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The º£½Ç½ûÇø congratulates 39 medical students who were selected as members of Alpha Omega Alpha, a national medical honor society that honors those who demonstrate professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research, and community service in the medical field.

A recent University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study sheds light on how the environmental pollutant perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) may affect our intestines and possibly increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer.  

New research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. 

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer CenterDirector B. Mark Evers, MD, has been elected to the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) Board of Directors.  

After serving for eight years as the assistant dean for clinical education, John Ragsdale, MD, MS, has been promoted to associate dean for curriculum. 

Chris Simmons, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics. He is also a co-director of our combined MD/PhD program, with a focus on career advising. As a physician-scientist at an academic medical institution, Dr.

Over the summer, a cohort of five rising second-year medical students participated in a four-week pilot exposing them to quality improvement (QI) concepts as inaugural members of the Churchill Summer QI Research Fellows program.

The Bluegrass Hospitality Group (BHG) has partnered with the Capital Ovarian Cancer Organization to give away the ultimate Taylor Swift concert experience, with a trip for two to see the Eras Tour in Miami, Florida.

The 14th annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia is set for Sept. 27-28. The symposium, hosted by º£½Ç½ûÇø’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, is named in honor and memory of the late William R. Markesbery, MD, the founding director of Sanders-Brown.

The University of Kentucky has one of the most impactful scholars according to an updated ranking in Research on Social Work Practice. 

Robert "Nate" Helsley, PhD,  assistant professor of internal medicine, was selected to receive the 2025 Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research.  

In Aug. 2020, the College of Medicine Office of Research launched 18 Alliance Research Initiative teams from each of the five research priority areas— substance use disorder, cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity, neuroscience, and cancer—and other important emerging areas of science.

A University of Kentucky surgery resident and researcher has been selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Regional Entrepreneurship Development

The º£½Ç½ûÇø is excited to announce that it has selected R. Carter Cassidy, MD, as the new chair of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. 

The University of Kentucky Cannabis Center is sponsoring a series of seminars featuring national and international experts on cannabis science.

Two º£½Ç½ûÇø students have been chosen for the fourth cohort of the White Coats for Black Lives fellowships.

Chisom Iloegbunam and Louise Scharff were recently awarded the fellowships created by the department of Behavioral Science.

Drew Micciche, MD, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and an attending physician on º£½Ç½ûÇø’s Addiction Consult and Education Services, has been selected as º£½Ç½ûÇø’s Bell Addiction Medicine Scholar for 2024-2025.  

A new project at the University of Kentucky will expand new avenues to develop community-engaged health equity research expertise among early-stage investigators. It’s called Achieving Success in Community-Engaged research to elimiNate Disparities (º£½Ç½ûÇø ASCEND).

Fourteen University of Kentucky students spent the summer expanding their research skills through the Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program, sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research and the Office of the V

The º£½Ç½ûÇø College of Medicine Standardized Patient Program launched in the late 1980s, and over the subsequent decades, has become deeply engrained throughout all four years of our students' medical training. 

Gina Wesley, PhD, serves as manager of the program, bringing years of expertise in higher education, program management, and moulage skills to the role.