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October 3, 2016
The Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day event will be held on Oct. 22, 2016, at the Komen Arizona office, 2099 E. River Road, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Participants will receive free, signed copy of Meet Virginia: A Biography of a Breast, by UA breast cancer surgeon Leigh Neumayer, MD, who chairs the Department of Surgery at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and Banner – UMC…
October 3, 2016
Drs. Jorge Gomez and Usha Menon, principal investigators on the Breast Cancer Research Foundation grant, will target their efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border population to decrease cancer disparities in the Hispanic female population.
October 3, 2016
The college was honored with INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine’s 2016 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award.
September 30, 2016
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of its founding this year, the UA Sarver Heart Center will launch a monthly lecture series beginning with the new director of its Cardiac Electrophysiology Program Mathew Hutchinson, MD, on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Prior registration is required, but the events—to be held in DuVal Auditorium—are free and open to the public…
September 29, 2016
A total of 30 new faculty—including a division chief, associate dean for student affairs, ICU medical director, and three investigators for the new UAHS Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism—have started their practices, teaching and/or research careers in the UA Department of Medicine since July 1, across our 13 divisions and the Informatics section under the UAHS Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics...
September 28, 2016
Robert Livingston, MD, 75, an oncologist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, a professor in the UA Division of Hematology and Oncology and a four-decades long physician-scientist with the Southwest Oncology Group, died Sept. 8. A celebration of his life will be held at the home of David Alberts, MD, a past UA Cancer Center director, on Oct. 15, 4-6 p.m...
September 28, 2016
Chicago-area philanthropist shares passion for work of Dr. Andrew Weil, integrative medicine pioneer and director of the UA Center for Integrative Medicine.
September 27, 2016
Corinne Self, MD, will present on “Understanding Lewy Body Dementia”—a common form of dementia that affects cognitive functions for organization and planning as well as visual-spatial areas—at the next talk in the Advances in Aging Lecture Series, Monday, Oct. 10, noon-1 p.m. in Kiewit Auditorium, 1515 N. Campbell Ave. in Tucson...
September 27, 2016
Scientists at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health launched Kidenga, a free smartphone app for Android and iOS that allows users to report mosquito activity, symptoms of illness and help detect outbreaks...
September 26, 2016
The latest issue of the South Campus Pulse, the newsletter of the UA Internal Medicine Residency Program – South Campus at Banner – University Medical Center South is out. Read about new residents, who’s presenting posters in New Orleans, who’s getting published in the British Medical Journal and Journal of American Medicine, weddings, engagements, case reports, profiles and more…
September 26, 2016
Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury will speak about hemodialysis and vascular access, while Dr. Anita Koshy will discuss how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, common in cat feces and contaminated food, affects the central nervous system. Theirs is the second of 10 lectures pairing a senior and junior faculty investigator from the Department of Medicine through June 2017…
September 26, 2016
The UA Arthritis Center has extended a special invitation to their colleagues in the UA Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology to attend the Living Healthy With Arthritis lecture on Oct. 5, which features Canyon Ranch's Michael Hewitt, PhD, a lung cancer survivor who was treated at Banner – UMC Tucson...
September 23, 2016
Free and open to the public, the presentation is part of the Donald K. Buffmire Visiting Lectureship in Medicine series sponsored by the Flinn Foundation.
September 21, 2016
In its first scientific statement on sleep, the American Heart Association and its committee of heart health and sleep researchers, including Michael Grandner, PhD, of the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, find in a review of current evidence that too much or too little sleep, along with sleep-related breathing irregularities and insomnia, may be linked to heart risk factors.
September 21, 2016
The University of Arizona, Project Sleep and the Sleep Research Network are teaming up to engage patients, scientists and other stakeholders as partners in sleep research; the first of four events for sleep researchers and the public will be held Friday, Oct. 7, in Bethesda, Md.
September 16, 2016
Three dozen-plus people turned out Sept. 9 for the UA Cancer Center Open House to hear a talk about “Lymphoma & Leukemia” by Drs. Daniel Persky and Ravi Krishnadasan. Next event, Sat., Oct. 22, focuses on Breast Reconstruction Awareness and the UACC Breast Health Team with a program also Thu., Oct. 27, on GI cancers…
September 8, 2016
The first lecture in the UA Department of Medicine's Research Seminar Series filled the seats in UAHS 8403 on Sept. 8 to hear Drs. Monica Kraft and Julie Ledford discuss their research on "Surfactant Protein-A (SP-A) & Asthma: From Basic Science to Translational Research." The next speakers in the series are Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, Chief, Division of Nephrology, and Dr. Anita Koshy, assistant professor in the Departments of Neurology and Immunobiology, at noon Thursday, Oct. 13...
September 7, 2016
The inaugural lecture in the new Department of Medicine Research Seminar Series will be at noon, Sept. 8, in UAHS Room 8403, also known as the Chase Bank Auditorium. Presenting are Drs. Monica Kraft and Julie Ledford with the theme, "Surfactant Protein-A and Asthma: From Basic Science to Translational Research"…
September 6, 2016
A new Endocrinology Grand Round lecture series will begin Sept. 13 with Janet Funk, MD, as the initial presenter on the theme, “The Pharmacognosy of Turmeric: Harnessing Nature to Protect Bone.” They’re being revived by new Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Chief Lawrence Mandarino, PhD, with a goal of bringing in visiting scholars—starting with local research academics…
September 2, 2016
A study led by Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, director of the Center for Brain Sciences at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, has been chosen among nine projects to receive funding as part of $2.2 million being distributed in the first-ever Alzheimer’s Association Sex and Gender in Alzheimer’s (SAGA) research grant awards to advance understanding of the disproportionate effect Alzheimer’s disease has on women…