Cardiology

UA College of Medicine – Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center Co-Sponsor Inaugural Desert Lung Disease Conference, April 15-16

[Iconographic illustration of anatomy of cardiopulmonary vasculature]

For most people, the idea of having lung cancer or end-stage lung disease sounds like a death sentence. [Samuel Kim, MD, and Scott Lick, MD]

Internal Medicine First Choice for Match Day Surprises

Med Student Bachelorette host and contestant at Tucson Match Day festivities

[First to announce, Shawn Ong]

Shawn Ong, a medical student at the UA College of Medicine - Tucson, was first up to declare where he was headed for his physician residency on Friday, March 18, during the National Resident Matching Program announcements held simultaneously at medical schools across the country.

Coronary and Pulmonary Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Diabetes

Cardiopulmonary and vascular complications associated with diabetes are major contributors to mortality of patients with diabetes. Vascular endothelial cells play a critical role in vascular function, as they are involved in regulation of vascular tone, formation of new vessels, and serving as an anticoagulant barrier between blood and the vascular wall. Many cardiovascular diseases result in endothelial cell damage and subsequent vascular complications.

Primary Care Wins the Largest Share of Students in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson Class of 2016

[Medical student Shawn Ong shares Match Day excitement at learning where he'll practice medicine after graduating this spring.]

TUCSON, Ariz. – Fourth-year University of Arizona medical student Shawn Ong danced across the stage of DuVal Auditorium Friday after opening his Match Day envelope to learn he will be doing his residency training in internal medicine at Yale – New Haven Hospital.

MATCH DAY 2016

[Medical student Ryan Wong excited about finding out his destination on Match Day 2016.] “Match Day” – the day that medical students across the country have been working toward for four years – will be held Friday, March 18.

UA’s Dr. Scott Klewer Receives Congenital Heart Surveillance Grant from the March of Dimes

[Scott Klewer, MD] Scott Klewer, MD, professor with the UA Department of Pediatrics in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, was awarded a one-year, $260,000 grant by the March of Dimes to fund the “Arizona CHSTRONG Project.” CHSTRONG stands for “Congenital Heart Surveill

UA Sarver Heart Center Recruiting Heart Failure Patients for Clinical Study

[Peter Ott, MD] Cardiologists at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center are recruiting patients with heart failure for a clinical research study that is evaluating a cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) investigational device.

Complex Diseases Spring Colloquium Spotlights Local, National, International Speakers

A Weekly Colloquium on Problems in the Biology of Complex Diseases will feature several speakers and topics of interest to University of Arizona Department of Medicine physicians and investigators.

The spring lecture series is hosted by the Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases (ABCD), which explores major biomedical challenges regarding diseases such as asthma, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, neuro-degenerative and neuro-developmental diseases.

UA News Features Topics of Interest to DOM, Divisions

Just in case you didn’t see them, the following news items from UA News may be of interest to faculty and staff of the UA Department of Medicine and its different divisions. Recent news items discuss the Zika virus spread to the Americas, integrative medicine to heal the health-care system, TechLaunch Arizona, Parkinson’s disease, asthma, brain mapping, improving cardiac arrest survival rates, nutrition, cancer care and tribal health:

UAHS Announces: Happy Holidays with Cardiology Newsletter, Grand Rounds, Advances in Aging and Cell Therapy Symposium

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