University of Kentucky MD/PhD Program

POV: your 🏀 bracket is cooked but your friends hit all #1 seeds 🔥📈
A massive congratulations to Andrew, TJ and Louis on their matches!!

✨Fat✨ chance these three wouldn’t bring up lipid metabolism at . Peep their abstracts for the receipts. 👁️👄👁️

Our new years resolution is more F-30s (& TL1s) given ☺️💅

Shoutout to G3s Akhil and Annabel for securing that NIH bag💰

📣 Student Spotlight 📣  Not all who wander are lost — some are just chasing better access to OB/GYN care. Last but absolutely not least, meet M1 Haafsah Fariduddin!

📣 Student Spotlight 📣 Gage peaked in high school… and college, and last week. Whether it’s hiking trails or ECG waveforms, he’s always chasing his next summit! ـــــــــــــــﮩ٨ـــــ🧠ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـــــــــــــﮩ٨🥾ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨

📣 Student Spotlight 📣  Meet M1 Samantha Olmsted! This CRISPR Cowgirl is blazing trails towards new pediatric oncology interventions.

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Garrett-eed to make headlines 😎  Peep G1 Garrett Anspach’s new paper and visual abstract on the cover of this month’s ATVB 🧬📘 

📣 Student Spotlight 📣 Our newest electrophysiologist in training Safiyah is already making waves (and spikes) at UK ⚡🧠.

(New) family photo!! Wishing our new M1s all the luck in the world during their first week of anatomy (but they’re gonna crush it) 🩺🩻🥼

On Wednesdays we wear pink and at retreat we wear ✨ khaki ✨

April stress ➡️ May success 🌸📚 we love watching these citations bloom!

Congratulations to the following students on their outstanding recent publications and awards:
M4 Lincoln Shade – Nature Genetics
M4 Ethan Glaser – Scientific Reports
M1 Kenneth Hawkins – Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids
G2 Emily Huffman – Best Graduate Student Talk, Indiana Physiological Society

Congratulations to our wonderful M4s on their residency matches!! 🎉 

We couldn’t be prouder of Ethan Glaser for matching Neurology at the University of Chicago, and Lincoln Shade for matching Diagnostic Radiology at Washington University. We can’t wait to see what each of you accomplish! 🎉🍾🩺

Disclaimer: the logo above belongs to the NFL draft, and was badly photoshopped by a graduate student to celebrate Match Day 2025.