The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center held its sixth annual Markey Cancer Center Research Day, highlighting the work of UK students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from the past year. Research Day provides an opportunity for investigators to showcase their work and also view the work of their colleagues across the campus.
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The University of Kentucky College of Medicine Class of 2015 assumed the title of “doctor” during the commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16. The graduating class consisted of 113 students who will pursue 22 different specialties in Kentucky and throughout the United States. Prior to the commencement ceremony, students and faculty received awards at the College of Medicine Senior Awards Lunch. View the complete list of awards presented at the Awards Lunch and Graduation here or view photos from the events here.
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Chance Ridgeway hasn’t stopped moving for 45 straight minutes. Sweat beads form on the brow of the 11-year-old as he vigorously touches his left elbow to his right knee, then meets his right elbow to his left knee. This jerky dance move is repeated again and again. To his right, exercise partner Chris Brown challenges Chance to pump his knees up a little bit higher. When the hip-hop song blaring from a nearby lap top computer stops, Chance collapses to the bed of grass beneath his feet.
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UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute has named Dr. Gretchen Wells as its new director of Women’s Heart Health. Wells comes from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she was most recently medical director of the Cardiac Care Unit and Inpatient Cardiology Services and directed the outpatient women’s cardiac program. She received her medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, where she also completed a Ph.D. in medical genetics.
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NIH recently released information regarding the NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program. The details are listed below and on the attached flyer.

[A letter from UK Human Resources]

Dear Colleagues,

The safety and wellbeing of our campus community is and always will be top priority. This includes younger workers employed during the summer months and throughout the year. As a reminder, University policy permits hiring only persons who are 18 years of age and older in regular full-time staff positions. During the summer months, some persons between the ages of 14 and 17 may be hired for temporary jobs.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 18, 2015) — The University of Kentucky is currently celebrating 150 years as the state's flagship, land-grant institution of higher education.  From the early days as a school of agriculture to the vast campus that comprises UK today, the university has evolved into a nationally recognized leader in academics as well as a leader in patient care, medical education and research.

 **THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE**

The Department of Radiology and UK HealthCare Information Technology are pleased to host a visiting professor, Dr. Paul Chang, of the University of Chicago.  He will be addressing the College of Medicine faculty and staff regarding "Meaningful IT Innovation to Support the Radiology Value Proposition: The Return of the “Doctor’s Doctor.”

Thompson, J.C.; Jayne, C.; Thompson, J.; Wilson, P.G.; Yoder, M.H.; Webb, N.; Tannock, L.R.A brief elevation of serum amyloid A is sufficient to increase atherosclerosis.Journal of lipid research562

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Dr. Gerhard Hildebrandt has been named the Division Chief of Hematology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. Hildebrandt's clinical focus is cancers of the blood and lymph system. He sees patients before and after blood or marrow stem cell transplantation and treats patients suffering from acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease. He also serves as a professor of medicine in the UK College of Medicine. Hildebrandt received his medical degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Medical School, Germany, in 1997.
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