Darwin Conwell, MD, MSc, FACG, (pictured left) recently joined the University of Kentucky College of Medicine as a professor and the Jack M. Gill Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine.

A southern Ohio native with deep roots in western Kentucky tobacco, Dr. Conwell has enjoyed a full career in academic medicine with roles at the Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Medical School, and The Ohio State University. He arrives to UK with a passion for mentorship and patient-centered health care, as well as an appreciation for Appalachia.

Innovative research in pediatric cancers is happening every day at the University of Kentucky.

In the United States, 80% of children are cured of their cancer, but 20% are not.

5/20/2022 - Dr. Marc Paranzino (3rd year Cardiology Fellow) presented at Internal Medicine Grand Round. He talked about his passion in Sports Cardiology. Dr. Paranzino gave us an overview of what Sports Cardiology involves, relevant diseases that athletes may be screened for, and the data behind it. This is one of the exciting fields that has been brought to the forefront during COVID, as there has been many concerns about athletes returning to sports participation due to myocarditis. It was a fantastic talk. Due to COVID precautions, many attended the talk via Zoom.

HAZARD, Ky. (May 20, 2022) —The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UK CERH) will host the 2022 Kentucky Rural Telehealth Summit on Thursday, June 9 at the Embassy Suites on Newtown Pike in Lexington.

Dr. David C Booth is the recipient of this year's Kentucky ACC Honorable Maestro Award. This is the highest honor awarded by KY ACC, and definitely well deserved. He has been affectionately referred to as “Papa Bear” for decades of fellows, and has been dedicated and passionate in providing care to patients for more than 40 years! We all know that whenever one of his patients ended up in the hospital, he would want to know and would visit them.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 18, 2022) — The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the immune system, revealing there is still much about how it functions that is not well understood: Why do some people get severe disease and others don’t? And why can certain factors like age, or comorbidities like obesity, cause the immune system to go haywire?

University of Kentucky College of Medicine researcher Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., has dedicated her career to answering these questions.

The Department held its annual retreat on Friday May 13 in the Longship Room at UK’s Kroger Field (the football stadium). The day was kicked off with a presentation by Assistant Professor Houfu Guo on his work on the glycosylation of fibrillar collagen. This was followed by Dr. Chen-Yu Wu, a postdoc in Dr. Becky Dutch’s lab, discussing human metapneumovirus replication and Martha Sim, a graduate student in Dr. Jeremy Wood’s lab, talking about the dysregulation of coagulation in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections. After a coffee break Rebecca Norcross, graduate student in Dr.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 16, 2022) — Everyone has a story.

And in Kentucky, it is likely that you know of at least one person whose story involves cancer – whether you are living with the disease yourself or supporting a friend or loved one through their cancer journey.

Kentucky consistently bears one of the highest cancer burdens in the nation – ranking first overall in new cancer cases and deaths – with more than 27,000 new cases and over 10,100 deaths each year.