KU School of Medicine-Wichita

👀 First Friday sneak peek ...

Stop by our campus from 5-7 p.m. this evening for the First Friday ICT opening of "Photoworx 2026" by Photoworx – friends through photography sharing images of their world. bit.ly/WJRcurrentexhibits

Our family medicine resident physicians in Salina are caring for Kansas families, and many of them — eight of the 16 — have also added to their own. Congratulations to these dedicated residents and their families!

Baby boom!
Half of Salina residency program’s class welcomed babies in the same year

📸Christy K Photography

With mental health workers in short supply across rural Kansas, the new Program in Digital Mental Health allows people suffering from depression to receive help online.

A $28 million grant from the Rural Health Transformation Program has been secured to fund the program, which is a joint effort between KU School of Medicine-Wichita Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the KU Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth.

Read the full story: bit.ly/kudigitalmentalhealth

👀 Spotted in the community: The Building Relationships and Targeting Healthy Emotions program, a summer program in collaboration with Haysville Public Schools, recently wrapped up its fourth summer with both children and staff enjoying popsicles. Pictured is the dedicated team of counselors who helped provide 29 children and families with intensive behavioral and social skills interventions for eight weeks this summer.

The BREATHE program offers a therapeutic alternative to medication for children with symptoms of ADHD, teaching and reinforcing social skills and behavior regulation in the context of sports and recreational activities. The program, which started in 2022, has grown each year with support from our Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics.

Summertime blooms and campus views 🔆

The new issue of Embark magazine highlights how our campus is expanding and is poised for innovative growth, building on decades of success in providing high-quality medical education: bit.ly/embark2026

From our increasing residency and fellowship programs to the groundbreaking community collaboration powering the new Wichita Biomedical Campus, KU School of Medicine-Wichita continues its long history of leading the way in meeting the needs of future physicians.

As you flip through the pages, you'll see why "A Healthy Kansas Starts Here."

First Friday ICT is one week away! Stop by our campus from 5-7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, for the August First Friday opening art reception for "Photoworx 2026," a new exhibit by a collective of 12 Kansas photographers – friends through photography sharing images of their world. Our William J. Reals Gallery of Art is free and open to the public.

What an exciting month it’s been for first-year medical student Dimitri Seneviratne. He just started medical school on our campus and was announced this month as one of six international winners of the 2026 Lasker Foundation video contest. His video proposed using video game algorithms to overcome barriers to CAR-T cell treatment for solid-tumor cancers.

As a winner, Seneviratne will receive $5,000 and is invited to the ceremony in New York City for the Lasker Awards, the annual prizes the foundation has given every year since 1945 for discoveries and advances in human health. The videos will be published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and appear on the foundation’s YouTube channel.

Congratulations!

First-year KU medical student named a winner of Lasker Foundation video contest Dimitri Seneviratne’s winning video proposes an innovative way to overcome barriers to CAR-T cell treatment for solid-tumor cancers.

Our newsletter has the latest news from our campus and beyond, from a new digital mental health program helping rural Kansans to First Friday ICT, student and staff achievements, and the arrival of the Class of 2030.

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