The ninth annual "Art of Healing" silent auction will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 15, in the first-floor atrium of the University of Kentucky BioPharm Complex.

Dust flies up from the winding road, and puffy brown clouds hang over a tiny row of shacks scattered as far as the eye can see. A street dog races a truck past the porch where a leathery indigenous woman sits with a basket of strawberries she is selling for 25 cents a pound.

The dust clouds break and Dr. Tom Young smiles, throws open the door to the pediatric wing of the UK Clinic and snaps back across 3,000 miles to the land of fancy cars and fast food where he leads an organization focused on a far off region of simple resources and many struggles.

Dr. Nickl is a UK gastroenterologist currently spending an eight month sabbatical in Santo Domingo, Ecuador at Centro Medico Hombro a Hombro and working with the local public hospital.

Shoulder to Shoulder Global is still accepting applications for physicians, nurse practitioners and interpreters for the 2013 brigades to Ecuador!

Come join us to work hard and to love it!

Hi Fellow STSG Fans,

Thanks to you, Shoulder to Shoulder Global was able to raise almost $10,000 that will go directly to serve the people of Santo Domingo, Ecuador! The money will be used to provide physician consultations and general medical treatment, not to mention provide health education for an impoverished community.

Thank you!!!

A grant from the College of Health Sciences to Physical Therapy faculty Dr. Lynn English funded the production of this video.

The University of Kentucky's National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) at the UK College of Health Sciences  has been holding a "Bandana Drive" during the month of November.

A child development center in Ecuador working with UK Shoulder-to-Shoulder will benefit from the drive. Several of the patients at the center have motor disorders that cause them to drool and a bandana is a functional tool that can serve as a bib but is also age-appropriate.

What began as a small medical mission trip to Ecuador  in 2002 for a group of pediatric medical residents led by Dr. Thomas Young, professor of pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has evolved over the years into a large multidisciplinary, interprofessional partnership between UK and the local community working together to discover new and improved ways to teach, learn, and serve vulnerable and resource-poor communities in Ecuador.