News Archive: 2024
![[Collage of images from the first Tucson Transplant Symposium, hosted by the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson’s Division of Nephrology and Department of Surgery with a particular focus on kidney transplants.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/00-tucson_transplant_symposium_10.12.24_card-2.jpg?itok=Bodz3D7S×tamp=1731631151 "Collage of images from the first Tucson Transplant Symposium, hosted by the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson’s Division of Nephrology and Department of Surgery with a particular focus on kidney transplants.")
November 4, 2024
The Division of Nephrology co-hosts inaugural symposium with Department of Surgery, offering 3.0 CMEs for clinicians across southern Arizona interested in the latest information on kidney transplants, the most commonly transplanted organ. Nearly 40 clinicians attended. See the mini-photo gallery.
![[Hsiao-Hui “Sherry” Chow, PhD, looks at a bottle containing a biospecimen. With a particular focus on breast cancer, Dr. Chow has spent more than two decades in cancer research at the U of A Cancer Center. In that time, she led the Cancer Prevention & Control Program for several years, beginning in 2015, and the Analytical Chemistry Shared Resource, since 2001. She plans to retire Oct. 31.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/chow_lab-12_card.jpg?itok=91NxxwQv×tamp=1729896528 "Hsiao-Hui “Sherry” Chow, PhD, looks at a bottle containing a biospecimen. With a particular focus on breast cancer, Dr. Chow has spent more than two decades in cancer research at the U of A Cancer Center. In that time, she led the Cancer Prevention & Control Program for several years, beginning in 2015, and the Analytical Chemistry Shared Resource, since 2001. She plans to retire Oct. 31.")
October 25, 2024
With more than a quarter century’s worth of dedication to the University of Arizona Cancer Center and her retirement approaching, the value of Dr. Sherry Chow’s impactfulness has been felt far beyond her work with early-phase cancer prevention research trials.
![[NIH/NIAID microscopy image of coccidioides fungal spore, which causes Valley fever, with images of U of A's Dr. John Galgiani in his lab and two Congressmen who introduced new legislation for a human vaccine]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/niaid_cocci_yellow_54009341555_a40aa09243_card.jpg?itok=UHf9UIyx×tamp=1729806583 "NIH/NIAID microscopy image of coccidioides fungal spore, which causes Valley fever, with images of U of A's Dr. John Galgiani in his lab and two Congressmen who introduced new legislation for a human vaccine")
October 24, 2024
Two U.S. representatives, a Democrat from Phoenix and a Republican from California’s Central Valley, recently filed legislation to fund creation of a national strategy for a human vaccine for Valley fever. DOM infectious diseases professor Dr. John Galgiani is quoted.
![[Collage of images and logos re: 2024 Arizona Chapter Scientific Meeting of the American College of Physicians, 11.8-9.24, in Tucson]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024_acp-az_chapter_scientific_mtg_tucson_card.jpg?itok=moo2ngFk×tamp=1729730566 "Collage of images and logos re: 2024 Arizona Chapter Scientific Meeting of the American College of Physicians, 11.8-9.24, in Tucson")
October 23, 2024
With a record number of posters from medical students and residents, a new Great Debates contest added to the Doctor’s Dilemma and poster/oral vignettes contests, and a point-of-care ultrasound training session, the state chapter of the American College of Physicians event is building excitement, says ACP-AZ Education Committee Chair and DOM Associate Professor Dr. Indu Partha. See the schedule, who’s speaking – and register today!
![[Graphical illustration of NHLBI Workshop on Health Disparities in Pulmonary Vascular Disease]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/nhlbi_pvd_workshop_graphic_card-brdr.jpg?itok=kZwZiSvE×tamp=1729554287 "Graphical illustration of NHLBI Workshop on Health Disparities in Pulmonary Vascular Disease")
October 21, 2024
A virtual national workshop, Oct. 22-23, chaired by the DOM Pulmonary division’s Dr. Franz Rischard goes beyond how much a person’s race outweighs their mixed ancestry, sex and/or social determinants of health in a disease directly affecting over 2 million people in the U.S. Read the Q&A with Dr. Rischard on why this is important.
![[Collage of images related to testing of noncompression CT technology to detect breast cancers more accurately while increasing comfort and decreasing radiation exposure]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/breast-ct-9b8a0488_card.jpg?itok=0xUgIti0×tamp=1729886790 "Collage of images related to testing of noncompression CT technology to detect breast cancers more accurately while increasing comfort and decreasing radiation exposure")
October 21, 2024
College of Medicine – Tucson researchers, including the Division of Hematology & Oncology’s Dr. Sherry Chow, are leading a team that will test noncompression CT technology, which has the potential to detect more breast cancers more accurately while increasing comfort and decreasing radiation exposure.
