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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…
![[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…
![[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.
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…
![[Dr. Cecilia Rosales (right) and Jill Guernsey de Zapien (left) from the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health with Dr. Catalina Denman Champion (center) of El Colegio de Sonora.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/rosalesteaser_0_0.jpg?itok=NY98SZ_g×tamp=1449608482 "Dr. Cecilia Rosales (right) and Jill Guernsey de Zapien (left) from the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health with Dr. Catalina Denman Champion (center) of El Colegio de Sonora.")
November 24, 2015
A team of researchers from the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and El Colegio de Sonora will conduct research to focus on the prevention of cardiovascular disease and its complications among adults with diabetes in Northern Mexico.
![[Dr. Emmanuel Katsanis with a patient]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/katsanisteaser.jpg?itok=QJrOvq5q×tamp=1448905216 "Dr. Emmanuel Katsanis with a patient")
November 23, 2015
Also known as haplo BMT, the procedure provides an alternative source of stem cells for patients who need a bone marrow transplant but cannot find a related or unrelated donor match.
November 19, 2015
Five Department of Medicine faculty members came away with seven awards during the 36th UACOM Faculty Teaching Awards and Vernon and Virginia Furrow Awards ceremony, Nov. 19, in DuVal Auditorium. See who got recognized…
November 19, 2015
Data Collected on 11,700 employees showed 56 percent reported trouble sleeping. The impact: up to $3,000 more in annual health-care costs and increased absenteeism.
November 18, 2015
The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine’s new health coaching program is one of only a dozen such programs in the United States to be granted national accreditation. Graduates will qualify to sit for the national exam, to be launched in 2016.
November 17, 2015
Eliminating free radicals via anti-oxidative therapies in your diet doesn’t automatically equate to better health as it shifts the dietary balance to so-called “reductive” stress that can lead to inflammation with negative cardiovascular outcomes, particularly for men, UA researchers say.
November 16, 2015
Returning to Arizona from Florida, Julie Ebersole, RN, MSN, OCN, an experienced leader in ambulatory cancer-care settings, has been hired by Banner – University Medical Group as executive director for Oncology Services in Tucson...
November 13, 2015
Healthy Dose blog focuses on tips for Valley Fever, DOM junior faculty recognized in 3 of 7 CDA winners, ‘The Pulse’ open rate nearly double industry average for health care newsletters, research grants, construction and more…
![[Jeannie K. Lee, PharmD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/jleeteaser_0.jpg?itok=XwS5gswy×tamp=1448905216 "Jeannie K. Lee, PharmD")
November 10, 2015
Jeannie K. Lee, PharmD, assistant head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and an associate professor in the same department, has been named the 2015 Geriatrician of the Year by the Arizona Geriatrics Society.
November 9, 2015
Presenters will include keynote speaker Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson from the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, and Khevin Barnes, cancer survivor, award-winning comedy magician and laughter yoga instructor.
November 6, 2015
The awards to junior faculty members at the University of Arizona Health Sciences will lead to new clinical trials and the development of new biomedical or behavioral interventions to treat disease, while increasing the number of health-scientists.