Dr. Jay Zwischenberger was one of 12 specialists inducted into the 2016 class of Fellows of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (FELSO) during a special awards ceremony at the ELSO Annual Conference on September 17, 2016 in San Diego.

Several faculty members, residents, and fellows from the UK Department of Surgery will be featured speakers at the 2016 edition of the annual statewide Trauma and Emergency Medicine Symposium, scheduled for October 26 – 28 at The Campbell House in Lexington.

CHSR was recently selected to direct the Tracking & Evaluation Core of UK’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). Led by Dr. Phil Kern, the CCTS champions innovation across the spectrum of clinical and translational research, and educates the translational workforce of the future. Tracking & Evaluation by CHSR combines formative and summative evaluation techniques, and utilizes mixed methods approaches that incorporate both traditional and translational metrics.

Award honors lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky 

For Immediate Release

Media Contact:
Tina McCormick
krha@twc.com
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September 21, 2016 – The Kentucky Rural Health Association (KRHA), which is dedicated to improving the health status of rural Kentuckians through education and advocacy, has announced the 2016 Dan Martin Award recipient, Dr. Fran Feltner.

Weisi Fu successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday, September 29, 2016

Doctoral Committee Members

Dr. Bradley K. Taylor
Mentor, Department of Physiology

Dr. Karin W. High
Department of Physiology

Dr. Gregory Frolenkov
Department of Physiology

Dr. Kimberly Nixon
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Outside Examiner
Dr. Gregory Bix
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology

Concerns about privacy, safety, stigmatization and quality of care have deterred members of the LGBTQ community from accessing health care services and resources. Disengagement from the health care system has contributed to many health disparities affecting the LGBTQ population.

Robin Shoemaker-Council on Hypertension Awardee. The American Heart Association held its annual Council on Hypertension session September 14-17th in Orlando, Florida. Our congratulations to Dr. Robin Shoemaker for winning an award in the Postdoctoral category entitled “Mas Receptor Deficiency Promotes Hypertension in Obese Female Mice and Cardiac Dysfunction in Obese Male Mice”. The Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences was well represented as Drs.