With a year-to-date total of 108 kidney transplants, the multidisciplinary team of transplants specialists and surgeons in the UA Departments of Nephrology and Surgery—as well as others supporting it—recently celebrated the all-time record achievement at the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson (BUMCT).
John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc, professor and chair of the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Nigeria.
The University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center has been awarded a five-year, $1.73 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine what triggers autoimmune disease.
Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will lead a collaborative project to develop the framework for a larger long-term study of cancer in firefighters. The $1.5 million funding for this project is from the Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Grant.
A new program designed to appeal to men and racial and ethnic minorities who want to quit smoking is being developed by Judith S. Gordon, PhD, professor and interim vice chair for research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
The Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) has labored for two decades to bring innovative telemedicine services into the mainstream as a health-care delivery system in Arizona and around the world. “We’re finally hitting paydirt, the so-called ‘upslope’ of the S-curve for innovation,” said Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, ATP co-founding director.
ADVANCES IN AGING LECTURE SERIES
SPEAKER: Cheri Wells, LPC, Private Practice Counselor
TOPIC: "A Guide to Understanding Worldview in Elder American Indian Clients: Cross-cultural considerations in older adult mental health"
[NOTE: The video also will be archived at the above link for later viewing.]
Scenes from the DOM Town Hall Meeting on the Precision Medicine Initiative® Cohort Program—rebranded as the All of Us℠ Research Program—on Dec. 7.
University of Arizona President Ann Weaver Hart has named Dr. Leigh Neumayer as interim senior vice president for health sciences. Her appointment will be effective Jan. 1, 2017, following Dr. Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia's decision to resign his administrative role and step back to faculty.
