For All Graduate Students:

Summer Thesis/Dissertation Boot Camp, May 16-27, 2016

Registration Now Open (will close Friday, May 6th)

Please join Gina Vessels, SRAS Post Award Manager, for an informational session on the monthly financial reports distributed by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) for grant accounts. There will be a general review of the report structure and discussion of the information within the report, and there will be ample time for questions and discussion after the presentation. Please feel free to bring your own personal reports for individual review and questions after the session.

Health Data Management, the information resource for medical and information technology (IT) professionals, executives and administrators, is honoring 75 of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT, which includes Dr. Carol Steltenkamp, professor of pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and chief medical information officer (CMIO) at UK HealthCare. The awards are broken into three categories: thought leaders, provider/payer executives and CIOs/IT leaders.

On April 20th, 2016, Amanda Bolton Hall successfully defended her dissertation.

“Histological and Behavioral Consequences of Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice”

The fifth annual International Conference on Opioids, founded by Dr. Paul Sloan, professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, will be June 5 - 7 at the Joseph B.

The “Holy Grail” for vascular surgery technology in the next five to six years will be the fusion of three-dimensional CT images to robotic navigation in a hybrid operating room, said Dr. Alan B. Lumsden, chair of the Houston Methodist Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, who delivered the inaugural lecture for the Gordon L. Hyde Lectureship in Vascular Surgery.

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By Josh Shepherd

After listening to the praises and recognitions from peers and colleagues prior to the inaugural presentation of the Gordon L. Hyde Lectureship in Vascular Surgery Wednesday morning, a very grateful Dr. Gordon Hyde commented that the advances that have been made since his retirement barely 19 years ago makes him hunger to be back in surgical residency once more.

Erica Littlejohn (PhD candidate, Saatman Lab, SCoBIRC), along with Ese Ighordaro (MD/PhD candidate, Nelson lab, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging) received the Shane Carlin & Annie Sit Inclusion Award (see below) at a recent conference for Interracial Education at Berea College. Erica is President of the University of Kentucky Black Graduate and Professional Student Association (BGPSA), and Ese is Vice-Preisdent. Ese also received the John T. Smith Award.