Christian Bime, MD, a University of Arizona assistant professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, has been named the new medical director of the Medical ICU (D3W) at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson. He replaces Gordon E. Carr, MD, who recently assumed the post of chief medical officer for the Banner - UMC Tucson and South hospitals.
Fifteen recipients of 2014 and 2015 UA Health Sciences Career Development Awards will present their research and findings at the inaugural annual UAHS CDA Research Symposium.
Among 36 new incoming interns (aka first-year resident physicians) in the University of Arizona Internal Medicine Residency Program - Tucson Campus for the 2016-17 academic year are 28 categorical residents and eight preliminary residents. Categorical residents will complete their full three-year internal medicine residencies here. Preliminary residents will spend their intern year here before joining another residency program.
With graduation upon us, more than 40 physicians in training with the University of Arizona Internal Medicine Residency Program - Tucson Campus will be advancing to the next step in their profession.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) has received notice that its competing Institutional Research Grant application to the American Cancer Society (ACS) will be awarded at $360,000 over three years.
A major economic engine that garners more than $126 million in research grants and contracts annually with nearly 1,000 faculty members and almost 5,000 employees, the University Arizona Health Sciences each year recognizes the outstanding efforts of staff and appointed personnel working within and among its colleges.
From a refugee camp in Kenya to growing up in a border town near the Navajo Nation, to leaving a beach-side resort town in Mexico, to being homeschooled through high school in Ohio, four University of Arizona graduate students share an unlikely path to medical school.
UA Division of Nephrology Chief Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, will host an #AskASN Twitter chat tonight, May 24, at 9 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. in Tucson) on behalf of the American Society of Nephrology and the Kidney Health Initiative (KHI).
