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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 19, 2021) The past year has been filled with new routines, new rules, and new fears for many people as the world has navigated the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. During this time staff members at UK HealthCare’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center (BBDC) found a unique way to ease some anxiety as young patients and their families returned to in-person clinic visits.
“No patient here is just a number or diagnosis, but an individual,” said Shannon O’Mara, nurse manager and pediatric endocrine nurse at BBDC. It is with that mindset that Angela Hepner, a pediatric diabetes educator, thought of a way to help identify each staff member and decrease anxiety as everyone returned to a clinic setting after months of telehealth. The idea – giant buttons featuring the smiling faces of the staff and health care providers underneath the mask and other personal protective equipment (PPE) which can decrease nonverbal communication and interaction with the patients
Research led by Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., was selected as Best of Cell Metabolism 2020 Photo | UK Office of Research Communications
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 27, 2021) Annually, Best of Cell Press celebrates the highest-impact research published in their journals during the previous year. A paper by Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences and associate director for Translational Research in Diabetes at the University of Kentucky, has been included in “Best of Cell Metabolism 2020.” The paper focuses on age-associated inflammation.
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