By Monica Kraft, MD | Chair, Department of Medicine, UA College of Medicine – Tucson
It’s been an exciting year in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson with a number of major accomplishments to our credit.
As the inaugural chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Michael B. Fallon, MD, FACP, has a clean slate and a clear vision.
An inaugural research poster night event to recognize work across the UA Department of Medicine by faculty physicians and researchers who serve as principal investigators on numerous projects financed by federal grants and additional funding to develop innovative therapies and other solutions to many of the world’s most challenging and debilitating medical issues.
Banner - University Medical Group Town Hall
All members of Banner – University Medical Group are invited to attend a special year-end Town Hall next week in Phoenix or Tucson. Leaders of the faculty practice plan will discuss performance improvement efforts, the compensation plan, the transition to Cerner EHR in Tucson in 2017 and other important topics.
Banner – UMC Tucson
4-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, DuVal Auditorium
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation is offering a free webinar, Wednesday, Dec. 14, on “Anti-Inflammatory Medications” as part of its PFF Disease Education Webinar Series.
SPEAKER: Jesús Rivera-Nieves, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UC San Diego School of Medicine, and member, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, UC San Diego Medical Center
TOPIC: “Targeting Lymphocyte Traffic in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Past, Present and Future”
The UA Center on Aging’s Lisa M. O’Neill, DBH, MPH, Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, and Rachel Peterson, MPH, made the news recently on three separate topics.
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.
