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UofL alumnus wins Kentucky Oaks with home-bred Secret Oath

Growing up in Frankfort, Robert O. Mitchell never dreamed of owning racehorses. Riding his pony on his grandparents' farm was as close as the UofL School of Medicine alumnus came to the horse business until after graduating from medical school and training at UofL in general and cardiovascular surgery. "Drs. Hiram Polk and J. David Richardson always took the fifth-year general surgery residents to Churchill Downs," Mitchell said. "That was my first trip to Churchill Downs. Even if you had asked me then, I would never have thought I would own a horse or have a Kentucky Oaks winner that was born on my farm." Yet on May 6, Secret Oath, a filly that Mitchell and his wife Stacy raised on their farm, out of a mare that they also raised, won the Kentucky Oaks. While many high-performing racehorses are owned by groups of investors, having a home-bred horse win the prestigious Oaks is a bit unusual. "I live on the farm. We have never put a horse on the racetrack th ....

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UofL med school grad hopes to give back to his home country of Zimbabwe after completing his Harvard residency

Tino Mkorombindo is a member of the UofL School of Medicine Class of 2022 and also holds an MBA from UofL. In 2020, Mkorombindo started Greater Influence, a nonprofit organization that provides education, resources and mentorship for minority students who want to go into medicine. After graduation, he will train as an orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital with Harvard University. UofL News talked with him about his work to help and inspire other students through Greater Influence and about those who helped him on his journey into medicine. UofL News: What led you to become a physician? Tino Mkorombindo: I always somewhat had a scientific mind. I always had an interest in medicine, the human body. Ultimately however, what made me realize I wanted to be a physician was my upbringing centered around service. My parents were always doing what they could for others, to a point where sometimes they exhausted themselves. But it was always worth it because they were doing ....

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UofL med students run Kentucky Derby Festival races for kids in a tougher race

For the first time in three years, University of Louisville medical, dental and other students who ran the Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon or Marathon were able to present their race medals in person to their race buddies, children battling a critical illness. This year marks the 15th UofL Medals4Mettle event, which pairs the UofL students with children battling critical illness who are patients of Norton Children's Cancer Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine. The students presented medals they earned for running the 13.1-mile mini marathon or 26.2-mile marathon on April 30 to the kids at a socially distanced, outdoor party at the Health Sciences Center Courtyard. Seth Walsh, who is battling leukemia, received a Kentucky Derby Festival miniMartahon medal from med student David Means as part of Medals4Mettle This was the third time that fourth-year medical student David Means has run the KDF miniMarathon in honor of Seth Walsh, a 7-year-old battling leukemia. ....

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