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Alumni
MD/PhD Alumni Profiles MD/PhD Alumni Publications and News of Note
Since its inception, the University of Kentucky has produced leaders in their fields. Among the many honors achieved by UK's 170,000 alumni, there are two winners of the Nobel Prize and five Pulitzer Prize winners. Alumni are truly the pride of the University of Kentucky. They are our source of strength and one of the University's greatest resources. Their achievements illustrate not only the quality of student that the University attracts, but also the quality of graduate it produces. Worldwide, alumni are living testaments to UK's mission, its dedicated faculty and staff and the power of an outstanding education. For many of our alumni, their education at UK made a difference in their life and is now making a difference in the lives of others.
MD/PhD Alumni Profiles
Gregory N Barnes, MD, PhD
MD (1992)
PhD, Biochemistry (1990)
"The role of Ca+2 dependent protein kinases and protein phosphatase 2A in the kindling model of epilepsy"
Mentor: TC Vanaman
Residency: Pediatrics, Washington University/St. Louis Children's Hospital; Child Neurology and Pediatric Epilepsy, Children’s Hospital of Boston/Harvard Longwood Neurology Residency Program
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Duke University
Current: Assistant Professor, Neurology, Vanderbilt University
Associate Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Monroe Carroll, Jr Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt
Gregory E Cooper, MD, PhD
MD (1994)
PhD, Microbiology (1992)
Mentor: MS Turker
Internship: Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Residency: Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Fellowship: Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky; Physician, Lexington Clinic
Brian K Day, MD, PhD
MD (2007)
PhD, Anatomy & Neurobiology (2005)
"Microelectrode array studies of normal and disease-altered L-glutamate regulation in the mammalian central nervous system"
Mentor: GA Gerhardt
Residency: Neurology, Washington University
Dena Dubal, MD, PhD
MD (2003)
PhD, Physiology (2001)
"Estradiol Protects the Brain Against Stroke Injury: Potential Mechanisms of Action"
Mentor: PM Wise
Internship: University of California, San Francisco
Residency: Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship, Clinical: Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco (Bruce Miller, MD)
Fellowship, Postdoctoral: Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (Lennart Mucke, MD)
Current: Staff Scientist, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease;
Assistant Professor, Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Contact: (415) 734-2519 or 2602
ddubal@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Karrie Grear, MD, PhD
MD (2010)
PhD, Physiology (2008)
“Uncoupling protein-2 splicing efficiency and human disease”
Mentor: GS Estus
Residency: Neurology, Wake Forest University
Christina S Hines, MD, PhD
MD (2005)
PhD, Biochemistry (2003)
"X-ray crystallographic and functional studies on the neuropeptidase neurolysin"
Mentor: DW Rodgers
Residency: Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University
Fellowship, Clinical Research, National Institute of Mental Health
Joshua L Hood, MD, PhD
MD (2006)
PhD, Immunology (2004)
"The association of calpain and its regulatory proteins with the endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus"
Mentor: TL Roszman
Residency: Pathology, Washington University, St. Louis
Fellowship, Postdoctoral: Nanomedicine, Washington University, St. Louis
Current: Faculty, Consortium for Translational Research and Advanced Imaging in Nanomedicine (C-TRAIN),
Washington University, St. Louis
Erin L Manning, MD, PhD
MD (2006)
PhD, Physiology (2002)
“Regulation of telomere length in murine hematopoietic cells”
Mentor: GE Van Zant
Residency: Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky
Current: Faculty, Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky
Michael W Manning, MD, PhD
MD (2006)
PhD, Physiology (2002)
“Differential effects of doxycycline, a broad spectrum inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases”
Mentor: A Daugherty
Internship: Surgery, University of Kentucky
Residency: Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky
Current: Faculty, Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky
Melisa W Mullins, MD, PhD
MD (1999)
PhD, Microbiology (1997)
Mentor: Snow
Residency: William Beaumont Hospital
Fellowship: University of Michigan
Current: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Michigan State University
Xuan Nguyen, MD, PhD
MD (2006)
PhD, Anatomy & Neurobiology (2007)
"Aging and the dynorphinergic system: evaluation of memory and motor systems in prodynorphin knockout mice"
Mentor: G Bing
Internship: Internal Medicine, The University Hospital, University of Cincinnati
Residency: Chief Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, Pathology, University of Kentucky
Mathew A Nicholls, MD, PhD
MD (1999)
PhD, Biochemistry (1997)
"MR studies of the acute response of the rhesus CNS to the neurotoxin MPTP"
Mentor: TC Vanaman
Residency: Orthopedic Surgery, University of Kentucky
Current: Baptist Hospital (KY), Orthopedic Surgery; Kentucky Orthopaedic & Hand Surgeons
Shane W Rau, MD, PhD
MD (2004)
PhD, Physiology and Biophysics (2003)
“Mechanisms of estradiol-mediated protection against stroke-like injury”
Mentor: PM Wise
Internship: Psychiatry, University of Virginia Health System
Residency: Psychiatry, University of Virginia Health System
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UNC-Chapel Hill;
Clinical Director, North Carolina Psychiatric Research Center, Raleigh, NC
Director of Medical Education, UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health
Janelle Reed, MD, PhD
MD (2009)
PhD, Anatomy & Neurobiology (2005)
"Alterations in proteasome subunit expression and influences on the inflammatory response"
Mentors: AJ Bruce-Keller and JN Keller
Residency: Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky |
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Mark A Wurth, MD, PhD
MD (2008)
PhD, Biochemistry (2006)
“Role of actin dynamics in paramyxovirus F mediated membrane fusion events“
Mentor: RE Dutch
Residency: Internal Medicine / Pediatrics, University of Kentucky
Jeff Yates, MD, PhD
MD (2010)
PhD, Physiology (2006)
“The genetic regulation of the response of hematopoietic stem/ progenitor cells to the cytostatic agent hydroxyurea”
Mentor: G Van Zant
Residency: Internal Medicine / Pediatrics, Indiana University |
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Kristine S Ziemba, MD, PhD
MD (2008)
PhD, Physiology (2007)
"Targeting axon growth from neurons transplanted into the central nervous system"
Mentor: GM Smith
Residency: Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Arizona
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MD/PhD Alumni Publications and News of Note
Ziemba, K.S. and Noe, K.H., 2010, "Treatment of epilepsy in postmenopausal women," Aging Health, 6: 87-96, (Epub).
By Kristine Ziemba, MD/PhD Alumnus, Class of 2008
A much appreciated hand-me-down (page 4)
UK Medicine, A publication of the UK College of Medicine (Summer 2008)
Formation of The Leadership Legacy Program by Janelle Reed (MD/PhD Alumnus, Class of 2009) and Erika Erlandson. A means
of passing along advice from medical school class to class, this enrichment program complements the formal curriculum by enhancing professionalism, creativity, and leadership skills.
Doctor, doctor…a couple's perspective on becoming physician scientists
By Michael and Erin Manning, MD/PhD Alumni,
Class of 2006
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