![[Dr. Andrew Weil with another gentleman]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/small_image/public/weilslide.jpg?itok=N6opuLs6 "Dr. Andrew Weil with another gentleman")
The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM), the worldwide leader in integrative medicine education, has opened registration for the 2014 Nutrition & Health Conference happening May 5-7, 2014.
![[Kenneth S. Knox, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2013_knox_ken_280x350px_wc-preferred_201002692_dsc8346.jpg?itok=yOqIRcFk "Kenneth S. Knox, MD")
People infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—the virus that causes AIDS—commonly develop lung disease, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary hypertension and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS).
![[Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/sweitzerteaser_0.jpg?itok=5eJCjoOe "Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD")
WHAT: Green Valley Lecture Series with cardiovascular specialist from the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center
In cooperation with Green Valley Recreation, Inc.
WHEN: Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 10 a.m.
WHERE: Canoa Hills Social Center, 3660 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley
![[]C. Kent Kwoh, MD](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/kwohteaser_1.jpg?itok=_Xnyi5ru "C. Kent Kwoh, MD")
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A short-term study led by C.
The fifth annual “Travels in Medicine: Exploring the Global Health Community,” an exhibit of photographs that provide vivid and inspirational depictions of the global health experiences of University of Arizona pharmacy and medical students, is on display through Saturday, May 10, in the Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL), 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson.
![[UArizona vice president of athletics Greg Byrne and football coach Rich Rodriguez (inset)]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/greg-byrne-n-richrod_blocka_card.jpg?itok=qTENSlUp "UArizona vice president of athletics Greg Byrne and football coach Rich Rodriguez (inset)")
Building upon a long tradition of mutual support, the University of Arizona Arthritis Center (UAAC) will once again team up with the UA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as it introduces the 2014 Desert Diamond/University of Arizona Arthritis Center Bear Down Luncheon to benefit the UAAC and its research efforts.
![[Dr. Andrew Weil demonstrates how to make his kale salad.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/weilslide_0_0.jpg?itok=5CTNNco- "Dr. Andrew Weil demonstrates how to make his kale salad.")
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![[Kim and Charles Barnes]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/kimandcharlesslide.jpg "Kim and Charles Barnes")
When cardiothoracic surgeon Sreekumar Subramanian, MD, first saw Charles Barnes last November, he knew the odds were stacked against the patient.
Can Spironolactone, a drug with multiple actions on the heart and blood vessels, improve outcomes in a hard-to-treat group of heart failure patients? This was a question addressed by the “Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT)” trial.
![[Dr. Louise Hecker]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/heckerteaser.jpg?itok=zuXr-dBG "Dr. Louise Hecker © Rhonda June McSween")
![[Dr. Louise Hecker]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/heckerteaser.jpg "Dr. Louise Hecker © Rhonda June McSween")
Pulmonary researcher Louise Hecker, PhD, has joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson as assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.