![[A collage of images from the 2nd Annual UACC Awards Dinner: (top image, from left) University of Arizona Cancer Center 2024 award winners (from left) Rachna Shroff, MD, Aaron Scott, MD, Jianqin Lu, PhD, Andrew Paek, PhD, Cynthia Thomson, PhD, Jennifer Erdrich, MD, Heidi Hamann, PhD, Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, MD.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024_uacc_annual_awards_dinner_card.jpg?itok=23KrSTun×tamp=1729274289 "A collage of images from the 2nd Annual UACC Awards Dinner: (top image, from left) University of Arizona Cancer Center 2024 award winners (from left) Rachna Shroff, MD, Aaron Scott, MD, Jianqin Lu, PhD, Andrew Paek, PhD, Cynthia Thomson, PhD, Jennifer Erdrich, MD, Heidi Hamann, PhD, Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, MD.")
October 14, 2024
Four Department of Medicine faculty members were among nine awardees at the Second Annual Awards Dinner for the U of A Cancer Center, hosted Sept. 4 at The Graduate. Five more were among the nominators. See who they are.
![[Image of invitation to Department of Medicine's Fall DEI Mixer at the HSIB Forum, Nov. 4, 4-7 p.m.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/dom_dei_mixer_11.4.24_card.jpg?itok=ZfS2IIRF×tamp=1728680587 "Image of invitation to Department of Medicine's Fall DEI Mixer at the HSIB Forum, Nov. 4, 4-7 p.m.")
October 11, 2024
Organizers, Drs. Christian Bime and Bijin Thajudeen, anticipate a number of pre-med and medical students to attend, as well as residents, fellows and faculty. Event includes ASTEC sim lab tour and comments by UAHS and COM-T DEI leaders, Drs. Francisco Moreno and Celia Valenzuela.
![[Co-leaders, left, Taylor Riall, MD, PhD, FACS and, right, Rachna Shroff, MD, FASCO, organized the first Hepato Pancreatico-Biliary CME Symposium featuring, center, Matthew H.G. Katz, MD, CMQ, FACS, FASCO. (Photo: U of A Cancer Center)]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/hbp-symposium-1_card.jpg?itok=OMrprXep×tamp=1729294058 "Co-leaders, left, Taylor Riall, MD, PhD, FACS and, right, Rachna Shroff, MD, FASCO, organized the first Hepato Pancreatico-Biliary CME Symposium featuring, center, Matthew H.G. Katz, MD, CMQ, FACS, FASCO. (Photo: U of A Cancer Center)")
October 9, 2024
About 50 general surgeons, oncologists, gastroenterologists, primary care physicians, and HPB specialists who care for these patients attended the daylong event. Among presenters, moderators and panelists were five DOM faculty: Drs. Rachna Shroff, Oleh Haluszka, Aaron Scott, Joshua Melson and Junaid Arshad.
![[A collage of photos from the first Pima County Medical Society Career-Building Bootcamp, Sept. 28, with the PCMS logo.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/pcms-bootcamp_9.28.24_card.png?itok=ZqTOAC0H×tamp=1729198845 "A collage of photos from the first Pima County Medical Society Career-Building Bootcamp, Sept. 28, with the PCMS logo.")
October 4, 2024
Five Department of Medicine faculty participate in Pima County Medical Society Career-Building Bootcamp, Sept. 28, share their views on inaugural event and the importance of community networking with medical students, residents and other early-career physicians. In other news, PCMS Board nominations close Nov. 6.
![[Dan Combs, MD, assistant professor in pediatrics and sleep medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Medicine, holds his hand up to a young Down syndrome patient for a high five in an office.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/09062024-bellamy-coleman_daniel-combs_klh_3136_card_0.jpg?itok=onkerp97×tamp=1727893331 "Dan Combs, MD, has dedicated his career to helping children with Down syndrome. His research focuses on the impact of sleep apnea and other disorders on youngsters with the chromosomal condition. (Photo by Kris Hanning, U of A Health Sciences Office of Communications)")
October 2, 2024
The assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, who serves as assistant director of scholarly projects for the Sleep Medicine Fellowship and a member of the Center for Sleep, Circadian & Neuroscience Research, focuses on improving sleep as the first step toward a better quality of life for his patients and their families.
![[A collage of images related to events occuring in Tucson in late September and October 2024]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/out-n-about-n-tucson_2024_card-2.jpg?itok=E7QsYnqn×tamp=1727212279 "A collage of images related to events occuring in Tucson in late September and October 2024")
September 24, 2024
Tucson culture shines as fall brings a cooler climate with multiple festivals and other activities to the area. Many offer ways to stay healthy. See these with U of A connections to plan you and your family’s time better.
![[Collage of images from UAHS Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion event Sept. 20 to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2024]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/00-hhm_celebration_9.20.24_card-1.jpg?itok=eAoCaCmh×tamp=1727390294 "Collage of images from UAHS Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion event Sept. 20 to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2024")
September 23, 2024
The Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the U of A Health Sciences has worked up a series of activities for Hispanic Heritage Month, launched Sept. 20 with mariachi & salsa music, folklorico dancers and food trucks in the Hippocrates Courtyard that drew several DOM staffers. See a mini-photo gallery and other planned events.
