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During Indigenous Peoples’ Month, the UK College of Medicine is highlighting historical figures who paved the way for an equitable future in medicine.
When UK HealthCare pathology resident Leonard Yenwongfai, MD, was a young boy, he asked his father what motivated him to work as a police detective.
For the second consecutive year, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine has received the 2022 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
To enable the University of Kentucky College of Medicine to succeed in its mission for a healthier Kentucky, leadership must prioritize the wellness and well-being of faculty, staff, and learners. Lisa Williams, MSSA, is serving in the college’s new leadership position, associate dean for wellness and well-being, to help us excel in this goal.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common forms of liver disease across the globe. One major risk factor of NAFLD is obesity, which approximately 36% of Kentuckians face, according to America’s Health Rankings.
Have you ever watched a movie or TV show where a character has the same job as you, but they’ve gotten the details all wrong?
From smooth-talking lawyers who are always in the courtroom to suave doctors who are performing lifesaving surgeries in a moment’s notice — it’s no secret, Hollywood often dramatizes what it would be like to work in certain professions.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 29, 2022) — A recent publication from researchers at the University of Kentucky explains the importance of identifying and understanding how differences between tissues and cells alter gene expression without changing the underlying genetic code.
April 24, 1962, marks the official 60th anniversary of the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital – then known as University Hospital.
Dr. Alison Woodworth was awarded the "2021 PLUGS Member of the Year Award" in recognition of the efforts that are made at UK to promote laboratory stewardship efforts. PLUGS (Patient-centered Laboratory Utilization Guidance Services) is a national laboratory stewardship collaborative with a mission to improve laboratory test ordering, retrieval, interpretation and reimbursement.
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine's Clinical Chemistry team submitted an abstract for the upcoming PLUGS Summit in June, 2022. PLUGS (Patient-centered Laboratory Utilization Guidance Services) is a national laboratory stewardship collaborative with a mission to improve laboratory test ordering, retrieval, interpretation and reimbursement. &nb
Shulin Zhang, MD, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, began his career as a clinical molecular geneticist when the famous Human Genome Project was in its final stages. A 23-year international research effort, the project was revolutionary as it determined the full DNA sequence of the human genome.
Dr. Jing Di, PGY-1, has been selected to attend USCAP’s 2022 Annual Meeting with a Pathologist-in-Training Travel Award. This year’s annual meeting will be held March 19 – 24, 2022 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. Congratulations Dr. Di!
Our current Surgical Pathology Fellow, Dr. Justin Rueckert, is co-author of an article published in this month’s Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine titled “Undiagnosed Malignancy and Therapeutic Complications in Oncology Patients: A 10-Year Review of Autopsy Cases”. For more detailed information, see the PubMed listing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33836058/. Congratulations Dr. Rueckert!
The University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the University of Kentucky Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have been at the forefront of studying dementia-related diseases including common Alzheimer's disease "mimic" conditions. An important dementia-related disease is limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), which was recently recognized by a team co-led by Dr. Peter Nelson of UKMC. LATE is an under-appreciated disease entity that affects approximately 1/4th of people who live beyond 80 years of age.
