With support from the College of Medicine in 2017, the Center for Health Services Research (CHSR) selected and funded four projects in the Value of Innovation to Implementation Program (VI²P); https://chsr.med.uky.edu/vi2p.

UK HealthCare has more than 155 physicians practicing medicine with University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Good Samaritan Hospital who appear on the Best Doctors in America List for 2019 — more than any other hospital in Kentucky. Only four percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review. 

Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Smalls for her abstract entitled “Phenotype of the Rural Caregiver: Implications for Aging America” for being selected for the U.S.-Hong Kong 2018 Conference with the theme “Aging across Time and Contexts”. Dr. Smalls’ abstract was selected amongst an impressive number of abstracts for the conferences from countries such as China, Israel, Switzerland, and Brazil. Dr. Smalls will be presenting her abstract at the US-Hong Kong 2018 Conference held in Hong Kong in May.

Humans have a complex relationship with food:  it is sustenance, it is a livelihood, it is an emotional reward, and it can be medicine. As the obesity epidemic illustrates, it can be the opposite of medicine, too. Neurogastronomy encompasses a number of disciplines to address that relationship, including basic science, nutrition, psychology, agriculture, food science and health.

Since the 1960s, March has been marked as a time to celebrate the significant work of social work practitioners, educators, researchers and students. 

Social work has a rich and storied history. The foundational impact of Jane Adams’ Hull House and Mary Richmond’s Charity Organization Societies has reverberated through the decades. The pioneering legacies of social workers like Dorothy Height and Kentucky native Whitney Young, Jr. continue to positively shape people's lives.

According to the NIH Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials website (https://obssr.od.nih.gov/training/training-institutes/institute-on-randomized-clinical-trials/) this training will provide thorough grounding in the conduct of randomized clinical trials to researchers interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions. The curriculum will enable participants to:

After four years of medical school and numerous interviews, University of Kentucky College of Medicine students found out where they will continue their medical education in residency programs. Match Day is a culmination of the hard work and dreams of students on the path to becoming doctors.