Department News
Two U.S. representatives, a Democrat from Phoenix and a Republican from California’s Central Valley, recently filed legislation to fund creation of a national strategy for a human vaccine for Valley fever. DOM infectious diseases professor Dr. John Galgiani is quoted.
With a record number of posters from medical students and residents, a new Great Debates contest added to the Doctor’s Dilemma and poster/oral vignettes contests, and a point-of-care ultrasound training session, the state chapter of the American College of Physicians event is building excitement, says ACP-AZ Education Committee Chair and DOM Associate Professor Dr. Indu Partha. See the schedule, who’s speaking – and register today!
A virtual national workshop, Oct. 22-23, chaired by the DOM Pulmonary division’s Dr. Franz Rischard goes beyond how much a person’s race outweighs their mixed ancestry, sex and/or social determinants of health in a disease directly affecting over 2 million people in the U.S. Read the Q&A with Dr. Rischard on why this is important.