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Keith Smith, UofL spinal cord research participant, with trainer Kristin Benton, working with the new tablet interface to control his Medtronic epidural stimulator

New controller developed at UofL improves home use of epidural stimulation for people with...

When Keith Smith recently got a new tablet, it wasn’t for watching videos or scanning social media. Instead, this tablet allows Smith, who has tetraplegia,...
Barn and haybales. Photo by Josh Sorenson from Pexels

UofL leading new Kentucky 3RNET Consortium to better address rural health care workforce shortages

A new consortium of four Kentucky health care organizations, led by the University of Louisville School of Medicine, is working to connect a wide...
Kim Williams Sr.

Leading cardiologist, health equity expert named chair of UofL Department of Medicine

A nationally renowned cardiologist and health equity expert has been selected to head the University of Louisville Department of Medicine. Kim Williams Sr. will...
Kim Williams Sr.

Leading cardiologist, health equity expert named chair of UofL Department of Medicine

A nationally renowned cardiologist and health equity expert has been selected to head the University of Louisville Department of Medicine. Kim Williams Sr. will...
Screenshot from the Good Days Ahead computer program

UofL research shows computer assisted therapy opens doors to depression relief

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a highly effective treatment for depression. A number of factors can prevent patients from receiving successful therapy, however. The need...
Nadieh Rahbari and Rheyana Branch work with one of the Future Healers Ambassadors

UofL medical students creating a new narrative for children affected by violence with Future...

Becoming a doctor is more than learning anatomy and medicine for a group of University of Louisville medical students. They also want to help...
Jaimin Trivedi, assistant professor and director of clinical research and bioinformatics in the UofL Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

UofL study shows heart transplant access, outcomes for Black patients improved significantly since 1987

To better understand the status of access to heart transplants for adult Black and white patients and those of other races, researchers at UofL analyzed...

raiseRED planting seeds to grow UofL’s Community of Care 

The raiseRED student fundraising organization that benefits seriously ill children and their families is already the University of Louisville’s largest student-run philanthropic organization, a...
Toni Ganzel, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the UofL School of Medicine

Real-life Wonder Woman: UofL School of Medicine dean shares her serendipitous journey into medicine...

Toni M. Ganzel, MD, MBA, dean of the UofL School of Medicine, joined UofL in 1983 as an assistant professor of otolaryngology. In 2001...
John Pierce Wise Sr. center, with members of his research team during an expedition to collect whale cells. Left to right: Idoia Meaza, grad student, Johnny Wise, assistant professor, Rick Walker, volunteer driver, Jennifer Toyoda, grad student, and Aggie Williams, grad student

Lifelong passion for science and nature led John Pierce Wise Sr. to study how...

John Pierce Wise, professor in the UofL Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, has studied the connection between exposure to metals and cancer for nearly...