Arizona is home to 10,000 actively licensed massage therapists, each of whom averages 12 clients per week or roughly 7,000 client encounters a year. What if in addition to soothing cramped muscles those massage therapists could be enlisted and trained to help reduce skin cancer risk?
University of Arizona geriatrician and UA Center on Aging member Monica R.
Dr. Archita Desai (on left at podium) with Dr. Jil Tardiff, DOM vice chair for research, May 11 at the DOM Research Seminar where Dr. Desai was a presenter.
It’s official.
The University of Arizona Department of Medicine earlier this month launched a Facebook webpage to expand its social media presence, adding to the Twitter account that the department has had since 2014.
Both can be found by searching for the full name of the department or simply entering @UAMedicineEdu.
University of Arizona Professor Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, is among three recipients announced recently as winners of American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) Strategic Research Awards to evaluate how telemedicine can play a role in the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I).
From left: Drs. Wina Yousman and Nirmal Singh; Drs. Balaji Natarajan, Supreet Khare, Francisco Mora, Rhonda Alkatib, Bujji Ainapurapu (IM Residency South Campus assistant program director), Roberto Swazo, Chief Resident John Sandoval and Wei Xiang Wong; Dr. Jessica August; and GME South's Jeanne Deinert and Assistant Dean Dr. Victoria Murrain
COM – Tucson Dean Dr. Charles Cairns (center) thanked Drs. Taljanovic, Tardiff (third from left), Ellis, Mosier (not pictured), Porreca and Rice for their leadership via Twitter.
