![[Dr. Garcia, Dr. Cairns & 1st year med students taking the pledge]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2015-08-14_ahsctopmediamentions_715x158px-120dpi.png "Dr. Garcia, Dr. Cairns & 1st year med students taking the pledge")
Dr. Garcia discusses diversity at AHSC. Dr.Cairns introduces panelists at Ebola talk. Class of '19 med students get first white coats.
Among stories listed in the AHSC Top Media Mentions for the week of Aug. 10-14, 2015, were the following:
Arizona Public Media
UA Health Sciences Diversifying the Health-Care Workforce
More than a third of Arizona's population is Latino and Native American, but that number isn’t represented in the health field. “Arizona Week Friday” looked at the University of Arizona Health Sciences' efforts to decrease health disparities and increase the minority workforce to better serve our state and nation. The program features an interview with Joe G.N. “Skip’ Garcia, MD, UA senior vice president for health sciences, and highlights several summer programs that foster greater diversity in the health-care industry. Read more.
Arizona Daily Star
UA, CDC Officials Discuss Current State of Ebola
![[Ebola panel discussion at DuVal Auditorium - with Dr. Ron Pust addressing audience.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2015-08-10_ebolapanel_010_175x117px-300dpi.jpg "Ebola panel discussion at DuVal Auditorium - with Dr. Ron Pust addressing audience.")
Just last year, the Ebola epidemic was making headlines daily. On Monday evening, health officials from the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, as well as an Ebola survivor, discussed the current state of the disease, sharing what they've learned about the virus and how to prevent epidemic levels from occurring again. The event, titled, "Ebola: What Are We Learning? In Africa? In America?" featured four presenters, including Craig Spencer, MD, who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Guinea and survived. The health experts said although the community isn’t hearing as much about the virus, people shouldn’t put their guard down. "The epidemic is still going on, just at lower levels, but just as dangerous in the sense that it's not fully controlled," said Ron Pust, MD, director of the UA Office of Global and Border Health. Read more.
![[Dr. Janet Campion and student have photo taken after Dr. Campion presents student with first white coat of career.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2015-08-07_uacom-t_white-coat_119_90x110px-96dpi.png "Dr. Janet Campion and student have photo taken after Dr. Campion presents student with first white coat of career.")
Tucson News Now
White Coat Ceremony Welcomes College of Medicine – Tucson Students
Making up the most diverse class ever at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, new medical students celebrated their entrance into the medical profession at the college's 21st annual White Coat Ceremony. The ceremony is designed to honor new medical students as they accept the responsibility of the doctor-patient relationship. During the ceremony, each student received a stethoscope and their first white coat, embroidered with his or her name. Each white coat has a Humanism in Medicine pin that symbolizes a shared commitment to provide compassionate and competent patient care. The pins were provided by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, which initiated the first White Coat Ceremony in 1993. Among the 57 women and 60 men in the Class of 2019 is Miss Arizona, Jennifer Sedler. Joining mentors in helping students into their white coats for the first time was the Department of Medicine’s Janet Campion, MD, adult cystic fibrosis program director in the Divisionof Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine. Read more.
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