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![[Advanced directives ease confusion about how a person wants to be treated before they arrive at the hospital. (Photo by Kampus Productions)]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/pexels-kampus-production-7551677_card.jpg?itok=4xD6SSp0×tamp=1712251079 "Advanced directives ease confusion about how a person wants to be treated before they arrive at the hospital. (Photo by Kampus Productions)")
April 4, 2024
Free event at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, 2626 E. River Road, 10:30 a.m. to noon, to help attendees better communicate their wishes for medical treatment and more.
![[Flyer for Internal Medicine Specialty Speed Dating Event hosted by UArizona chapter of Internal Medicine Students Association on April 10, 2024, with photos of participating Department of Medicine faculty.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/im_speed_dating_card_copy.jpg?itok=Ae9kuOZb×tamp=1712190272 "Flyer for Internal Medicine Specialty Speed Dating Event hosted by UArizona chapter of Internal Medicine Students Association on April 10, 2024, with photos of participating Department of Medicine faculty.")
April 3, 2024
A dozen faculty members will help give medical students from the UArizona Internal Medicine Student Association insights into residency and fellowship training and further career options.
![[Slice of image for flyer on 4.5.24 TMC Internal Medicine Grand Rounds lecture with UArizona Cancer Center's Joshua Melson, MD, on colorectal cancer screening]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/tmc_im_gr_2024.04.05_colorectal_cancer_card.jpg?itok=02reEEDv×tamp=1712016689 "Slice of image for flyer on 4.5.24 TMC Internal Medicine Grand Rounds lecture with UArizona Cancer Center's Joshua Melson, MD, on colorectal cancer screening")
April 1, 2024
With its first lecture on Valley fever complete and a second, Friday, April 5, on colorectal cancer, Tucson Medical Center attendings, residents and medical students are eager to hear high-level CME content from DOM faculty. It’s a win-win for all parties.
![[Members of the 2020-21 cohort of PRIDE research trainees participate in winter 2020 meeting with mentors and principal investigators in Tucson.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/aire_2020-01_img_9329_card-2.jpg?itok=XkjKwTPt×tamp=1711751676 "Members of the 2020-21 cohort of PRIDE research trainees participate in winter 2020 meeting with mentors and principal investigators in Tucson.")
March 29, 2024
A five-year federal grant renewal to diversify the biomedical research workforce focused on lung health and sleep disorders will expand to address pandemics and disparities in respiratory infections.
![[Rocio Gastelum-Castillo is the inaugural recipient of the Mosharrafa Family Scholarship, which is funded by Beauty for Good, a charity created by plastic surgeons Ali and Tamir Mosharrafa, owners of Mosharrafa Plastic Surgery.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/rocio_still2_cropped.png?itok=aatOofak×tamp=1711561877 "Rocio Gastelum-Castillo is the inaugural recipient of the Mosharrafa Family Scholarship, which is funded by Beauty for Good, a charity created by plastic surgeons Ali and Tamir Mosharrafa, owners of Mosharrafa Plastic Surgery.")
March 25, 2024
Inspired by her mother’s battle with breast cancer, Rocio Gastelum-Castillo, a first-year medical student who grew up in Nogales, Mexico, aspires to give hope to future patients and help them stay healthy.
![[Jennifer Carew, PhD, welcomes Translational Medicine Symposium attendees and introduces opening keynote speaker Northwestern University’s Devalingam Mahalingam, MD, PhD, who spoke on oncolytic virotherapy.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/card-transltnl_med_symp_3.22.24_dsc_6292.jpg?itok=t2xV0viZ×tamp=1711152039 "Jennifer Carew, PhD, welcomes Translational Medicine Symposium attendees and introduces opening keynote speaker Northwestern University’s Devalingam Mahalingam, MD, PhD, who spoke on oncolytic virotherapy.")
March 22, 2024
Led by host Dr. Jennifer Carew, the inaugural conference, March 22 in the HSIB Forum, occurs at time of renewed interest in translating basic science from laboratory investigations to practical diagnostics, therapies, procedures and policies to improve health care in clinical settings for all.
![[Logo for Happy National Doctor's Day with illustration of white coat, stethoscope and heart]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/natl-doctors-day_900x540px.jpg?itok=9Bg_VHQ6×tamp=1711060877 "Logo for Happy National Doctor's Day with illustration of white coat, stethoscope and heart")
March 21, 2024
As the annual observance falls on a Saturday in 2024, Banner – University Medicine Tucson and the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson will host a special luncheon at three locations here at 11:30 a.m., March 28.
![[Kathryn Pulling, one of three graduating COM-T students who'll join the 2024-25 intern class for the Internal Medicine Residency Program - Tucson Campus, extends a fist skyward in celebration]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/card_10-24_0213_comt_match_day_2024-1064.jpg?itok=WRAF1VIC×tamp=1710895438 "Kathryn Pulling, one of three graduating COM-T students who'll join the 2024-25 intern class for the Internal Medicine Residency Program - Tucson Campus, extends a fist skyward in celebration.")
March 19, 2024
The Department found out who its 42 incoming interns for the Internal Medicine Residency Program will be and 108 College of Medicine – Tucson graduating medical students discovered where they’ll train as resident physicians, including Drs. Sai Parthasarathy and Indu Partha’s daughter. See the list and a mini-photo gallery.
