Latest DOM newsletter focuses on graduations, new clinic, research day and promotions

Welcome to summer where, in Tucson, we’re always in a heat dome! In this issue of Internal Digest (Vol. 1, No.2), the newsletter of the Department of Medicine, the news summary below may seem familiar if you track the DOM News Archive webpage:

* Image at right from DOM Annual Awards Ceremony, April 30, at the Arizona Inn.

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Top Headlines:

 DOM fellows, residents look to future in post-grad world: A roundup of who’s graduated/ing from DOM’s 15 fellowship and two residency programs and where they’re headed, whether fellowships, faculty posts or private practice – with mention of several awards, including for faculty. Congrats to you all!   

• New Tanque Verde Cardiology Clinic expected to open soon 
• Nine DOM faculty win title upgrades via promotion 
• Spotlight on the Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute 
• Two DOM faculty graduate as SSWIMS fellows, four more join 
               • Seven from DOM recognized by AMES UArizona chapter 
               • Summer sessions announced for Faculty Instructional Development 

 Photo Galleries:

• Seven winners named for Internal Medicine Research AHD contests
• More than 75 join to celebrate lives of Drs. Jim Dalen, Jay Smith
• Mediterranean diet, fiber focus of ‘Docs in the Kitchen’ cooking demo
• Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine celebrates opening
• DOM faculty anchor Climate Change panel at Arthritis Center symposium

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Media Mentions:

Among those for May/June, kudos go to: Julia Jernberg, MD, whose KJZZ quote on climate change’s effects on older adults went viral courtesy of NPR (~1,000 media pickups); a study about “Biking linked to reduced knee pain in later life,” co-authored by C. Kent Kwoh, MD, had more than 20 media hits; Jennifer Carew, PhD, whose story on a study she and Steffan Nawrocki, PhD, co-authored was picked up by 17 media outlets; Audriana Hurbon, MD, had over a dozen media hits with a study she presented at ATC International in San Francisco on hormone replacement therapy, women and pulmonary hypertension; and Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, MD, had several pickups for comments on “What Gen Z gets wrong about sunscreen,” which appeared first in the New York Times. 

For these and other Media Mentions, click here.

Upcoming Events:

• 2024 Clinical Trials Development Workshop, June 21, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m., HSIB Forum
• Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds with Dr. Marc Orbach on ‘Finding Key to Valley Fever Vaccine’, June 26, 8-9 a.m., COM-T 8403
• TMC Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: ‘HIV & PrEP Update’, July 5, 12:30-1:30 p.m., TMC Marshal Auditorium (speaker: ID’s Dr. Danielle Avila)
• BIO5 Inspiring Women in STEM, July 13, 11:30 a.m., Keating 103
• KEYS Research Internship Showcase, July 19, 9 a.m.-Noon, HSIB Forum
• COM-T Class of 2028 White Coat Ceremony, July 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Centennial Hall

For these and other DOM Event listings, click here.

Find the online version of the June 2024 Internal Digest newsletter here. Join us again in July for more news from faculty, trainees and staff of the Department of Medicine.

For prior editions of Internal Digest, see the DOM Newsletters Archive at this link.