ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sarver Heart Center Winter Newsletter Now Available
Topics include:
- Be Part of Something Big to Help Beat Heart Disease
- Sarver Heart Center Looks Forward to 30th Anniversary
- New Staff Includes Cardiologist, Muscle Physiologist and Pharmacist
- Structural Heart Disease Program Celebrates New Technology
- Investigator Awards for 2014-15 total $114,360 - range from $5K to $25K
AMES Honors New Members
Five new UA faculty associate members have been added to the Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES). Find out who they are... 
Arizona Poison Control Centers Warn of Potential Holiday Dangers
Stay healthy during the winter break by heeding these safety tips ...
OTHER NEWS
- Cure for Fat Tissue Disorders Sought in UA Alumna's $1.5 Million Gift
- MotherToBaby Arizona Offers Free Help in Evaluating Use of Antidepressants During Pregnancy
- BioScience Research Lab Construction Newsletter #8: Weekly Progress, Parking & More
– BSRL Construction Newsletter #9
SAVE THE DATES
2016 Cellular Therapy & Regenerative Medicine Symposium - "Tomorrow's Cures Today"
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Banner - UMC Tucson, DuVal Auditorium
The Cellular Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Initiative (CTRM), part of the Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, is organizing its inaugural symposium, “Tomorrow’s Cures Today.” More information on this event and how to RSVP will be forthcoming.
BCD Colloquium Schedule Unveiled for Spring 2016
Full program announced for “Problems in the Biology of Complex Diseases” announced in weekly lecture series. See the topics and speakers, who include DOM Vice Chair for Research Jil Tardiff, MD, PhD. Outside speakers coming from Wake Forest, University of Chicago, UCSF, Harvard, Washington and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Listings posted for Jan. 15 through April 29, 2016.
GRAND ROUNDS
Cardiology Grand Rounds, Guest Speaker Series - Friday, Dec. 18, Noon
Daniel I. Simon, MD, presents: “Hunting for Acute MI Genes: A vascular biologist's and interventional cardiologist's perspective.” Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Herman K Hellerstein Professor of Cardiovascular Research and professor of medicine, Dr. Simon is chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and president, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center; and director, Case Cardiovascular Center.
Sarver Heart Center, Room 4137
Special Trauma and Telemedicine Grand Rounds, Monday, Dec. 21, Noon
Topic: “Telemedicine for Neurotrauma: Saving Brain and Saving Money - Albania's Experience”; Speaker: Fatos Olldashi, MD, PhD, Chief of Neurosurgery, University Trauma Center of Albania.
College of Medicine - Tucson, Room 8403
LECTURES
Advances In Aging Lecture Series, Friday, Dec. 18, Noon
Topic: “Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Elderly”; Speaker: Sasha Taleban, MD, UA assistant professor of medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, and director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
Banner - University Medical Center South, Behavioral Health Pavilion, Room 1233 A/B — A light lunch will be served.