Cardiology
The Heart of Women's Health Luncheon
The heart of women's health lies deep within the chest. Join us Friday, Nov. 3 to learn why we need to go beyond the "bikini" view of women's health; beyond the focus on the breasts and reproductive organs. Heart disease doesn't discriminate and it claims 1 in 3 women's lives each year.
UA Researchers to Study Protein’s Role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer
About 1.6 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which encompasses several painful and complex disorders that include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
What’s more, chronic inflammation in the intestinal tract, prevalent with IBD, has been linked to the development of colon cancer. Each year, nearly 142,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with colon cancer and about 50,000 die.
Although IBD can occur at any age, it’s most often diagnosed in children and young adults.
Banner Health partners with Safeway to open grocery store-based health clinics
Banner Health continues its transformation to become more consumer focused with the opening of three new retail-based health clinics in August. The Banner Quick Care clinics will be located in Safeway grocery stores in Chandler, Tempe and Tucson.
The Chandler and Tempe locations will open on Aug. 1, and the Tucson location on Aug. 9.
UA Center on Aging Joins Nationwide Network For Home-based Primary Care Education
Partnering to offer a curriculum to help increase the number of high-quality, home-based primary-care professionals in the United States, the University of Arizona Center on Aging is one of eight new “centers of excellence” selected by the Home Centered Care Institute.
A Dozen New Physicians Join Faculty in 7 Divisions in Department of Medicine
The University of Arizona Department of Medicine would like to welcome not just the many new residents and fellows that started with us in July, but a number of new faculty who’ve arrived to help oversee their training with our various divisions and others focused on enhancing our research endeavors.
U.S. News ‘Best Hospital’ Issue Delayed for a Week Due to Data Recalculations
If you were checking this week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report for the “Best Hospitals” list, you’ll have to come back next week.
UA Sarver Heart Center and the Heart Series Present, ‘Preventing Heart Disease for 25 Years: What We’ve Learned,’ August 13
LECTURE: Preventing Heart Disease for 25 Years: What We’ve Learned
Discover the seven most important actions you can take to improve your health and prevent heart disease from developing or advancing with Charles Katzenberg, MD, co-founder of The Heart Series and clinical professor of medicine in general cardiology at the UA Sarver Heart Center and Banner – University Medical Center North Hills.
UA Cancer Center Presents ‘Bear Down. Beat Cancer. Top 5 Strategies for Reducing Skin Cancer Risk’
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the world, and is caused mainly by exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Phoenix and Tucson get 310 sunny days a year – a blessing and a curse.
Pulmonary & Critical Care Conference
SPEAKER: Rahul Nanchal, MD, MS, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, associate professor of medicine and neurology; director, Medical Intensive Care Unit; director, Critical Care Fellowship Program, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin; and editor of Hepatology and Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
TOPIC: "Sepsis: The Changing Face of the Hidden Epidemic"
WHERE: Room 8403, Chase Bank Auditorium, UA College of Medicine - Tucson
WHEN: 1:40 - 2:20 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017
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