Identification of Human Very Small Embryonic like Stem Cells (VSELS) in Human Heart Tissue Among Young and Old Individuals.

Dr. Cortney Lee presented several surgical residents Golden Apple pins following Department of Surgery Grand Rounds Wednesday morning, December 4. The Golden Apples were given in recognition of their excellent teaching as nominated by 3rd year medical students during this third surgical rotation block.

Exp Neurol. 2020 Jan;323:113083. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2019.113083.
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) and the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UK CERH) announced a gift to support the first-ever Students Striving Toward Better Health in Self and Community initiative, available to Perry County and Hazard Independent high school students. Students enrolling in the program will receive tuition-free education and training for the community health worker certification. UK CERH will be the lead in the development, coordination and execution of content and programming with UHC providing expertise and support resources.

By Mallory Olson
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Lanny Evans is 71 years old, but you wouldn’t know it. She looks years younger and credits that to eating healthy and staying active – she loves swimming laps and doing yoga.

“I choose not to be an old person,” she said. “I’m happier that way.”

James P. Ziliak, PhD, is the Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics, Director of Center for Poverty Research and Kentucky Federal Statistical Research Data Center, and a Core Faculty member of the Center for Health Equity Transformation. Dr. Ziliak along with Dr. Robert Moffitt have co-edited a special issue on Entitlement Reform in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The volume contains eleven articles on the major social insurance and means-tested transfer programs in the U.S., along with two reflections and an Introduction to the volume.
"Patrick Kitzman, PT, PHD, associate dean for research in the UK College of Health Sciences, will receive the Outstanding Advocacy in Neurologic Physical Therapy Award from the American Physical Therapy Association at the APTA’s annual conference in 2020. This prestigious honor is given to those in the field of physical therapy who have made an extraordinary impact on advocacy for neurologic physical therapy. 'I am humbled to receive this award. But, when you do advocacy work, it’s a group effort,” he said. “It takes all of us to make a change.

In November the Department had seven new publications listed in PubMed.


1: Li H, Li J, Han R, Deng X, Shi J, Huang H, Hamad N, McCaughley A, Liu J, Wang C, Chen K, Wei D, Qiang J, Thatcher S, Wu Y, Liu C, Thibault O, Wei X, Chen S, Qian H, Zhou BP, Xu P, Yang XH. Deletion of tetraspanin CD151 alters the Wnt oncogene-induced mammary tumorigenesis: A cell type-linked function and signaling. Neoplasia. 2019 Nov 26;21(12):1151-1163. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2019.08.005. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31783316.