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.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 21, 2021) – A new University of Kentucky College of Medicine study will examine how policies that restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes impact health disparities among vulnerable populations. 

A five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will support the study on how local policies impact at-risk groups – including communities of color, low-income populations and youth – that are more likely to use flavored tobacco products.