Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, is featured in two videos posted to the website of the Washington, DC-based Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) related to his research on sleep medicine at the University of Arizona.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Michael D. Dake, MD, an internationally recognized physician-scientist, health educator and innovative medical researcher, has been appointed senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Arizona.
Forty one awards were presented at the University of Arizona Department of Medicine 2018 Annual Awards Assembly hosted at the Arizona Inn on Wednesday evening, April 11.
Ten internal medicine resident physicians in training at the University of Arizona College Medicine – Tucson will serve as chief residents over the next two years—four each year at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and one each year at Banner – UMC South.
Chithra Poongkunran, MD, a fellow with the UA Sleep Medicine Fellowship in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has been presented with a Bressler-Alpert Society Travel Award to attend the American Thoracic Society International Meeting next month.
She's the third internal medicine trainee in 2018 and the sixth this academic year (2017-18) to receive awards. Overall, 42 trainees have received awards since the awards were first presented six years ago.
Kathleen Rothwell, 73, of Silver City, N.M., became the 300th transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) patient at at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson when she was referred to the University of Ar
The following reflects the many activities occurring within the UA Division of Rheumatology and Arizona Arthritis Center over the past few months:
Clinicians and others who want to learn more about elder care as it relates to Banner Health psychiatric and behavioral health services and the Crisis Response Center can earn 2 hours of continuing education units (CEUs) by attending a free workshop presented by t
Drs. Daruka Mahadevan (left) and Eric Weterings examine cancer cells in a petri dish. Dr. Mahadevan is director of the UA Cancer Center Early Phase Clinical Trials Program. (All photos by Kris Hanning/UAHS, ABOR, BioCommunications, unless noted)
Your immune system never sleeps. Every moment of the day, immune cells monitor your body for disease, calling for backup when they detect a threat. It's a system that works elegantly — most of the time. It's not foolproof; if it were, we would never get cancer in the first place.
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) offers a free webinar Wednesday, April 11, of interest to specialists in pulmonary and critical care medicine. It begins at 10 a.m. Arizona/Pacific Daylight Time.
