A haboob, or dust storm, blowing into Ahwatukee, near Phoenix, as seen from the top of South Mountain, looking south on July 23, 2011. Inhalation of a fungus found in soils of the U.S. Southwest is what causes Valley fever. After an event like this, incidences of infection tend to spike.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
AM Session: Precision Medicine in the Clinic
PM Session: Pharmacogenomics
CME & CPE Credits Available
LECTURE: Sleeping for Peak Performance and Your Heart
Four divisions within the Department of Medicine will experience changes in their administrative staff with the addition of two new admins and transfer of a third, announced Irene Robles, admin support supervisor for the department with Banner – University Medical Group.
Two UA College of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program – South Campus physicians and Victoria Murrain, DO, assistant dean for graduate medical education at the UA College of Medicine at South Campus, appear in the broadcast of “Morning Blend” on KGUN9 TV channel today, April 6, to tout “A Pathway to Success” — a career fair for high school students at Banner – UMC South to explore jobs
TOPIC: "Pharmacogenetics and Precision Medicine"
SPEAKER: Eugene R. Bleecker, MD, co-director, Division of Pharmacogenomics, UA Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine, and co-chief, Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, UA Department of Medicine
Free stroke screenings will be offered at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson’s DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., on Saturday, May 6, from 8 to 11:30 a.m., as part of Stroke Check 2017.
April—or National Donate Life Month—is a great time to remind everyone to talk with their loved ones about organ donation and to complete a registration form. Yet, only about 2,000 hearts are donated each year, and with far more heart-failure patients who need help, there are not enough donor hearts to go around.
Hospitalist Anil Potharaju, MD, the associate chief for the Division of Inpatient Medicine and medical director for inpatient medicine at Banner – University Medical Center South, was chosen to represent the UA Department of Medicine in Banner Health’s 2017 Advanced Leadership Program for Physicians.
Two UA College of Medicine – Tucson faculty members within the Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, Ankit A. Desai, MD, and Stephen M. Black, PhD, have been awarded separate R01 research grants valued at more than $5 million combined from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, to study cardiovascular disease.
