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Current Seminars

Fridays at 9 a.m. in HKRB 150

This forum brings to campus prominent external speakers and provides presentations by University of Kentucky faculty to ensure their research expertise is widely known.

Previous Cardiovascular Seminar Series Sessions

Fall 2025

Date	Event Title	Speaker	Institute	Host
09/12/2025	Available
09/19/2025	Dr. Koenig's primary focus is on understanding the role of inflammatory and non-inflammatory macrophages in acute and chronic cardiac injury and disease.	Andrew Koenig, PhD	Washington University in St. Louis	Greg Graf, PhD
09/26/2025	Cardiovascular Research Day
09/27/2025	Saha Aortic Symposium
10/03/2025	FCPS Fall Break
10/10/2025	Dr. Wood's lab focuses on understand how PS, PC, & TFPI work together to control the coagulation process, study changes in coagulation that occur in patients with HIV, & characterizing the changes in coagulation that occur in Covid-19 patients.	Jeremy Wood, PhD	University of Kentucky	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
10/17/2025	The Evans Laboratory studies the vascular response to thrombosis with a view to improving treatments for inflammatory vascular diseases including acute respiratory distress syndrome.	Colin Evans, PhD	University of South Carolina	Shayan Mohammadmoradi, PhD
10/24/2025	Available
10/31/2025	No Seminar
11/07/2025	AHA Scientific Sessions
11/14/2025	Research in the Parker Lab harnesses the power of proteomic technologies to elucidate mechanisms of vascular pathology and identify putative molecular biomarkers of aneurysm and atherosclerosis.	Sarah Parker, PhD	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Abby Burrows Franco, PhD
11/21/2025	Coenzyme A As A Regulator of Mitochondrial Metabolism	Roberta Leonardi, PhD	West Virginia University	Greg Graf, PhD
12/05/2025	Dr. Aday's areas of expertise include aortic aneurysms, cardiac surgery, cardiovascular disease and medicine, general cardiology, peripheral vascular and arterial disease, as well as carotid disease.	Aaron Aday, MD, MSc	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Mary Sheppard, MD

Spring 2026