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By Allison Perry
Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Alberto de Hoyos has joined the thoracic oncology team at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
De Hoyos’s clinical interests include treatment of lung and esophageal cancers, neuroendocrine tumors and mediastienal tumors, with specialties including minimally invasive and robotic surgery.
De Hoyos earned his medical degree from the Universidat Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico. He then completed his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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Team Surgery Shenanigans has got your back with two really fun events for you and your family to get involved. Proceeds from these events support will support either the Greater Bluegrass Chapter for the March of Dimes or the Markey Cancer Center’s ongoing effort to help Kentucky fight cancer.
One of the leading advocates for technological innovations in cardiothoracic surgery was a special guest speaker with the University of Kentucky Department of Surgery last week.
Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, founder and director of the East Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI), was featured speaker for the weekly surgical grand rounds on Wednesday, April 6. His presentation, “Innovative Technology in Cardiac Surgery: The times they are a’changing” was an overview of next generation technology in the world of cardiac surgery.
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When asking friends about their vacation to South America, one doesn’t expect stories about ear reconstructions, cleft lip and palate repairs, or accounts of people with severe burn scars finally getting treatment. But those are the memories that several UK physicians and residents brought back with them after a week of volunteer medical service with Medical Mission Ecuador (MME) last March. And while they weren’t typical vacation memories, each one was worth keeping and sharing.
Editor’s note: Because his English is weak, Dr. Kaoru Sasaki opted to write his responses to interview questions for this article.
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Located near the intersection of the Western Kentucky and Pennyrile parkways, Madisonville is one of jewels of west-central Kentucky.
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During a special President’s Day version of the “Hangin’ with Zwisch” medical research lecture series, Dr. Stuart Tobin discussed how the decisions and actions of world leaders may have been influenced by their mental and/or physical health.
Specialists in cardiovascular care and surgery at the University of Kentucky will be the featured speakers in a comprehensive continuing medical education symposium on Saturday morning, April 23 in the historic Keeneland Sales Pavilion and Limestone Cafe.
Arguably, conditions could not have been more perfect for Pete Rogers, representing Team Surgery Shenanigans, to take the annual Polar Plunge for Special Olympics of Kentucky on Saturday afternoon, February 20.
Two years ago, when Pete made his first plunge into the swimming pool located in the parking lot of the Texas Roadhouse on Richmond Road, the temperature was in the 30s. “It was truly ‘polar’ that time,” Pete said.
In 2015, the event was cancelled due to a pending blizzard.
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One of the leaders in the field of endovascular surgery will be the special guest lecturer at the inaugural Gordon Hyde Lectureship in Vascular Surgery on Wednesday, April 13 at UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital.
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Team Surgery Shenanigans is several hundred dollars short of its $850 goal to support Special Olympics Kentucky, but team leader Pete Rogers is optimistic that the goal will be met before he takes a dive - or cannonball, he hasn't decided - on Saturday, February 20.
Rogers, division administrator for Urology, Pediatric Surgery, and ENT, established Team Surgery Shenanigans as a way for the UK surgery departments to band together and participate in charitable outreach programs. The Polar Plunge is the inaugural event for the team.
The Dermatology Clinic at the University of Kentucky will soon relocate to the first floor of UK HealthCare Clinics at Turfland on Harrodsburg Road. The clinic will open on February 15, 2016.
Jennifer Lackey, RN, Ambulatory Services Director for UK HealthCare’s Department of Surgery clinics, said that relocating the Dermatology clinic to Turfland from its space in the Good Samaritan medical office building on Maxwell Street will allow for department growth and improved access for patients.
Ishmael Hibbard, 56, was just reaching for the television remote control when sharp pains across his shoulder blades drove him down to one knee. He bit his lip so hard, it drew blood. Hibbard didn’t think it was a heart attack, but the Manchester, Kentucky native knew he needed to get to the emergency room right away.
His wife, Judy, was at work so it fell to his teenage son, Ben Hibbard, to drive him to the Manchester Memorial Hospital emergency room for treatment.
After well over two decades into practice, it’s sometimes difficult for physicians to recall what led them to their particular specialty. Dr. Alan Fleischer, Jr., however, can recall the exact moment when he decided to specialize in Dermatology.
It was during a rotation in the field while a medical student at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His professor and another visiting dermatologist examined a patient suffering from a condition that no one had yet correctly diagnosed.
By Josh Shepherd
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