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Wayne B. Tuckson,
M.D., FACS, FASCRS
Host
of Kentucky Health
President
of The African American Health Initiative, Inc. (TAAHI)
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| Dr. Tuckson is a native
of Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of Howard University
and the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington,
D.C. He completed an internship in Ob-Gyn at St. Louis University
Hospital in St Louis, Mo. and a residency in General Surgery
at Howard University Hospital. He then completed both a research
and clinical fellowship in colon and rectal surgery in the
Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio followed by a year as a Clinical
Associate. He returned to Howard as an assistant professor
in the Department of Surgery and chief of the Division of
Colon and Rectal Surgery. He later joined the faculty at the
University of Louisville College of Medicine in the Department
of Surgery as an associate professor were he remained for
7 years until starting Kentuckiana Colon and Rectal Surgery
in Louisville, KY.
While practicing the full breadth
of colon and rectal surgery, Dr. Tuckson's clinical interest
include the prevention, early detection, and management
of cancers of the colon, rectum, and anus, fecal incontinence,
anal sepsis, the treatment of anal warts, and inflammatory
bowel disease. He organized the African-American Health
Initiative in an effort to improve the health status of
African-Americans and the under privileged in Louisville
and Kentucky. The major efforts of TAAHI have included producing
an annual conference on Cancer in the African-American Community
and co-producing, along with the IT Department at the University
of Louisville, the television show Kentucky Health. Dr.
Tuckson serves as the host of Kentucky Health, which has
aired for the past 5 years on KET and can now be seen on
Sundays at 2:30 PM on KET-1 and Mondays at 7:30 PM on KET-2.
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Louisville
Health, a television program produced at UofL in cooperation with
The African-American Health Initiative, Inc., is the recent recipient
of two international video production awards.
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