![[Portrait of a man standing in a suit in front of the Arizona Arthritis Center sign.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/kwoh_kent-md_01092024_klh3063-card.jpg?itok=0gCSIAQH×tamp=1710528916 "C. Kent Kwoh named American College of Rheumatology Master")
March 14, 2024
Presented with the Association of Rheumatology Professionals, the ACR/ARP Master Award is one of the highest honors the college bestows. It serves as a career achievement milestone for accomplished rheumatologists like Dr. Kwoh, who's been UArizona Arthritis Center director and Division of Rheumatology chief since 2013.
![[Marvin J. Slepian, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/051923-marvin-slepian-nhg_3403-card.jpg?itok=KINxlBjP×tamp=1710526177 "Marvin J. Slepian, MD")
March 13, 2024
The cardiologist and Sarver Heart Center member joins six faculty members on the council and is one of two Department of Medicine members on the UArizona Faculty Senate.
![[Zoe Diana Draelos, MD, 2024 Alumni of Year for UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, College of Engineering]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/zoe_draelos-aoy_com-t_coe_gg5a03qbkaawghz_card.jpg?itok=divc_667×tamp=1710435337)
March 12, 2024
Dr. Zoe Diana Draelos, considered one of the most influential women in cosmetic science, was a member of the Class of 1983 and did her internship and residency training in dermatology at the College of Medicine – Tucson as well. She earned her UArizona engineering degree in 1979.
March 11, 2024
A total of 111 medical students from the College of Medicine – Tucson will learn where they will pursue the next phase of their medical training this Friday, March 15, in a ceremony hosted at the Old Main Building.
![[On Match Day 2003, Deepa Shah learned she had matched to an internal medicine residency at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix (then known as Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center).]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/match_day_2003_shah_scaled_0.jpg?itok=s25DzqIV×tamp=1711553002 "On Match Day 2003, Deepa Shah learned she had matched to an internal medicine residency at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix (then known as Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center).")
March 11, 2024
A Class of 2003 alum, gastroenterologist Deepa Shah, MD, is creating a comfortable setting for women to receive colonoscopies — a lifesaving but often stigmatized medical procedure.
![[Collage of women's faces make up a double-helix related to genomics and precision medicine.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/womens_history_photo_mosaic_card.jpg?itok=Ahy_9m6G×tamp=1710201939 "Collage of women's faces make up a double-helix related to genomics and precision medicine.")
March 8, 2024
A UArizona Cancer Center collage of women's faces spotlights the many talented, dedicated and accomplished female faculty contributions advancing research and patient care today to prevent and treat cancer — 14 out of 78 are from the Department of Medicine. See who they are.
![[Klearchos Papas, PhD (Photo, UArizona Health Sciences, Kris Hanning)]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/papas_klearchos_klh7853-card.jpg?itok=yD4fu56o×tamp=1710779288 "Klearchos Papas, PhD (Photo, UArizona Health Sciences, Kris Hanning)")
March 7, 2024
A Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation grant will fund clinical trials for an implantable device that could eliminate the need for glucose testing and insulin injections in the management of Type 1 diabetes.
![[Mathew Hutchinson, MD, and his cardiac electrophysiology team at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson after completing the first cardiac ablation procedure on March 4 in Tucson using the new FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System, a new atrial fibrillation treatment to treat irregular fast heart rate.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/bumct_farapulse_team_card.jpg?itok=Iv060Zq1×tamp=1712253023 "Mathew Hutchinson, MD, and his cardiac electrophysiology team at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson after completing the first cardiac ablation procedure on March 4 in Tucson using the new FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System, a new atrial fibrillation treatment to treat irregular fast heart rate.")
March 4, 2024
Innovative technology offers new treatment option for patients with potentially life-threatening arrhythmias, with the first procedure in Tucson completed March 4 by Dr. Mathew Hutchinson, cardiac electrophysiology program director and Sarver Heart Center member.
![[DOM winning faculty members at 2024 University of Arizona College of Medicine Faculty Awards]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/dom_teaching_award_winners_2024_card.jpg?itok=slcM_Xa8×tamp=1709162769 "DOM winning faculty members at 2024 University of Arizona College of Medicine Faculty Awards")
February 28, 2024
Eight Department of Medicine faculty split 10 awards and received additional recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching by the Internal Medicine Clerkship Program at the 2024 Faculty Awards Ceremony. Scroll down for a mini-photo gallery, too.
![[Jay Wesley Smith, MD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/smith_jay_w-md_bxw_600x400px.jpg?itok=-PfpQaGJ×tamp=1708992595 "Jay Wesley Smith, MD")
February 26, 2024
Dr. Jay Wesley Smith, who served at the college from 1970-1999 as a professor of medicine, General Internal Medicine section chief, Internal Medicine Residency Program director and College of Medicine – Tucson vice dean for academic affairs, died Feb. 2 in Tucson at age 87.
![[Video screenshot for “Expert Insights: Why Study Insulin Resistance?” by the UArizona Health Sciences]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/expert_insights_video_on_insulin_resistance_card.jpg?itok=6jNXZ7GH×tamp=1709057913 "Video screenshot for “Expert Insights: Why Study Insulin Resistance?” by the UArizona Health Sciences")
February 26, 2024
The diabetes researcher in the Division of Endocrinology and Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism talks about the importance of studying insulin resistance to advance patient treatment in “Expert Insights” video featured in UArizona HealthSciences Connect newsletter.
![[Portrait of Justin Starren, MD, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1x_widescreen/public/justin-starren_nu_500x374.jpg?itok=fsMCexEh×tamp=1718645446 "Justin Starren, MD, PhD")
February 26, 2024
Northwestern’s Justin B. Starren was named director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. He will start March 25.