TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona Health Sciences shipped 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, today to help in the international effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
"COVID-19: Stealth Transmission and Implications for Prevention"
Ferric Fang, MD
Ferric Fang, M.D., is a board certified physician at the Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine Clinics at Harborview and UW Medical Center and a UW professor of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine and adjunct professor of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Medicine. He is also director of Clinical Microbiology at Harborview.
"Melanoma and resistance to immunotherapy"
Montaser Shaheen, MD
A member of the UA Cancer Center and UA Skin Cancer Institute, Dr. Shaheen received his medical degree from Damascus University in Syria, and then went on to complete his residency and internship at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Ill, specializing in internal medicine. He completed his fellowship at Indiana University Medical Center, specializing in hematology/oncology. Dr. Shaheen is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in hematology and medical oncology.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Members of the media and the public are invited to join a series of virtual discussions on the COVID-19 pandemic, led by University of Arizona experts from a variety of disciplines.
TUCSON, Arizona — When College of Medicine – Tucson student Darien Stratton heard about students volunteering to help medical professionals in areas of the country hit hard by COVID-19, the University of Arizona was still on spring break. Local schools, preschools and businesses remained open, and social distancing was just entering the lexicon.
TUCSON, Ariz. – A renowned researcher at the University of Arizona Health Sciences has taken the university’s reputation as a basketball powerhouse to a new level – designing an easily manufactured and low-cost ventilator prototype that uses a basketball to respond to the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic.
TUCSON, Arizona — Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the world are running short on personal protective equipment, including N95 respirators – masks that, unlike surgical masks, fit tightly around the face and are capable of filtering out 95% of airborne particles.
TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson has announced that it will offer its Class of 2020 students set to graduate later this spring the opportunity to apply for early graduation.
A similar alternative was offered to UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix students on Friday. Both measures are driven by projected health-care staffing demands due to the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the nation and globe.
TUCSON, Ariz. – During this time of great societal stress, there is a high level of interest in evidence-based integrative strategies to augment public health measures to prevent COVID-19 virus infection and associated pneumonia.
