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Please join us as we recognize students, residents, fellows and faculty for outstanding achievements in the 2016-17 academic year in the Annual UA Department of Medicine Awards Assembly at the Arizona Inn.
The University of Arizona Health Sciences Staff Advisory Council (UAHS SAC) along with each college sponsors the annual UAHS Awards of Excellence presentation. This event, which includes light snacks, is being held on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in DuVal Auditorium. Awards will be given to employees in the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health. Awardees will be selected in a competitive process by nominations received from any AHSC employee.
Come join local hockey fans at the Tucson Arena downtown in support of the Tucson Roadrunners and the University of Arizona Cancer Center on “Cancer Awareness Night,” Saturday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.
Trevor Barroero, a Flinn Scholar and University of Arizona senior percussion student in the Fred Fox School of Music, presents a free benefit concert to raise $10,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association. The event, titled “…in loving memory,” is presented in memoriam to his late father and grandmother.
Serpil Erzurum, MD, a world-renowned translational scientist on respiratory diseases from the Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, had them in the aisles for the final Winter Lung Series Conference for the 2016-17 academic year. With a full audience, late attendees either stood or sat on steps.
LECTURE: Tracking Your Health with Wearable Technology: A Look at What’s On the Drawing Board
Wearable Technology: Is it a fad or medical breakthrough? These days, many people are tracking their heart rate and movement to improve their general health. Learn how University of Arizona researchers are developing a new class of materials called “stretchable electronics” to monitor heart health, wound healing, athletic performance and more. Marvin J. Slepian, MD, will share his progress on innovations that directly will impact patient care in the future.
A photo of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell next to a manuscript on "Medical Discourses" by Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD, the first African American female physician in the United States, who graduated from Boston's New England Female Medical College in 1864.
The Arizona Board of Regents was to announce a finalist at the UA College of Medicine - Phoenix campus for the UA’s next president late in the afternoon Tuesday, March 7, live on the ABOR website.
A higher waist circumference was associated with premature mortality among postmenopausal women, indicating that abdominal fat is more deadly than carrying excess weight, according to a large multiethnic study by researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Being underweight also was linked with an increased risk of early death among postmenopausal women. The study was published online in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Feb. 23.
