As part of the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s continued expansion of its graduate medical program opportunities, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and UK HealthCare have established a new residency program to equip medical trainees with the necessary knowledge and experience to best treat Kentucky patients with both medical and psychiatric needs.

Jun 21, 2021 - Last year, we were able to put together a fairly smooth and successful virtual interview program.  This year, we will be prepared again.  Under the guidance of the ACC, we will be holding virtual interviews this season.

Here is the official statement by ACC.

Jun 5, 2021 - After being fully virtual for a year due to the pandemic, we were able to celebrate our fellows graduation in person (with a virtual option Zoom-ing live).   This year, we graduated 7 in general cardiology, 2 in interventional cardiology, 2 in advanced cardiac imaging, 2 in advanced heart failure, and our first ever in cardiac critical care.  We are extremely proud of their hard work and accomplishments.

Graduating general cardiology fellows

Dr. Vedant Gupta (left) won his second Borys Surawicz Award for best teacher.

LEXINGTON, Ky.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 24, 2021) — Early in the evening of May 30, 2020, UK HealthCare trauma surgeon Dr. Zachary Warriner prepared an emergency operation to figure out the cause of a bowel obstruction. His patient, a 27-year old man, had come into the emergency department earlier that day with the vague symptoms of severe belly pain and nausea.

Dec 2, 2020 - Everything is different this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. We held our first full virtual cardiovascular medicine fellowship interview season this year. We have had some practice with shifting to Zoom for our cardiology conferences, but a tremendous amount of preparation was still necessary to make it a smooth operation of a complex interview process with many moving parts. Today, we were fortunate to have matched 7 great candidates (of which 5 will be future women cardiologists!).

Congratulations to Dr. Meredith Duncan, CHET' Biostatistics Core Coordinator, who recently published an article in The Lancet Healthy Longevity entitled, "Association between HIV and incident pulmonary hypertension in US Veterans: a retrospective cohort study." 

CHET Core Faculty member Dr. Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa and CHET Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kathryn Cardarelli recently published an op-ed in the Lexington Herald Leader entitled, "Forty years after AIDS appeared, it’s still an epidemic of silence, neglect and death."

"June 2021 marks 40 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U.S., a disease caused by the HIV virus.

Hammodah Alfar is in his second year of graduate school in the UK College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, with a specialized interest in platelet biology.

He has gained important research experience as a member of the Virus-Induced Thrombosis Alliance (VITAL), led by Beth Garvy, PhD, associate dean for biomedical education, and Sidney Whiteheart, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry.