This also provides an opportunity to develop women's health at the university. We're trying to bring people to obstetrics, internal medicine, neurology, and other fields who are interested in women's health and developing research along those lines. Wilson says the project will particularly focus on areas that have not received much national attention. Each junior-faculty scholar will work with a senior researcher and participate in workshops in various aspects of research, including grant writing, statistics, and ethics. It is important to get women involved in their own health care.
Women are usually the ones who care for the entire family.
If we can get them involved and begin to improve the health of women in Kentucky, we can, through them, begin to improve the health of all Kentuckians. The focus on women's health will have a domino effect, according to James W. Holsinger Jr., chancellor of the UK Chandler Medical Center. This prominence nationwide will encourage more people to come to UK to do research on women's health, which will build a major focus on women's health here and result in clinical advances. That cannot help but make a real difference in the health care women receive. And this is exactly what happened at the University of Kentucky when the UK Women's Health Clinic opened in April 2000.