Timothy Mullett, M.D., a University of Kentucky professor of cardiothoracic surgery and the medical director of the UK Markey Cancer Center Affiliate and Research Networks, joined Gov. Andy Beshear and a number of lung cancer advocacy groups at the state Capitol to recognize November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
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The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is pleased to announce the faculty, staff, and learner winners of the inaugural Mission, Vision, Pillar, and Enabler Awards.
During Match Day 2022 in mid-March, 27 graduating students from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine matched into several Surgery-related residency programs. Of those 27, University of Kentucky residency programs welcomed 13 of those students, including one match to the recently established UK General Surgery Residency Program in Bowling Green.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 9, 2022) — On a typical day inside the blood bank at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, the refrigerators are well-stocked with shelves of donated blood – a lifeline for countless patients dealing with severe injury or illness.
By Josh Shepherd
A proposal for standardizing Operating Room (OR) setups was among the top 10 winners in the Shark Tank pitch competition at the 2021 Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) Innovation Experience (iEX) in Washington, DC last October. The pitch, developed through a collaboration of Lexington VA and University of Kentucky surgeons, demonstrated how standardized OR setups have the potential to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs by millions of dollars.
By Josh Shepherd
Faculty from the UK Departments of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering provided general reviews of past and ongoing collaborative research initiatives at a special Surgery Grand Rounds presentation in November.
Roberto Gedaly, MD, and Francesc Marti, PhD, investigators in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Surgery, have noticed a year-over-year increase in liver transplants at UK HealthCare.
“Not only has our volume gone up significantly,” Dr. Gedaly said, “we’re actually going to break a record of liver transplant patients this year.”
The Society of University Surgeons (SUS) is Pleased to Honor
the 2021 SUS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
B. Mark Evers, MD
The award will be presented at the SUS Academic Surgical Congress on February 1, 2022, in Orlando, Florida.
He is the true embodiment of the type of individual that this award seeks to recognize.
By Josh Shepherd
After being postponed in 2020, the annual Richard W. Schwartz Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium returns to the UK Department of Surgery on Friday, November 5 to celebrate surgical education. The seventh edition of the Schwartz Lecture on Surgical Education will feature a presentation from Richard Bell, MD, FACS, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of South Carolina and UK Surgery faculty alumnus.
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.
The Saha Aortic Center presented awards recognizing excellence in clinical service, research, and education at the University of Kentucky as it pertains to aortic health and treatment.
The Saha Aortic Center Award in Clinical Care
Dr. Congqing Wu, assistant professor of Surgery in the Division of Research, will be the premiere presenter at the first RESEARCH FORUM on Thursday, Sept 30, 2021.
The event is a casual forum for Surgery faculty to share and discuss new and ongoing basic science and clinical research at the University of Kentucky Department of Surgery, hosted by the Division of Research.
By Allison Perry
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A recent publication in the journal Cells demonstrated the benefit of utilizing drugs to promote radiation sensitivity in models of a rare tumor subtype.
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Deciding to make cosmetic enhancements to the face or body is a personal decision that cannot be made lightly. UK Healthcare is making this experience as stress-free as possible with the opening of the new location of the Aesthetics Center at the Turfland campus.