The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health, the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, and the UK CCTS Community Engagement and Research Program are requesting applications for the Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK), a 4-5 week intensive leadership development training program. The CLIK is designed to enhance research and capacity-building competencies in community leaders (e.g., directors, administrators, and other persons who play a key role in using data and decision making). There are 8-12 slots available for the 2015 class.

Please remember to keep your NIH eRA Commons profile current.  Incomplete or out of date information in your profile can delay your NIH proposal and progress report submissions and those on which you may be key personnel.  Further details can be found here.

The SRAS is moving!  On Tuesday, July 28, the SRAS will relocate to a new, on-campus site in the basement of the Kentucky Clinic.  We will be in Rooms K005 and K009, which are readily accessible via the elevator near the Kentucky Clinic Pharmacy.  Phone numbers will remain the same for all staff.  We expect the computer (and email) downtime to be minimal during the move. 

  Resident Sarah Deraney, MD, won the first place Poster or Exhibit Trainee Prize at the Annual Meeting of Association of University Radiologists (AUR) in New Orleans in April. 

Her poster was titled “Pediatric Head CT Protocol Optimization: Simultaneously Lowering Radiation Dose and Eliminating Artifacts.” It is the same poster that won the 1st Annual Department of Radiology Quality & Safety Forum last May.

A new Institute of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky will integrate and leverage large data systems across the academic and medical enterprise to improve patient care, research and education. GQ Zhang, Ph.D., will join UK Aug. 1 as director of the institute. He will also serve as chief of the newly established biomedical informatics division in the UK College of Medicine and co-director of the biomedical informatics core of the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

The UK College of Medicine will hold the Class of 2019 White Coat Ceremony on Friday, July 31, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. at the Singletary Center for the Arts located at 405 Rose Street.

The ceremony will include a formal presentation and donning of the incoming students first white coat by faculty and alumni, a universal symbol of compassion and humanism in medicine, in addition to a recitation of the Pledge of Professionalism. 

The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) is among an elite group of organizations who have been named as Gold Fit-Friendly Worksites by the American Heart Association. 

“UK CERH received the gold level award upon meeting key criteria that is set forth by the American Heart Association that demonstrate a strong commitment to providing a healthy workplace for employees,” said Dr. Fran Feltner, director of the UK CERH.