John P. Wyatt, M.D. Traveling Fellowship

 

2010 Recipient:

Hollie Swanson, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology, hosted the 2010 John P. Wyatt Lecture on Environmental Health and Disease on November 19, 2010 titled "The Impact of Environmental Pollutants on Immune Function and Cardiovascular Disease."

Featured guest speakers were Dr. Mary K. Walker, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Regents Professor, University of New Mexico, Fellow, American Heart Association; and Dr. B. Paige Lawrence, Associate Professor, Departments of Environmental Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester. A panel discussion on environmental health career opportunities was held. Student presentations, posters, and prizes were also included.

 

2008 Recipient:

Bernard Henning, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, hosted the Inaugural John P. Wyatt Lecture in Environmental Health and Disease, November 5, 2008. 

Guest speakers included William A. Suk, PhD, MPA, (then Acting Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program) and Philip J Landrigan, MD, MSc (Professor and Chairman, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine).

 

The John P. Wyatt, M.D. Traveling Fellowship is awarded biennially. The next call for proposals will be in Fall 2011, for a January 2012 award.
This fellowship honors Dr. John P. Wyatt, M.D., who was director of the University of Kentucky Tobacco and Health Research Institute from 1974 until January 1980.  Dr. Wyatt was a pathologist who received his M.D. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1938 and completed his medical training on a fellowship at Harvard Medical School.  Before coming to UK in 1974, he was professor and head of the departments of pathology at St. Louis University where he was involved in black lung research and at the University of Manitoba.  Dr. Wyatt was a pulmonary diseases researcher who published over 100 articles covering viruses and diverse lung injuries.