Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) affects one in four Americans overall and about three in four Americans age 65 and older. While health care aims to relieve suffering and alleviate burden, it sometimes makes burdensome demands of patients. Patients must invest capacity — time, emotion, and attention — to do the work of being a patient, which competes with other important tasks in their lives.

The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) announce the availability of limited funds to support pilot projects focused on research examining obesity-associated diseases (cardiovascular, diabetes, others). These pilot grants are intended to assist investigators new to this area of research to generate sufficient data to be competitive for extramural funding. 

Six teams of researchers and physician scientists have become the inaugural recipients of pilot funding from the new Multidisciplinary Value Program (MVP), which aims to boost team science that will impact University of Kentucky patients and wellbeing in the Commonwealth. Each MVP team will launch a new clinical trial that brings cutting-edge science to patients and communities.

The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health is hosting an Academic Open House on October 18th from 5:30pm-7:30pm.

Join us to learn about how you can earn a Bachelor’s in Medical Laboratory Science, Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, Master of Social Work or a Doctorate in Physical Therapy.

The University of Kentucky announces the implementation of TRIP Travel Document Solution.

TRIP is an online software program designed to streamline the creation, submission, approval and payment of travel requests and travel expense reports in SAP. TRIP will be available to UK employees on Monday, Oct. 10.

TRIP is accessible through the Employee Self Service portal (ESS) on myUK.

The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center recently announced the winners of the 2016 Saha Awards.  These annual awards are given to Medical and Nursing students as well as to a nurse educator.  The awards are designed to reward creativity, dedication and knowledge in areas of cardiovascular research, disease prevention and patient

I’m pleased to announce starting this week, the College of Medicine will hold weekly administrators meetings with rotating topics, such as: accounting, finance, HR/payroll, research administration, and reporting.  We will communicate the agenda for the weekly meeting in advance, when possible.  While this meeting is geared toward Business Administrators, depending on the subject matter others may wish to attend.  Please check with your supervisor in advance regarding attendance to ensure coverage