Medicine

Medicine

Jeffrey M. Bumpous, MD, UofL's new executive vice president for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.

Bumpous named executive vice president of health affairs and dean, UofL School of Medicine

The University of Louisville has selected a 30-plus-year medical and higher education veteran to transform its health enterprise and lead its School of Medicine,...

STRONG MEDICINE: UofL’s unrivaled leadership infuses regional biomedical innovation

One step, then another, then another.    Suspended in a pediatric therapy harness, the boy’s feet moved across the treadmill. Each foot strike represented new hope...

GOOD NEIGHBORS: Community-engaged research reaps benefits here and beyond

Not all studies take place in the lab, and not all scientists wear lab coats. At the University of Louisville, researchers work out in...
The sun rising from behind the clouds. Image from Pexels.com

UofL study shows heat affects the immune system

Whether it is a day on the lake or an afternoon working in the yard, exposure to high temperatures may harm your health by...
At the 2024 Optimal Aging Conference, Charles Booker, Kentucky state director of faith-based and community initiatives, emphasized the need to listen to those directly impacted by services and policies. UofL photo.

Aging experts address health equity at Optimal Aging Conference in Louisville UofL Trager Institute/Republic...

Health care and social service professionals, academics, older adults and caregivers gathered in Louisville in April to focus on issues of health equity for...
Overhead picture of Grawemeyer Hall

UofL celebrates another year of academic, research success 2023-24 academic year-in-review

The University of Louisville’s 2023-24 academic year kicked off with tremendous momentum as a record number of 3,130 first-year students enrolled in fall 2023,...
Rendering of planned Brown Cancer Center at UofL Health South Hospital

Kentucky invests to improve rural cancer care UofL Health announces plans for cancer center...

UofL Health announced plans to expand the reach of its Brown Cancer Center, building a new $25-million regional cancer center and Center for Rural Cancer...
Caitlan Jones will graduate from UofL School of Medicine on May 11 and continue her training at the UofL Owensboro Family Medicine Residency Program. UofL photo.

Growing on her roots UofL School of Medicine graduate Caitlan Jones hopes to practice...

Muhlenberg County native Caitlan Jones is completing medical school in the hospital where she was born in Madisonville, Kentucky. Jones is part of the University...
Mass spectrometry image of a kidney showing changes characteristic of chronic kidney disease. (Photo by Dana Hammouri)

UofL researchers honored for groundbreaking study linking cancer and kidney disease

A team of researchers at the University of Louisville has been honored for their pioneering work in uncovering a new connection between cancer treatment...

A rising tide UofL expands health care footprint in rural communities

Somerlin Cheek was in treatment in a substance abuse rehab facility in a tiny eastern Kentucky community when a doctor there asked her a...