The University of Arizona Arthritis Center got additional air time on May 10 for its 2018 Bear Down Luncheon, which was held the previous day at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, from KVOA Channel 4 and sports anchor Paul Cicala
Two articles posted as blogposts to “The Health Dose” blog by the University of Arizona Health Sciences tackle tough issues over medical bias with minority patients and the nationwide launch May 6 of the All of Us℠ Research Program—at a moment when the Arizona cohort leads the nation in recruitment and received confirmation that the state’s largest award from the National Institutes of Health just got bigger.
Katherine Ellingson, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, received a three-year, $387,000 Arizona Biomedical Research Commission Investigator Grant, to develop an antibiotic stewardship program, or “playbook,” for prescribing antibiotics to treat
Recent headlines have cast suspicion on social network analysis, which can mine data from the internet to target advertisements or potentially influence elections.
But what if we could use those same tools not for the economic or political gain of a few, but for the health of all humankind? Scientists now can harness the tools of social network analysis to understand connections among genes, an advance that someday could lead to medical advancements.
Lights, camera, action! The wait is over for those University of Arizona College of Medicine faculty members who filmed interviews for new Banner Health video profiles around the end of 2017.
Relocation of support staff and some physicians moving to new office space will begin tomorrow, May 9, involving the University of Arizona Department of Medicine.
UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Class of 2018:
Haig Aintablian (emergency medicine), Victor Arce (internal medicine) and Alex Geiger (internal medicine-pediatrics)
Media contact: Teresa Joseph, 602-827-2657, cell phone 503-467-8103, teresajoseph@email.arizona.edu
Inspirational 2018 UA College of Medicine – Phoenix graduates include:
PLEASE NOTE: Media are welcome to cover these events, which are open to graduates and their families and friends only, not the general public. Media are asked to remain in the audience area.
MONDAY, MAY 7
UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Commencement
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Symphony Hall
75 N. Second St., Phoenix
Brenda Casey, L.M.S.W. is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker at Banner. Brenda received her M.S.W. from Arizona State University in 1992 and has been a licensed social worker in oncology since 2003. 
SPEAKER: Akinlolu Ojo, MD, MPH, PhD, MBA – Principal Investigator, All of Us℠ Arizona Research Program; Associate Vice President for Clinical Research and Global Health Initiatives, UA Heath Sciences; Professor, Medicine, UA Division of Nephrology; Professor, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
