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![[Pictures of nine Department of Medicine physicians who won promotions for the 2024-25 academic year]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/ninedomfacultypromotedin2024-25_card_copy.jpg?itok=5EIZxy7F×tamp=1716938903 "Pictures of nine Department of Medicine physicians who won promotions for the 2024-25 academic year")
May 28, 2024
Well wishes for Department of Medicine faculty who earned promotions for the next academic year. They include Drs. Mohanad Al Obaidi, Tara Carr, Michel Corban, Sima Ehsani, Justin Hayes, Olivia Hung, Neha Jaswal, Elizabeth Juneman and Bijin Thajudeen. Three are from Cardiology and two from Infectious Diseases.
![[Residents and faculty—including Drs. Anthony Witten (wearing mask) and Kevin Moynahan (center)—mingle during the judging portion of the poster contest during the 2024 Internal Medicine Research Academic Half Day for the Department of Medicine.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/research_ahd_05.23.24_cdm_img_4914_card.jpg?itok=98BlAS76×tamp=1718065740 "Residents and faculty—including Drs. Anthony Witten (wearing mask) and Kevin Moynahan (center)—mingle during the judging portion of the poster contest during the 2024 Internal Medicine Research Academic Half Day for the Department of Medicine.")
May 24, 2024
Residents got twice the bang for their buck at this year’s Internal Medicine Research Academic Half Day with both a traditional poster contest as well as – for the first time ever – oral vignettes during the event’s activities. Multiple DOM faculty participated as judges. See photo gallery and announcement of who won.
![[Cardiology's Dr. Steve Goldman (left) listens as DOM Chair Dr. James Liao welcomes attendees at memorial for lives of Drs. James Dalen and Jay Smith, former dean and vice dean of the College of Medicine - Tucson and DOM faculty. ]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/card_dalen-smith_memorial_5.22.24_img_6020.jpg?itok=v196MczM×tamp=1718143576 "Cardiology's Dr. Steve Goldman (left) listens as DOM Chair Dr. James Liao welcomes attendees at memorial for lives of Drs. James Dalen and Jay Smith, former dean and vice dean of the College of Medicine - Tucson and DOM faculty.")
May 23, 2024
Families, friends and former faculty of prior College of Medicine – Tucson dean and vice dean—both with Department of Medicine divisions—share memories of a dynamic time in the college’s history at May 22 memorial held in their honor and hosted by DOM chair, Dr. Jim Liao, and vice chair, Dr. Joe Alpert.
![[Drs. Mari Ricker and Andrew Weil were part of a panel discussion on the role of integrative medicine in the future of U.S. healthcare, April 24, 2024, in the HSIB Forum]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/weil_card_0.jpg?itok=Mn6VMrZq×tamp=1716596379 "Drs. Mari Ricker and Andrew Weil were part of a panel discussion on the role of integrative medicine in the future of U.S. healthcare, April 24, 2024, in the HSIB Forum")
May 15, 2024
Panel discussion with pioneers in integrative health care, cooking demonstrations, public open house highlight debut of new complex. DOM faculty were prominent at each, if only in attending. See who was there with two mini-photo galleries and a video.
![[Portrait of University of Arizona Health Sciences immunologist Deepta Bhattacharya]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/bhattacharya-deepta-phd_immuno_klh2920_card.jpg?itok=MwbR7kA1×tamp=1718643406 "Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, has been selected to lead the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. (Photo by Kris Hanning, UArizona Health Sciences Office of Communications)")
May 13, 2024
The Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies will be led by Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a renowned immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.
![[Photo of Dr. Salma Patel at a SSWIMS fellows event, with photos inset of co-fellow Dr. Olivia Hung (2023-24) and incoming fellows: Drs. Billie Bixby, Saher Khalid and Amy Klein. ]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/patel_et_al_re_sswims_grad_night_img_6942_card.jpg?itok=WqXbyqBW×tamp=1715483173 "Photo of Dr. Salma Patel at a SSWIMS fellows event, with photos inset of co-fellow Dr. Olivia Hung (2023-24) and incoming fellows: Drs. Billie Bixby, Saher Khalid and Amy Klein.")
May 10, 2024
Drs. Olivia Hung and Salma Patel are among 11 who’ll graduate May 15 in the first class for the Spurring Success for Women in Medicine and Science, or SSWIMS, fellowship at the College of Medicine – Tucson. And Drs. Danielle Avila, Billie Bixby, Saher Khalid and Amy Klein have been named to the second class.
![[Chair of the UArizona Chapter of the Academy of Medical Education Scholars, or AMES, Tara Carr, MD (far right), presents plaques to newly inducted members, Holly Bullock, MD, MPH (OB-GYN), Saman Nematollahi, MD (Infectious Diseases), Joy Bulger Beck, MD (GGP-General Internal Medicine), Jennifer Plitt, MD (GGP-Palliative Medicine), and Amy Mitchell, MD (OB-GYN). Missing from the photo are other new members, Maria Bishop, MD (Hematology-Oncology), Steven Dudick, MD (OB-GYN), and Aaron Mason, MD (Surgery).]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/wims_new_ames_members_4.23.24_card.jpg?itok=Zp_WwN-m×tamp=1715214039 "Chair of the UArizona Chapter of the Academy of Medical Education Scholars, or AMES, Tara Carr, MD (far right), presents plaques to newly inducted members, Holly Bullock, MD, MPH (OB-GYN), Saman Nematollahi, MD (Infectious Diseases), Joy Bulger Beck, MD (GGP-General Internal Medicine), Jennifer Plitt, MD (GGP-Palliative Medicine), and Amy Mitchell, MD (OB-GYN). Missing from the photo are other new members, Maria Bishop, MD (Hematology-Oncology), Steven Dudick, MD (OB-GYN), and Aaron Mason, MD (Surgery).")
May 8, 2024
Four DOM faculty were inducted recently into the UArizona Chapter of the Academy of Medical Education Scholars, or AMES, at the College of Medicine – Tucson and three others from the department won research grants. Find out who they were here.
![[Illustration of how the Multi-Institutional Transformation and Graduate Student Support Initiative (MITSI) works to build bridges and transform institutions to support graduate STEM education for indigenous and Latinx students.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/mitsi-concept-model-800x600px.jpg?itok=jnRL_bT6×tamp=1715194713 "Illustration of how the Multi-Institutional Transformation and Graduate Student Support Initiative (MITSI) works to build bridges and transform institutions to support graduate STEM education for indigenous and Latinx students.")
May 8, 2024
UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson faculty are encouraged to apply to participate in NAU Flagstaff program to build bridges and transform institutions in support of graduate STEM education among indigenous and Latinx students.
![[Collage of photos from Docs in the Kitchen cooking demonstration for healthy diet, May 4, 2024, around an image of the Hacienda at the River senior living community in Tucson]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/docs_in_the_kitchen_5.4.24_img_4694_card.jpg?itok=yduMGtki×tamp=1718494557 "Collage of photos from Docs in the Kitchen cooking demonstration for healthy diet, May 4, 2024, around an image of the Hacienda at the River senior living community in Tucson")
May 7, 2024
A fiber-rich diet’s many benefits include reducing risk of cancer, according to hematology & oncology fellowship director Dr. Krisstina Gowin and Dr. Juanita Merchant, UArizona Cancer Center interim director and GI division chief. See a photo gallery of them helping prepare four-course meal.
![[Welcome to the University of Arizona, Dr. Scott Silvestry, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/dr._silvestry_faculty_welcome_1200x900px.jpg?itok=71kDVSGd×tamp=1715208937 "Welcome to the University of Arizona, Dr. Scott Silvestry, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery")
May 7, 2024
Prior to joining UArizona, Dr. Silvestry was at Advent Health Orlando where he served as co-executive medical director of the Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute and surgical director of Thoracic Transplant Programs.
![[Elizabeth B. Juneman, MD, FACC]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/juneman_elizabeth_b.-md_card-sarver_card.jpg?itok=O_K37m3z×tamp=1715287881 "Elizabeth B. Juneman, MD, FACC")
May 6, 2024
Women We Admire, a membership organization comprised of accomplished women executives and leaders across the U.S. and Canada, included University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson cardiologist Elizabeth B. Juneman, MD, among the 2024 Rising Star Women of Medicine.
![[From left, Dr. Kent Kwoh, Arthritis Center director and Rheumatology division chief; infectious diseases specialist and Valley Fever Center for Excellence researcher Dr. Fariba Donovan; DOM Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship co-director, allergist and integrative medicine specialist Dr. Randy Horwitz; geriatrician and director of the UArizona Climate & Health Group Dr. Julia Jernberg; and emergency medicine professor emeritus and Sarver Heart Center member Dr. Art Sanders]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/lhwa_climate_change_5.4.24_img_4586_card.jpg?itok=IV9wtgKw×tamp=1718728811 "From left, Dr. Kent Kwoh, Arthritis Center director and Rheumatology division chief; infectious diseases specialist and Valley Fever Center for Excellence researcher Dr. Fariba Donovan; DOM Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship co-director, allergist and integrative medicine specialist Dr. Randy Horwitz; geriatrician and director of the UArizona Climate & Health Group Dr. Julia Jernberg; and emergency medicine professor emeritus and Sarver Heart Center member Dr. Art Sanders")
May 6, 2024
Arthritis Center director and Rheumatology division chief Dr. C. Kent Kwoh moderated the panel which included the DOM’s Drs. Fariba Donovan, Randy Horwitz and Julia Jernberg and Emergency Medicine’s Dr. Art Sanders. A related KJZZ story with Dr. Jernberg was picked up by over 1,000 media outlets. See mini-photo gallery.
![[Closeup photo of a needle being injected into a syringe with blue background.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/curiel-needle-2024_card.jpg?itok=ccbyxU9l×tamp=1716315402 "Closeup photo of a needle being injected into a syringe with blue background.")
May 3, 2024
Dermatology division chief and UArizona Skin Cancer Institute co-director, Dr. Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski presented the work in San Diego on the effect of melanoma drug TVEC on patients with cutaneous invasive squamous cell carcinoma, or cSCC.
![[UArizona Internal Medicine Student Association members with IMSA faculty advisor Amy Sussman, MD (center), at a Post-Match Day celebration at Zinburger in Tucson: Bailey Antonowicz (MS4), Katie Pulling (MS4), Sanjay Menghani (MS4), Lauren Murphy (MS4), Dr. Sussman, Lupita Molina(MS4), Julia Couto (MS4), and Molly Courtright (MS2).]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/post-match_night_zinburger_4.18.24_card.jpg?itok=glz_1ClE×tamp=1714673138 "UArizona Internal Medicine Student Association members with IMSA faculty advisor Amy Sussman, MD (center), at a Post-Match Day celebration at Zinburger in Tucson: Bailey Antonowicz (MS4), Katie Pulling (MS4), Sanjay Menghani (MS4), Lauren Murphy (MS4), Dr. Sussman, Lupita Molina(MS4), Julia Couto (MS4), and Molly Courtright (MS2).")
May 1, 2024
Dr. Amy Sussman, Internal Medicine Student Association’s UArizona Chapter advisor, launched the dinner as a debrief for graduating medical students to share advice with first- and second-year students. She was picked this year by all COM-T students for Outstanding Teacher in Clinical Sciences and Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award honors.
![[Group photo of DOM Annual Awards Ceremony winners with faculty and collage (at bottom) of shots of Arizona Inn; Drs. Jim Liao, Sarah Upson and Laura Meinke; and Drs. Jim Knepler, Liz Connick and Alex Perry]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024_dom_awards_img_4530_card.jpg?itok=27XYh7ss×tamp=1714756415 "Group photo of DOM Annual Awards Ceremony winners with faculty and collage (at bottom) of shots of Arizona Inn; Drs. Jim Liao, Sarah Upson and Laura Meinke; and Drs. Jim Knepler, Liz Connick and Alex Perry")
April 30, 2024
In a return to the Arizona Inn for the event, two Class of 2024 students won dual honors: Lupita Molina for top student in nephrology and endocrinology; and Michael Haekwang Kim for infectious diseases and rheumatology. Other key honors included Dr. Daniel Brown – Residency Director's Award; Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine chief fellow Dr. Sarah Upson – Outstanding Medicine Fellow, and Lauren Murphy – the J.W. Smith Outstanding Medical Student of the Year.
![[Collage of images for the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Eller College of Management and Eller Executive Education program overseeing the new Advanced Healthcare Leadership Academy]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/com-t_eller_advanced_heatlhcare_leadership_card.jpg?itok=xBnOtU63×tamp=1714495782 "Collage of images for the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Eller College of Management and Eller Executive Education program overseeing the new Advanced Healthcare Leadership Academy")
April 30, 2024
The program developed collaboratively by the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and Eller College of Management’s Eller Executive Education program re-envisions and replaces COM-T’s Learning to Lead program. Applications are due Friday, May 17. Learn more and get yours in today.
![[Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/sadek-hesham-78098-1000x750px.jpg?itok=4LwJKjsW×tamp=1714434628 "Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD")
April 29, 2024
Dr. Hesham Sadek brings experience and an impressive research portfolio from Dallas’ UT Southwestern, where he was associate director of the Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine and a professor of internal medicine/cardiology with joint appointments in biophysics and molecular biology.
![[Illustration and logo for UArizona Arthritis Center's 2024 Living Healthy With Arthritis Symposium]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024_lhwa_symposium_1000x500px.jpg?itok=FtN5G0U7×tamp=1714439183 "Illustration and logo for UArizona Arthritis Center's 2024 Living Healthy With Arthritis Symposium")
April 25, 2024
UArizona public health professor Kacey Ernst’s keynote address focuses on health challenges facing people in many parts of the world, including Arizona, due to climate change. Department of Medicine faculty in a related panel discussion include Drs. Fariba Donovan, Randy Horwitz and Julia Jernberg.
![[Photo collage of Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine’s new building complex (Credit: Angela Martinez, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson)]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/awcim_bldg_complex_card.jpg?itok=hYlU3060×tamp=1714069425 "Photo collage of Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine’s new building complex (Credit: Angela Martinez, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson)")
April 23, 2024
A public open house on Saturday, May 4, highlights opening week celebrations at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine's new building complex.
![[Woman lying in hospital bed holding cloth over her mouth and nose]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/lady_trouble_breathing_card.jpg?itok=C3UTIGR2×tamp=1713821905 "In 2019, Arizona reported 20,003 cases of Valley fever, which were most of the cases reported in the U.S. Although most people recover, Valley fever's mortality rate is about one death per 1,000 infections.")
April 22, 2024
New EHR dashboard for urgent care, developed with Dr. John Galgiani, will help remind physicians to consider testing for Valley fever to speed up detection of the respiratory illness in its early stages before it becomes worse.