Standing eight stories tall with an underground floor housing radiation medicine, the building will help Markey expand its clinical trial offerings and increase cancer screening rates
Last month, Phillip Tibbs, M.D., closed a chapter of his storied career by completing the final of his nearly 20,000 surgeries at UK. During his time at UK, Tibbs was part of three landmark publications that helped establish the standard of care still used today for brain and spinal tumors.
Former University of Kentucky Women’s Basketball head coach Matthew Mitchell never imagined he would find himself undergoing brain surgery just hours after a visit to UK HealthCare’s Chandler Emergency Department for a lingering – yet mild – headache.
This week’s episode focuses on Parkinson’s disease and a treatment known as deep brain stimulation (DBS). To highlight DBS as a treatment option the episode shares the story of UK HealthCare patient Ann Hanley and her doctor, Craig van Horne, M.D., Ph.D., Virginia T. Barrow Endowed Chair at the University of Kentucky, and a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine.