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The "Many Faces of Pain" photo exhibition, part of a national tour paying tribute to the 50 million Americans who live with persistent pain, will be unveiled Feb. 4 in Lexington following a consumer awareness program hosted by actress Lynda Carter and Steven Passik, director of Symptom Management and Palliative Care (SMPC) at the UK Markey Cancer Center.
The "Many Faces of Pain" program and exhibit is sponsored by Partners Against Pain® in collaboration with the SMPC, to raise awareness of the importance of appropriate pain management.
"One step in alleviating pain and suffering is to educate health care professionals about proper pain treatment and make patients aware that they have the right to appropriate pain management," Passik said. "This can help give hope and spread the word that people do not have to live with pain."
The
event featuring Carter will be held at
The
photo exhibit will be available for public viewing from
The exhibit features black and white photographs of people who have experienced persistent pain due to an illness or medical condition, but through appropriate pain management are now able to live relatively normal lives. Celebrities featured in the exhibit include Carter, Debbie Allen, Corbin Bernsen, Bo Derek, Karen Duffy, Olympia Dukakis, Mia Farrow, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, Tony Randall, Christopher Reeve, Doris Roberts, Joe Theismann and the late Robert Urich.
When persistent pain is not properly treated, or left untreated, it can lead to depression, loss of function and lost workdays. A wide range of specific illnesses or medical conditions cause persistent pain. Many of these relate to skeletal problems, which include lower, middle and upper back pain. Arthritis, headaches and nerve problems also can cause persistent pain. In addition, pain can result from sports or work-related injuries, following surgery, or as a result of a car accident.
According to a national survey commissioned by Partners Against Pain®, 34 percent of people with pain feel they can't function as a normal human being and sometimes hurt so badly they don't want to continue living. Yet, 80 percent of patients surveyed thought that their pain was a normal part of their medical condition and something with which they must live.
"Pain can be managed," Passik said. "Patients need to talk with their physicians about the severity and frequency of their pain experience because this helps health care professionals prescribe the most appropriate and effective pain management regimen. Each sufferer has different needs, but they can be helped."
Partners Against Pain® is an educational program sponsored by Purdue Pharma.
University bringing renowned designers to campus for annual symposiumAs part of this year's Design on the Edge symposium and the rollout of a new College of Design, the University of Kentucky will bring to Lexington four of the nation's premier architects and designers in the areas of hospitality and entertainment for a symposium at the Singletary Center for the Arts from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5. The
panelists include: • Michael Bierut, partner in Pentagram Design of New York and an award-winning graphic designer whose clients include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the New York Jets professional football team, Motorola, Princeton and Yale universities, the National Building Museum, and Disney.
• Duncan Paterson, an architect and designer with Gensler Associates of Santa Monica who has created projects for Universal, Disney, Sony Entertainment and Dreamworks, among others.
• Adam Tihany, an architect whose across-the-board designs link architecture, interiors, graphics, furniture and tableware. Among his projects are the Le Cirque 2000 restaurant in New York City; Spago in Las Vegas, Chicago and Mexico City; and the Disney Wonder Cruise Ship.
Kurt Andersen, a journalist, critic and novelist, will serve as moderator. Andersen hosts Studio 360, a National Public Radio show about arts and culture, which airs in Kentucky on WUKY and WUOL. He is the former editor of New York Magazine, the former architecture critic for Time Magazine and founding editor of SPY Magazine. The theme of the symposium is "Serious Fun: Designing for Hospitality and Entertainment." The panelists will discuss the fun-but-serious topic of creating architecture, interiors and graphics for the multi-billion-dollar entertainment and hospitality industry, and the role of design in everyday life. Tickets went on sale Jan. 15, at the Singletary Center Ticket Office. Tickets are $15 for the general public and $5 for students. Preferred seats are $25. The program is part of the UK College of Design 2003 Design on the Edge, the fifth annual event in interior design and architecture education. This year's event is underwritten by Bittners, a Louisville-based interior design firm; Brown-Forman Corp., of Louisville, one of the largest American-owned companies in the wine and spirits business; and WUKY, the first university-owned public radio station in the nation and Kentucky's first public radio station. In January 2003, UK formed the College of Design, which encompasses the School of Architecture, the School of Interior Design, and the Department of Historic Preservation. |
When
winter weather strikes, faculty, staff and students can check the following
for university schedule information:
• UK Infoline at 257-5684;
• Insight Cable/UKTV-16;
• the UK home page at www.uky.edu;
• WUKY-FM 91.3;
• and local radio and television stations.
To review the university’s winter weather policies, visit www.uky.edu/PR/News/severe_weather.htm.
