UANews Health Topics in Past Month Range from Kissing Bugs to Cognition in Older Adults
The UANews has run several articles over the past month of interest to faculty and staff in the Department of Medicine. Those include:
Integrative Medicine
DOM Research Seminar to Spotlight Sleep Medicine, Novel Therapeutics for Fibrotic Diseases, Nov. 10
Sleep medicine and fibrotic diseases are the topics for the next DOM Research Seminar lecture from the University of Arizona Department of Medicine on Thursday, Nov. 10., noon to 1 p.m., in Room 8403, Chase Bank Auditorium, Banner – University Medical Center Tucson.
Banner – University Medicine, DOM physicians win accolades as ‘Health and Medical Leaders’
From left, Cardiology's Drs. Karl Kern and Peter Ott, Chief Nursing Officer Cathy Townsend, RN, accepting on behalf of Banner - UMC Tucson and South, and Dermatology's Dr. Gerald Goldberg.
Four from DOM Among New Banner Leadership Program Grads
Congrats to the 60 new graduates of Banner Health’s 2016 Advanced Leadership Program for Physicians, pictured above. Two dozen providers from Banner – University Medical Group participated in this year’s program, which is designed to identify and cultivate physicians to become the next generation of Banner leaders.
Neuro ICU Opens with Neurointensivist Recruit from UT Southwestern as Medical Director
Banner – University Medical Center Tucson has reopened Unit 5 West as an Intensive Care Unit for neurological patients and recruited neurointensivist Sankalp Gokhale, MD, as the unit’s medical director, effective Oct. 1.
Pulmonary Docs Thrilled with CMS Certification for Lung Transplant Program
The organ-transplant program at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson is regaining strength, signaled by its recent federal certification to offer adult lung transplants.
South Campus Resident Dr. Jessica August Picked as ACP Resident/Fellow of the Year
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has named as its Arizona Chapter Resident/Fellow of the Year our very own Jessica August, MD, a third-year resident physician in training in the University of Arizona College of Medicine South Campus Internal Medicine Residency Program at Banner – University Medical Center South.
UA Receives $10.3M to Help Unlock the Mystery of Alzheimer’s in Women
TUCSON, Ariz. – Why do more women than men get Alzheimer’s disease? In their quest to find the answer, neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, and her collegues in the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, have been awarded a $10.3 million five-year Program Project Grant (PPG) from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.
Call for Abstracts for 3rd Annual UACC Spring Scientific Retreat
The University of Arizona Cancer Center is now accepting proposed abstracts for consideration for presentation at the Third Annual UACC Spring Scientific Retreat, which will be held April 21, 2017. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, Dec. 20.
This year’s Keynote Speaker will be:
Valley Fever Research, Vaccine Gain Congressional Attention in Phoenix
Newspapers in Tucson and Phoenix included articles Oct. 18 on a two-state collaboration of health care specialists for an NIH randomized clinical trial for treating Valley Fever and efforts to develop a vaccine that are led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
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