It’s that time of year again.
At the end of June, new physician faces roll in as residency and fellowship programs welcome new trainees and recent graduates of those training programs gain employment at academic medical centers and other hospitals across the country.
Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Circulation: Heart Failure, one of 12 American Heart Association scientific journals, effective July 1, 2017.
After showing that individuals who take levodopa, or l-dopa, for movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease are protected from developing macular degeneration, University of Arizona researcher Brian S. McKay, PhD, is taking the next step in his quest to prevent the blinding eye disease, thanks to a $1.7 million R01 grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
The primary purpose for this meeting is for Carol Karp (CFO, BUMG & BMG-Tucson) and Scott Hofferber (COO, BUMG) to join us to discuss key points of the Compensation Plan. This portion of the meeting will be free-form and conversational in style. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions or request clarification of any component of the plan. We will keep you posted should we add additional items to the evening’s agenda.
Banner Health dropped the non-compete clause for physicians working for Banner – University Medical Group (BUMG) in Tucson, which had been negatively affecting physician recruitment and retention for both the leading non-profit community health care company and University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
Getting a decent night’s sleep is a common struggle among people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD and the lack of sleep can make PTSD symptoms such as anxiety, flashbacks and memory problems even worse.
Lori Fantry, MD, MPH, is the program director of HIV Translational Research for the UA Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson. Her research includes sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among hospitalized patients; HIV in women; HIV and cancer; HIV and osteoporosis; HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, HIV and cardiovascular disease; and latent tuberculosis among immigrants.
The Department of Medicine Group homepage on Workplace by Facebook.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson launched a new collaborative platform this week to serve as a secure intranet, using the Workplace by Facebook app which was recently upgraded to add integration with Box, Dropbox and Microsoft.
In case you missed it, here’s a link to an op-ed article co-written by the University of Arizona’s Kimberly Andrews Espy, PhD, senior vice president for research, and
