Yipeng Sui from Changcheng Zhou’s laboratory recently received the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Travel Award for Young Investigators. The $1000 award will be used to attend the ATVB|PVD 2015 Scientific Sessions in San Francisco in May. The award is distributed to a select number of young investigators based on the score of a submitted abstract. Yipeng’s abstract is entitled “Intestinal Pregnane X Receptor Links Xenobiotic Exposure And Hypercholesterolemia”.

Next week, KET will feature three University of Kentucky experts discussing cancer care in a set of programs that will accompany the three-part documentary series Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies by Ken Burns. The series, which will air March 30, 31 and April 1 at 9 p.m., is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. On Sunday, March 29, at 1 p.m. on KET, UK Markey Cancer Center Director Dr.
At the ACC 2015 conference in San Diego, current fellows Martin Rains (Class of 2015) and Mohamed Metawee (Class of 2016) caught up with some of our former fellows, Joe Foley (Class of 2011), Nishant Kalra (Interventional Class of 2014), and Wael El Mallah (Interventional Class of 2014) over dinner.
Dr. John H. Eichhorn, professor of Anesthesiology and Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, authored a paper earlier in his career titled, "Standards for Patient Monitoring During Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School," which is named in the current issue of the prestigious journal, Anesthesia and Analgesia, as one of the top 20 most important articles in anesthesiology ever written. The Anesthesia and Analgesia review of the most important articles cites papers dating back to 1846 when the use of ether was first demonstrated (No.
One of our first year fellows, Gbolahan Ogunbayo, presented a poster at the 2016 AHA Conference in New Orleans.

Photos and contact information are now included on the SRAS website for several new staff that have joined us recently.    

Julie Elliott started as a Reconciler on October 1, 2014.  She has over 20 years of experience in insurance collections and mortgage banking.  She already has a regular group of departments she is supporting. 

The College of Medicine has sponsored a summer research program annually for medical students.

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