Outreach News

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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

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  KU Medical Center program helps teachers engage students from urban schools
  Jul 13, 2018 -- For high school teachers from Kansas City and Wichita late May was time to head back to class as part of the T-SCORE Summer Institute – a three-week academic boot camp dedicated to helping classroom teachers create health science units that better connect with students from underserved populations in Kansas’ urban centers.

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

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  University of Kansas opens Salina Health Education Center
  Jun 22, 2018 -- The Salina campuses of the University of Kansas Schools of Medicine and Nursing officially got a new home June 21 with the grand opening of the Salina Health Education Center, a newly renovated space downtown.

  Categories: Outreach, School of Nursing, School of Medicine

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  The University of Kansas Cancer Center is joining forces with the nation’s top cancer centers to advocate for increasing HPV vaccination rates
  Jun 07, 2018 -- The University of Kansas Cancer Center is joining forces with a host of the nation’s top cancer centers to focus the spotlight on eliminating human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers in the United States.

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

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  Researchers study career challenges facing women physicians who first entered medical school after Title IX
  Jun 04, 2018 -- Kim Templeton, M.D., has spent much of her career outside the operating room addressing the issues of woman physicians as well as sex and gender differences in health and disease.

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

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  A KU Medical Center researcher has created a nutrition literacy tool designed to assess the health knowledge
  May 31, 2018 -- After finding there was no good method to assess nutrition literacy, Heather Gibbs, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the KU Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, developed an original tool to test a person’s ability to obtain, process and understand dietary information, all of which are keys to making healthy food choices.

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

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  A University of Kansas Medical Center neurology fellow overcomes a 20-year struggle to escape oppression in Cuba
  May 31, 2018 -- Ernesto Alonso-Labori, M.D., dreams of a day when he can show his two small children the island nation where he was born and the city of Guantanamo where he grew up. A fellow in the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Neurology, Alonso-Labori knows it will be some time before a return to his homeland would be safe.

  Categories: Health Care, Outreach, School of Medicine