board effective July 15, 2024. This is a statewide tumor board with around 30 case submissions per week, of which only 8 are chosen to be reviewed every other week. This position will allow Dr. Allison to conduct more significant QA reviews for in-house cases. Excellent work Dr. Allison!
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Cody Bumgardner, PhD, is a co-investigator on a newly funded grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse titled “Rapid Actionable Data for Opioid Response in Kentucky (RADOR-KY)”. This project is a collaboration with UK Internal Medicine and UK Behavioral Science. Jeffrey Talbot, MD, is the PI. Congratulations Dr. Bumgardner!
Derek Allison, MD, and Dava Piecoro, MD, are co-authors of an article titled “Precision Medicine in Cytopathology” which was accepted for publication in Surgical Pathology Clinics. The link to the publication is https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1j6R%7E6gYCvQAEA. Congratulations to you both!
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are working to develop a pre-symptomatic disease diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Derek Allison, MD, and Dava Piecoro, MD, are co-authors of an online CME/CE education activity for the CAP titled “Case 2: Seminoma for the 2024 CAP FNA Educational CME/CE Program”. This activity was released on April 15, 2024. Excellent work to you both!
When John “JB” Bradley was a young boy growing up in Beattyville, Ky., he dreamed of being a doctor. Inspired by his small town’s family physician, he imagined taking care of families just like his own one day.
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!