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App created by Gill physician helps patient "see" his heart
April 2, 2019 / In Patient Stories, Heart Health / By UK HealthCareBeing told you have a life-threatening condition that you've never heard of is perhaps a person's greatest fear.Chester Grundy of Lexington...
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Leading the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic at National Summit
Few states have been harder hit by the opioid epidemic than Kentucky. Countless lives have been lost, families have been broken and communities have been ravaged. That’s why University of Kentucky physicians,...
Tags - Opioid Treatment, Research
Posted - Apr 5Read More
Behind the Blue: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic with Dr. Laura Fanucchi
The opioid epidemic has ravaged communities across the United States and few states have been harder hit than Kentucky. There is, however, a reason to have hope. Researchers, physicians and leaders in the...
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UK HealthCare Physicians Are Named to 2017-18 Best Doctors in America
UK HealthCare has more than 130 physicians practicing medicine with University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Good Samaritan Hospital who appear on the Best Doctors...
Tags - Ranking, Faculty, Clinical, UK HealthCare
Posted - Mar 26Read More
Gretchen Wells Talks Hearts, Books & Kentucky Women
Dr. Gretchen Wells writes a lot of prescriptions and orders a lot of tests. But she says the most rewarding thing she dispenses is hope.As director of Women's Heart Heath at UK HealthCare's Gill Heart...
Tags - Gill Heart Institute
Posted - Feb 13Read More
Mark Williams Speaks at First International Conference of Hospital Medicine in Taiwan
During a recent trip to Taiwan, Dr. Mark V. Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research (CHSR), had the opportunity to share his expertise as a hospitalist and researcher with colleagues in...
Tags - Center for Health Services Research
Posted - Feb 3Read More
Moliterno Named Editor of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
The American College of Cardiology has named Gill Heart Institute's Dr. David J. Moliterno, the new editor-in-chief of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. Moliterno is the Jack M. Gill Chair and professor of...
Tags - Research
Posted - Jan 12Read More
Williams to Join Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Expert Panel
Dr. Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research and chief in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UK HealthCare, has been selected to be part of an expert panel for the Centers for...
Tags - Faculty
Posted - Jul 15Read More
Facial Expression Workshops Teach Doctors to Read Beyond Clinical Charts
Doctors visually process an abundance of information when consulting with patients in a clinical setting. They examine charts and electronic records, monitor physical symptoms, and observe signs of distress or...
Tags - Internal Medicine
Posted - Jul 13Read More
UK HealthCare Athletes Ready to "Survive the Night" to Raise Cancer Awareness
In most work environments, teambuilding exercises usually don't require actual physical activity. But for the UK HealthCare employees participating in this weekend's second Survive the Night Triathlon, bonding...
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Posted - Jun 13Read More
UK Hospitalists Help Enhance Quality of Care for Patients
Managing and providing a continuum of care for patients with complex health care needs at a large academic medical center like UK HealthCare can be very complex when providers from multiple specialties and...
Tags - Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine
Posted - Jun 8Read More
Thrill of Research Results in Funding to Study Prevention of Stem Cell Damage During Cancer Treatment
Five days before Christmas, University of Kentucky researcher Ying Liang, MD, PhD, received what she described as the best gift ever: a letter of notification that she received a prestigious R01 grant,...
Tags - Research, Internal Medicine
Posted - Jan 5Read More
UK Critical Care Survivors Clinic Benefits Patients While Reducing Readmissions
Darrell Raikes waved sleepily to his wife as they wheeled him down to the operating room for a routine knee replacement last May. He woke up in the Critical Care Unit four weeks later. Darrel had an adverse...
Tags - Internal Medicine, Critical care
Posted - Nov 24Read More
Barbara Phillips Elected President of the American College of Chest Physicians
Dr. Barbara Phillips, professor of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky, was elected the 78th president of The American College of...
Tags - Faculty, Awards and Recognition, Internal Medicine
Posted - Nov 13Read More
Drs. Evers, Smyth discuss personalized medicine
The past decade, Dr. Mark Evers says, has been a revolution. Thanks to advances in personalized medicine over the past 10 years, Evers says patients today receive treatments that are better tailored to their...
Tags - Internal Medicine
Posted - Jul 27Read More
'Healthiest Weekend in Lexington' to Benefit Markey Cancer Center
Through his Ironcology fundraising organization, University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center oncologist and local triathlete Dr. Jonathan Feddock is partnering with the Markey Cancer Foundation to host "The...
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