News Archive: 2018
January 26, 2018
Last year, they drew 80 high school students—more than half bringing parents—to the “A Pathway to Success” High School Health Career Fair in the La Galería conference room at Banner – University Medical Center South. This year, organizers are hoping for at least a hundred with five south side high schools participating. The event was the brainchild of two South Campus internal medicine residents, Drs. Roberto Swazo and Norm Beatty—now a UA Infectious Diseases fellow…
January 25, 2018
Drs. Chan Lowe, an associate professor in the University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics, and Lisa Stoneking, an associate professor in the UA Department of Emergency Medicine, were chosen for two-year terms as chief of staff—Dr. Lowe at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Dr. Stoneking at Banner – UMC South...
January 24, 2018
Dr. Stefano Guerra, a respiratory scientist at the UA Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, will lead an international effort—in partnership with investigative cohorts in Sweden and the UK—to target deficits of the protein CC16 as an indicator of likely persistence of asthma into adulthood. Results could lead to personalized therapies for chronic asthma and COPD patients. Read the Q&A…
January 23, 2018
Congratulations to the more than 140 Banner – University Medical Group and community physicians practicing at Banner Health Tucson hospitals and clinics named to the Best Doctors in America® List for 2017-18. Forty-six also are on faculty at the UA Department of Medicine. See who made the list…
January 23, 2018
UA Department of Medicine Chair Monica Kraft, MD, will receive the American Thoracic Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award at the ATS 2018 International Conference held in San Diego, May 18-23...
January 23, 2018
Dr. Stefano Guerra, a University of Arizona respiratory scientist, will lead an international effort to target deficits of a specific protein found in lung cells as an indicator of persistence of asthma from childhood into adulthood. Results could lead to personalized therapies for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
January 23, 2018
Dr. Felicia Goodrum and several of the nation’s most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers have been awarded a five-year, $8.9 million collaborative grant to investigate how the virus lies dormant until it activates and poses life-threatening disease risk.
January 23, 2018
A collaborative team of UA researchers have created an in-depth model of the human cytomegalovirus during its sleep-like state in dormancy to better understand how the virus can lie dormant and then reactivate and pose life-threatening disease risk.
January 22, 2018
An inside look into the latest advances in prevention and treatment; free community lecture hosted by Yuma Friends of UA Health Sciences
January 19, 2018
Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and the University of Arizona pulmonary division can add another kudo to their list of accreditations and accolades with Aetna Inc.’s designation of the hospital as an “Institutes of Excellence™ Transplant Facility” for lung transplantation…
January 18, 2018
University of Arizona Department of Medicine’s Drs. Monica Kraft (chair), Tammy Clark Ojo, Andrew Kraft and Lolu Ojo are among 14 UA Health Sciences faculty who’ve filmed interviews on personalized medicine for a film clip being put together to promote the All of Us℠/Precision Medicine Initiative Research Program in Arizona. Video to be released in late spring…
January 17, 2018
Dr. Jarrod Mosier, Critical Care Fellowship associate program director, to speak on “Translating Research to a Life Saved,” while the topic for Dr. Steve Black—who won a $2.74 million NHLBI award last spring—will be, “Metabolic Reprogramming in PH.” Save the date, Thursday, Feb. 8, 12-1 p.m., Room 5403. A light lunch will be served. Also see links to video and photo galleries from prior lectures, and who’s next up (Dr. Stefano Guerra)…
January 16, 2018
UA Research Development Services has two opportunities for investigators to attend workshops with Peg AtKisson, PhD—a former Tufts University neuroscience research investigator whose team was involved in bringing in $140 million in funded grants—to learn how to improve their applications for funding from the National Institutes of Health. The workshops are at the student union, Feb. 15-16, with opportunities for individual consultations…
January 15, 2018
Dr. Tom Boyer, immediate past chair of the University of Arizona Department of Medicine, founding director of the UA Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute and a world leader on research and care of the liver, died on Thursday, Jan. 11, at his home in Tucson after a long battle with cancer. A gathering to celebrate his life will be held at the Skyline Country Club, Sunday, Jan. 11, 3-5 p.m. RSVPs required…
January 11, 2018
It’s basketball season and Banner Health has an all-out, full-court press on for filming video profiles of physicians practicing at its two hospitals and multiple outpatient care facilities in Tucson, including Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Banner – UMC South. See who’s done them, how to schedule yours and photos of filming with Drs. Monica Kraft, Hemanth Gavini and Khadijah Breathett…
January 10, 2018
A Weekly Colloquium on Problems in the Biology of Complex Diseases will feature several speakers and topics of interest to University of Arizona Department of Medicine physicians and investigators. These include DOM faculty, Drs. Xingnan Li, Deb Meyers, Gene Bleecker and Stefano Guerra, who are among the speakers. The series runs through April 27…
January 9, 2018
The University of Arizona Division of Integrative Medicine and UA Center for Integrative Medicine welcomed its 2018 Spring Class of Integrative Health & Lifestyle Program (IHeLp) members to Tucson this week for a retreat held Jan. 7-10 at Westward Look Resort. The students—nurses, therapists, dietitians and other health professionals whose coursework is largely online—travel to Tucson for hands-on experience...
January 9, 2018
Amelia Gallitano, MD, PhD, studies genetic pathways and their response to the environment, hoping to improve treatments for mental illness.
January 8, 2018
This open format research fair recognizes work across the UA Department of Medicine by faculty physicians and scientists who serve as principal investigators on projects financed by federal grants to develop innovative therapies to the world’s most challenging health problems. Come to Kiewit Auditorium. Ask questions, listen, learn and lay the groundwork for future collaboration, mentorship and training…
January 8, 2018
UA Health Sciences sent a “Construction Notice” memo Jan. 5 that Banner – University Medical Center completed vacating the outpatient clinics (OPCs) within UAHS Building 201, which also houses the UA College of Medicine – Tucson—specifically on floors 2 and 4 through 8. Work began Monday, Jan. 8, to renovate those former clinics for faculty offices and administrative space displaced by the new 9-story, hospital tower being built now…