By Allison Perry

Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Alberto de Hoyos has joined the thoracic oncology team at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.

De Hoyos’s clinical interests include treatment of lung and esophageal cancers, neuroendocrine tumors and mediastienal tumors, with specialties including minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

De Hoyos earned his medical degree from the Universidat Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico. He then completed his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Alberto de Hoyos has joined the thoracic oncology team at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. De Hoyos’s clinical interests include treatment of lung and esophageal cancers, neuroendocrine tumors and mediastienal tumors, with specialties including minimally invasive and robotic surgery. De Hoyos earned his medical degree from the Universidat Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico.

Registration for the Sixth Annual Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day is now open.  The deadline for abstract submissions is April 22, 2016.  Details of the event, including registration and program schedule, can be found on the Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day web site. 

Looking for something fun for yourself or your family to do outside the office? 

Team Surgery Shenanigans has got your back with two really fun events for you and your family to get involved. Proceeds from these events support will support either the Greater Bluegrass Chapter for the March of Dimes or the Markey Cancer Center’s ongoing effort to help Kentucky fight cancer.

The Community Faculty Program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine hosted its 22nd Annual Community Faculty Conference for community faculty, campus faculty colleagues, administration, professional staff and regional Area Health Education Center (AHEC) staff April 8-9. But some people may be surprised by the distance some community faculty travel for the conference and the chance to meet their UK colleagues in person. Dr. Pawelos Beshah from Swaziland, a small landlocked African nation, attends the conference each year.
University of Kentucky researchers Robin Vanderpool and Mark Dignan are leading projects funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities to continue Markey Cancer Center’s community-based efforts aimed at reducing cancer rates in Appalachia. Both programs are funded for three years. Appalachian regions, particularly in Eastern Kentucky, have disproportionately high rates of both incidence and mortality due to cancer when compared to other regions in the United States.
Jin Chen, Ph.D., will join the Division of Biomedical Informatics on July 1st, 2016. During his research career, Dr. Chen focuses on developing data mining and computer vision algorithms to address basic biological problems including phenotype data analysis, phenotype-genotype association, gene regulatory module identification, and data-driven ontology construction. Previously, Dr. Chen was Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and Postdoc Research Associate at Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D.

One of the leading advocates for technological innovations in cardiothoracic surgery was a special guest speaker with the University of Kentucky Department of Surgery last week.

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, founder and director of the East Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI), was featured speaker for the weekly surgical grand rounds on Wednesday, April 6. His presentation, “Innovative Technology in Cardiac Surgery: The times they are a’changing” was an overview of next generation technology in the world of cardiac surgery.