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![[Dr. Michael Abecassis, dean of the College of Medicine – Tucson (center), joins all the college's staff award of excellence nominees for a group photo, showing their Wildcat pride.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/lura_hanekamp_awards_img_6299_card_6.26.24.jpg?itok=D_lsjoWm×tamp=1721419599 "Dr. Michael Abecassis, dean of the College of Medicine – Tucson (center), joins all the college's staff award of excellence nominees for a group photo, showing their Wildcat pride.")
June 28, 2024
Congratulations to all the nominees – including the Department of Medicine’s Mia Gonzales, Brenda Lambert and Courtney Smith – and the two winners, feted at an awards ceremony on June 26 in the Health Sciences Innovation Building.
![[Drs. Sai Parthasarathy, Daniel Butler and Rachna Shroff at a panel discussion for the 2024 Clinical Trials Development Workshop, hosted June 21 by Dr. Shroff and the University of Arizona Cancer Center at the HSIB Forum.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/clinical_trials_workshop_img_6250_card_6.21.24.jpg?itok=xEpp-5OM×tamp=1721167831 "Drs. Sai Parthasarathy, Daniel Butler and Rachna Shroff at a panel discussion for the 2024 Clinical Trials Development Workshop, hosted June 21 by Dr. Shroff and the University of Arizona Cancer Center at the HSIB Forum.")
June 26, 2024
Hematology-Oncology chief Dr. Rachna Shroff was joined at annual UArizona Cancer Center event by Pulmonary chief Dr. Sai Parthasarathy, Dermatology’s Dr. Daniel Butler and Hem-Onc’s Dr. Aaron Scott, co-leader of the Cancer Center’s Clinical & Translational Oncology Program. See mini-photo gallery.
![[Amy Sussman, MD, the U of A Department of Medicine's vice chair for education and clerkship director, gives new resident physician's their first lesson on "Teaching Expectations for Clerkship Students."]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/im_resident_orientation-img_6240-6.17.24_card.jpg?itok=JxAUIRhc×tamp=1720828878 "Amy Sussman, MD, the U of A Department of Medicine's vice chair for education and clerkship director, gives new resident physician's their first lesson on \"Teaching Expectations for Clerkship Students.\"")
June 25, 2024
Personalized white coats, stethoscopes and pagers are just the beginning for new Internal Medicine Residency Program interns launching their medical careers as primary care physicians at the College of Medicine – Tucson. See the mini-photo gallery.
![[Presentation of Hospitalist of the Year award to Vijay Chandiramani, MD, at ACP Arizona Chapter awards ceremony in October 2023 in Phoenix (from left): Eileen Barrett, MD, chair of the ACP Board of Regents; Dr. Chandiramani; Allan Markus, MD, governor of the ACP Arizona Chapter; and Umesh Sharma, MD, ACP-AZ Education Committee Chair.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/dr.chandiramani_acp-az_hospitalist_of_the_year_10.30.23_img_8735_card.jpg?itok=BT7hsqhU×tamp=1719249939 "Presentation of Hospitalist of the Year award to Vijay Chandiramani, MD, at ACP Arizona Chapter awards ceremony in October 2023 in Phoenix (from left): Eileen Barrett, MD, chair of the ACP Board of Regents; Dr. Chandiramani; Allan Markus, MD, governor of the ACP Arizona Chapter; and Umesh Sharma, MD, ACP-AZ Education Committee Chair.")
June 24, 2024
The associate chief for Division of Inpatient Medicine received the honor from the Arizona Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
![[Image of DOM Internal Digest newsletter masthead for June 2024, with 4 collages from stories below.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/internal_digest_june_2024_teaser_600x450px-collage.jpg?itok=Sw7-RplX×tamp=1718991586 "Image of DOM Internal Digest newsletter masthead for June 2024, with 4 collages from stories below.")
June 21, 2024
The June 2024 Internal Digest newsletter is out, putting the spotlight on graduations from DOM’s 15 fellowship and two residency programs, a new Cardiology clinic, IM Research Day results, faculty promotions and the Boyer Liver Institute – and featuring six photo galleries.
![[Tan building with desert landscaping and "Coming Soon" sign draped on front with azure skies in background and parking lot in foreground.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/bum_cardiology_clinic_tanque_verde_card.jpg?itok=UmRcrsaU×tamp=1718403091 "Site for the new Banner – University Medicine Cardiology Clinic, 6365 E. Tanque Verde Rd., Ste. 100, Bldg. E, Tucson, AZ 85715")
June 14, 2024
Division of Cardiology and Sarver Heart Center faculty and staff are excited about new 11,000-square-foot facility next to Banner Cardiovascular surgery center in Tucson with ample access for midtown, foothills patients.
![[Collage of photos of fellowship graduations from Department of Medicine programs in 2024]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/2024_dom_fellows_grad_collage_card.jpg?itok=6V3EYIu1×tamp=1718338313 "Collage of photos of fellowship graduations from Department of Medicine programs in 2024")
June 13, 2024
DOM Fellows and residents have been graduating since May 5 from the 15 fellowship and two residency programs currently active within the Department of Medicine. All are headed to bigger and better things whether here or across the country and world. See where they’re going.
![[University of Arizona block-A logo with Department of Medicine below it]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/dom-block-a_card.jpg?itok=5CZMLxXU×tamp=1718131541 "University of Arizona Department of Medicine")
June 11, 2024
The summer schedule for Faculty Instructional Development sessions – six in all (two per month) – within the Department of Medicine has been released, with the first occurring Wednesday, June 12, 2-2:30 p.m., via Zoom. Register for this and other sessions today!
![[Collage of recent community outreach efforts by the Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute for free hepatitis C, or Hep-C, screenings with Carina Mendoza and Carol Peters, ANP.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/liver_institute_june_24_newsletter_card.jpg?itok=p7rqYJje×tamp=1717792724 "Collage of recent community outreach efforts by the Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute for free hepatitis C, or Hep-C, screenings with Carina Mendoza and Carol Peters, ANP.")
June 7, 2024
Staff profiles, Global Fatty Liver Day on June 13, community outreach for free Hep-C screenings, and a plethora of info on research, policy briefs & outbreak updates, clinical trials and other current studies is what you’ll find in the most recent newsletter.
![[Dr. Jennifer Carew is a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and a member of the UArizona Cancer Center Clinical and Translational Oncology Program. (Photo by Kris Hanning, UArizona Health Sciences Office of Communications)]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/jennifer_carew_khp_3273-herocard.jpg?itok=xX1iZCPF×tamp=1717721312 "Dr. Jennifer Carew is a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and a member of the UArizona Cancer Center Clinical and Translational Oncology Program. (Photo by Kris Hanning, UArizona Health Sciences Office of Communications)")
June 6, 2024
Brain metastases are the most prevalent adult central nervous system tumors, with 20% to 30% of cases resulting from breast cancer patients. DOM’s Dr. Jennifer Carew and Steffan Nawrocki were co-authors on the paper.
![[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.