LEXINGTON, KY. (Feb. 17, 2022) — UK HealthCare announced a historic $10 million gift from Central Bank to support expanded patient care at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. The gift, announced at the UK Board of Trustees Health Care Committee meeting on Feb. 17, is the largest in UK HealthCare history and launches an initiative to raise $90 million to improve cancer care in Kentucky.

Congratulations to Professor Becky Dutch of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry on her election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology!

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 17, 2022) — A recent University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study gives more insight into how lung cancer differs in Kentucky compared to other U.S. populations.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 17, 2022) — This year, the Martin Luther King (MLK) Center at the University of Kentucky celebrated 35 years on campus. To commemorate the occasion, the MLK Center hosted several events highlighting the historic milestone. Included in the event calendar was the inaugural Living Legacy Award ceremony.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 16, 2022) — Anna-Maria South, MD, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine and an attending physician on the Addiction Consult and Education Services at the University of Kentucky, has been selected as UK’s Bell Addiction Medicine Scholar for 2022. The mission of the Bell Alcohol and Addiction Endowed Chair is to build a broader base of physician education and training experiences in treating patients with substance use disorders at UK HealthCare.

Dr. Jing Di, PGY-1, has been selected to attend USCAP’s 2022 Annual Meeting with a Pathologist-in-Training Travel Award. This year’s annual meeting will be held March 19 – 24, 2022 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California.  Congratulations Dr. Di!

Our current Surgical Pathology Fellow, Dr. Justin Rueckert, is co-author of an article published in this month’s Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine titled “Undiagnosed Malignancy and Therapeutic Complications in Oncology Patients: A 10-Year Review of Autopsy Cases”. For more detailed information, see the PubMed listing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33836058/.  Congratulations Dr. Rueckert!

The University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the University of Kentucky Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have been at the forefront of studying dementia-related diseases including common Alzheimer's disease "mimic" conditions. An important dementia-related disease is limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), which was recently recognized by a team co-led by Dr. Peter Nelson of UKMC. LATE is an under-appreciated disease entity that affects approximately 1/4th of people who live beyond 80 years of age.

On crisp fall or spring mornings, Bradley Bale, MD ’74, wakes up early enough for his daily five-mile run so he can witness one of his favorite scenes in nature. When there’s a certain amount of moisture in the ground, and the temperature is just right, water comes up through the weeds, weaves into the branches and freezes. It’s called a “frost flower.”

This moment of tranquility motivates Dr. Bale to get out and exercise at 73 years old. And he knows that that’s important because as a cardiovascular specialist, he needs to embody his advice to earn the trust of his patients.