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Ten patients received new kidneys and a new lease on life last week in one of the busiest weeks ever for the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson Transplant Program. Kudos to transplant surgeons Drs. Robert Harland, Tun Jie and Alexandra Turner, kidney transplant medical director and transplant nephrologist with the University of Arizona Division of Nephrology, Dr. Lavanya Kodali, solid organ transplant director Darryl Lundeen and transplant administrator Deb Maurer…
University of Arizona cardiology fellow Dr. Keng Pineda took first place at the Arizona Chapter Annual Meeting the American College of Cardiology for his research poster, “Persistent Fetal Cardiac Troponin.” He’ll continue his research under mentor Dr. Jil Tardiff as a clinical and research fellow at the UA/Banner – University Medical Centger Tucson. Completing the sweep with second and third places were UA medical students Giuliana Repeti and Pierce Bradley—both mentored by Dr. Jordan Lancaster…
The “Accolades” and “Research Achievements” part of the UA Department of Medicine General Faculty Meeting held June 25 was full of news for DOM physicians and investigators. Among notable new items, Dr. Marvin Slepian is elected president of ASIO, Banner – UMC is added as a site in the TRIDENT Study on diabetic kidney disease and Dr. Chip Brosius named site PI, and a Dr. Khadijah Breathett article is tagged 'most impactful of the year' by American College of Cardiology. View the video, see the photos, watch the slideshow…
The 2018 ADVICE Collaborative was held in Phoenix, AZ with Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury delivering the keynote address. The theme for this year's conference was "patient engagement."
The 9th Annual Interprofessional Chief Resident Immersion Training (IP-CRIT) Program in the Care of Complex Patients of All Ages was hosted June 9-10 by the University of Arizona Center on Aging at the J.W. Marriott Star Pass Resort with more than 40 chief residents in attendance. Participating as instructors were the UA Department of Medicine’s Drs. Gordon Carr, Mindy Fain, Bree Johnston and Stacie Pinderhughes. See a photo gallery from the dinner…
Dr. Wei Xiang Wong, a recent graduate of the University of Arizona Internal Medicine Residency Program at South Campus and incoming fellow in the UA Nephrology Fellowship Program, was presented recently with the April 2018 BE Award by Banner – University Medicine…
Most people familiar with cancer treatment know of three main options: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy—but a newer option, called immunotherapy, is creating quite a buzz across the cancer community. Drs. Daniel Persky and Emmanuel Katsanis offer a few thoughts in the latest blogpost for the UA Healthy Sciences’ Healthy Dose blog…
Two presentations June 14 by the University of Arizona Department of Medicine Drs. Paul Langlais and Christina Laukaitis capped the 2017-18 academic year lectures for the DOM Research Seminar Series with a focus on insulin proteomics and hypermobility syndrome. The seminars will be rolled into Medicine Grand Rounds in 2018-19. This caps 32 speakers and 20 seminars since series began in Fall 2016. See links to photo galleries and archived video…
A dozen faculty members from seven divisions in the University of Arizona Department of Medicine have been tapped for promotion and tenure advancement. Congratulations to Drs. Tara Carr, Clara Curiel, Dawn Coletta, Ankit Desai, Linda Garland, Louise Hecker, Randy Horwitz, Raj Janardhanan, Sireesha Koppula, Kapil Lotun, Mohammed Sikder, Perry Skeath and Bijin Thajudeen…
With the smell of creosote strong from a rare June desert rain, the University of Arizona Internal Medicine Residency Program – South Campus celebrated the graduation of 10 residents and a chief resident at an annual awards banquet Friday, June 15, at the Westward Look Resort. Several resident and faculty awards were presented and it was announced one of the graduates, Dr. Emilio Power, had won the top award in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson’s “Residents as Teachers” program…
Dr. Karen Herbst, an endocrinologist and associate professor of medicine, medical imaging and pharmacy practice science at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, was the big winner June 13 at the 2018 Influential Health and Medical Leaders Awards banquet hosted by TucsonLocalMedia and Inside Tucson Business. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award at a gathering that UA Cardiology chief Dr. Nancy Sweitzer addressed as keynote speaker…
University of Arizona liver specialist Dr. Jen-Jung “J.J.” Pan—with the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and UA Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute—and abdominal transplant surgeon Dr. Alexandra Turner were among presenters at an “Ask the Experts about Liver Disease” event hosted June 12 at Banner – UMC Tucson by the Desert Southwest Division of the American Liver Foundation. Attendance was standing room only…
The company—Data Driven Diagnostics Sciences Inc. (D3S), led by Nicholas Lim and Drs. Michael Larson and Paul Mack Consigny—targets accelerated diagnosis and treatment of cancer by providing optimal tissue samples for effective personalized medicine. Their device, invented by Drs. Larson and Charles Hennemeyer, is a next-generation needle biopsy instrument utilizing electrosurgery and electrocautery to safely increase tissue sample volumes in minimally invasive biopsy procedures…
Kidney transplant recipient Paul Conway, the president of the Tampa-based American Association of Kidney Patients—the oldest and largest independent U.S. kidney patient advocacy organization—will be the presenter June 20 at the Medicine Grand Round on behalf of the University of Arizona Division of Nephrology. Having managed his condition for nearly four decades, he offers a unique perspective on patient-centered care…
The C. diff. Foundation has once again given a pass for clinicians from the University of Arizona on the cost of registration for participants at its sixth annual conference in Philadelphia on Nov. 8-9. Join 200 health-care professionals to share the latest data on prevention, treatment and environmental safety related to the health-care-associated infection Clostridium difficile, irritable bowel syndrome/disease (IBS/IBD), as well as fecal transplant procedures and more...
In recent UA College of Medicine – Tucson elections, five faculty members from the University of Arizona Department of Medicine were among 48 elected to 16 committees for the college for the 2018-19 academic year. They include Drs. Jennifer Cook, Janet Funk, Reza Movahed, Afshin Sam and Rachna Schroff. All proposed changes to the COM-T P&T Guidelines were also approved…
Dr. Pavani Chalasani is the new director of the University of Arizona Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the UA Department of Medicine and UA Cancer Center. As of May 1, she replaces Dr. Andrew Yeager, who has been named a professor emeritus and will continue to give lectures and lead a fellows boot camp. His official retirement is June 29…
The University of Arizona BIO5 Institute has allocated more than $70,000 in funding to a multi-disciplinary research team led by Drs. Eleonora Tubaldi, an assistant professor in the UA College of Engineering, and the UA Division of Nephrology’s Diego Celdran Bonafonte to improve imaging analyses of blood flow at the point where chronic kidney disease patients are connected to hemodialysis machines that filter their blood…
See what faculty and staff at the Division of Nephrology have accomplished so far in 2018.
New administrative support staff has been added to three divisions in the UA Department of Medicine—Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, and Geriatrics, General Internal and Palliative Medicine—as well as the Office of the Chair. See who’s who, how to reach them with an updated “DOM UA/Banner Support Staff” document you can download as a printable PDF…