Dr. Juanita Merchant Wins Mentorship Award from Gastroenterology Group
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, has received the 2020 Distinguished Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association. A professor and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. Merchant is a cancer biology program researcher at the UArizona Cancer Center, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a renowned physician-scientist who has advanced the understanding of the gastric and colonic responses to chronic inflammation leading to gastric or colon cancer.
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Kevin Moynahan, MD, FACP, received the 2022 National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the 
