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![[Drs. Malvika Varma and Bulbul Cibei (Photos: UAHS BioCommunications) ]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/docs-teaser_0.jpg?itok=6e_U0lCJ×tamp=1552594510 "Drs. Malvika Varma and Bulbul Cibei (Photos: UAHS BioCommunications)")
March 14, 2019
Drs. Malika Varma and Bulbul Cibei bring broad clinical experience in training internal medicine resident physicians and medical students to the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and South.
March 12, 2019
A woman diagnosed with a congenital heart condition at age 69 is the lead story in the latest edition of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center Newsletter. Among other news items, several investigators have won NIH funding and the Clinical Research Program has grown to more than 70 active trials, 2018-19 Sarver Investigator Awards announced, and UA president presents Mary Anne Fay Women’s Heart Health Advocate of the Year Award to Dr. Nancy Sweitzer…
March 12, 2019
Geneticist and associate professor with the Division of Geriatrics, General Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Christina Laukaitis was recognized with the Mendel Medal by the Mendelianum at the Moravian Museum of Brno, Czech Republic, for her “contribution to the propagation of Gregor Mendel’s scientific legacy.” The 19th century friar is considered the father of modern genetics. The March 8 presentation in London’s Royal Institution celebrated Mendel Day, Women’s Day and the 100th anniversary of the British Genetics Society…
March 12, 2019
UA Center for Integrative Medicine will be named for Dr. Andrew Weil, who has committed $15 million to the center, bringing his total giving to $20 million.
March 12, 2019
The free 2019 Green Valley Lecture Series continues with a focus on stroke prevention and atrial fibrillation.
March 11, 2019
Two new faculty members have joined the University of Arizona Division of Geriatrics, General Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine and Banner – University Medicine in Tucson. Drs. Bulbul Cibei and Malvika Varma are new general internal medicine clinician educators in the division. They began their medical service in January and will work with residents and medical students at North Hills clinics, Banner – UMC Tucson and South hospitals...
March 8, 2019
Valley fever affects people, pets and livestock in Arizona and beyond, notes Tucson Lifestyle in an article that serves as a primer on the difficult-to-diagnose respiratory disease caused by fungal spores found in the Southwest's arid soils. It underscores efforts by UA Valley Fever Center for Excellence researchers to train community physicians statewide on new clinical practice protocols. Dr. John Galgiani also offers an update on activities to develop a vaccine and other research, a briefing for NIH, CDC and Congressional leaders, and the latest numbers to track the disease…
![[Klearchos Papas, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/klearchos_papas-teaser.jpg?itok=J-RqmQRr×tamp=1552409917 "Klearchos Papas, PhD")
March 8, 2019
A $1.2 million grant from the JDRF will support University of Arizona researchers as they continue to perfect and test an implantable "tea bag" that senses glucose levels and automatically releases insulin when needed.
March 7, 2019
Daily, cyber hackers design more sophisticated phishing schemes to gain access to university systems, employee’s personal data, and resources. Ensuring the entire University of Arizona community is trained to spot such attacks and ensure information stays secure continues to be a high priority. In that effort, all UA employees, faculty, student workers and DCCs with UA NetIDs are required to complete online Information Security Awareness training by April 30, 2019. Read on for details…
March 7, 2019
Dr. Howe, the former president and CEO of Project HOPE, will discuss “Health Diplomacy: From Theory to Practice” and its relevance today, describing public health practice in Africa, Asia, South America and the United States March 19. The lecture is presented by the 2019 James E. Dalen, MD, MPH, Distinguished Lecture for Health Policy, which is free and open to the public.
![[Students celebrate during Match Day 2018]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/matchday2018-teaser_0.jpg?itok=Zi-PoY53×tamp=1710783070 "Students celebrate during Match Day 2018")
March 7, 2019
On Friday, March 15, more than 100 medical students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson simultaneously will open an envelope revealing where they will go for their residency training. Surrounded by friends and family, the emotion-filled ceremony is a rite of passage for soon-to-be doctors.
March 6, 2019
Free and open to the public, the lecture by Dr. John Szivek and Dr. David S. Margolis will discuss the groundbreaking bone regeneration and cartilage research being conducted in their laboratory.
March 6, 2019
The future of medicine in many ways already is here – and is being discussed and exhibited at the University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center.
March 4, 2019
Gift to support scholarships and programming in the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
March 4, 2019
American Heart Association funding will allow UA College of Medicine – Phoenix post-doctoral fellow to target fibroblasts.
February 28, 2019
UA physicians won another kudo for care they provide at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and South with the recent naming of hospital clinical and university research facilities as a “center of excellence” by the Scleroderma Foundation. This chronic connective tissue disease—an autoimmune rheumatic disorder that affects up to 300,000 people in the United States—results in hardening and tightening of skin and connective tissues. It also can affect body organs, including pulmonary fibrosis or scarring in the lungs…
February 27, 2019
Over 135 participants turned out for the fourth public version of a high school health career fair, inspired by two University of Arizona internal medicine residents at Banner – University Medical Center South campus and designed to offer access to more information for underrepresented groups on the many and varied jobs available in the medical professions. See photo gallery, video and who all attended…
February 27, 2019
With a series of Facebook posts over the past two weeks, the University of Arizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence has helped promote the Arizona Department of Health Services announcement of winners in last fall’s Valley Fever Awareness Poster Contest. In all 12 children were recognized, ranging in age from 5 to 17. A 9-year-old from Phoenix and 17-year-old from Tucson won the grand prizes…
February 27, 2019
Vastly shortens treatments for metastatic brain lesions
February 27, 2019
Frailty related to HIV infection “is rapidly becoming a specter of the past” and today it “is possible to control HIV infection in all patients,” according to a perspective article authored by a clinical team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.