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The University of Kentucky College of Medicine lost an icon in the field of cardiovascular medicine, translational research, and medical education. Susan Smyth, MD, PhD, died of cancer on Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 57.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Salvation Army Clinic is a student-run, free clinic that serves as a learning environment for medical, pharmacy, and social work students while providing acute onsite health care for uninsured patients at the Salvation Army of Central Kentucky.
During Indigenous Peoples’ Month, the UK College of Medicine is highlighting historical figures who paved the way for an equitable future in medicine.
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.
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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.
These residents were selected to participate in a seven-month leadership development course as they embark on their chief resident year and look forward to their future careers.
Standing among their classmates at the University of Kentucky’s Kroger Field, a friend group of seven medical students simultaneously opened letters to find out where they would pursue the next step in their training.
One of the newest research teams within the University of Kentucky’s Alliance Research Initiative wants to make UK “the center of the universe” when it comes to an innovative cancer treatment.
Charles Kunos MD, PhD, director of the Markey Cancer Center Clinical Research Office, leads the Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Alliance (RPTA) with Lowell Anthony, MD, division chief of medical oncology. Alongside faculty and trainees from across the University, they are trying to improve pharmaceutical delivery for patients with cancer through radiopharmaceuticals.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine has received the 2021 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
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. The principal investigators of this alliance are (shown to the right) Roberto Gedaly, MD, Chief of the division of Transplantation from the Department of Surgery and Francesc Marti, PhD, an Associate Professor from the Department of Surgery.
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. The principal investigators of this alliance are (shown to the right) Roberto Gedaly, MD, Chief of the division of Transplantation from the Department of Surgery and Francesc Marti, PhD, an Associate Professor from the Department of Surgery.
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. Radiology and pathology are two specialty services which, because of their rich store of images and other data, are poised to take advantage of the AI revolution.
The innate ability of Cody Bumgardner, PhD, to work with computer systems was evident in high school. Computers were being installed in one of his school’s first computer labs, and when workers unboxed the systems and left for lunch, he snuck into the lab and installed the hardware by the time they returned.
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.
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, research "Interobserver Agreement Between Primary Sonographers and Secondary Overreaders for Screening and Surveillance Liver Ultrasounds Using Ultrasound Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System", was recently published in Ultrasound Quarterly.
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 of themselves and for the same exact reasons, I joined school of medicine Ain Shams university where I had my medical education. but because of my preoccupation with clinical work during my residency, I was always lacking academic experience and educational activities, so once Dr.
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 political instability impoverishes it. Our favorite food is rice and bean and meat, it can be chicken, goat, pork. Although we become so poor, we are still a happy nation. We love foreigners, we also have beautiful beaches and resorts.
Our primary goals for the resident lead Journal Club are to create a single repository of high yield educational review articles and prominent scientific papers, enhance resident medical knowledge, refine skills necessary to critically analyze research, and engage in an open scholarly discussion between residents and faculty about current evidence-based radiology practices.