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“Top Doctors” affiliated with the University of Arizona Department of Medicine with special full-page features—as well as listings—in the just-released July issue of Tucson Lifestyle include Cardiology’s Raj Janardhanan, MD, and Hematology & Oncology’s Andrew Yeager, MD...

The Petersen HIV Clinics pharmacy team provides a brief presentation and Q&A on Friday, July 22, about new and future treatments for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS at the Leon Levy Cancer Center building, located in front of the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson hospital.

The UA Cancer Center has been invited to participate as a regional host site for a nationwide Cancer Moonshot Summit being convened June 29 at the White House by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that includes “conversations” in communities across the country. Prospective participants with a professional or personal interest in finding a cure for cancer should RSVP to attend the local “conversation”—connected via live feed to the White House event...

Three University of Arizona Pulmonary & Critical Care fellows—Naser Mahmoud, MBBS, Muna Omar, MBBS, and Huthayfa Ateeli, MBBS—learned this week they earned the university designation as a “Top 3 Institution” for their fellowship program and the right to compete in the American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Challenge Championship in Los Angeles this fall…

Immune-system frailty in adults 65 and older is a widespread public health issue. A study led by the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson points to new cells that may hold a solution.

Several UA fellows in our department are graduating and more are coming to Tucson to train and do research under our faculty. Learn more about some of those arriving and where those who are leaving are headed…

 The Abrams Public Health Center lobby will host this inaugural health fair, sponsored by the YMCA, ADA and UA Division of Endocrinology with multiple vendors from Beyond Bread to Natural Grocers to Zinburger restaurant. Get free samples and raffle prizes. Come and meet some of our instructors and take the challenge to be entered in the big raffle.

This event has been moved to Drachman Hall Room 109! Join us for research presentations by the 15 recipients of the 2014-15 CDA awards in this showcase of clinical and translational research by UA Health Sciences junior faculty and learn about funding for your research at this inaugural symposium…

The UA Department of Medicine hosted its 2016 Graduation Dinner for the UA Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus residents June 3 at the Skyline Country Club, with nearly 40 graduating residents and their families attending. Several awards were presented during the ceremonies, including Resident of the Year which went to Dr. Ram Baalachandran…

Thirty-six new incoming interns (aka first-year resident physicians) and a transfer resident arrive this month to begin training in the UA Internal Medicine Residency Program for the 2016-17 academic year, including 28 categorical residents and eight preliminary residents. Preliminary interns will spend their intern year here before joining another residency program…

These Institutional Research Grants are highly competitive block grants intended as "seed money" for initiation of pilot projects by promising junior investigators. Junior faculty are asked to apply by mid-June with a letter of intent and proposal deadline to follow in August and October…

Kacey Ernst, PhD, MPH, associate professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, maps the relative seasonal abundance of Ae. aegypti the mosquito that carries Zika in the United States.