Fellows Welcome Party 7/21/2018
Senior Banquet
Med Student Who Helped Launch Diversity Program is Now a Physician and Faculty Adviser
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 15, 2019) — A meeting in early 2010 sparked Dr. Ima Ebong's passion to advocate for greater minority representation in medical school — a passion that has propelled her to national recognition for her work.
Jing Li, MD, MS Receives U01 Grant on her Project MISSION Proposal
Congratulations to Jing Li, MD, MS as her proposal on 'Project MISSION: Developing a multicomponent Multilevel Implementation Strategy for Syncope optImal care thrOugh eNgagement' has been awarded. This is a two year $1,027,237 project that begins on August 15, 2018-July 31, 2020.
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Cardarelli Named Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine
Dr. Roberto Cardarelli has been named chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Cardarelli, who is also professor of family medicine, has served as interim chair of the department since August 2017.
Registration Now Open for the 2018 Cardiovascular Research Day
Registration is now open for the 21st annual University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute Cardiovascular Research Day! Hurry, registration and abstract submission closes on September 7. Click Here to Register! Learn more about this year's event including featured speakers, faculty presentations, and schedule of the day - 21st Cardiovascular Research Day.
Project ACHIEVE Gains National Attention
Congratulations to our Project ACHIEVE team who gained national attention through their care transitions article when it was picked up by the Washington Post and 60 other news outlets, including as far out as the Virgin Islands. The article covers the project's goal of providing patients with a healthcare experience that is not stress or fear-inducing. The project is studying ways for providing patients with individual care that they can understand.
UK College of Medicine - Bowling Green Campus Welcomes Inaugural Class
The first class of medical students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus took their first steps in their medical education by participating in the campus' inaugural White Coat Ceremony.
Thirty students participated in the event held Friday, Aug. 3 at Van Meter Hall on the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. In addition, earlier in the day, 136 students received white coats in a ceremony at the UK College of Medicine's Lexington campus at the UK Singletary Center for the Arts.
UK Forensic Pathologist is a Storyteller, Wearer of Many Hats
Dr. Greg Davis is a teacher — of students, of peers, of listeners and of juries. The many hats he wears have taken him around the world and back to his beloved Kentucky, all in service to the Hippocratic Oath and his chosen profession of forensic pathology.
There's a joke that pathologists are asocial, more comfortable with a microscope than with people. This is certainly not true of Davis, whose intellectual skill and facility with others make him an ideal teacher in all walks of life.
Alzheimer's and the Amyloid Hypothesis
Dr. M. Paul Murphy, a faculty member within the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, contributed his thoughts on the “amyloid hypothesis” in the July 25, 2018 issue of Nature.
The amyloid hypothesis states that the accumulation of amyloid-βin the brain is the main cause of Alzheimer’s. This is primarily based on the correlation between clumps of amyloid-β in the brain and the neurodegenerative processes observed in Alzheimer’s disease.
