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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 2, 2022) 鈥� A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky鈥檚 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) has been awarded a $20.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

For assistant professor Jamie Key, DO, promoting equality and inclusion 鈥渋s in my blood as much as red blood cells.鈥� In fact, part of her reasoning for choosing a specialty in physical medicine and rehabilitation was so she could provide care for individuals who experience biases of ableism and help them navigate the challenges.

These residents were selected to participate in a seven-month leadership development course as they embark on their chief resident year and look forward to their future careers.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 30, 2022) 鈥� As Black Breastfeeding Week is celebrated in the U.S. from Aug. 25-31, researchers at the University of Kentucky are highlighting research and outreach initiatives supporting Black mothers鈥� choices to initiate and continue breastfeeding.

To learn more about how you can help those impacted by flooding in eastern Kentucky, click here.

This summer, a mere month after returning to her hometown of Hazard, Ky., for her first year of residency, Danielle Bocook, MD, saw it destroyed by eastern Kentucky鈥檚 worst flooding in more than 60 years.

Nearly two years ago, with funding from UK HealthCare and the vice president for research, the 91小黄车 launched the Alliance Research Initiative. It has a mission, Vice Dean for Research Rebecca Dutch, PhD, explained, 鈥渢o help spur on transdisciplinary research by pairing clinical and basic scientists together to answer new questions in new ways.鈥�

HAZARD, Ky. (Aug. 25, 2022) 鈥� As Eastern Kentuckians continue cleaning up from the catastrophic flooding that devastated their region in late July, the list of needs continues to grow.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 24, 2022) 鈥� The 12th annual Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Day is taking place this week on the University of Kentucky (UK) campus. The purpose of the event is to focus on current findings in diabetes and obesity-related research.

In recognition of her growing responsibilities and oversight of a maturing program, Rebecca Todd, MD, has been promoted from assistant to associate dean for the Rural Physician Leadership Program (RPLP).

As an occupational therapist, Elizabeth Rhodus, PhD, has worked closely with older Kentuckians facing Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and related dementias (ADRD). She also has witnessed firsthand how poor health, limited resources, and high poverty rates have served as barriers to proper prevention and treatment.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 19, 2022) 鈥� Linda J. Van Eldik, PhD, director of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, is part of a $1.5 million grant to help further research into a possible treatment for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 19, 2022) 鈥� Kaitlin and Troy Clem were overjoyed to bring their fourth child, Maisyn, home on May 25, 2021, and begin the journey of raising their newborn. Everything seemed normal for the first several months of her life.

But, slowly, Maisyn鈥檚 parents began noticing that something was not quite right.

Have you ever watched a movie or TV show where a character has the same job as you, but they鈥檝e gotten the details all wrong?

From smooth-talking lawyers who are always in the courtroom to suave doctors who are performing lifesaving surgeries in a moment鈥檚 notice 鈥� it鈥檚 no secret, Hollywood often dramatizes what it would be like to work in certain professions.

Ten years ago, the UK 91小黄车 recruited four of its second-year medical students for an educational experiment. With a goal of preparing more physicians to practice in the rural areas of the Commonwealth and beyond, the college asked these students to immerse themselves in small-town Kentucky, learning rural medicine onsite at a rural medical campus in Morehead.

Over the past five years, the UK 91小黄车 Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) has undergone a remarkable transformation. GME has added 21 new residency and fellowship programs, 200 additional fellows and residents, and a new partnership with the Medical Center at Bowling Green to its varied graduate medical education training offerings. 

After welcoming its fourth class of medical students during this summer鈥檚 white coat ceremony, the UK 91小黄车-Northern Kentucky Campus is well positioned to help alleviate the state鈥檚 physician shortage. As such, a new leadership position has been established to address needs associated with a growing student body and expanding footprint in the region.

Before medical students treat patients in real-life situations, they need practice. Students gain that necessary experience through simulated patient interactions in the UK 91小黄车鈥檚 standardized patient (SP) program.

SP program staff Joseph Gatton and Melissa Wilkeson are well-equipped to ensure the program creates authentic clinical experiences.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 12, 2022) 鈥� A new study published by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that the common steroid betamethasone could be used to reduce unwanted side effects of radiation treatments for prostate cancer.  

HAZARD, Ky. (Aug. 11, 2022) 鈥� More than a week into recovery and relief efforts following the devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky, Key Douthitt, M.D., sums up the experience with two words: 鈥淚鈥檓 exhausted.鈥