LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 30, 2015) — Eight community leaders have been selected to participate in the second annual Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK). The program empowers community leaders and organizations to reduce health disparities, leverage funding, and use data to improve services and programs.

Joint efforts are underway by NIH and leading journals to enhance reproducibility in scientific research through increased rigor and transparency in study design, conduct and data reporting. 

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A fellow and resident duo from the UK division of CT Surgery were named one of the top six two-person teams in the annual North American Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident “Jeopardy” competition sponsored by the Joint Council on Thoracic Surgery Education (JCTSE). The UK team will participate in the Jeopardy finals during the annual meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) in November.

If you are applying for an NIH grant this fall, such as an R01, and will be using the new online ASSIST proposal submission system, now is a great time to update your eRA Commons profile.  Your profile information will auto-populate in your ASSIST proposal package.  To update your eRA Commons profile, please log-in to Commons at: https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons.

The University’s new international travel medical insurance and evacuation policy, which you likely heard about in a message from the Provost last spring, h

LEXINGTON, Ky , Sept. 21, 2015 – In response to the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in the Commonwealth, UK HealthCare announced the creation of the UK Vascular Medicine Clinic in the Kentucky Clinic.