Drs. Kathryn Cardarelli and Nancy Schoenberg recently joined the 2016-2017 class of fellows for the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program at Drexel University College of Medicine.
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Posted: June 14, 2016
Posted: June 13, 2016
Dr. Kate Eddens, assistant professor in Health Behavior, and Jesse Fagan, from the Gatton College’s LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis, recently won the UK researcher award for their poster presentation of OpenEddi at the SPARK Soirée and Bluegrass Showcase of Emerging Entrepreneurs and University Researchers. The SPARK Showcase, sponsored by the Kentucky Innovation Network, Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship, and Commerce Lexington, is designed to celebrate and promote the intersection of academic research and entrepreneurial creativity in Kentucky.
Posted: June 6, 2016
The drive down the Mountain Parkway from Lexington to Campton is only about an hour. It’s a beautiful drive, as the mountains of Kentucky come into view as you leave the Bluegrass. But hidden behind those beautiful views is one of our state’s most serious problems — profound differences in health, with disparities that are striking from the mountains to the Bluegrass.
Posted: June 3, 2016
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recently recognized Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Board Member F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, for "bringing new visibility and credibility to the field during a time of rapid change in public health and health care" in the United States.
Posted: June 2, 2016
Epidemiologists examine public health problems through a wide-scope lens to determine the impact of disease and health disparities at the population-level. Medical practitioners, on the other hand, are attuned to the health problems of the individual.
During the spring 2016 semester, students in Dr. Henrietta Bada’s maternal and child health course discovered both perspectives are helpful — and necessary — for solving the health problems impacting children and mothers in Kentucky.
Posted: May 31, 2016
Three of the college’s outstanding faculty received teaching awards presented at the graduation reception on May 6, 2016. These awards recognize faculty achievement in teaching and mentoring.
Posted: May 16, 2016
Close to half of patients with severe or difficult to treat asthma participating in a large trial still had poorly controlled symptoms after a decade, researchers reported here.
The multicenter, observational TENOR II study evaluated the prevalence of persistent very poorly controlled asthma more than 10 years after their enrollment in TENOR I, which was designed to examine the causes of poor asthma control in this subset of patients.
Posted: May 16, 2016
Welcome to the era of precision medicine — a new frontier in health care delivery with the promise of improving outcomes and extending lives.
Posted: May 13, 2016
A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers and published in Nature shows a potential new biological marker for the development of obesity and a possible target for obesity prevention and treatment.
Posted: May 5, 2016
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees today approved 17 University Research Professorships for the 2016-17 year.