![[First to announce, Shawn Ong]](/sites/default/files/matchday16_ong-shawn_dsc_0104_600x300px-96dpi.jpg "[First to announce, Shawn Ong]")
Shawn Ong, a medical student at the UA College of Medicine - Tucson, was first up to declare where he was headed for his physician residency on Friday, March 18, during the National Resident Matching Program announcements held simultaneously at medical schools across the country.
![[Medical student Shawn Ong shares Match Day excitement at learning where he'll practice medicine after graduating this spring.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/shawn_ong_90x110_3_0.jpg?itok=RC5A8M4W "Medical student Shawn Ong shares Match Day excitement at learning where he'll practice medicine after graduating this spring.")
TUCSON, Ariz. – Fourth-year University of Arizona medical student Shawn Ong danced across the stage of DuVal Auditorium Friday after opening his Match Day envelope to learn he will be doing his residency training in internal medicine at Yale – New Haven Hospital.
![[Medical student Ryan Wong excited about finding out his destination on Match Day 2016.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/whitecoatteaser_2.jpg?itok=mY0R7GR4 "Medical student Ryan Wong excited about finding out his destination on Match Day 2016.")
![[Medical student Ryan Wong excited about finding out his destination on Match Day 2016.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium_image/public/matchdayslide2016.jpg?itok=k1pbtvzU "Medical student Ryan Wong excited about finding out his destination on Match Day 2016.")
“Match Day” – the day that medical students across the country have been working toward for four years – will be held Friday, March 18.
![[Zika]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/zika_em_cdc_280116_199x150px-96dpi_0.jpg?itok=yx8IUMff "Zika")
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
Among stories listed in the AHSC Top Media Mentions for the week of Aug. 31-Sept 4, 2015, were the following:
Sponsored by the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson at the Arizona Health Sciences Center, Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics, Arizona Geriatric Education Center and the Arizona Center on Aging
A University of Arizona collaborative study among the Departments of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, and Psychology received approval in early May to begin accepting human subjects in an effort to determine if older adults suffering from prolonged hearing loss get a cognitive bo
Prior beliefs about the immune system in aging adults have been changed by the results of a University of Arizona study recently published in the Journal of Immunobiology.
