![[Carlos Galvani, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/galvaniteaser.jpg?itok=SubBs1ZA "Carlos Galvani, MD")
Tucsonan Luis Zavala believes bariatric surgery saved his life.
“If I didn’t have surgery I wouldn’t be here in the next five years,” said Zavala, 51, who has lost 180 pounds and is off all medications since undergoing a gastric sleeve procedure in April 2012.
“Before, I would have to stop three or four times walking out to my gate in front of my house. Now I can work again and I have energy.”
![[Diego R. Martin, MD, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/martinteaser.jpg?itok=GweUS3Bi "Diego R. Martin, MD, PhD")
![[Emad El Quza, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/elquzateaser.jpg?itok=l5XJoAwS "Emad El Quza, MD")
David S. Alberts, MD, director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center from 2005-2013, has been granted the director emeritus title by the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
The heart of women's health lies deep within the chest. Join us Friday, Nov. 3 to learn why we need to go beyond the "bikini" view of women's health; beyond the focus on the breasts and reproductive organs. Heart disease doesn't discriminate and it claims 1 in 3 women's lives each year.
About 1.6 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which encompasses several painful and complex disorders that include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
What’s more, chronic inflammation in the intestinal tract, prevalent with IBD, has been linked to the development of colon cancer. Each year, nearly 142,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with colon cancer and about 50,000 die.
Although IBD can occur at any age, it’s most often diagnosed in children and young adults.
Banner Health continues its transformation to become more consumer focused with the opening of three new retail-based health clinics in August. The Banner Quick Care clinics will be located in Safeway grocery stores in Chandler, Tempe and Tucson.
The Chandler and Tempe locations will open on Aug. 1, and the Tucson location on Aug. 9.
Partnering to offer a curriculum to help increase the number of high-quality, home-based primary-care professionals in the United States, the University of Arizona Center on Aging is one of eight new “centers of excellence” selected by the Home Centered Care Institute.
The University of Arizona Department of Medicine would like to welcome not just the many new residents and fellows that started with us in July, but a number of new faculty who’ve arrived to help oversee their training with our various divisions and others focused on enhancing our research endeavors.
If you were checking this week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report for the “Best Hospitals” list, you’ll have to come back next week.