![[Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation logo with images inset of Drs. Sachin Chaudhary and Arista Chand as well as graphics of curtains on either side and lung alveoli sacs]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/pff_on_stage-w_grafs_card_v1.jpg?itok=5eWqBPgm×tamp=1726802402 "Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation logo with images inset of Drs. Sachin Chaudhary and Arista Chand as well as graphics of curtains on either side and lung alveoli sacs")
September 16, 2024
First named a PFF Care Center in 2014, the designation serves as kudo for Interstitial Lung Disease Program in Department of Medicine’s Pulmonary division, treating a variety of disorders caused by scarring of lung tissue. University of Arizona, Banner clinic is one of 74 such centers across country.
![[Medical students, residents and others gather around the DOM’s Dr. Kevin Moynahan, vice dean for education at the College of Medicine – Tucson, at the Internal Medicine Student Meet-and-Greet, Sept. 11 in the COM-T Social Hall]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/1_dom_im_meet-n-greet_9.11.24_dsc_6801_card.jpg?itok=XnRmcOY4×tamp=1726517447 "Medical students, residents and others gather around the DOM’s Dr. Kevin Moynahan, vice dean for education at the College of Medicine – Tucson, at the Internal Medicine Student Meet-and-Greet, Sept. 11 in the COM-T Social Hall")
September 12, 2024
Faculty, fellows, residents and students – 77 in all – mingled and gnoshed together at a social mixer designed for medical students to learn more about internal medicine, its specialties and the people dedicating their careers to the field. See the mini-photo gallery.
![[Banner image for "Celebrating Women in Medicine Month" and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson 2024 Women in Medicine & Science Torchbearer Awards]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/_torchbearer_wims_2024_card-2.jpg?itok=CYp1vZv_×tamp=1727799761 "Banner image for \"Celebrating Women in Medicine Month\" and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson 2024 Women in Medicine & Science Torchbearer Awards")
September 11, 2024
Fifteen Department of Medicine faculty and staff joined to celebrate Drs. Lisa Alschuler, Liz Connick and Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, who were among this year’s winners recognized by COM-T Women in Medicine & Science for Women in Medicine Month. See the mini-photo gallery.
![[[Collage image of portraits of 11 new University of Arizona Department of Medicine faculty members joining the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson in September 2024, pictured alphabetically from top left linearly and interspersed with 5 repetitions of a DOM block-A logo on blue.]]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/dom_new_faculty_09-2024_card_v2.jpg?itok=d0htujLx×tamp=1726771779 "[Collage image of portraits of 11 new University of Arizona Department of Medicine faculty members joining the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson in September 2024, pictured alphabetically from top left linearly and interspersed with 5 repetitions of a DOM block-A logo on blue.]")
September 6, 2024
Augmented by an additional 15 new faculty in August and 11 more in July, the Department of Medicine added 37 faculty members this summer. The most recent include five hospitalists, three internists, two cardiology researchers and an oncologist. See who they are and what they’ve done.
![[Masthead of DOM Internal Digest newsletter for August 2024 with collage based on stories covered]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024-08_dom-masthead-w-pix_card-2.jpg?itok=wuTCoHvG×tamp=1725642168 "Masthead of DOM Internal Digest newsletter for August 2024 with collage based on stories covered")
September 5, 2024
The August and July Internal Digest newsletters were highlighted by welcomes to new residents, fellows and faculty, the white coat ceremony for new med students, a plethora of honors and awards for DOM faculty and staff, and features on summer research intern mentors, DEI champions, Banner – UMC Tucson’s U.S. News top ranking and more.
![[Four people, including Mel Hector, MD, of the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine – Tucson, watch a reading of Dr. Hector’s play.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/melvin-hector-nhg_0009_07152024_card.jpg?itok=W6wlqCII×tamp=1725638898 "Melvin “Mel” G. Hector, MD, (in blue shirt wearing headphones), an associate clinical professor in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Medicine, watches a reading of one of the plays he has written. (Photo by Noelle Haro-Gomez, U of A Health Sciences Office of Communications)")
September 3, 2024
The Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine’s Dr. Melvin “Mel” Hector, a prolific author of local theatrical works, finds inspiration all around him.
![[Left to right: The Division of Endocrinology’s Jennifer Stern, PhD, and her trainees, Kassandra Bruner, Isabella Byington (“with our Wildcat mascot, Polly, short for ‘Polymerase’”), Yashika Shaju (Honors undergraduate student), and Thadeus Carolyn (2024 summer intern).]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024.08.08_summer_research_interns_stern_lab_124712_card.jpg?itok=vHZ6IJCw×tamp=1724887634 "Left to right: The Division of Endocrinology’s Jennifer Stern, PhD, and her trainees, Kassandra Bruner, Isabella Byington (“with our Wildcat mascot, Polly, short for ‘Polymerase’”), Yashika Shaju (Honors undergraduate student), and Thadeus Carolyn (2024 summer intern).")
August 28, 2024
For Endocrinology’s Dr. Jennifer Stern, one of 18 Department of Medicine faculty who offered opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to train in their labs, she finds joy in sharing her knowledge and advancing their and her studies in the process.