Brian Delisle Highlighted by AHA Precision Medicine
Reading: Work Simply
This month's book is "Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style" by Carson Tate
UK Board Awards 16 University Professorships for 2019-20
This week, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved 16 University Research Professorships for the 2019-20 academic year.
The purpose of the University Research Professorship program is to recognize and publicize research accomplishments of scholars across the full range of disciplines at UK. The award amount is $10,000 for one year, to be used to further the research, scholarship and creative endeavors of the awardee.
When is Alzheimer's Not Alzheimer's? Researchers Characterize a Different Form of Dementia
In the past, using the terms "Alzheimer’s disease" and "dementia" interchangeably was a generally accepted practice. Now there is rising appreciation that a variety of diseases and disease processes contribute to dementia.
According to Nina Silverberg, Ph.D., director of the Alzheimer's Disease Centers Program at National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of NIH, in the past many of the people who enrolled in clinical trials for Alzheimer's drugs likely did not have amyloid — the sticky substance that gums up neurons and interferes with thinking — in their brains.
Pilot Funding RFA: Up to $50,000
THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD)
PILOT PROJECT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
Registration Open for PGY Research and Education Day - Closes May 15
REGISTER HERE All attendees must register to recieve t-shirt giveaway
Deadline to register is Wednesday May 15
May 22, 2019 at the Bill Gatton Student Center
Morning Session - Education - For Tenure-Track Faculty (joint/research-track faculty, and trainee attendance optional)
THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD) PILOT PROJECT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) announce the availability of limited funds to support pilot projects focused on research examining obesity-associated diseases. Emphasis for support will be placed on pilot projects that examine the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, cancer, or neurodegenerative diseases. These pilot grants are intended to assist investigators new to this area of research
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Police who received the "Teacher who made a difference" Award
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Police from the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences who received the "Teacher who made a difference" award, at this past weekend event from the College of Education. More information about this award can be found by clicking Here
Congratulation Dr. Police!
NIH hosts Pathways to Prevention: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services
This NIH workshop, "Pathways to Prevention: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services" will assess the available scientific evidence on achieving health equity in the use of clinical preventive services in a health care setting, focusing on three leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
It will take place June 19-20, 2019 via live videocast and in-person at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, Maryland.
The workshop will also address the following questions:
A Changed View and Changed Approach in UK’s Emergency Departments
When Dr. Roger Humphries was among the first six people to complete an emergency medicine residency at UK HealthCare in 1996, seeing a patient who had overdosed on opioids was uncommon. Today, as the chair of the department, Humphries has implemented policies and programs to help address the needs of the 350 to 400 patients they see per day who are affected by complications related to opioid use disorder.
