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.
The conversion from Epic to Cerner as provider of the electronic health record (EHR) in the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and South hospitals and clinics is now only three months away. In that time, more than 6,000 physicians and staff will undergo Cerner training.
More than 90 Banner – University Medical Group physicians recently were named to Castle Connolly’s annual “Top Doctors in Tucson” list. Twenty-five are from the University of Arizona Department of Medicine. They will be recognized in the July issue of Tucson Lifestyle magazine.
The UA Sarver Heart Center faculty and staff are saddened by the unexpected passing Feb. 27 of Kim Macdonald, 54, our colleague and friend who was executive assistant to Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, center director and chief, UA Division of Cardiology, since 2014.
Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, co-director of the University of Arizona Center on Aging and chair of the UA Department of Immunobiology, was featured in the February 2017 issue of Tucson Lifestyle magazine.
University of Arizona cardiologist Karl Kern, MD, and the Gootter Grand Slam Gala, which occurred this past weekend, are featured in the Winter 2017 issue of BizTucson magazine.
U.S. Senators Edward J.
The University of Arizona Health Sciences Research Administration is pleased to congratulate the following UAHS investigators who recently received grant awards from the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (ABRC), a unit of the Arizona Department of Health Services.
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.
