TUCSON, Ariz. – On Thursday, May 14, a total of 117 students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson will officially become doctors.
The convocation ceremony, in which students will be recognized for earning Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees, will take place entirely online beginning at 4 p.m.; viewers may watch it at Facebook.com/UAZMedTucson.
Presenter: Michel Villatoro Villar, MD
Title: “The Role of Rheumatology in the Current COVID-19 Pandemic”
TUCSON, Ariz. – The 10th annual Great Ladies Luncheon, held by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, will take place as a virtual event on May 6, 2020, celebrating a decade of science and fashion and raising money for Alzheimer’s disease research.
TUCSON, Ariz. – University of Arizona Regents’ Professor Marvin Slepian, MD, and assistant professor Christian Bime, MD, are among multiple co-authors of a paper, “Advanced Pulmonary and Cardiac Support of COVID-19 Patients: Emerging Recommendations from ASAIO – A Living Working Document,” just published from the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO).
TUCSON, Ariz. — University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins, MD, will be among the first group of general population members to have their blood drawn for the COVID-19 antibody test developed by UArizona researchers.
More than $500,000 has been awarded to teams of University of Arizona researchers to jump-start projects to fight COVID-19.
The university's BIO5 Institute, which connects hundreds of researchers in different disciplines to address complex challenges, was able to swiftly respond to the pandemic and release a round of seed funding via the Technology and Research Initiative Fund, which will enable researchers to positively impact the health of Arizonans and combat the global pandemic through their efforts.
Presenter: Hani Rashid, DO
Title: “Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Scleroderma - the New Standard of Care?”
Dr. Rashid is a second year Rheumatology Fellow in the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson. He earned his bachelor's degree in Psychobiology at UCLA in 2008 and went on to complete a doctorate in osteopathic medicine at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine/Midwestern University in 2014. He completed his internal medicine residency at Methodist Health Systems in Dallas, Texas, where he served as Chief Resident.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Inappropriate medications and household products used to prevent or treat COVID-19 can cause significant harm and no benefit, warns the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center (AzPDIC) at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.
"Ethical Challenges in the COVID Pandemic"
Catherine "Bree" Johnston, MD
