Janet R. Manning, Lakshman Chelvarajan**, Bryana M. Levitan, Catherine N. Withers, Prabhakara R. Nagareddy, Christopher M. Haggerty, Brandon K. Fornwalt, Erhe Gao, Himi Tripathi**, Ahmed Abdel-Latif*, Douglas A. Andres, Jonathan Satin

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November 19, 2018 - The University of Kentucky has been awarded grants totaling over $160,000 by the American Heart Association.

These pre-doctoral grants will fund research into cardiovascular disease and health. Three graduate students have been awarded $26,844 per year for the next two years.

The grants have been awarded to:

 Graduate students at the University of Kentucky have been awarded research grants totaling over $80,000 by the American Heart Association.

These grants will fund three graduate student researchers within the Department of Physiology and Saha Cardiovascular Research Center in studying apporaches to cardiovascular dieseases and health.

The grants are:

The Orthopaedic Trauma Service research team in UK HealthCare’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine is comprised of a team that has made a tremendous impact despite being formed less than two years ago. The team, which includes Drs.

(Hazard, Ky.) - University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UKCERH) and Kentucky Homeplace have been have been recognized as “Community Stars” by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH). UK CERH and Kentucky Homeplace will be featured in the 2018 book of Community Stars that will be available on the https://www.PowerofRural.org website, the official hub for National Rural Health Day and the Power of Rural movement, beginning November 15, 2018.

On November 8-9, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held the first in-person meeting in Baltimore, Maryland for all 31 bridge organizations participating in the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model (https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/ahcm/).

Each year the College of Medicine and the UK Area Health Education Center recognize a voluntary faculty preceptor that demonstrates commitment to providing quality education for UK medical students. Selection for this award is based on medical student evaluations, feedback from regional AHEC centers, and/or faculty recommendation. The UK Voluntary Faculty Program is exactly that, a program that consists of health care providers that voluntarily open their practices to enhance our medical student’s clinical experience.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced that University of Kentucky's Matthew Gentry has received the Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship.

The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health, the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, and the UK CCTS Community Engagement and Research Program are requesting applications for the 2019 Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK). CLIK is a 4-week intensive leadership development training program offered in Hazard, Kentucky.  It is designed to enhance research and capacity-building competencies in community leaders, senior staff, directors and administrators.