Located at 316 East Chestnut Street, LOUMED Commons will provide new outdoor space in the heart of the city鈥檚 medical and education district. Located across the street from the University of Louisville Abell Administration Building on the Health Sciences Center campus, the park will feature tree canopy and native plantings, shaded seating, gathering areas, and space for food trucks, with flexible areas for future events and community programming.

鈥淟OUMED Commons represents our commitment to creating a more vibrant, sustainable and pedestrian-friendly Louisville,鈥� said Mayor Greenberg. 鈥淭his space will offer a place of respite and connection for the more than 18,000 healthcare professionals, 10,000 students and over 1.5 million visitors who are here each year. Improving these public spaces helps us attract top talent and strengthen collaboration among our medical and educational institutions.鈥�

The project is led by LOUMED in partnership with Metro Public Works, JLL, CARMAN Landscape Architecture and Pace Contracting. LOUMED Commons is supported by city funding allocated through the Kentucky General Assembly鈥檚 investment in downtown Louisville. The $10 million allocation is helping to fund multiple LOUMED projects, including LOUMED Commons. Additionally, the city is investing $1.75 million in improvements along Chestnut Street. Combined, these efforts represent $11.75 million in city funding supporting the district鈥檚 ongoing revitalization.

鈥淟OUMED Commons is an important next step in how people experience this district,鈥� said Nadareca Thibeaux, executive director of LOUMED. 鈥淭his park will give people a place to take a break, eat lunch or simply enjoy being outside. It鈥檚 a practical improvement for the thousands of people here every day.鈥�

LOUMED鈥檚 anchor institutions 鈥� University of Louisville, UofL Health,聽Jefferson Community and Technical College, and Norton Healthcare 鈥� continue to invest in the district through projects supporting education, research, health care and workforce development. More than $560 million in capital investments are currently underway across the district.

LOUMED Commons complements these efforts by improving the shared spaces that link these institutions and enhancing the overall experience for workers, students, patients and visitors. The first phase of the park is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

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About the Louisville Medical & 成人直播 District (LOUMED)
The Louisville Medical & 成人直播 District (LOUMED) is a 22-square-block hub where health care, education, research and community come together in downtown Louisville. Anchored by Jefferson Community and Technical College, the University of Louisville, UofL Health and Norton Healthcare, LOUMED institutions collectively employ 18,000 people and educate 10,000 students, with a combined annual payroll exceeding $1 billion. Through partnerships and investments in public spaces, LOUMED supports the people who work, study, receive care or visit the district while contributing to Louisville鈥檚 continued growth.

Kentucky has a severe shortage of health care providers, with at least some portion of 113 of the state鈥檚 120 counties designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas, including parts of Jefferson County. Recent projections rank Kentucky lowest among the states in meeting the need for primary care physicians by 2025.

To attract and train medical students with an interest in practicing primary care in medically underserved communities, the School of Medicine will enhance existing programs that train students in the underserved rural environments, assist individuals from other careers who want to prepare for medical school, create a new program to train medical students in an urban environment and provide scholarships to support students financially in all of these programs.

鈥淭he UofL School of Medicine is honored to have been selected as a recipient of the HRSA grant and is committed to creating pathways that support workforce development for primary care careers in medically underserved regions,鈥� said Jeffrey Bumpous, interim dean for the UofL School of Medicine and vice president of medical affairs. 鈥淯niversity leaders recognize the projects and programs supported by this funding are critical to the institutional mission of both the university and the School of Medicine and aim to sustain the efforts beyond the four-year term.鈥�

UofL has a long history of preparing physicians for practice in rural and smaller communities through the , started in 1998 with the goal of increasing the number of physicians practicing in rural areas, and in existing UofL family medicine residencies in Glasgow and Owensboro.

鈥淪tudents tend to practice what they are taught and where they learn it. Our idea is to enhance our training programs with a focus on improving their educational experience in primary care, particularly in underserved communities,鈥� said Kelli Bullard Dunn, vice dean of community engagement and diversity for the UofL School of Medicine, who leads the project. 鈥淎t the UofL School of Medicine, we are in a unique position in that not only do we serve rural parts of the state, but we have an urban, underserved core right in our backyard. We would like to take what we have learned from the Trover Campus and replicate part or all of that in the urban environment here in West Louisville and other underserved areas.鈥�

Medical students in the complete their final two years of medical school at Trover Campus, located in Madisonville, Kentucky, hosted by Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville. Of the 170 physicians who have graduated from the Trover Rural Track so far, 75% practice primary care and 43% practice in rural communities.

