General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Dr. Andrew Weil to Discuss COVID-19 Strategies in Webinar
TUCSON, Ariz. — Members of the public and the media are invited to join a virtual discussion on integrative strategies to supplement public health measures against the spread of the new coronavirus.
UArizona Health Sciences Ships COVID-19 Collection Kits to Navajo Nation
TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona Health Sciences shipped 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, today to help in the international effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medicine Grand Rounds
"COVID-19: Stealth Transmission and Implications for Prevention"
Ferric Fang, MD
Ferric Fang, M.D., is a board certified physician at the Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine Clinics at Harborview and UW Medical Center and a UW professor of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine and adjunct professor of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Medicine. He is also director of Clinical Microbiology at Harborview.
Medicine Grand Rounds
"Melanoma and resistance to immunotherapy"
Montaser Shaheen, MD
A member of the UA Cancer Center and UA Skin Cancer Institute, Dr. Shaheen received his medical degree from Damascus University in Syria, and then went on to complete his residency and internship at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Ill, specializing in internal medicine. He completed his fellowship at Indiana University Medical Center, specializing in hematology/oncology. Dr. Shaheen is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in hematology and medical oncology.
UArizona to Host COVID-19 Webinars Open to Public
TUCSON, Ariz. — Members of the media and the public are invited to join a series of virtual discussions on the COVID-19 pandemic, led by University of Arizona experts from a variety of disciplines.
UArizona Invention May Help COVID-19 Patients Breathe Easier
UArizona Medical Students Step Up to Help Health Care Professionals
TUCSON, Arizona — When College of Medicine – Tucson student Darien Stratton heard about students volunteering to help medical professionals in areas of the country hit hard by COVID-19, the University of Arizona was still on spring break. Local schools, preschools and businesses remained open, and social distancing was just entering the lexicon.
UArizona Regents Professor Submits Designs to DOD for Three Low-Cost Ventilator Prototypes – One Using a Basketball
TUCSON, Ariz. – A renowned researcher at the University of Arizona Health Sciences has taken the university’s reputation as a basketball powerhouse to a new level – designing an easily manufactured and low-cost ventilator prototype that uses a basketball to respond to the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic.
UArizona Researchers Team to 3D-Print Medical Masks for Banner
TUCSON, Arizona — Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the world are running short on personal protective equipment, including N95 respirators – masks that, unlike surgical masks, fit tightly around the face and are capable of filtering out 95% of airborne particles.