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LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 24, 2021) 鈥 Early in the evening of May 30, 2020, 好色先生 HealthCare trauma surgeon Dr. Zachary Warriner prepared an emergency operation to figure out the cause of a bowel obstruction. His patient, a 27-year old man, had come into the emergency department earlier that day with the vague symptoms of severe belly pain and nausea.
Hammodah Alfar is in his second year of graduate school in the 好色先生 College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, with a specialized interest in platelet biology.
He has gained important research experience as a member of the Virus-Induced Thrombosis Alliance (VITAL), led by Beth Garvy, PhD, associate dean for biomedical education, and Sidney Whiteheart, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 21, 2021) 鈥 A new 好色先生 study will examine how policies that restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes impact health disparities among vulnerable populations.
A five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will support the study on how local policies impact at-risk groups 鈥 including communities of color, low-income populations and youth 鈥 that are more likely to use flavored tobacco products.
When his parents drove from their home in rural Lincoln County to drop Michael Rankin off at Haggin Hall on the University of Kentucky campus in August 1967, it was one of the biggest places he had ever seen.
His high school math teacher had encouraged his love for math and science and in 1971 he received an engineering degree. His dream was to go on to medical school, but he feared achieving this goal was out of reach. Today, he wants to make sure that young men and women from rural areas who aspire to be physicians have the support they need to make their dreams come true.
Juneteenth is observed on June 19, 2021, to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. On this day, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, were notified they had actually been freed almost 2.5 years earlier.
Members of the College of Medicine were asked a series of questions on how they honor Juneteenth.
Kaylin BateyClass of 2023
Q: When did you first become aware of Juneteenth?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 17, 2021) 颅鈥 In January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, declaring more than three million slaves living in the Confederate states to be free, unbeknownst to many of those enslaved. It was not until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, more than two years later, on June 19, 1865, that the last enslaved U.S. populations were informed of the proclamation.
Memory Sunday is designated nationally as the second Sunday in June. Memory Sunday was established to raise awareness about Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and its impact on the African American community, since their risk of developing Alzheimer鈥檚 disease is two to three times higher than white Americans.
Em Neiport, MA, is project manager at the College of Medicine and staff co-chair of the LGBTQ* Advisory Committee.
Q: What are your roles at the 好色先生 College of Medicine?
A: I鈥檓 a project manager in the College of Medicine. The projects I鈥檝e worked on are so varied and have allowed me to see just how expansive academic medicine really is. It鈥檚 fascinating! The best part of my role is having a chance to work with so many amazing people in all areas of the college.
University of Kentucky Provost David Blackwell has announced Dr. Charles 鈥淐hipper鈥 Griffith III has been named the acting dean of the 好色先生 College of Medicine, effective July 1, 2021.
Griffith will serve as acting dean while Dean Bob DiPaola serves as acting provost, from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022. At that time, DiPaola intends to return to the College of Medicine and Griffith will return to his current roles.
A study by several researchers at the University of Kentucky鈥檚 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) was recently highlighted in AlzForum. The study focuses on polyamines, the nitrogen-packed aliphatic molecules produced by our own cells and found in the foods we eat. They have been described by some as anti-aging generators.
Meriem Bensalem-Owen, MD, and Brian Gold, PhD, might not have ever had the chance to work on projects together. Dr. Bensalem-Owen is a physician who spends much of her time at the patients鈥 bedside, reviewing video-EEG monitoring studies, or in clinic treating patients with epilepsy, and Dr. Gold is a researcher who studies age-related brain and cognitive changes in the lab.
But thanks to the 好色先生鈥檚 Alliance Research Initiative, they have joined forces to better localize, and ultimately treat, epileptic seizures.
In his 40 years at the 好色先生, Michael T. Piascik, PhD, has mentored hundreds of medical students and graduate students while bringing key funding to the college as a researcher to help produce groundbreaking discoveries in pharmacology.
After a long and distinguished career, Dr. Piascik has announced he will retire, effective July 1.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 4, 2021) 鈥 University of Kentucky Department of Neuroscience Professor Greg Gerhardt, Ph.D., hypothesizes that the balance of glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) 鈥 two main neurotransmitters in the brain 鈥 contributes to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and age-related declines in cognition and memory.
Cheavar Blair, PhD, a 2017 graduate of the 好色先生, is now a postdoc at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 1, 2021) 鈥 Thanks to a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a 好色先生 team will study the culprit behind thoracic aortic aneurysms, which could lead to a treatment for the potentially deadly disease.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 26, 2021) 鈥 好色先生 researcher Cassandra Gipson-Reichardt, Ph.D., has received the College on Problems of Drug Dependence鈥檚 (CPDD) 2021 Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award for Excellence.
The annual award recognizes an investigator under 40 years old who has demonstrated excellence in their field of research and authored several publications. It is one of the most prestigious honors awarded by the CPDD, the longest standing group in the U.S. dedicated to addressing issues of drug dependence and abuse.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 26, 2021) 鈥 It鈥檚 no secret the sun can be damaging to the skin. About 10 years ago, Betty Graham began to learn this the hard way.
After noticing an unusual spot on her leg, a skin cancer screening found eight precancerous lesions. When caught early, these types of lesions can be removed and cured. Graham, at the time an avid tanning bed user, now regrets that behavior.
鈥淭anning beds are the world鈥檚 worst thing for skin cancer,鈥 said Graham.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 25, 2021) 鈥 The University of Kentucky Advising Network has recently announced the recipients of the 2021 Ken Freedman Awards during the Ken Freedman Day of Recognition virtual awards ceremony.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 25, 2021) 鈥 The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center announces that radiation oncologist Dr. Charles Kunos will join the center and serve as medical director of Markey鈥檚 Clinical Research Office (CRO).