LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 2, 2021) — The program is set and registration is open for the 11th annual Sanders-Brown Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia. The event is named in honor and memory of the late William R. Markesbery, M.D., founding director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

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on important news, announcements, events, and programs
as they relate to your medical education.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 1, 2021) — When Scott Kindred felt a lump in his upper right shoulder, he knew something was wrong.

As a patient care technician at UK HealthCare, he has enough medical knowledge to know when he should listen to his body. He mentioned it to Timothy Mullett, M.D., a thoracic surgeon he worked with, who ordered a PET scan. The imaging revealed a mass on Kindred’s upper right lung

A medical student will take dozens of tests before graduation and will be presented thousands of questions. As that student advances, those questions will become more complex.

Roberto Gedaly, MD, and Francesc Marti, PhD, investigators in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Surgery, have noticed a year-over-year increase in liver transplants at UK HealthCare.

“Not only has our volume gone up significantly,” Dr. Gedaly said, “we’re actually going to break a record of liver transplant patients this year.”

Everything U.S. Olympic fencer Lee Kiefer had been training to achieve came to fruition this summer when she won gold in women’s individual foil at the Tokyo Games. The exhilarating win cemented her into the history books as the first American fencer to medal in the event.

“Luck, preparation, fight – everything came together that one day,” she said.

Kiefer and her husband, U.S. Olympic fencer Gerek Meinhardt, just wrapped up a cross-country trip – San Francisco and New York City – to show their families their hardware. (Meinhardt earned a bronze medal in men’s team foil.)

By Kara Richardson 
Article orginally published on UKNow 

College of Health Science students at the UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health-UK Hazard Campus donned purple in support of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. UKPT and UKMLS Hazard Campus students wore purple to support survivors of interpersonal violence.

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

This week, the UK DPT Hazard Class of 2023 participated in their PT Day of Service project building safe recreational trails for the community at the Perry County Park. Students worked with Ben Braman of the Pathfinders of Perry County Kentucky, a non-profit organization that promotes community engagement, recreation, and education for Perry County. 

The Society of University Surgeons (SUS) is Pleased to Honor
the 2021 SUS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

B. Mark Evers, MD

The award will be presented at the SUS Academic Surgical Congress on February 1, 2022, in Orlando, Florida.
He is the true embodiment of the type of individual that this award seeks to recognize.