LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 15, 2019) — Working hard to help Kentuckians get on, and stay on, the road to better health. For the past 25 years, the University of Kentucky’s Ellen Hahn has been doing just that.
Family and Community Medicine Team Receives National Award
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Department of Family and Community Medicine’s Primary Care Training Enhancement (PCTE) grant team was recently selected to receive the Outstanding Educational Program Award by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). This award honors an innovative program, department, or academic institution for their involvement in advancing undergraduate or graduate medical education in prevention and public health which furthers students’ interest in the discipline.
UK HealthCare releases new video from Surgery chair Dr. William Inabnet
Marks Selected as UK's First Bell Addiction Medicine Scholar
Dr. Sarah Tully Marks, assistant professor and the associate residency program director in the University of Kentucky Department of Community and Family Medicine, has been selected as UK’s first Bell Addiction Medicine Scholar. This scholar program is a part of the Bell Alcohol and Addiction Endowed Chair efforts aimed at building physician education and training experiences for treating patients with substance use disorders.
CHSR Awarded New RWJF Research Grant to Use Valuable Health Data to Inform Policy
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recently awarded nineteen grantees to conduct studies using highly valued datasets from either the Health Care Cost Institute, OptumLabs, CareJourney or athenahealth. These grants were awarded as a part of RWJF’s signature research program Health Data for Action, managed by AcademyHealth.
UK Researcher Makes 'Top Science Stories of 2019' List by Discover Magazine
An international group of experts led by Dr. Peter Nelson, a neuropathologist at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, is being recognized as one of the top science stories of 2019 by Discover Magazine.
Center Director Dr. Ellen Hahn Demonstrates Commitment to Health Research, Advocacy
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Dr. Monica Chau joins the UK Department of Neurosurgery as an Assistant Professor
Monica J. Chau, PhD
Dr. Monica Chau, co-chair of the WIMS Student and Trainee subcommittee, recently joined the research faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery conducting clinical research. She studies the intracerebral engraftment of peripheral nerve cells into Parkinson’s Disease patients at UK’s Brain Restoration Center. Her research interests are neurodegeneration and regeneration, cell therapy, and stem cells.
Antibiotics Could Be Promising Treatment for Form of Dementia
Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine have found that a class of antibiotics called aminoglycosides could be a promising treatment for frontotemporal dementia.
Results of their proof of concept study, which was a collaborative effort between UK’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and the University of California San Francisco’s Department of Pathology, were recently published in the journal, Human Molecular Genetics.
