Outreach News

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  Roy Jensen named president of Association of American Cancer Institutes
  Oct 09, 2018 -- Roy Jensen, M.D., director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, has been named president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI), an organization of 98 leading academic cancer centers in North America, which includes the 70 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated centers.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Nursing, Research, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, Health Care

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  Two KU Medical Center educators honored with Chancellors Club professorships
  Sep 25, 2018 -- Well-known as scientists, researchers and educators Gustavo Blanco and Joseph Fontes from the University of Kansas Medical Center, have been recognized as Chancellors Club Teaching Professors for 2018.

  Categories: Outreach, Research, School of Medicine, Health Care

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  University honors the first black woman to earn a medical degree from KU
  Aug 24, 2018 -- In 1958, the late Marjorie Cates became the first black woman to graduate from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Some 60 years later she is being honored by the university with an academic society dedicated in her name.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Medicine, Health Care

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  Students volunteer nearly 1,300 hours on Community Service Days
  Aug 22, 2018 -- Two days each summer are designated by KU Medical Center as times before classes officially start for students in the schools of Health Professions, Medicine and Nursing to pull on their blue T-shirts adorned on the front with “We Are KU” and give a few hours of energy and elbow grease to the community where they will be living, learning and working during the next few years. The M1 Community Service Day falls in July during the new medical students’ first week on campus. The Community Service Day for the schools of Health Professions and Nursing follows in August as part of the annual Hawk Week celebration.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Medicine

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  Nightingale Ceremony ushers in new School of Nursing class
  Aug 20, 2018 -- With the donning of their new white coats, the presentation of their academic society pins and the recitation of the KU Nursing Oath of Commitment, 126 women and men went from being a collection of college students from throughout the country to being the University of Kansas School of Nursing Class of 2020.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Nursing, Health Care

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  KU School of Medicine holds White Coat Ceremony for class of 2022
  Aug 01, 2018 -- At this rite of passage to welcome entering medical students, KU School of Medicine faculty share some wisdom and each student walks on stage to be cloaked in a white coat, a symbol of the physician’s profession, with family and friends in attendance.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Medicine, Health Care

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  KU Medical Center researchers battling HIV/AIDS in Africa
  Jul 30, 2018 -- While great advances have been made in treatments for HIV and AIDS, the stark reality remains that the virus is still among the leading killers in sub-Saharan Africa. Sarah Finocchario Kessler, Ph.D., MPH, an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, has spent nearly a decade traveling to Kenya looking for ways to reduce the number of infants infected with HIV.

  Categories: Outreach, Research, School of Medicine

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  Burns named to Governor’s Alzheimer's Disease Working Group
  Jul 27, 2018 -- Jeffrey Burns, M.D., co-director of the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center (KU ADC), has been named by Governor Jeff Colyer to the Alzheimer’s Disease Plan Working Group

  Categories: Outreach, Research, Health Care

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  Quinter’s Michael Machen named 2018 Kansas Family Physician of the Year
  Jul 16, 2018 -- For more than three decades Michael Machen has been one of the primary health care providers for the 900 or so people in the farming community of Quinter and many others living in adjoining counties on the High Plains, where trees are sparse and the wind is your constant companion.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Medicine