Journal
on teaching and learning takes submissions
The
Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning, established
by the Faculty Development Workgroup of the Council on Postsecondary Education
(CPE) in 2002, is targeting the professional
development of college/university faculty across the
The Journal is now accepting manuscripts. For more information regarding submission, visit www.uky.edu/tlc and look under “What’s New.” The deadline for fall submissions has already passed; however, March 15 is the deadline for the spring issue.
If you have any questions or need additional information e-mail Mary Ruth Isaacs at mrisaa2@uky.edu or call 257-3731.
Arboretum
hosts “Glories of the Garden”
The
UK/Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Government Arboretum on Alumni Drive is sponsoring an exhibit, titled
"Glories of the Garden," to celebrate the world of plants found
in the Arboretum and beyond.
Artists' submissions of photographs, charcoal, water colors, oils, sculpture and other types of artwork inspired by visiting the garden and natural areas are invited.
Selected
artwork will be displayed in the President's Room of the
This exhibit is in conjunction with the UK Art Museum's "Art in Bloom" exhibit set for Feb. 28 through March 1 and will be part of the Gallery Hop on Feb. 21.
Graduate
admissions exam courses to be held
Math
and verbal review courses for the Graduate Record Exam and the Graduate
Management Admission Test will be offered at
A new anti-stroke drug synthesized to resemble a "clot-busting" protein found in vampire bat saliva is under investigation by University of Kentucky stroke researchers.
UK is one of only 16 sites in the United States to study this potential new treatment for strokes.
"This could change the way strokes are treated," said Creed Pettigrew, professor of neurology, UK College of Medicine, and director of the UK Stroke Program, who is the local principal investigator in the research drug trial. "This new investigational drug could potentially be the first in a generation of more powerful drugs that could save thousands of lives and millions of dollars."
Most strokes are caused by a blockage of an artery supplying blood to one region within the brain. Once the artery is blocked, brain cells that receive oxygen and nutrients carried in fresh blood will die unless the artery can be re-opened restoring blood flow.
In
nature, vampire bats feed by drinking blood of sleeping prey. A protein
that is present in bat saliva keeps the blood from clotting so the bat
can feed. The investigational drug, desmoteplase (DSPA), resembles this
protein and dissolves blood clots that form in brain arteries. However,
the drug is synthesized from cells grown in culture and is not extracted
from the bat saliva.
At this time, there is only one clot-busting drug approved by the Federal Drug Administration for the treatment of stroke. It can only be used up to three hours after the documented onset of symptoms, limiting the number of stroke patients treated to 2 to 5 percent.
The investigational drug may have three advantages over the current approved drug. First, the investigational drug potentially can be given as late as nine hours after the onset of symptoms, which could double or triple the number of stroke patients treated with a clot-busting drug.
Second, the drug can be given as a single injection by vein over two minutes, rather than as an infusion that takes an hour. This time difference enhances recovery because more brain cells can be salvaged through successful reperfusion.
Third, the risk of bleeding elsewhere in the body, a recognized complication of clot-busting therapy, should be lower with the investigational drug because it has no activity in the absence of a blood clot that forms only in the brain of a stroke patient.
The phase I/II trial, entitled DEDAS (for Dose Escalation Study of Desmoteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke), sponsored by PAION GmbH of Aachen, Germany, is designed to identify the right dose of DSPA for a more comprehensive study that will determine if the drug meets its potential as an effective treatment for stroke.
Other UK faculty who are members of the DEDAS research team at the College of Medicine include Anand Vaishnav, assistant professor of neurology, and Steve Ryan, associate professor of neurology.
Stroke affects more than 730,000 people each year in the United States and results in more than 150,000 deaths. It is the third most common cause of death among adults in the United States and in Kentucky, exceeded only by heart disease and cancer.
For inquiries about patient eligibility or other details of the DEDAS study, call UK Health Connection at (800) 333-8874 or 257-1000.
Five experts from the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics will offer their insights on the 2003 economy and issues affecting the economy at the 2003 Economic Roundtable on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Lexington.
Donald J. Mullineaux, duPont Endowed Chair in Banking, will share his forecast for the 2003 national economy, while the outlook for Kentucky's economy will be presented by Eric C. Thompson, acting director of UK's Center for Business and Economic Research.
Mullineaux, Walter J. Ferrier and Linda S. McDaniel will discuss the likely impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the new law that establishes stronger regulations of the accounting profession. The law was passed in the wake of last year's spate of major corporate bankruptcies.
