LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 15, 2021) — Throughout the past few years, the University of Kentucky’s Department of Neurology has experienced tremendous growth. As part of this growth, the Child Neurology division outgrew its clinic space within the Kentucky Clinic.
Neurology Opens New Child-Friendly Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
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Taylor Valentino Receives 2020 Hardin Award
The 13th Annual Hardin Award was presented to Taylor Valentino, a graduate student in John McCarthy's lab, on March 11, 2021.
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Writing a Grant?
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Announcing the New State of the Art Radiology Interventional Services
University of Kentucky HealthCare is proud to announce the opening of the new state of the art Radiology Interventional Services!
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Dr. Bill Young Retires After 25 Years of Service
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CHET to Co-Host Dr. Chandra L. Ford 3/30/21
CHET is pleased to partner with the College of Public Health and the Center for Innovation in Population Health for the next virtual event in their series on creating an anti-racist culture in academia. Chandra L. Ford, Ph.D. Professor of Community Health Sciences, and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health at the UCLA Jonathan & Karin Fielding School of Public Health. Dr.
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SUPRA to Host. Dr. Alice Cepeda 3/18/21
CHET is excited to share that the Substance Use Priority Research Area (SUPRA) is hosting Dr. Alice Cepeda from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work on March 18th at 1:00pm.
Dr. Cepeda focuses on the social epidemiology of drug use and the related health risk behaviors affecting urban Mexican-origin populations.
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CHET to Co-Host Dr. Geoffrey Curran 3/16/21
The University of Kentucky’s TRIPPPLe Team Alliance, Center for Health Equity Transformation, and the Center for Advancement of Pharmacy Practice are delighted to host Dr. Geoffrey Curran from the University of Arkansas who will be presenting on “An Overview of Hybrid Effectiveness – Implementation Designs”.
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Dr. Makenzie Barr Receives CHET Just-in-Time Award
Congratulations to Makenzie Barr, PhD, RDN, LD, Assistant Professor of Dietetics and Human Nutrition in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment for receiving a CHET Just-in-Time award for her project, “A Qualitative Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Identifying Community Supported Interventions for Laurel County Kentucky.”
The goal of her project is to identify feasible evidence-based program options of interest to rural Kentuckians that target improvement of health outcomes.
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Recognition of Research at University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a major research university. In the most recent fiscal year, FY20, UK received $429.2 million in grants and contracts for research work. Of that impressive figure over $272 million is in the form of awards from federal agencies such as the NIH. Figure 1 below shows the growth in funding to the university over the past five years.
The growth as been significant and has elevated our placement to 63rd among 624 institutions according to the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey.
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