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Lorrel Brown receives 2018 Trustees Award

December 14, 2018

Lorrel Brown, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, has been named recipient of the 2018 Trustees Award. The award is given each year by the trustees to recognize faculty who have made significant contributions to student life.

Future health care providers receive culturally sensitive training from UofL

December 12, 2018

More than 600 future doctors, dentists, nurses and public health providers crammed into the Kentucky African-American History Center for training on caring for patients whose sexual orientation or cultural experiences are different from their own.

UofL researchers studying Kentucky's overuse of prescription antibiotics

December 11, 2018

Researchers at the University of Louisville have been combing through Kentucky’s Medicaid claims data to help the state get a better sense of the use — or overuse — of prescription antibiotics.