![[Peter Ott, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/very_small_image/public/2015_ott_peter-md_card-portrait.2285_600x900px.jpg?itok=vU-htSWX "Peter Ott, MD")
Cardiologists at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center are recruiting patients with heart failure for a clinical research study that is evaluating a cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) investigational device.
A Weekly Colloquium on Problems in the Biology of Complex Diseases will feature several speakers and topics of interest to University of Arizona Department of Medicine physicians and investigators.
The spring lecture series is hosted by the Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases (ABCD), which explores major biomedical challenges regarding diseases such as asthma, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, neuro-degenerative and neuro-developmental diseases.
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Just in case you didn’t see them, the following news items from UA News may be of interest to faculty and staff of the UA Department of Medicine and its different divisions. Recent news items discuss the Zika virus spread to the Americas, integrative medicine to heal the health-care system, TechLaunch Arizona, Parkinson’s disease, asthma, brain mapping, improving cardiac arrest survival rates, nutrition, cancer care and tribal health:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
![[Rotor used as ventricular assist device, or VAD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/vad-rotor_90x110px-96dpi.jpg?itok=W7int8Ef "Rotor used as ventricular assist device, or VAD")
UA professor of medicine and biomedical engineering Marvin J. Slepian, MD, of the Sarver Heart Center, was featured (along with a short video) in an article from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website:
Among stories listed in the AHSC Top Media Mentions for the week of Aug. 31-Sept 4, 2015, were the following:
UA Cancer Center's 'Better Than Ever' Fitness Program Kicks Off 16th Season
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19, 2015
5:30-7 P.M.
UA Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium
Among stories listed in the AHSC Top Media Mentions for the week of July 13-17, 2015, was the following:
By Katie Maass | UA Sarver Heart Center
June 5, 2015 | Lo Que Pasa | UA-@-Work
Dr. Kern (below left) was named a CPR Giant by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He was joined at the 2015 Honorees Dinner in Dallas by family members, including his wife, Martha; son, David; and daughter-in-law, Jessica.
Among various mentions in local and national media for physician faculty and programs affiliated with the UA Department of Medicine for the past month are the following:
