High school students from across Tucson will participate in a health-care career fair on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 5–7:30 p.m. The annual event is held to encourage teens to pursue a career in medicine and is spearheaded by residents who work at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson South Campus.
NOTE: To encourage more young artists to participate, the deadline for entries for this contest was moved by the Arizona Department of Health Services from Nov. 14 to Friday, Dec. 14. Same prizes, same rules, same links to information below!
Medical researchers from the University Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson will gather from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 16, for the 2018 Innovations and Inventions research fair.
When a person is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she may seek support from a variety of sources: friends, family, support groups, medical and mental health professionals. Today's toolkit for coping with disease also includes something it didn't in the past: digital resources.
TOPIC: "Epigenetic Trajectories to Childhood Asthma: Are We What Our Mothers Made Us?"
PRESENTER: Donata Vercelli, MD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Associate Director, Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, UA Health Sciences
TOPIC: “Cancer Drug Resistance and the Tumor-Immune Landscape”
PRESENTER: Aaron J. Goldman PhD
Director, Research & Development and Immuno-Oncology, Mitra Biotech
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Bioengineer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
Friday, Oct. 5, 2018
Noon-1 p.m.
Kiewit Auditorium
TOPIC: "Overview of Insomnia"
SPEAKER: Michael Grandner, PhD | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Sleep and Health Research Program, University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry
Friday, October 05th, 2018
9 - 10 a.m.
UAHS Room 2343
Three new cardiologists began working recently at the University of Arizona Division of Cardiology, UA Sarver Heart Center and Banner – University Medicine in Tucson.
John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc, professor of public health and chair of the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has joined the University of Arizona – Banner Health team as the data tracking and evaluation core lead for the National Ins