Ferrier
is the Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of
Strategic Management and director of the
The
program begins at
For
more information or to register, contact the International Business and
Throughout their early childhood years, children with disabilities and their families experience many transitions between various agencies and care providers. Unfortunately, a standard set of guidelines for these transitions does not exist, making it very difficult for children to maintain a sense of stability during their early academic lives.
However, with the development of the National Early Childhood Transition Center at the UK Human Development Institute (IHDI), researchers are looking to open the door to success for these children.
IHDI, Family Studies, Early Childhood Special Education and School Psychology departments at UK, in collaboration with faculty and staff from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Oregon State University, comprise the research and training team.
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"Research has shown there are specific factors that have a high impact on a child's eventual success during his/her school career." -
Beth Rous |
"Research has shown there are specific factors that have a high impact on a child's eventual success during his/her school career," said Beth Rous, director of the center. "Our goal is to look at all early childhood transition points within a diverse sample to see what's working and what's not, with the hope of improving child and family outcomes and enhancing quality practices within the field."
The
primary objective of the NECTC is to investigate and validate practices
and strategies which enhance the early childhood transition process and
support positive school outcomes for children with disabilities. This
objective will be met through four research activities:
• identification
and evaluation of current transition models, practices and strategies;
• identification
of child, family, program and community factors that influence transition;
• identification
of state level factors that influence transition; and
• identification
of the relationship between socially and empirically validated practices.
The $3.5 million dollar grant, funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, is tracking over the course of five years approximately 600 children spanning race and cultural boundaries and children with varying degrees of disabilities.
"This center addresses and supports President Bush's school readiness initiative," said Rous. "We want to help children, families, school districts and school personnel provide the best framework for these children to succeed."
For more information about the National Early Childhood Transition Research and Training Center, call 257-2081.
Sandi Webster
Grad
student symposium to be held in February
An
interdisciplinary symposium titled "Communicating Beyond Boundaries: New Voices in Interdisciplinary Scholarship"
will be held Feb. 22-23 in the Betts House of the UK Gaines Humanities
Center,
This is the seventh interdisciplinary graduate student symposium. It is organized by the Graduate Student Association and sponsored by the UK Graduate Program in Communication.
Speakers
for the symposium include Ramona Rush, professor emerita in the UK Department of Communication, and Jack Furlong,
division chair of the humanities and professor at
A $10 registration fee may be paid the first day of the symposium.
Assisted
Reproductive Technology workshop held
A workshop
recently was held to introduce Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations
that will affect Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) laboratories beginning
in 2003.
The
workshop, sponsored by the UK College of Health Sciences and
Topics were presented to prepare the ART laboratories for FDA inspection and included the FDA guidelines for the regulation of reproductive tissues, cells and products, documentation and record keeping guidelines, requirements for donor suitability, and Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act guidelines and its impact on ART laboratories.
More than 50 participants from across the United States attended the workshop said Doris Baker, director of Graduate Programs in Reproductive Laboratory Sciences, and program moderator.
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The number of occupational homicides in Kentucky increased from eight in 2001 to 12 for the first 10 months of 2002.
The study, "Large Increase in the Number of Occupational Homicides," conducted by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), was published in the October 2002 Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) newsletter. KIPRC is a partnership between the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
Terry Bunn, project manager of the FACE program and author of the report, also examined the relationships between the victim and the perpetrator for each of the deaths.
"A personal relationship, and not a work relationship, was known to be involved in at least five of the 12 deaths," Bunn said. A worker-on-worker relationship was established in only one case.
Workplace violent acts count among the three leading causes of worker deaths in the United States. In the late 1990s, there was a downward trend in the number of work-related homicides. That trend may now be reversing.
"These data support the need for both workplace-based and community-based violence programs here in Kentucky," Bunn said.
While workplace violence awareness is increasing, Bunn said it is important to have safety information for employers and employees. Local workplace safety training may be available through local police departments.
The majority of the work-related homicides this year involved the use of firearms. Last year, firearms were linked with all occupational homicides.
Service workers were most likely to be involved in work-related murder, while retail trade was the most dangerous industry. Approximately one-third of the study victims were women.
For information about how to respond to or prevent domestic violence/sexual assault in the workplace, contact the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association at (502) 695-2444, Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs at (502) 226-2704, or your regional spouse abuse or rape crisis center for more information. Information on workplace violence also is available on the KIPRC Web site at www.kiprc.uky.edu.
The
National Association of
Agricultural Educators (NAAE) board of directors has selected
The
"It
was a difficult decision and we discussed the pros and cons of our three
finalist proposals for several hours, even going past midnight, before
deciding that Kentucky was the best place to go," said Sarah Osborn
Welty, Maryland high school agriculture teacher
and NAAE president. "
NAAE, which is the main professional organization for more than 7,500 agriculture teachers, statewide agriculture education coordinators, university agriculture education faculty and students, is currently headquartered in Virginia within the Washington, D.C., metro area.
