Mentioned in this quarter's newsletter, Salma Patel, MD, MPH (right), was among Pulmonary division faculty members singled out for honors at the 2023 Faculty Awards for the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson on March 2. She's pictured here with Cellular and Molecular Medicine's James Proffitt, PhD, and presenter Tejal Parikh, MD, an associate dean for the college.
An inaugural PACCS Newsletter has been issued by the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, one of 12 divisions in the Department of Medicine – the largest department at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
“The aim of this newsletter is to highlight activities and accomplishments of the members of our Division of Pulmonary Allergy Critical Care and Sleep Medicine who serve the tripartite mission of our academic institution – education, research and patient care,” said Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, chief of the Pulmonary division and director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences.
The newsletter will be published quarterly. Click the image above right to view the current edition as a PDF.
Among news items in this edition:
- The American Thoracic Society workshop report on Race, Ethnicity and the Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests, which was co-chaired by PACCS’s Christian Bimé, MD, posted finally in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- David Miller, MD, medical director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, won two grants from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dr. Bimé also won two grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to further his research on acute respiratory distress syndrome, one an R21 from NHLBI and a UH3 cooperative agreement award he received with the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine’s Natalia Ignatenko, PhD, that aims to target polyamines to suppress SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID.
- Saif Mashaqi, MD, has taken over the reigns as new program director for the ACGME-accredited Sleep Medicine Fellowship as of January.
- Several faculty publications were discussed, including a report by Franz Rischard, DO, and former UArizona faculty member Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD, who hosted an ATS virtual journal club Feb. 1 that discussed findings of their 2022 publication in the journal Chest – as well as another paper in AJRCCM with Michael Insel, MD, and Cardiology’s Saad Kubba, MD, included as co-authors – regarding ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling and diastolic function response to therapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- New faculty: Arista Chand, MD, clinical assistant professor, Interstitial Lung Disease Program, and Madhav Chopra, MD, clinical assistant professor, Interventional Pulmonology Program, who was the presenter April 12 at the Medicine Grand Rounds on "Lung Volume Reduction and COPD."
- Among honors and awards mentioned are those that received UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson Faculty Awards on March 2. From PACCS, that included John Bloom, MD; Tara Carr, MD; and Jarrod Mosier, MD.*
NOTE: Anyone interested in contributing to future Pulmonary division newsletters can contact senior program director Brenda Lambert at blambert@arizona.edu.
* Other Department of Medicine faculty honored at the college’s 2023 Faculty Awards ceremony included: Vijay Chandiramani, MD; Bujji Ainapurapu, MD; Olivia Hung, MD, PhD; Mindy Fain, MD; Indu Partha, MD; Sarah Tariq, MD; Tejo Vemulapalli, MD; Rebecca Thiede, MD; Salma Patel, MD, MPH; Eric Brucks, MD; Amy Sussman, MD, and George Fantry, MD. The Department of Medicine also won for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching by a Clerkship. To see who won what, click here.
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“UA Pulmonary Division Launches Newsletter, ‘Lung Matters’” | Posted Sept. 11, 2017