TOP LEFT: Dr. Mayar Al Mohajer, of the UA Division of Infectious Diseases, discusses use of the drug PrEP to inhibit HIV acquisition with Telemundo reporter. The story was also picked up by KOLD-TV13.
CENTER: Dr. Tom Chiller, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, talks about fungal infections during Valley Fever Awareness Week as the presenter for the 20th Furness Lecture on Nov. 18. A recent spike in Valley Fever cases prompted a front page article on the topic in the Arizona Daily Star.
TOP RIGHT: Dr. Jeannie Lee, here offering a medication consultation for a geriatrics patient and her family, was named Geriatrician of the Year by the Arizona Geriatrics Society. AGS also named Lisa O’Neill, MPH, education director for the UA Center on Aging its Gerontologist of the Year.
Among various mentions in local and national media for physician faculty and programs affiliated with the UA Department of Medicine for the past month are the following:
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Study to address Tucson firefighters' exposure to carcinogens (Dr. Jeff Burgess, lead researcher, associate dean of research at the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health)
Arizona Daily Star
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
6 Best Food for Chronic Inflammation Prevention: When Coffee, Chocolate, Strawberries Cause Mouth Ulcer and When Tea Drinking Raises the Risk of Cancer (Dr. Andrew Weil, founder and director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine)
Food World News
Are Your Teeth Still Safe? What You Need To Know About Fluoride In The Water
(Dr. Andrew Weil, founder and director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine)
Prevention Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
University Of Arizona Lab Works To Eradicate Remaining Poliovirus Types (Kurt Gustin's lab at the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix)
KJZZ
Top patient safety scores elude Tucson hospitals (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson: C; Banner – University Medical Center South: C)
Arizona Daily Star
NOVEMBER 21, 2015
Moving up in Southern Arizona: Dr. Zoe González-García (The University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics and Diamond Children's Medical Center welcomes endocrinologist Dr. Zoe González-García)
Arizona Daily Star
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Banner earnings lag on risk-based losses, higher expenses (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
ModernHealthcare | NJCREA
Regents to consider $163M UA health-sciences building (University of Arizona Health Sciences)
Arizona Daily Star
During Regents meeting; Dr. "Skip" Garcia gives an update on UA Health Sciences (University of Arizona Health Sciences)
Arizona Daily Wildcat
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
SinfoníaRx Wins Arizona Innovator of the Year (SinfoniaRX originally established in 2006 at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy)
Financial Buzz | Investors Hangout | ITBusinesNet.com | Stockhouse
Anti-PD-1 Agents Superior to Others in Advanced Melanoma (Seongseok Yun, MD, PhD, an internal medicine resident at the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
Medscape
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Moody's revises Arizona Biomed. Research Collaborative Bldg. Ser. 2006 COPs outlook to positive; affirms A1 rating (Arizona Board of Regents' - acting on behalf and for the benefit of the University of Arizona)
Moodys.com
UA researchers reset the standards for how hospitals handle brain injuries (Drs. Peter Rhee and Bellal Joseph, Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA's Dr. Jeannie Lee named Geriatrician of the Year (Jeannie K. Lee, PharmD, assistant head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy)
AZ Big Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Drug helps stop spread of HIV in Tucson (Dr. Mayar Al Mohajer, assistant professor, UA College of Medicine - Tucson and Banner - University Medical Center Tucson)
Tucson News Now
Legally Limiting Lies About Vaccines (Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt, adjunct professor of medicine at UA College of Medicine - Phoenix)
Jurist
Dr. Andrew Weil talks healthy lifestyle, recipes in new book (Dr. Andrew Weil, director of the UA Center for Integrative Medicine)
WTTW-TV
UA researchers develop advanced microscope for neuosurgeons (G. Michael Lemole Jr., MD, chief of the division of neurosurgery in the department of surgery at the UA College of Medicine-Tucson)
DotMed.com | Phys.org | ABC15 | Health Medicine Network | Medical Design Technology | News-Medical.net | Science Daily | Science Newsline | Surgical Products
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Toward Eliminating Poliovirus—in the Lab (Kurt Gustin, a virologist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix)
The Scientist
Impact of Direct Acting Antivirals on BMI, BP, Cholesterol (Mark Pedersen, MD, from Banner University Medical Center and the University of Arizona
College of Medicine in Phoenix)
MPR
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
Cases of valley fever up 24 percent through October (Dr. John Galgiani, director of the UA Valley Fever Center for Excellence)
Arizona Daily Star
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
MOCA Announces MOCA Local Genius Awardees (Dr. Andrew Weil is the founder and director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine)
AmericanTowns.com
Parkinson’s Drug Shows Promise Against Macular Degeneration (Brian McKay, PhD, associate professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science,
University of Arizona)
Drugs.com | MedicineNet.com | NZHealthTec.com | The Health Cast | Fox-Carolina
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
UA scientist led research on macular degeneration (Dr. Brian McKay, associate professor of ophthalmology and vision science and cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine)
Arizona Daily Star | Health Medicine Network | NZ Health Tec | Science Codex | Science Daily | TulsaCW.com | PressReleasePoint | Rocket News | ScienceNewsline | Waukesha Now | Yahoo! Finance
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Sleep Concerns: Kicking all night (Dr. Clint Young completed his residency at University of Arizona Health Sciences Center)
MyFox8.com
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Macular degeneration may be treatable with Parkinson's drug (Brian McKay, PhD, associate professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Arizona)
HealthNewsDigest.com | Examiner.com | Business Standard | UPI.com | Medical News Today | Bel Marra Health | EurekAlert
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
Company set to 'turn health care upside down' (Dr. Mindy Fain, co-director of the University of Arizona Center on Aging)
Arizona Daily Star
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Arizona Researchers Aim To Prevent Firefighters From Getting Cancer (Dr. Jeff Burgess is the associate dean for research and a professor at Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona)
KJZZ
For prior "media mentions" for the UA Department of Medicine, click here.