THE TRANSLATIONAL GILL AWARD

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Recognizing a young investigator within five years of first faculty appointment for innovation and creativity that has impacted cardiovascular research and/or advancements in clinical care.

The Translational Gill Award recipient will receive a plaque and a cash prize of $10,000. The award will be presented at a ceremony during the Annual Cardiovascular Research Day at the University of Kentucky in the Fall of 2017.

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.

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.