The Donald K. Buffmire Visiting Lectureship in Medicine with Nobel Laureate Randy W. Schekman, PhD
"Genetic Rush Hour: How the proteins of our cells follow traffc signs in normal and genetic diseases"
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(The video also will be archived at the above link for later viewing.)
Among hot stories in the Fall/Winter issue of the Emergency Medicine News newsletter from the UA Department of Emergency Medicine are several items of interest to UA Department of Medicine faculty and staff as well.
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The medical student chapters of the Gold Humanism Honor Society at the UA Colleges of Medicine in Phoenix and Tucson will stage a variety of events this week to recognize kind, compassionate patient care for Solidarity Week.
The University of Arizona Health Sciences has developed a “Research Marketplace” website that allows potential collaborators, faculty, students and others to identify campus expertise for research, projects, consulting and a variety of other services.
Among a bit of news passed along to physicians via the Banner – University Medical Group e-newsletter, Wildcat Connection, are the following three items (link to the issue date for the full newsletter):
Join us for our annual Solidarity Day "human chain" and performance by Docapella - also featured will be speaker Dr. Randy Friese, Professor of Surgery, Dr. Andreas Theodorou, Chief Clinical Education Officer, Dr. Charles Cairns, COM-T Dean, and Tom Dickson, CEO Banner UMC Tucson and South.
BUMG leaders will host a monthly town hall in Tucson on the fourth Thursday of each month to update Tucson providers on issues affecting the practice plan.
Jason Bezozo, Banner Health’s vice president for Government Relations, will be a guest speaker at the next Town Hall on Thursday, Feb. 23, in COM-T Classroom 2117.
The first such meeting was held Jan. 26 and covered 2016 finances and other hot topics. BUMG physicians can check the BUMG Wildcat Connection e-newsletter for a link and password to view archived video of that event.
Tirdad T. Zangeneh, DO, FACP, a University of Arizona associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and associate program director for the UA Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus, was one of two UA-affiliated physicians to speak at a Mayo Clinic conference in January.
University of Arizona nephrologist Bijin Thajudeen, MD, was one of two physicians from the UA College of Medicine – Tucson asked to provide expert testimony on why private insurance coverage should
More than 100 million Americans—about a third of the population—suffer from chronic pain. More people are affected by chronic pain than by heart disease, diabetes and cancer combined, and at a cost of more than $600 billion a year in medical treatments and lost productivity. A free presentation, “Tame Your Pain ...
