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UA alumna Felicitie Daftuar’s gift will allow internationally noted endocrinologist Dr. Karen Herbst to establish a new UA College of Medicine – Tucson program to improve imaging and phenotyping of fat tissues and develop educational tools to help physicians better recognize, diagnose and treat patients.
UA research team studying the anti-inflammatory impact of turmeric is moving the project out of the laboratory and into patient testing.
The first gastroenterology fellows at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas begin cycling through on a one-month rotation at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in a new ACGME-approved affiliation to complete their clinical hepatology training in Tucson.
Cheers to nephrologist Bijin Thajudeen, MD, a UA assistant professor of medicine and the first physician in Tucson or Phoenix to sign and return his BUMG Physician Employment Agreement. He also has been named a Key Clinical Educator in the UA Department of Medicine...
Dr. Kent Kwoh, director of the UA Arthritis Center, is named by the University of Arizona Asian American Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association as the recipient of its 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award, to be presented Nov. 7 at the group’s 26th annual gala at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center.
UA researchers were awarded a $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH to develop an Upper Extremity Frailty Device to identify elderly patients who may be at high risk for certain medical treatments...