Congratulations, Andrew Hitron, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation this afternoon. Congratulations to the committee members Drs. St Clair, HS Yang, and Luo for their guidance throughout Andrew’s training.

Mark Williams, MD is being featured on UKNow, where he talks about improving hospital discharges and targeting social needs for better health. This is a great read or you can listen to his interview via SoundCloud regarding the projects and goals he has to improve healthcare in Kentucky and beyond. Please click on the UKNow icon below to view the article and listen to the interview: 

CHSR’s Jess Clouser was recently interviewed by WUKY’s Dr. Greg Davis about preliminary findings from Project ACHIEVE. Specifically, they discuss findings from focus groups and interviews in which 248 patients and family caregivers described what matters most to them about care transitions and which provider behaviors were linked to those desired outcomes.

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Mary McDermott, M.D.

Jeremiah Stamler Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Raleigh Jones, Chair of Otolaryngology at UK HealthCare, discusses the U.S. News ranking.

Dr. Lesley Wong officially took over as the new Director of the UK Plastic Surgery Residency Program in July 2018.

The transition to the leadership role has been an education by itself. Fortunately, Dr. Wong said that she has the benefit and support of Jan Mock, Plastic Surgery Residency Coordinator, to train her for the job. Ms. Mock has been coordinator of the residency program for well over 20 years and knows well the details involved in managing the graduate medical education program.

Watch how Dr. Nancy Schoenberg hopes to partner with communities in Southeastern Kentucky to help tackle the scourge of diabetes in Appalachia.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 5, 2019) — Last September, Guy Bradley began having episodes of severe and sudden confusion with night sweats and nausea.

"He'd wake up and not know where he was or what day it was," said his wife, Harriet. 

Also troubling: the 69-year old suddenly could not find his way around the golf course he'd played all his adult life. 

With each of the four episodes, Harriet and Guy would head to the closest emergency room. Each time, the diagnosis was scary – and yet didn't quite fit.  

More than 40 hospital CEOs and emergency department (ED) leaders from critical access hospitals (CAHs) and other rural hospitals across the state met in Shelbyville on August 9-10 to learn about ways to improve ED processes.