Research Financial Services has been leading a team with Enterprise Applications Group (EAG) and Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to create efficiency in processing subaward invoices, while meeting federal compliance standards. The EAG team developed an outstanding program to establish electronic approval for subaward invoices. The pilot has successfully been completed and effective September 29, all subaward invoices will be under the new process.  

THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD) FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 

Of the 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, a significant number experience a serious side effect called chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI). While easily recognized, little is known about the etiology of this condition, also known informally as “chemo brain.” CICI can significantly reduce patients’ quality of life with serious, even devastating, symptoms such as memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, negative impacts on multitasking, confusion and fatigue.

David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, a senior fellow from the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics in Philadelphia, will be a special guest lecturer at the 2017 edition of the Bruce Lucas Hepatology and Liver Transplant Symposium on Friday, October 13 at the Kroger Field Recruitment Room. Dr. Goldberg will present findings from studies he has published on two controversial issues in organ transplantation: the impact of the opioid epidemic on organ donations and the risk level posed by hepatitis-C infected organ donors.

To illustrate advanced standards of stroke care in America, Dr. Sibu Saha presented an overview of UK HealthCare’s Stroke Program at the 59^th Annual Congress of the International College of Angiology (ICA) on Thursday, September 7, in Vienna, Austria,

The Data, Analytics, and Statistical Core (DASC) of the Center for Health Services Research (CHSR) hosts a monthly analytics open lab. The CHSR encourages interested faculty, and staff from UKHC and the 6 health profession colleges to join analysts and statisticians on the third Friday of each month from 10:00-11:00am in the Kentucky Clinic room J524.

By Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis

This summer 17 undergraduate students came to UK to participate in and learn about biomedical-related research. They took part in two 10-week programs: Summer Undergraduate Research in Environmental Sciences (SURES) and Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).

SURES and SURF are directed by Hollie Swanson, a professor in the UK College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences. 

Dr. John Draus, pediatric surgeon with the UK Department of Surgery, accepted appointment earlier this September as the interim Associate Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) for the Kentucky Children’s Hospital (KCH).

Dr. Draus was asked to step in to the position when the former ACMO, Dr. Scottie Day, agreed to serve as interim chair of the UK Department of Pediatrics. Day is taking the place of Dr. Carmel Wallace who retired as pediatrics chair this year.

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