The FINDERS Alliance team combines clinical experts in Epilepsy, the analysis of EEG waveform, and neuroimaging. It brings together energetic and ambitous faculty from multiple departments and even from multiple colleges within our university. The FINDERS alliance team is ably lead by Brian Gold, PhD from the department of Neuroscience and Meriem Bensalem Owen, MD from the department of Neurology. Dr. Gold is an experienced researcher who leads an active research effort using advanced MR imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease. Dr.

On Friday, September 18th, 2020, the Department of Radiology hosted David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD and Jeffrey S. Klein, MD,  the editors of Radiology and Radiographics respectively. Drs. Bluemke and Klein came to our department, via zoom, as part of the RSNA visiting editors program. Originally they were to visit us in March just at the start of travel restrictions imposed by the surging COVID-19 epidemic and their visit was cancelled.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 17, 2020) — A new University of Kentucky College of Medicine study may provide answers for why so many COVID-19 patients experience thrombosis, or the formation of blood clots that obstruct blood flow through the circulatory system.

As part of CHET’s speaker series, Dr. Edith Williams will be providing a virtual research talk, “"Lupus Out Loud: Journey Into a Health Disparity” Tuesday September 29th from 11:00-12:00 via Zoom. You can register here: http://bit.ly/CHET_EVENT

The Dean's CORE Scholarship Fund helps ensure our medical students can follow their passion without the added burden of a higher debt load upon graduation. The University of Kentucky College of Medicine will dedicate One Day for UK, the University of Kentucky's annual 24-hour day of giving, to supporting these important scholarships on Sept. 16. To learn more about how you can help this year, click here.

April Hatcher, PhD, is an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience and was recently named chair of Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS), an organization facilitating networking and mentorship opportunities to support career advancement for women.

The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health and the UK CCTS Community Engagement and Research Program are requesting applications for the 2020 Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK). CLIK is an intensive leadership development training program in Hazard, Kentucky.  It is designed to enhance research and capacity-building competencies in community leaders, senior staff, directors and administrators.

The Department had ten publications listed in PubMed for the month of August 2020.

1: Smeltzer S, Quadri Z, Miller A, Zamudio F, Hunter J, Stewart NJF, Saji S, Lee DC, Chaput D, Selenica MB. Hypusination of Eif5a regulates cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregation and accumulation in a stress-induced cellular model. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis. 2020 Aug 31:165939. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2020.165939. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32882370.

Rosalind Ritchie, MD, is a professor in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and was recently named chair of the college’s Faculty of Color Network, an organization with a vision of being undeniable, uncompromising, and unstoppable in pursuing diversity and inclusion. She enrolled in the first class of UK’s Women’s Executive Leadership Development Program and is the medical director of UK Chandler Hospital’s Center for Advanced Surgery.