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August 31, 2016
Setsuko K. Chambers, MD, and the Better Than Ever Scientific Review Committee announced that Victor J. Gonzalez, MD, an assistant professor of Radiation Oncology, won a $20,000 grant award from the UA Cancer Center’s Better Than Ever Program. His research team will use the money to investigate a new technique called Surface Mapped Radiotherapy, or SMART, for a patient-specific approach to breast cancer treatment…
August 31, 2016
PLEASE NOTE: Due to widespread storms in Southern Arizona resulting from Hurricane Newton, the following event was rescheduled to Wednesday, March 1, 2017—same time, same location. We apologize for any inconvenience.
August 29, 2016
Come learn about how Tai Chi may reduce risk of falls among seniors and stroke victims, Mon., Sept. 12, at the newly relocated Advances in Aging Lecture Series, being held this fall in Kiewit Auditorium at the UA Cancer Center from noon to 1 p.m. They return to the UA Health Sciences campus after four years at the Banner – UMC South hospital’s Behavioral Health Pavilion…
August 29, 2016
A member of the National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer Steering Committee and a former Tucsonan, Julie E. Bauman, MD, MPH, joins the UA College of Medicine – Tucson faculty as professor and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine and the UA Cancer Center...
August 29, 2016
Dr. John Galgiani is among three University of Arizona physicians on an Infectious Diseases Society of America panel that authored updated treatment guidelines for the respiratory disease that’s endemic to the U.S. Southwest. The recommendations are for physicians who may not be aware of the disease as well as those whose patients may have contracted it while visiting the region.
August 19, 2016
Congratulations to the nine faculty physicians within the UA Department of Medicine who recently received promotions, including four—Drs. Bhaskar Banerjee, Pradeep Kadambi, Kent Kwoh and Kwan Lee—who became full professors, two with tenure...
August 18, 2016
Beginning Sept. 8, DOM is sponsoring a new monthly Research Seminar Series to highlight the excellent academic accomplishments of the department. “We expect this to be an interactive forum,” said Vice Chair for Research Dr. Jil Tardiff. Each seminar will pair a junior and senior investigator and present faculty’s work in a way that’s accessible and of interest to a broad audience…
August 17, 2016
Two UA Department of Medicine investigators and members of the UA Cancer Center, Drs. Erik Knudsen and Agnieszka Witkiewicz have paper published in the journal Cell Reports that notes pancreatic cancer resists effective drug targets for other cancers based on conventional cell lines and discusses what researchers are doing instead — personalized medicine…
August 17, 2016
Banner Health—the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and Phoenix primary clinical partner—announced Aug. 17 that it has acquired 32 Urgent Care Extra locations across the metro area for both cities. The ambulatory clinics include four in Tucson. Banner plans to open additional clinics in retail settings, expanding to 50 by 2017…
August 17, 2016
KOLD-TV Channel 13 in Tucson is the latest to give publicity to a clinical trial involving UA endocrinologist Dr. Janet Funk and her research team’s study of the remediating effects of turmeric on rheumatoid arthritis patients. Any benefits for reduced pain help patients cut down on on pricey medications with serious side effects…
August 17, 2016
A special Pulmonary Research Conference will be held Monday, Aug. 22, with speakers Eugene Bleecker, MD, and Deborah Meyers, PhD, co-directors of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research and professors of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Immunologic Medicine at Wake Forest University...
August 12, 2016
Several dozen members of the UA Department of Medicine’s 15 ACGME-accredited fellowships packed the house for a Fellowship Career Development Retreat hosted Aug. 11 at the BIO5 Institute. They heard stories of junior faculty navigating their career paths, a research funding overview, advice from UAHS and COM senior leadership, and humorous anecdotes from Dr. Sai Parthasarathy…
August 12, 2016
The Arizona Public Media original documentary “Passing On”—with participation from the Pima Council on Aging, UA Center on Aging and UA Division of Geriatrics, General Internal and Palliative Medicine—on Oct. 8 will receive the top Emmy® award from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences…
August 11, 2016
Led by Dr. Monica Kraft at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, researchers will use the National Institutes of Health grant to conduct a five-year study, “Dysfunction of Innate Immunity in Asthma,” to investigate the interrelationship of genetic mediators to reduce lung inflammation and attacks in asthma patients...
August 9, 2016
The UA Cancer Center clinical trials director Daniel Persky, MD, and Ravi Krishnadasan, MD, of the BMT-Leukemia Multidisciplinary Clinic team, will be presenters at the next UA Cancer Center North Campus Open House on Monday, Aug. 15, at the Peter and Paula Fasseas Cancer Clinic — aka, Banner – UMC North, at 3838 N. Campbell Ave…
August 8, 2016
A big crane arrived onsite the last week of July for the big push to erect steelworks behind the new 9-story hospital tower for Banner – University Medical Center Tucson—and already is well under way toward that goal. But it’s one of a few that soon will loom of all three construction sites on the UA Health Sciences campus, including the BSRL and HRIB building projects…
August 5, 2016
The University of Arizona Cancer Center welcomes Karlie Passey in her new role as program manager for the new Office of Membership and Staff Affairs. Duties for human resources and membership at the UACC have been combined into this office, overseen by Passey. She previously was membership coordinator...
August 5, 2016
The UA Cancer Center participated in the 8th Annual Feria de la Lectura—a bilingual literacy fair—at the El Pueblo Activity Center at 101 W. Irvington Ave. on Tucson’s south side July 30. In addition to health screenings, the 3,000 attendees got free backpacks, books, school supplies, bike helmets and other gear for the beginning of the new school year…
August 4, 2016
See photos and video of the White Coat Ceremony welcoming the Class of 2020 to the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and UA Department of Medicine faculty physicians who assisted. With a record student body of 135 and the most applications ever received for a class, this year’s incoming medical students begin the journey of their medical careers as record-breakers…
August 3, 2016
Just released in July by Adis, a publishing unit of Springer Nature, Managing Diabetic Nephropathies in Clinical Practice includes a chapter written by Bijin Thajudeen, MD, an assistant professor in the UA Division of Nephrology who joined the faculty in 2013 after completing his residency and fellowship here. He noted the international scope of the book with authors from Austria, Japan and the United States…