鈥淭he Trover Campus has been successful because we are able to get more rural students into medical school and then into rural practice by supporting them all the way through the process, starting with high school,鈥� said William J. Crump, associate dean of the UofL School of Medicine Trover Campus. 鈥淭his grant holds the promise of enlarging our campus, but most importantly building an urban underserved counterpart.鈥�

Three programs to achieve the grant goals

The grant project focuses on three programs aimed at increasing the number of physicians who choose primary care specialties of family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine-pediatrics and encouraging them to practice in underserved communities.

First, UofL will increase participation opportunities for students in the Trover Rural Track and expand primary care clinical training for students in conjunction with the UofL family medicine residency programs at Glasgow and Owensboro.

Second, a new urban training program will be created, modeled on the Trover program, that provides medical students opportunities to train in medical facilities in West Louisville and other communities that provide care for underserved populations. This project will involve partnerships with community health systems such as UofL Health, Family Health Centers and others.

In addition, the project calls for enhancement of the UofL , which prepares individuals who have a bachelor鈥檚 degree in another field to enter medical school. Of the 114 students who have completed the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program since it began in 2009, 98% have been accepted into a medical school and 36% of those who have completed residency programs now practice in primary care fields.

The new funding will allow this program to recruit more students from medically underserved communities who are interested in practicing in those areas after completing residency training and to improve access to medical school for them with scholarships and additional academic support.

鈥淭his new grant allows us to help even more people fulfill their dream of becoming a physician. A lot of the postbaccalaureate premedical students have come from underserved populations or underserved areas, including rural areas. Having more folks from rural areas and underserved communities going into medicine is a great thing for Kentucky,鈥� said V. Faye Jones, UofL Health Sciences Center associate vice president for health affairs and diversity initiatives and co-lead for the grant project.

Students in each of the three programs will receive academic and financial support with coaching and scholarships to help ensure their success in applying to and completing medical school.

鈥淓veryone deserves the best quality health care we can provide, and that means having the best quality of talent in the medical school pipeline,鈥� said Rep. Morgan McGarvey, who supported the grant proposal. 鈥淚鈥檓 excited for UofL and for the future of Kentucky health care with this HRSA Medical Student 成人直播 Program grant to address the primary care provider shortage. We need to be doing everything we can to ensure we are supporting the primary care providers of tomorrow, and I鈥檓 proud UofL is leading the way.鈥�

See photos on from the Oct. 9 press conference announcing the new funding.听

The University Writing Center works with all members of the UofL community 鈥� students, faculty, and staff 鈥� to improve their writing. Writing Center consultants provide one-on-one consultations that help writers address concerns about their drafts and provide strategies for improving writing skills. Consultants work with writers at any point in the writing process, from planning and organization to revision.

At the HSC office, consultants work with writers on science and technical writing, including research articles, grant proposals and dissertation chapters and proposals, as well as IRB applications and other professional and scholarly work. Consultants can help writers with personal statements, job letters, CVs and other genres of writing. The Writing Center is not an editing service, but works with writers to offer responses to their drafts and suggestions for revision.

To make an appointment through the online scheduling system, visit the using your UofL user name and password, and click on 鈥淎ppointments.鈥� To make an appointment in our HSC location, select that schedule in the drop-down menu at the top of the schedule page. You also are welcome to make appointments at the Belknap Campus’ Ekstrom Library location.

In addition to consultations, the University Writing Center offers workshops on writing through courses, campus organizations and online. You also will find handouts and videos about common student writing issues and answers to common writing questions.

The board heard from the heads of health systems at the University of Kansas and Vanderbilt University regarding how their organizations separated governance of the clinical enterprises away from the universities proper.

Both systems took the actions during recent years in reaction to changing dynamics in healthcare. Both leaders stressed the positive impact on the clinical enterprise and the consistent academic support back to the university while insulating the universities from potential risk.

President Greg Postel stressed that UofL has not made any proposals related to this type of action. However, the transition of management of UofL Hospital and the JGBCC to the university medical center affords the university the opportunity to examine the management structure at HSC.

In other action, Postel updated the board on the UofL Athletic Association鈥檚 budget process. He noted that ULAA鈥檚 budget will be incorporated into the university鈥檚 overall budget, which will be submitted for approval at the trustees鈥� June meeting.

