Clerkship Coordinator Contreras among UAHS Excellence Award Nominees
Congratulations to Lucia “Lucy” Contreras, who was the UA Department of Medicine’s representative among nominees for the UA Health Sciences 2017 Awards for Excellence.
Congratulations to Lucia “Lucy” Contreras, who was the UA Department of Medicine’s representative among nominees for the UA Health Sciences 2017 Awards for Excellence.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Every day, more than 54 million adults in the United States experience the effects of arthritis, the most debilitating disease in society today. More than 1 million adults in Arizona have arthritis, and nearly half report that it limits their activities, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The University of Arizona Arthritis Center wants a future free of the pain of arthritis, but it will take a team effort.
Tuesday night, April 11, was a beautiful thing.
More than 130 high school students, many with parents in tow, came to Banner – University Medical Center South’s La Galería auditorium to hear and learn about the variety of health care jobs offered and how best to prepare themselves for them.
If you tuned in to NPR on Arizona Public Media (AZPM) KUAZ 89.1 FM this morning, April 14, you may have heard Bhaskar Banerjee, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, speaking about his efforts to improve endoscopy technology to make colonoscopies more effective and safer at catching and removing pre-cancerous polyps.
TOPIC: “Integrated Biology of Allergic Disease: At the Crossroads of Endocrine, Developmental and Immune Systems”
SPEAKER: Sergejs Bernikovs, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Hosted by Banner - University Medical Center Tucson and South, the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and the UA Health Sciences, the 12th Annual Organ Donor Family Tribute Ceremony will be held Sunday, April 23, 2-4 p.m., in Kiewit Auditorium at the UA Cancer Center’s Leon F. Levy Building, 1515 N. Campbell Ave.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and UA Health Sciences, in cooperation with Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and South hospitals and clinics, has teamed up with the Donor Network of Arizona, to participate in its annual Health Care for Hope campaign.
SPEAKER: H. Thomas Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Director of Transplantation Anesthesiology
Vice Chair for Laboratory Research
Department of Anesthesiology
New York Presbyterian Medical Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, N.Y.
TOPIC: “Mechanism of Remote Organ Injury After Ischemic AKI”
SPEAKER: V. Michael Holers, MD
TOPIC: Studies of At-Risk Populations Provide Insights into the Origins, Pathogenesis and Prevention of Rheumatoid Arthritis