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Women's Basketball Player Trades Her Jersey for a White Coat
Athletics teaches discipline, commitment and perseverance. All of those skills are valuable on the court, in the classroom and in life. For first year medical student Rachel Potter, a lot of the discipline and...
Tags - Medical Education, Students
Posted - Mar 21Read More
Medical Students Learn Their Next Destination on Match Day
After four years of medical school and numerous interviews, University of Kentucky College of Medicine students found out where they will continue their medical education in residency programs. Match Day is a...
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Posted - Mar 19Read More
Steltenkamp Named External Chief Medical Officer at UK HealthCare
Dr. Carol Steltenkamp, professor of pediatrics at the University of Kentucky, has been appointed external chief medical officer for UK HealthCare. In this new role, she represents the voices of clinicians in...
Tags - Pediatric, Faculty
Posted - Mar 14Read More
'Behind the Blue': Women Changed the Face and Practice of Medicine
The University of Kentucky community is celebrating Women’s History Month. Throughout March, UKNow will feature the women — past and present — on whose shoulders we stand and whose hard work has made our...
Tags - Women in Medicine
Posted - Mar 13Read More
College of Medicine Celebrates African-American Trailblazers
During February's celebration of Black History Month, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Faculty of Color Network (FCN), with funding from the College of Medicine Diversity & Inclusion Office...
Tags - Diversity
Posted - Feb 28Read More
Global Health Case Competition Winning Team to Compete at Emory
Five students from the University of Kentucky placed in the UK Global Health Case Competition (GHCC), which rallied both undergraduate and graduate students from various colleges to collaborate on...
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Posted - Feb 26Read More
UK Medicine's Experiential Research Demonstrates Power of the TEAM
At the intersection of exceptional patient care and remarkable education is the willingness and desire to adapt. The most forward-thinking health care delivery systems embrace interprofessional collaborative...
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Posted - Feb 21Read More
$2.3 million NIH Grant Aims to Help Improve Diversity in Science and Health Care
Through a recent five-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of Kentucky faculty Don Frazier and Brett Spear will partner with faculty from qualified minority-serving...
Tags - Research, Faculty
Posted - Feb 19Read More
Med Student Who Helped Launch Diversity Program is Now a Physician and Faculty Adviser
A meeting in early 2010 sparked Dr. Ima Ebong's passion to advocate for greater minority representation in medical school — a passion that has propelled her to national recognition for her work.Ebong, a...
Tags - Students, Diversity
Posted - Feb 15Read More
Clinical Trial Gives UK Pathologist New Hope
As a longtime pathologist at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Charles Lutz is no stranger to cancer.Lutz has spent much of his career in the lab, helping patients behind the scenes. At the UK Markey Cancer...
Tags - Clinical Trials, Faculty, Research
Posted - Feb 5Read More
Research Identifies Pathway Connecting Some HIV Drugs With Liver Disease
As a raft of new treatments for HIV infection have come on the market in the past 20 years, AIDS patients have gotten access to drugs that allow them to live longer."These drugs are miracles," said Dr. Richard...
Tags - Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, Research
Posted - Feb 1Read More
Dr. Sharon Walsh is Among Renowned Scientists who Join Scientific Advisory Board
UK researcher Sharon Walsh is among other nationally renowned experts who were recently named to the Addiction Policy Forum’s Scientific Advisory Board. The board is made up of experts in of medicine,...
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Posted - Feb 1Read More
Sci-Fi to Reality: Superpowered Salamander May Hold Key to Human Regeneration
Regeneration is one of the most enticing areas of biological research. How are some animals able to regrow body parts? Is it possible that humans could do the same? If scientists could unlock the secrets that ...
Tags - scobirc, Research
Posted - Jan 24Read More
Behind the Blue: Dean Robert DiPaola on UK College of Medicine's Growth
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is training more students to be future physicians than ever before. The college is also growing its faculty, its research and its outreach and service to...
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Posted - Jan 23Read More
Study Links Smoking During Pregnancy With Increase in Obesity Later in Baby's Life
University of Kentucky researchers have identified a potential cellular mechanism that connects a mother's smoking while pregnant with an increased risk in the offspring's obesity later in life. Obesity is...
Tags - OB, Research
Posted - Jan 16Read More
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