Meet the ADDs: Dr. Stephanie Leung – Hospital Medicine
Stephanie Leung, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. If you are a medical student and would like to connect with Dr. Leung, you can reach her by email here.
You can also learn more about other ADDs and see a full listing of them here.
Q: What do you do clinically?
Meet the ADDs: Dr. James Hawthorne – Psychiatry
James Hawthorne, MD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry. If you are a medical student and would like to connect with Dr. Hawthorne, you can reach him by email here.
You can also learn more about other ADDs and see a full listing of them here.
Q: What do you do clinically?
UK Study to Explore Why Lyme Disease Symptoms Persist for Some
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 4, 2022) — Although most cases of Lyme disease can be cured with a two-to-four-week course of antibiotics, some patients still experience lingering, debilitating effects of the disease months after they finish treatment.
Roszalyn Akins: A Community Leader Helping UK Enhance the Pipeline for Black Male Physicians
We want these young men to believe in themselves and say, ‘I can be a doctor.’”
Lexington, Ky., native Roszalyn Akins is passionate about helping students reach their potential. With 40-plus years as an educator and civic leader, she has found tremendous success when she encourages students to believe in themselves.
As a Pediatrician and Foster Parent, Dr. Weddle Gives Children Hope
Emergency Physician Raising Awareness to Help Prevent Physician Suicide
Community Paramedicine Pilot Projects Address Gaps, Reduce Costs of Emergency Medicine
March Madness Q&A with Dr. Kaiser, Physician for UK Women’s Basketball
Kimberly Kaiser, MD, is an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine and family and community medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She is also one of the physicians who provides care for the UK women’s basketball team. In the following Q&A, she shares more about her clinical expertise, her passion for sports medicine, and why her experience with UK Athletics has been so rewarding.
Q: As a team physician, what are your roles with the basketball team?
Sanders-Brown Researcher Part of Study Aiming to More Accurately Identify Disease Variants
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 1, 2022) — A researcher with the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is part of a team who worked to identify genetic variants more accurately in genomic regions known to be involved in disease. In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all genetic information for an organism. The basis of the study was that the repetitive nature and complexity of some medically relevant genes pose a challenge to accurately analyze in a clinical setting.
