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Current Fellow

Vernon D Brewer D.O. is currently the Hospice and Palliative Care fellow at the University of Kentucky/ Hospice of the Bluegrass for the 2011-2012 academic year. Dr. Brewer grew up in Southeastern Kentucky and attended Alice Lloyd College. From there he attended medical school at Pikeville College and did his family practice residence in Westlake, OH finishing in June, 2011.

 

Past Fellows

C. Eric Goss, D.O. is the Hospice of the Bluegrass/ University of Kentucky fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Goss was born in rural South West Virginia and attended the University of Virginia College at Wise for undergraduate studies. His medical education is from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, WV and he did his residency in internal medicine at St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, PA. Dr. Goss was in practice for three years before deciding to further his education in hospice & palliative care. He and his wife have four children.

 

Wendy Latunik, M.D. is board certified in Family Medicine and is board eligible for the certificate of added qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. She completed a one year fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 2008; a family medicine residency at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, 2007 and graduated from medical school at Penn State College of Medicine in 2004.

Dr. Latunik has also been active working in rural and underserved areas including participating in the Summer Medical Institute: Northwest in Oregon and Vancouver, Washington; serving remote villages in northern Alaska as part of the National Health Service Corps: Alaskan Exposure Program rural health rotation; and doing locum tenens general medicine along the mid Atlantic coast of Maine. She is a native of Long Island, New York.

 

Gerald V. Klim, D.O., M.A. is an Associate Professor and Chairman in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine.  Dr. Klim serves as Medical Director for the Traumatic Brain Injury Unit at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital, Lexington, KY and Medical Director at Pimlico Manor, Lexington, KY.  He received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Richmond, Richmond, VA and his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Klim completed his Master of Arts from Lexington Theological Seminary in 2008. 

 

Dr. Denise W. Spencer, a 2001 graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and a 1991 graduate of Murray State University began the Palliative Care Fellowship in July, 2005. Dr. Spencer completed her residency at the University of Kentucky, and is a member of the American College of Physicians – American Society of Internal Medicine. She has served as a volunteer with Hospice of the Bluegrass since 1995.

 

Dr. Alison E. Krause completed a one-year residency in palliative medicine at Hospice of the Bluegrass in 2003 through an affiliation with the University of Alabama at Birmingham following residency. Dr. Krause served as an associate medical director for HOB, providing patient care in the Hospice Care Center at Saint Joseph Healthcare, conducting hospice and palliative care consults to patients in four area hospitals, and supervising in-home care of several hospice patient teams. Prior to joining HOB, Dr. Krause was in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia for seven years.