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![[Zika]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/zika_em_cdc_280116_199x150px-96dpi_0.jpg?itok=xdiwWjnu×tamp=1710172887 "Zika")
February 2, 2016
Speaking Thursday, Feb. 4, at noon in Room 8403, Dr. Gene Bleecker, director of Wake Forest University’s Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, has been added to the line-up of presenters for the 2015-16 Winter Series Lung Conference, co-sponsored by PACCS and the Arizona Respiratory Center…
January 29, 2016
Final Applicant Visit Day events preceding the 2016-17 Resident Match Day ceremonies took place in January. In all, nearly 3,500 applications were received for each UA Internal Medicine Residency Program—at Tucson and South campus—and more than 400 candidates interviewed for about 40 positions. The Dermatology Residency Program got more than 450 applications and interviewed about 45 candidates...
![[Dr. Donna Zhang and Dr. Georg Wondrak collaborate on several projects.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/georgdonnateaser.jpg?itok=KYuIjIhB×tamp=1453922763 "Dr. Donna Zhang and Dr. Georg Wondrak collaborate on several projects.")
January 21, 2016
Unlike sunscreen, the nutritional compound protects skin from the inside out.
January 20, 2016
The University of Colorado – Denver’s Dr. Elizabeth Connick will succeed Dr. Stephen Klotz in April as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, bringing a broad research portfolio on HIV and AIDS prevention to the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
![[Merri L. Pendergrass, MD, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/pendergrassteaser_0_0.jpg?itok=74CkX9ya×tamp=1453404638 "Merri L. Pendergrass, MD, PhD")
January 12, 2016
The head of the Adult Diabetes Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson will be among a dozen to be honored Thursday at annual awards dinner in Phoenix.
![[Drs. Victoria Maizes and Andrew Weil, executive director and founding director of University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/weilmaizesteaser.jpg?itok=bR8CnDK7×tamp=1452546637 "Drs. Victoria Maizes and Andrew Weil, executive director and founding director of University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine")
January 11, 2016
13th conference by the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine reaches out to health-care providers
January 8, 2016
The free event, presented by the University of Arizona Health Sciences, UA College of Medicine – Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, is open to UA faculty, staff and students as well as health professionals and the public.
January 8, 2016
Conference features keynote speaker Dr. David M. Labiner, head of the UA Department of Neurology; a lunch roundtable and breakout sessions with doctors and alternative therapy practitioners.
January 8, 2016
The UA Pediatric Pulmonary Center serves as a regional and national resource center for training and educating the next generation of leaders who care for children with chronic pulmonary disorders within the disciplines of medicine, nursing, nutrition, social work, pharmacy and family advocacy.
December 22, 2015
A UA researcher and clinician team has discovered that genetic mutations in a protein associated with asthma can affect a person’s susceptibility to a variety of lung diseases, and could lead to new treatments.
December 22, 2015
Funds will support research at the UA Steele Center that is examining novel immunotherapy strategies against pediatric cancer.
December 21, 2015
Cardiology brings in Case Western's Daniel Simon, MD, in the "Hunt for Acute MI Genes"; GI's Sasha Taleban, MD, talks "Inflammatory Bowel Disease & the Elderly"; Translational & Regenerative Medicine announces Jan. 30 all-day symposium, and BCD Colloquium spring schedule includes Dr. Jil Tardiff...
![[Arthur F. Gmitro, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/gmitroteaser.jpg?itok=I2Y_ZRrs×tamp=1451929818 "Arthur F. Gmitro, PhD")
December 21, 2015
Arthur F. Gmitro is a very busy man. A professor of medical imaging in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson with a joint appointment in the UA College of Optical Sciences, he holds the Margaret E. and Fenton L. Maynard Chair in Breast Cancer Imaging and also is head of the UA College of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering.
December 18, 2015
UA President Ann Weaver Hart put the spotlight this past week on UA Health Sciences and innovative research and researchers’ accomplishments, including Cardiology’s Marvin Slepian, MD, and the Valley Fever Center for Excellence, which announced today the award of $2 million in NIH funding to participate in clinical trials that will start here in January…
December 17, 2015
Neurology chief Dr. David Labiner to keynote Living Healthy With Arthritis conference Jan. 23, Dr. Ernest Vina talks lupus in Tucson Lifestyle article, Stanford prof Katie Lorig gives first Eric Gall Endowed Lecture, a UA professors paper published on African American, white knee replacement preferences…
December 17, 2015
The new Resident Lounge for the UA Department of Medicine opened Thursday, Dec. 17, to great fanfare with a ribbon-cutting event and red, white, blue and chocolate cupcakes. Drs. Monica Kraft and Laura Meinke clipped the big red bow to cheers of the residents…
December 16, 2015
Cardiology's Dr. Marvin J. Slepian and Optical Sciences' James Wyant join those who have impacted quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Earlier this year, Dr. Slepian helped launch the Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation and he was recently recognized by NIH bioengineering unit...
![[Karen Herbst, MD, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/herbstslide_0_1_0.jpg?itok=7X4_F_Tx×tamp=1704821245)
December 15, 2015
UA alumna Felicitie Daftuar’s gift will allow internationally noted endocrinologist Dr. Karen Herbst to establish a new UA College of Medicine – Tucson program to improve imaging and phenotyping of fat tissues and develop educational tools to help physicians better recognize, diagnose and treat patients.