Hilary Brown

Jan 16, 2025 | uknow.uky.edu | Hilary Brown

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 16, 2025) — Providers from UK HealthCare collaborated with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and other agencies on the Commonwealth’s first-ever toolkit to combat the crime of strangulation. The manual, entitled “Responding to Strangulation in Kentucky: Guidelines for Prosecutors, Law Enforcement, Health Care Providers and Victim Advocates” identifies the signs of strangulation for medical professionals and law enforcement.

Jan 16, 2025 | uknow.uky.edu | Hilary Brown

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 16, 2025) — Providers from UK HealthCare collaborated with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and other agencies on the Commonwealth’s first-ever toolkit to combat the crime of strangulation. The manual, entitled “Responding to Strangulation in Kentucky: Guidelines for Prosecutors, Law Enforcement, Health Care Providers and Victim Advocates” identifies the signs of strangulation for medical professionals and law enforcement.

Jan 7, 2025 | uknow.uky.edu | Hilary Brown

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 7, 2025) – The long, winding driveway. The smell of the hanging flower baskets on the front porch. Lindsay Ragsdale, M.D., remembers every detail of that day — one of the most important and sensitive excursions of her professional life. As division chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Kentucky Children’s Hospital (KCH), she and her team have had more than their share of helping families navigate the most painful, heart-wrenching experience imaginable — the death of a child.

Dec 23, 2024 | uknow.uky.edu | Hilary Brown

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 23, 2024) – It all started with a fever. But it ended with Lexington’s Harper Dougherty defying all odds. During Labor Day weekend in 2017, two-year-old Harper felt unwell and had a mild fever. As little kids often come down with mild illnesses, Harper’s mother Laura figured a quick trip to the pediatrician, along with a day or two off from daycare would have Harper better in no time.  Diagnosed with a simple virus, the Doughertys were sent home.

Dec 16, 2024 | uknow.uky.edu | Hilary Brown

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 16, 2024) — Tom Coleman of Louisville always knew he was part of a bigger plan. For years, he’s been an advocate for organ donation. His mother-in-law received a liver transplant in 1990, and he had friends who had been living kidney donors; the concept of giving a part of oneself to help another wasn’t unfamiliar to him. But it wasn’t until he and his family attended the Transplant Games in 2002 that he understood how impactful organ donation could be.