$Would you like to win a 50,000 prize to fund research that impacts active health of North Americans?

The Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health, valued at $50,000 CAD,
is offered each year by McGill University to an academic whose research has
contributed to understanding how factors such as physical activity, nutrition,
fitness or psychosocial context can influence personal health and well-being,
and whose work could have a positive impact on behavior and lifestyle choices.

The UK Graduate School is hosting the 3MT Competition this semester! You have one slide and 3 minutes to breakdown your thesis/dissertation.

Individuals who inject drugs are at risk of endocarditis, a bacterial infection that enters the bloodstream and clusters on the valves of the heart. The infection requires prolonged antibiotic treatment and, in some cases, surgery. Without intervention, the infection can be fatal. In the past 10 years, the number of patients presenting to U.S. hospitals with endocarditis has doubled with the proliferation of prescription opioid and heroin addiction.

Dr. Daniel Kenady was recognized for 36 years of service as a faculty member with the UK Department of Surgery with a reception held in his honor at the Lexington Country Club on Sunday evening, August 28.

The Academic Convocation and Awards Ceremony is an annual presentation of awards to students and faculty for outstanding achievement in academics, service, research and teaching during the previous year. Convocation will include the Munich Memorial Lecture featuring Robert S. DiPaola, M.D., Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dean DiPaola will deliver the “State of the College of Medicine: Direction for the Future.” A light reception will follow.

The Academic Convocation and Awards Ceremony is an annual presentation of awards to students and faculty for outstanding achievement in academics, service, research and teaching during the previous year. Convocation will include the Munich Memorial Lecture featuring Robert S. DiPaola, M.D., Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dean DiPaola will deliver the “State of the College of Medicine: Direction for the Future.” A light reception will follow.

The UK division of Cardiothoracic Surgery will host its annual CME symposium for primary care providers on Saturday morning, Oct. 8, beginning at 7 am in the UK Hospital Pavilion A Auditorium.

The symposium will provide updates on the full spectrum of clinical services in which CT Surgery plays a primary role. The range of topics for discussion will include a major update on lung cancer treatment strategies, heart and lung transplants, foregut surgery, trans-aortic valve replacement (TAVR), and minimally invasive surgical techniques.

A new partnership with Georgetown College Athletics will provide sports teams at Georgetown College with team physicians from the University of Kentucky Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. The team physician’s first responsibility is the health and safety of each athlete they work with. They assess each athlete for previous injuries and review athlete’s medical histories for medications, hospitalizations surgeries and other information.
The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) has been awarded an $8.25 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue and further research and clinical initiatives geared toward treating Alzheimer's disease. Currently, only 30 designated Alzheimer's Disease Centers exist in the U.S.

Certificate signatures known as electronic signatures are increasingly becoming an accepted method of signing documents. An official certificate signature provides a name, an email address and a date/time stamp along with many other features. Setting up for official certificate signature for an adobe document is easy. The document below provides in-depth instructions using the COM Procurement Form as an example.