From left, Cardiology's Drs. Karl Kern and Peter Ott, Chief Nursing Officer Cathy Townsend, RN, accepting on behalf of Banner - UMC Tucson and South, and Dermatology's Dr. Gerald Goldberg.
Congrats to the 60 new graduates of Banner Health’s 2016 Advanced Leadership Program for Physicians, pictured above. Two dozen providers from Banner – University Medical Group participated in this year’s program, which is designed to identify and cultivate physicians to become the next generation of Banner leaders.
Banner – University Medical Center Tucson has reopened Unit 5 West as an Intensive Care Unit for neurological patients and recruited neurointensivist Sankalp Gokhale, MD, as the unit’s medical director, effective Oct. 1.
TOPIC: Stem Cell Graft to Treat Heart Failure
SPEAKER: Dr. Steven Goldman, Jen Koevary & Jordan Lancaster
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has named as its Arizona Chapter Resident/Fellow of the Year our very own Jessica August, MD, a third-year resident physician in training in the University of Arizona College of Medicine South Campus Internal Medicine Residency Program at Banner – University Medical Center South.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Why do more women than men get Alzheimer’s disease? In their quest to find the answer, neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, and her collegues in the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, have been awarded a $10.3 million five-year Program Project Grant (PPG) from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.
Speaker: Leonela Amoasii, PhD from UT Southwestern
Topic: Restoration of Muscle and Heart by Genome Editing in Muscular Dystrophy
Speaker: Franz Rischard, DO from the University of Arizona College of Medicine
Topic: Right ventricular adaptation to pulmonary vascular disease: Can models of left ventricular function be applied?
The University of Arizona Cancer Center is now accepting proposed abstracts for consideration for presentation at the Third Annual UACC Spring Scientific Retreat, which will be held April 21, 2017. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, Dec. 20.
This year’s Keynote Speaker will be:
