After well over two decades into practice, it’s sometimes difficult for physicians to recall what led them to their particular specialty. Dr. Alan Fleischer, Jr., however, can recall the exact moment when he decided to specialize in Dermatology.

It was during a rotation in the field while a medical student at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  His professor and another visiting dermatologist examined a patient suffering from a condition that no one had yet correctly diagnosed.

In a recent article in the journal Nature Biotechnology, University of Kentucky Assistant Professor Nathan Vanderford and doctoral candidate Heather Norman-Burgdolf describe a course developed to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows be prepared for the realities of the job market. Every year, doctoral graduates enter the job market in search of tenure-track professorship positions at universities throughout the world. Unfortunately, the number of new Ph.D.

Effective January 10, 2016, NIH has increased the salary cap from $183,300 to $185,100. 

 To read the full announcement, click here.

Five days before Christmas, University of Kentucky researcher Ying Liang, MD, PhD, received what she described as the best gift ever: a letter of notification that she received a prestigious R01 grant, totaling $1.88 million over five years, from the National Institutes of Health. Not only was it her first such award, she scored at the second percentile, an uncommonly high score indicating that her proposal was nearly flawless. A glimpse of her CV and her obvious passion for research render the award somewhat less surprising.
University of Kentucky Provost Tim Tracy and Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Michael Karpf announced Monday that Dr. Robert DiPaola, director of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Vice Chancellor for Cancer Programs, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dr.
UK is one of a few universities to have all six health science colleges (Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Sciences) all on the same university campus making it well-positioned for interprofessional health care education and collaborative research.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 4, 2016) — University of Kentucky Provost Tim Tracy and Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Michael Karpf announced Monday that Dr. Robert DiPaola, director of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Vice Chancellor for Cancer Programs, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

Hardin Memorial Health has joined the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Research Network, allowing patients across Central Kentucky to participate in clinical trials in Elizabethtown, officials announced Friday.

Bellarmine University is pleased to recognize and honor Dr. Marian Swope ’69, a physician specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry, for her efforts to improve the lives of young people through her work and for her steadfast support of, and service to, her alma mater, Bellarmine University. Dr. Swope was the first person in her family to attend college, and she credits Lexington Catholic High School for helping her to apply for the scholarship that allowed her to enroll at Ursuline College in 1965.