Following the annual Nicholson Scholar Grand Rounds presentation, Dr. Danielle Kay (PGY 5) was recognized as the 2020 recipient of the Charles H. Nicholson Clinical Tour Fellowship and Dr. Brent Hillard (PGY 4) is the 2019 recipient of an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) travel scholarship. Dr. Andrew Bernard, section chair of Trauma, Acute Care, and Critical Care Surgery, presented the awards.

I'm sure you all make use of PubMed (and probably Google Scholar) to try and keep up with the literature in your field. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to have automate the process? And have not only the results of your searches but also things like journal tables of content delivered in a single, user-friendly package?

There is.

Dr. Jackie Rivas, a post-doctoral scholar in Dr. Subba Bondada's lab, won first place for her poster presentation entitled, Enhancing anti-tumor immunity and responses to immunotherapy by reversing interleukin-10 mediated immunosuppression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, at the 10th annual Markey Cancer Research Day on May 7, 2019. Dr. Rivas research is studying how to enhance anti-tumor immunity in leukemia model systems.
In April the Department had seven publications listed in PubMed. 1: Xie Y, Kril LM, Yu T, Zhang W, Frasinyuk MS, Bondarenko SP, Kondratyuk KM, Hausman E, Martin ZM, Wyrebek PP, Liu X, Deaciuc A, Dwoskin LP, Chen J, Zhu H, Zhan CG, Sviripa VM, Blackburn J, Watt DS, Liu C. Semisynthetic aurones inhibit tubulin polymerization at the colchicine-binding site and repress PC-3 tumor xenografts in nude mice and myc-induced T-ALL in zebrafish. Sci Rep. 2019 Apr 23;9(1):6439. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42917-0.

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center celebrated 10 years of Markey Research Day this past Tuesday. Sponsored by the Markey Cancer Foundation, Markey Research Day is an opportunity for researchers who study any aspect of cancer to share their work and receive feedback from colleagues across campus. Markey’s reach extends across 10 of UK’s 16 colleges, and the work on display at Research Day showcases the wide variety and diversity of perspectives that fall under the Markey umbrella. 

Community health professionals who dedicate their time as a University of Kentucky appointed Voluntary Faculty are, in part, preparing students to deliver health care to Kentucky. These providers are a crucial part of shaping UK health profession student’s knowledge, skill, values and identities as a health care provider, regardless of discipline. The University of Kentucky Voluntary Faculty Program is designed to meet the needs of these Voluntary Faculty through opportunities for continued professional growth and integration into the teaching process.

By Nancy Galvagni

The National Institute on Drug Abuse ranks Kentucky among the top 10 states with the highest opioid-related overdose deaths, and Kentucky’s hospitals are on the frontline in the fight to help the state recover. To assist the state’s hospitals in this battle, the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) is partnering with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services as part of the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE) to launch the Kentucky Statewide Opioid Stewardship (KY SOS) program.

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