Several University of Arizona Department of Medicine faculty physicians participated in filming this fall of educational videos for the start-up video-based informational website, Doctorpedia™, that educates online health-care seekers and connects them with doctors and fellow patients.
Banner – University Medicine North will open its doors to its first patients on Dec. 28, making state-of-the-art care — in a soothing setting — available to patients in Tucson and across Arizona.
The three-story, 13-acre outpatient clinic in the new Building 2 is located just east of the University of Arizona Cancer Center – North Campus Peter and Paula Fasseas Cancer Clinic. Specialties will range from cardiology to neurosurgery to rheumatology, with more than 25 specialties available by mid-January.
ATP Rheumatology TeleECHO Clinic Meeting (TeleECHO Clinic)
Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. MST (Mountain Standard Time)
Any Arizona healthcare provider with an interest in rheumatology is welcome to join. There is no cost to join the rheumatology teleECHO clinic.
How to participate in the ATP rheumatology teleECHO clinic:
Advances in Aging Research Lecture Series
CME Credit Provided by the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
AzCRH Webinar: HIV Testing and Prevention — How Arizona Health Workers Can Help End the Epidemic
Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017 | Noon-1:00 p.m. MST (Mountain Standard Time)
![[CDC image of coccidioides, the fungal spores that cause Valley fever, and portraits of (top to bottom) John Galgiani, MD, Anne Wertheimer, PhD, and Lisa Shubitz, DVM]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/valley-fever-spike_slide2-green_0_0.jpg?itok=ak9AbZsw "CDC image of coccidioides, the fungal spores that cause Valley fever, and portraits of (top to bottom) John Galgiani, MD, Anne Wertheimer, PhD, and Lisa Shubitz, DVM")
Valley fever cases in November saw a 50-percent spike over the previous month, leading experts at the University of Arizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence to predict a significant increase in cases in 2018.
In news from the University of Arizona Cancer Center, you can read a number of resources to catch up on fall activities, including the latest ACT Against Cancer publication and issues of the UA Cancer Center e-newsletter.
Highlights:
Radhamani Kannaiyan, MBBS, PhD, has been selected as the 2018 American College of Physicians (ACP) resident health policy intern.
Roberto Swazo, MD, a third-year (PGY-3) resident in the University of Arizona Internal Medicine Residency Program at South Campus, is the third person this academic year to win a Bressler-Alpert Society Travel Award.
The University of Arizona Department of Immunobiology Presents:
“Genetic Analysis of ‘Genetically Intractable’ Bacteria”
with
Raphael Valdivia, PhD
Professor and Vice Dean for Basic Science, Duke University Medical Center
Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 | Noon-1 p.m.
Medical Research Building, Room 102
This event is part of the IMRB Research Seminar series of lectures.
