Congrats to the 60 new graduates of Banner Health’s 2016 Advanced Leadership Program for Physicians, pictured above. Two dozen providers from Banner – University Medical Group participated in this year’s program, which is designed to identify and cultivate physicians to become the next generation of Banner leaders.
Banner – University Medical Center Tucson has reopened Unit 5 West as an Intensive Care Unit for neurological patients and recruited neurointensivist Sankalp Gokhale, MD, as the unit’s medical director, effective Oct. 1.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has named as its Arizona Chapter Resident/Fellow of the Year our very own Jessica August, MD, a third-year resident physician in training in the University of Arizona College of Medicine South Campus Internal Medicine Residency Program at Banner – University Medical Center South.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Why do more women than men get Alzheimer’s disease? In their quest to find the answer, neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, and her collegues in the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, have been awarded a $10.3 million five-year Program Project Grant (PPG) from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.
All requests for inclusion among case list to be discussed at this weekly conference are required to be submitted via email no later than noon (12 p.m.), Thursday, to Missy Chacon (mchacon@surgery.arizona.edu). Otherwise, they are added to the following week's discussion case list.
The conference is hosted by: Tun Jie, MD, MS, FACS; Marian Porubsky, MD, FACS; and Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD, FACS, of the UA Department of Surgery.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center is now accepting proposed abstracts for consideration for presentation at the Third Annual UACC Spring Scientific Retreat, which will be held April 21, 2017. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, Dec. 20.
This year’s Keynote Speaker will be:
Newspapers in Tucson and Phoenix included articles Oct. 18 on a two-state collaboration of health care specialists for an NIH randomized clinical trial for treating Valley Fever and efforts to develop a vaccine that are led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
You can read the articles here:
Frank Porreca, PhD, associate head of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, has been honored by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) with the Ronald Melzack Lecture Award.
A 12-year study led by a team of University of Arizona Cancer Center researchers is bringing into question the safety and efficacy of selenium, a popular nutritional supplement touted to combat and reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.
The findings indicate the need for a significant change in practice, given that selenium supplements cannot be recommended for preventing colorectal cancer.
