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Dr. Greg On Medicine

  • She’s been bringing you the news for what seems like forever and now her own health could be the biggest story she ever covers. This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine Karyn Czar talks in depth, in the hope of helping others, about her recent diagnosis of a rare form of cancer and her treatment journey.
  • The annual Substance Use Research Event (SURE), formerly known as Substance Use Research Day, showcases the translational research conducted at the University of Kentucky focusing on substance use and substance use disorder. Dr. Greg gets a preview from Hilary Surratt, associate professor in the Center for Health Services Research and the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
  • The University of Kentucky is participating in a nationwide study that seeks to understand why some people have prolonged symptoms (long COVID) or develop new or returning symptoms after an acute bout of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Dr. Greg Davis talks with Zach Porterfield, M.D., Ph.D.,assistant professor in the UK Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, who is co-leading the study.
  • Vaneet Arora, Associate Director - Clinical Microbiology in the UK College of Medicine shares the latest info on the omicron variant of COVID-19 and talks about UK and the University of Louisville’s participation in a public health study funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, looking at genomic surveillance of the virus via wastewater sampling.