Pamela Branson has been a nurse for 40 years, 35 of those working at the University of Kentucky. After long days treating patients, she always turned to golf as a way to escape the stress.

So, when she couldn’t garner the energy to make it to the course in 2018, she knew something was wrong.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 20, 2021) — This fall, the University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW) will host its third national conference on issues relevant to campus climate and sexual misconduct.

This year’s Campus Responses to Sexual Misconduct conference, held virtually Sept. 30-Oct. 1, focuses on interventions that are designed to change campus culture.

A recording of CHET's September 16, 2021 Fall 2021 SPARK Applicant Webinar is available below. We are grateful to those who attended and engaged with us.

As a reminder, applications for this year's program are due October 1, 2021 at 11:59pm. You can find the application and program information here: https://chet.med.uky.edu/chet-2021-call-spark-applications

Faculty members in Radiology are involved in several of the Alliance projects organized by the College of Medicine. One of the most ambitious of the Alliance groups is T Cells to Induce Liver Tolerance or TILT for short. The principal investigators of this alliance are (shown to the right) Roberto Gedaly, MD, Chief of the division of Transplantation from the Department of Surgery and Francesc Marti, PhD, an Associate Professor from the Department of Surgery.

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.

Christopher Doty, MD, is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He also chairs the college’s wellness committee, helping find solutions for wellness concerns of faculty, staff, and learners.

Dr. Doty has been heavily involved in helping with the prevention of physician suicide. For National Physician Suicide Awareness Day on Sept. 17, he shares information and resources about this issue.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to improve patient care. AI algorithms make use of large, high quality data sets and powerful computers to analyze medical images with high accuracy. Radiology and pathology are two specialty services which, because of their rich store of images and other data, are poised to take advantage of the AI revolution.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 14, 2021) — What if there were a way to cure hypertension associated with obesity? University of Kentucky researcher Frédérique Yiannikouris, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, may be on track to find it.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 9, 2021) — On Aug. 24, 2021, University of Kentucky senior Zakeya Baker sat down with health experts Becky Dutch, Ph.D, and Alice Thornton, M.D., to ask questions about COVID-19, vaccines and UK’s response to the virus. Dutch and Thornton addressed concerns common to students as well as many individuals across the globe.

Congratulations to our Center Director, Dr. Linda Van Eldik, for being named a 2020-2021 University Research Professor. Dr. Van Eldik is pictured with UK President Eli Capilouto.