Also at the meeting, Provost Dale Billingsley updated the board on the university鈥檚 progress in addressing issues raised as part of the university鈥檚 probation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Billingsley said he will bring any needed revisions to the Redbook, UofL鈥檚 governing document, back to the board for its approval before submitting to SACS in September.

Research!Louisville is the annual exposition of health-related research in the Louisville Medical Center. The 2016 event will include showcases of scientific research, lectures and activities for scientists of all ages from Oct. 11-14.

Investigators from high school through professional faculty will present their research in five poster sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research Building (KCCTRB). Awards for top research presentations will be announced on Friday following the keynote address by Birnbaum.

Other events during the week include:

• InNet 鈥� The new online matchmaking tool
  to help UofL investigators match their skills with potential collaborators in industry and research will host a launch party, Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 10:30 a.m.鈥�2:30 p.m. in room 101 of KCCTRB.
• Kentucky Science Center 鈥� S.T.E.M. careers 鈥� More than 200 high school students will be introduced to science careers through interactive sessions in which they will take a patient history, engage in patient-interaction role-play with standardized patients, and practice suturing in a workshop courtesy of the UofL School of Medicine Standardized Patient Program and the Paris Simulation Center. Students also will have the opportunity to interact with the operating room at KentuckyOne Health in “Pulse in Surgery,鈥� in which students observe a live-streamed open-heart surgery while asking questions of the operating room staff in real time. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m.鈥�1:30 p.m at the Kentucky Science Center.
• Beer with a Scientist 鈥� The leading-edge ways researchers and clinicians are diagnosing and curing cancer right here in Louisville. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 8 p.m. at Against the Grain Brewery, 401 E. Main St.
• Science and Innovation in the Public Interest – Karen Kashmanian Oates, PhD, professor of biochemistry and dean of Arts & Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will discuss science and innovation in the public interest.听She will explore the role of educators in not only imparting knowledge to students, but helping them understand how to use that knowledge to benefit society. Thursday, Oct. 13, at 10:30 a.m. in room 124 of KCCTRB.
  

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children’s Health 鈥� Health inequities among children result in poorer quality of life for individuals in our nation. Glenn Flores, MD, Distinguished Chair of Health Policy Research at the Medica Research Institute, a Research Affiliate in the Department of Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic, will speak on 鈥淩acial and ethnic disparities in children鈥檚 health and health care and their successful elimination.鈥� Thursday, Oct. 13, noon聽to聽2 p.m. in room 101 of the KCCTRB.
  
• Clinical/Translational Research Summit 鈥� A dozen areas of clinical and translational research will be highlighted, each with 10-minute presentations. Areas include cancer, cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, biomarkers, personalized medicine, gastro-intestinal metabolism, dentistry, infectious diseases, public health, nursing, neurosciences/spinal cord injury and transplant. The event is sponsored by UofL, KentuckyOne Health, Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and the Chi Institute for Research and Innovation (CIRI). Friday, Oct. 14, 8 a.m.听to聽noon in room 101 of KCCTRB.

More information about the聽21st annual Research!Louisville聽is .听

Helping to reduce carbon emissions by lowering the number of cars on the road is one of the key goals of UofL鈥檚 sustainability efforts. 聽

are available to UofL students, faculty and staff that enable commuters to leave their cars at home. When these commuters need a car 鈥� to perhaps pick up a child, run an errand or get to a last-minute meeting 鈥� the Enterprise CarShare program has been at the ready since 2012.

The program expanded in 2014 to allow members of the public to use the cars, prompting a 30-percent increase in reservations. With four cars located on UofL鈥檚 Belknap Campus, a fifth car was added May 18 downtown for users near the Health Sciences Center.

The new CarShare vehicle is parked outside UofL鈥檚 Kornhauser Library at 500 S. Preston St. All cars are cleaned, maintained, insured and fueled by Enterprise CarShare as part of the hourly rental charge.

鈥淯ofL and the city of Louisville are committed to reducing pollution and the number of cars on the road,鈥� said Justin Mog, UofL鈥檚 assistant to the provost for sustainability initiatives. 鈥淗aving cars available to share allows people to commute via bus, carpool, bike or foot, knowing that a vehicle is accessible if needed for an appointment or errand. It also allows residents on or near campus to avoid the expense and hassle of owning a car. Millennials are totally into that.鈥�

Anyone 18 or over with a valid driver鈥檚 license can use the cars, which are available year-round, 24 hours a day. Once users purchase a low-cost annual membership, they can access the vehicles whenever needed for $8 per hour or $56 per day. Details can be found at .