For PIs who include human subjects on their clinical trial sponsored research projects, the SRAS Grants Proposal Specialist (GPS) will now ask you or your staff members for a “Study Personnel Sheet” (also called an “F5”) during electronic Internal Approval Form (eIAF) preparation.  This is the sheet that the PI submits to UK’s Office of Research Integrity (ORI) as part of his or her IRB submission.  This step will ensure that all investigators are included on the eIAF and have completed a COI disclosure.  Any sub-investigator or other person who qualifie

In February, UK Libraries announced on UK News that Ezproxy service would be required for both on-campus and off-campus access to most UK Libraries licensed resources.  Current UK faculty, students, and staff access to a licensed resource will need to be made initially through a UK Libraries service: 1) the UK Libraries web site

Dr. Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research and chief in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UK HealthCare, has been selected to be part of an expert panel for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Strategic Innovation Engine. Williams will begin participating on the panel mid-July. The Strategic Innovation Engine, the latest addition to CMS’ Quality Improvement Organization efforts, is working to identify, evaluate and spread high impact, high value quality improvement practices.

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Dr.
The first time Dr. Matthew Bush observed a cochlear implant surgery, he was a young medical student from West Virginia visiting the University of Kentucky. He describes that experience as eye opening for him and ear opening for the patient. To witness function restored to an ear that was otherwise lost, sparked not only an intense interest in hearing health care, but also the desire to offer people with profound hearing loss their best hope of re-entering a hearing world and a better quality of life through cochlear implantation.

Written by Dr. Sean Skinner, pediatric surgeon at Kentucky Children’s Hospital.
Not many first-grade science curriculums include hands-on surgical training, but that’s exactly the lesson I taught to my daughter’s class earlier this year.

Doctors visually process an abundance of information when consulting with patients in a clinical setting. They examine charts and electronic records, monitor physical symptoms, and observe signs of distress or abnormality in the body. But as medicine becomes more patient-centered, doctors are also learning to read one of the most telling sources of information regarding a patient’s wellbeing — his or her facial expressions. Dr.

Please join Gina Vessels, SRAS Post Award Manager, for one of our informational sessions 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. Sessions last approximately an hour.

July 14, 2016  1:30 pm BBSRB 202A 

The UK College of Medicine will host the Class of 2020 White Coat Ceremony on Friday, July 29, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. at the Otis A. Singletary Center for the Arts located at 405 Rose Street. Save the date and join us on this memorable day as we share in the excitement for our incoming medical students. This event is free and open to the public. There will be a reception following the ceremony. 

 To download the flyer for this event, click here.

Growing up in Hazard, Kentucky, Brittany Martin was familiar with diabetes. Many of her older relatives had been diagnosed with the chronic condition, and her younger family members were starting to develop it as well.