News Archive: 2015
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.
![[Marylyn M. McEwen, PhD, PHCNS-BC, FAAN]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/mcewenteaser.jpg?itok=ujhHQlQ9×tamp=1453404638 "Marylyn M. McEwen, PhD, PHCNS-BC, FAAN")
December 11, 2015
Dr. McEwen, expert border-health researcher and mentor, was honored with the Ruth B. Freeman Award for her distinguished career in public health education and research.
![[IMAGE: Holiday Craft Show flyer]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/craft_show_flyer_dec18_90x110px-96dpi.jpg?itok=8gxZlBIa×tamp=1457045749 "Holiday Craft Show flyer")
December 8, 2015
Kiewit Auditorium will host the UACC Craft Fair at noon, Fri., Dec. 18; visiting scholars from IU, Maryland, Northwestern, UC-Riverside, Johns Hopkins, USC and Case Western; multiple grand rounds on DOM themes, and work-life panel discussion that includes Dr. Gordon Carr…
December 8, 2015
In November, DOM Chair Monica Kraft, MD, began holding “Coffee with Kraft” breakfast sessions with department faculty to get feedback on goals and progress in improving education, research and clinical affairs as well as the ongoing transition with Banner – University Medicine…
![[Charles Katzenberg, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/katzenberg_charles-md_labcoat-no-logo.jpg?itok=nwtFIrKB×tamp=1469820846 "Charles Katzenberg, MD"){kind=logo}
December 8, 2015
Green Valley Lecture Series with cardiologist from the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center in cooperation with Green Valley Recreation, Inc.
December 7, 2015
UA research team studying the anti-inflammatory impact of turmeric is moving the project out of the laboratory and into patient testing.
![[Tejal Parikh, MD, one of the recipients of an AMES Grant for Medical Education Research, with Paul St. John, PhD, AMES chair.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/201505439_com_faculty_teaching_awards_2015_dsc1141_90x110_0.jpg?itok=Fmy6jk3t×tamp=1450305106 "Tejal Parikh, MD, one of the recipients of an AMES Grant for Medical Education Research, with Paul St. John, PhD, AMES chair.")
December 3, 2015
Thirty-sixth annual Faculty Teaching Awards and the Vernon and Virginia Furrow Awards ceremony honored faculty members’ outstanding achievements and excellence in teaching.
December 2, 2015
The first gastroenterology fellows at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas begin cycling through on a one-month rotation at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in a new ACGME-approved affiliation to complete their clinical hepatology training in Tucson.
November 30, 2015
Not familiar with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) top patient safety recommendations? Refresh your memory with this first posting of a new blog for the UA Department of Medicine from our vice chair for Quality & Safety, Dr. Phil Factor...
November 25, 2015
Among recent news item topics are a drug, PrEP, that prevents HIV infection, a front page article on a recent Valley Fever spike, two awards from the Arizona Geriatrics Society, and macular degeneration treatment with a Parkinson’s drug…
November 25, 2015
Lots of news from two e-newsletters — BIO5 and Public Health focus on cancer, the human virome, diabetes and asthma — and research grant deadlines, upcoming grand rounds, seminars/lectures and faculty development opportunities galore…
November 24, 2015
University of Arizona physicians-in-training take three top prizes for medical trivia, oral argument and poster contests at a recent American College of Physicians, Arizona chapter meeting, hosted in Tucson. Their next stop is the national competition at ACP’s spring meeting.