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The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) and the UK Center for Clinical and Translation Science (CCTS) have postponed the Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK) training dates scheduled for the month of April. Out of concern and caution for the safety and health of our CLIK participants, faculty, mentors and staff we are adhering to the advice of our public health officials, CDC and Governor Beshear related to COVID-19.

2020 SPARK Program Call for Applications 

Release date: 3/09/2020 
Application deadline: 3/26/2020 

CHET is pleased to announce a call for applications to the Students Participating as Ambassadors for Research in Kentucky (SPARK) program. SPARK is a dynamic collaboration between the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) for undergraduate students interested in developing research expertise and projects in health equity.

UPDATE AS OF 3/12/20:
The CCTS Annual Spring Conference has been cancelled.
Please visit the CCTS website for additional details.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 23, 2019) — Yvonne Fondufe–Mittendorf took a winding path from the Republic of Cameroon to the bluegrass of Kentucky.

“I call myself an academic tourist,” she said.

What makes a good teacher a great one? University of Kentucky students were eager to share their opinions about the best teacher in their lives, nominating them for one of the most esteemed awards on campus. The UK Alumni Association 2020 Great Teacher Award was recently bestowed upon six University of Kentucky educators. Initiated in 1961, UK’s Great Teacher Award is the longest-running UK award recognizing teaching. In order to receive the award, educators must first be nominated by a student.

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

1: Abeysinghe R, Hinderer EW, Moseley HNB, Cui L. SSIF: Subsumption-based Sub-term Inference Framework to Audit Gene Ontology. Bioinformatics. 2020 Feb 17. pii: btaa106. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa106. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32065617.

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is proud to announce new leadership promotions and positions all working to continue to achieve our aspirational goals as a growing College of Medicine.

The University of Kentucky Saha Cardiovascular Research Center is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the Saha Awards.  These awards are given to encourage and support staff and students with an interest in and dedication to cardiovascular medicine.  Each award includes an unrestricted $1000 prize, a certificate and recognition at the University of Kentucky, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Cardiovascular Research Day held on September 25, 2020 at the Gatton Student Center.

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Three providers with UK HealthCare have been inducted as fellows by the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

Asha Shenoi, Ashley Montgomery-Yates and Alex Flannery have been named fellows in the American College of Critical Care Medicine, honoring their contributions to the field of critical care in the areas of professionalism, collaborative, multi-professional practice, scholarly activity, program development and leadership.