Four University of Arizona Department of Medicine faculty will be among those whose promotions and tenure will be announced at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson General Faculty Meeting scheduled for 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, in Kiewit Auditorium.
They include:
A University of Arizona researcher has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine how misdiagnosis of Valley fever can lead to unnecessary treatment, more complicated care, higher costs and misuuse of antibiotics.
A new study at the University of Arizona seeks to determine the genetic risk factors for developing lipedema, a painful, body disfiguring and debilitating condition characterized by excessive fat deposits causing enlargement of the buttocks, hips and legs and a relatively small waist circumference.
Contact: Adam Dormuth, National Jewish Health
303-398-1082
dormutha@njhealth.org
An $8.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will bring to the Navajo Nation two widely successful programs that will aim to improve asthma care over a six-year period. This is the first large effort to address health disparities in the Navajo Nation where asthma rates are two to three times higher than in the general population.
Regulatory Science Series Panel
Friday, Nov. 17, 2017
Noon to 2 p.m.
Tucson (LIVE - UA Health Sciences Library, Room 4150A, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724), and
Phoenix (WEBCAST - UA Biomedical Campus Building 3, Room 3374 650 E. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ 85004)
The Reglagene team, from left: Laurence Hurley, PhD, Vijay Gokhale, PhD, and Richard Austin, PhD (Photo: Paul Tumarkin/Tech Launch Arizona)
By Paul Tumarkin | Sr. Manager, Marketing & Communication, TechLaunch Arizona
You're invited to the Health Sciences Innovation Building Topping-off Ceremony!
Friday, November 17, 2017
West side of the HSIB building (entrance on Cherry Ave.)
— Between Mabel and Drachman
The Department of Immunobiology Presents:
TOPIC: "Nutritional immunity in the inflamed gut”
SPEAKER: Manuela Raffatellu, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Friday, November 17, 2017
Medical Research Building
Room 102 at Noon
Questions? Contact the Immunobiology Department at 520-626-6409
Women in Academic Medicine (WAM) Culture Club
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Faculty's home
Please join us for our new series, WAM Culture Club!
This will be an opportunity for individuals to convene and connect over topics related to women in academic medicine, including leadership, work-life integration and perceptions/treatment of women in the workplace.