The
relocation is viewed by
"It
will provide our faculty, in cooperation with NAAE, an opportunity to assume an even greater leadership
role in agricultural education programs at the national level," said
Scott Smith, dean of the
The
agreement between
Jay Jackman, NAAE executive director, said the next step in the relocation process will be the preparation and signing of legal documents that make the move official. He said the move will likely happen before July 2003, and that the NAAE office will employ a minimum of two full-time support positions to assist the executive director.
The NAAE is a federation of state associations of agricultural educators. It began in 1948 as the National Vocational Agricultural Teachers Association.
Haven Miller
 Submitted Greg Gerhardt, director of the UK Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence, is part of a research team studying an investigational treatment for Parkinson’s disease. |
A famous English dramatist once said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." The written word is indeed a powerful form of communication. A recent article in Business Week magazine inspired a gift in support of research at the University of Kentucky Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence.
The article features the university's research involving an investigational treatment for Parkinson's disease that may directly influence the degenerative disease process rather than just improve the symptoms. Greg Gerhardt, professor of anatomy, neurobiology and neurology, College of Medicine, director of the Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, and director of the Center for Sensor Technology, discusses the surgically implantable, programmable pump - developed by Medtronic Inc. and pre-clinically tested at UK - that delivers a growth factor directly to the brain.
After reading the article, Robert Onderdunk, a board member of the Consolidated Anti-Aging Foundation, alerted the university of his interest in the research on Parkinson's disease and sought more information. Onderdunk stated he wanted to take this information to the foundation's next board meeting. He felt confident that his organization would want to support the promising research.
Onderdunk was correct. After his presentation, foundation trustees Robin and Cheryl Ross of Deerfield, Ill., sent a $55,000 check to Gerhardt to use for research at the center.
Gerhardt is excited about the future of the project and is grateful and impressed with Onderdunk's initiative. "Now the Consolidated Anti-Aging Foundation is part of our research mission," he said.
In addition to Gerhardt, the research team is composed of: Don Gash, Alumni Chair in Anatomy and Neurobiology and professor of anatomy and neurobiology, College of Medicine; Byron Young, professor of surgery, and chief, division of neurosurgery, College of Medicine; and principal investigator John Slevin, professor of neurology and pharmacology, College of Medicine, and director of the Movement Disorders Clinic at UK.
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In
the past four years,
Now, the class roster includes many intermediate courses (part of the required courses for the Advanced Computer Competency Certificate series) for a mere $35, which are listed as "$pecially Discounted Classes." Each has certain prerequisites to meet before they should be taken. Individual departments and units can arrange for their people (up to 15 at a time) to take the two-and-a-half hour classes together. With the completion of each class you get a free application resource guide (a $5 value).
Included
in the "$pecially Discounted Intermediate
Classes" are:
• Microsoft
Word 2000
• Microsoft
Windows 2000
• Microsoft
Excel 2000
• Microsoft
PowerPoint 2000
More
expensive classes currently available include:
• Adobe Acrobat
5.0 Introduction (start date coming soon)
• Macromedia
Flash 5.0 Introduction (start date coming soon)
• Win2000 MCSE
Certification Preparation Classes (starts Feb. 25)
However, UK IT Training Services has even more courses available at no charge. Microsoft Office courses include beginner's versions called "QuickStarts" for Office 2000, Word 2000, Excel 2000, PowerPoint 2000, Outlook and Eudora 4.x, each lasting two-and-a-half hours.
Other
no-charge courses include:
• Navigating
Your PC" series – three separate classes on "Understanding,"
"Managing" and "Customizing" your PC
• Introduction
to the Internet
• Introduction
to NETg (You must have your NETg UserID prior to attending class)
• Introduction
to U-Connect
• Intermediate
Outlook (class starts at
• Searching
the Web
• Manipulating
PowerPoint ClipArt
• Excel Charts
and Graphs
• Basic HTML
(class starts at
• Mail Merge
(class starts at
• Introduction
to Sametime
To register for the no-charge classes go to www.uky.edu/ IS/Training/ClassReg.html. To register for the "$pecially Discounted Classes" go to www.uky.edu/IS/Training/vendorReg.html.
Learn more about Desktop Computing Classes by visiting www.uky.edu/IS/Training/, calling Tony DeLucia at 257-2900 ext. 241 or sending an e-mail to learning@email.uky.edu.
