Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Sleep, Circadian and Neuroscience Research, reviews test data in the control room of the center’s new facility with lead sleep technologist Sicily La Rue.
A Cookin' Docs production brought to you by the University of Arizona Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Watermark Retirement Communities’ Hacienda at the River:
The Hacienda at the River, a Watermark retirement community in Tucson on River Road, serves as host for a post-pandemic reboo
Marvin Slepian, MD, was inducted as a Regents’ Professor Jan. 13, 2020. Dr. Slepian is founder and director of the Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation.
He is a professor in the College of Medicine - Tucson, and teaches medical imaging, biomedical engineering, and materials science and engineering.
The University of Arizona Health Sciences Career Development Awards (CDA) program recently selected Salma Patel, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, College of Medicine – Tucson, as one of four recipients in its latest round of awards.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, has received the 2020 Distinguished Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association. A professor and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. Merchant is a cancer biology program researcher at the UArizona Cancer Center, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a renowned physician-scientist who has advanced the understanding of the gastric and colonic responses to chronic inflammation leading to gastric or colon cancer.
Lawrence Mandarino, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine, was one of six faculty members named as a 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award winner at the May General Faculty Meeting of the College of Medicine – Tucson. Dr. Mandarino, chief for the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and director of the UArizona Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, has three decades of experience mentoring the next generation of physician-scientists and medical researchers, from high school students to faculty.
University of Arizona Arthritis Center Director C. Kent Kwoh, MD, was one of six faculty members named as a 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award winner at the May General Faculty Meeting of the College of Medicine – Tucson. Dr. Kwoh has mentored more than 30 trainees and junior faculty in the areas of epidemiology and health services research related to rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
