March 24, 2026, 11:00 a.m. - Noon Dr. Charles T. Ambrose Lecture - Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD Willard Medical Education Building Room MN463
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Dr. Stacey Schultz-Cherry is the 2026 Dr. Charles T. Ambrose Lecturer.
Charles T. Ambrose, MD, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Indiana University in 1951. He went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University where he graduated in 1955. He did his internship and residency training at the New England Medical Center in Boston where he trained in Infectious Diseases. He did a research fellowship in Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical school before joining the faculty there where he rose through the ranks to Associate Professor. After spending a year at the Institut National de La Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) in Paris, France, Dr. Ambrose came to the University of Kentucky as a Professor in the now defunct Department of Cell Biology. He moved to the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (later becoming the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics) in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he was acting Chairman from 1976-1977. Dr. Ambrose studied antibody responses in his early career and published regularly in high profile peer-reviewed journals. He transitioned his research to the history of medicine and microbiology and built a personal library of 400 medical texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Later in his career Dr. Ambrose became interested in the angiogenesis in aging and Alzheimer's Disease and published manuscripts proposing new theories based on published experimental literature. Dr. Ambrose was a popular teacher of medical students throughout his career and was awarded eight Golden Apple Awards for preclinical teaching, was made an Honorary Class Member for two different medical school classes and received the Phi Delta Epsilon Professional Teaching award and was an honorary member of the University of Kentucky chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha. The Charles T. Ambrose, MD Lectureship was established to honor his contributions to the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics as a valued educator, researcher, colleague, and friend.
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