University
Press of Kentucky has received the Basil W. Duke Award for reissuing
the long-out-of-print "Johnny
Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier."
Edited
in its original form by A. D. Kirwan, the seventh
president of the University of Kentucky, the reissue contains new illustrations
and a foreword by Lexington attorney Kent Masterson Brown, founding editor
of Civil War magazine and founder of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation
Association. Brown also is author of many published
articles on the Civil War and several books, including "The Civil
War in
 George Lewis John F. Zeigler, senior editor, University Press of Kentucky, holds the obelisk and the check for $1,000 University Press received for reissuing a significant work of Civil War history. |
First
released in 1955, the book chronicles the battlefield experiences of John
W. Green (1841-1920), an enlisted man with
The Basil W. Duke Award is given by the Military Order of Stars and Bars, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Confederate history. The award goes to the publishing house that reissues what the organization feels is the most significant work of Confederate history. Duke was a brother-in-law of John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate officer and a military historian.
The
The Behavioral Health Improvement Plan, or BeH.I.P., is one of those tools.
What
is BeH.I.P.?
It
is a self-paced program designed to encourage people to adopt healthy
behaviors. Three interventions currently available
are:
• Exercise for
Health - a self-paced, personalized program for sedentary individuals
who need a structured program.
• Start to STOP
- a smoking cessation program that focuses on withdrawal symptoms and
relapse prevention.
• Living with
Diabetes - a diabetes prevention program using lifestyle interventions
for individuals at elevated risk for diabetes. Another
component of this program providing comprehensive diabetes education and
management for persons with diabetes is being offered in conjunction with
another tool available through the Health Literacy Project, the
A new program on obesity will be added in spring 2003.
 Kathy Johnson BeH.I.P. personal counselors are from left, Tracy Pinson, a graduate student in health promotion; Alisha Lewis, an undergraduate student in kinesiology; and Michelle Smith, a graduate student in physical therapy. |
Current
BeH.I.P. participation
•
149 participants since the program began in spring 2002;
• 55 have
started to become active or are no longer sedentary;
• 13 have
stopped smoking or are in the smoking-cessation process;
• 13 have
started to control their diabetes; and
• 68 have
been referred by a physician, are contemplating the program and are contacted
periodically.
How
does BeH.I.P. work?
Simply
call 257-1000 or speak to your physician about BeH.I.P. A personal health counselor
will contact and work with you at a time that is most convenient for you. Phone
calls with your personal health counselor are scheduled as frequently
as once a week or as infrequently as once a month, depending upon which
phase of the program best meets your needs.
Who
is eligible?
All
Are
any of the current options for me?
If
any of the following items apply to you, call 257-1000 and ask about the
designated program, or speak to your health care professional about other
options. For the diabetes education program,
you can also contact Amy Nicholas at 323-1493.
Start
to STOP Smoking
• I currently
smoke.
• I recently
tried to stop smoking.
• I am thinking
about quitting smoking.
Exercise
for Health
• I currently do not exercise.
• I have been told to increase my physical activity.
• I have tried to exercise recently.
• I am thinking about increasing my amount of exercise.
Living
with Diabetes
Diabetes Education Program
• I have been diagnosed as having diabetes.
• I am currently taking medications for diabetes.
• I regularly check my blood sugar levels.
Diabetes
Prevention Program
• I am
overweight.
• I am over
45 years of age.
• I have a family
history of diabetes.
• I’ve been
told I have high blood pressure.
• I gave birth
to a baby weighing over nine pounds.
Jackie Hanson
 Ralph Derickson Receiving a check from Bluegrass PRIDE for projects at the Arboretum are (from left) Beth Oleson, a junior at Dunbar High School in Lexington who wrote the application for the grant; Brenda Franey, new Arboretum education coordinator; and Marcia Farris, Arboretum director. The check was presented by U.S. Representative Ernie Fletcher. |
Doing the work for a 4-H project, Beth Oleson, a junior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, has written a grant application that won a $1,500 award from Bluegrass PRIDE.
The award money will be used to create a wildlife feeding station and an aquatic education display at the University of Kentucky/Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Arboretum on Cooper Drive.
Totaling $30,000, the Arboretum award and grants to many other Central Kentucky schools and civic projects were announced at a news conference at McConnell Springs wildlife sanctuary in Lexington by U.S. Representative Ernie Fletcher.
PRIDE (Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment) was developed by Congressman Fletcher in association with Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet Secretary James Bickford in November 2001.
PRIDE's purpose is to bring together like-minded Kentucky leaders who care deeply about a responsible approach to revive our streams and waterways, protect our water supply, and preserve our natural beauty.
