With holiday décor, pictured (left to right) – photo 1: Kim Neil, administrative associate, with Drs. JP Ferreira and Tejo Vemulapalli, chief, Division of Inpatient Medicine; photo 2: Julie Forte, Lucy Contreras and Michele Dalmendray, in the Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus office; and photo 3: the Division of Nephrology’s Sharon Bolin, administrative associate, and Sheila Hawkins, MA.
Toward the end of the year, gatherings to celebrate accomplishments, to acknowledge mutual contributions toward those and to look forward in anticipation of the future are customary in all cultures.
At the UA Department of Medicine, this includes an annual faculty gathering as well as an annual staff luncheon.
On right, photo of Dr. Tom Boyer and Liver Research Institute staff above and, below, LRI admin Lisa Laughlin and Mirna Cano, MA.
Here are photo galleries of those gatherings plus one for the UA Division of Rheumatology (click on the image or PDF to view):
■ Annual End-of-the-Year Faculty Gathering 
[PDF]
The Lodge at Ventana Canyon
Dec. 9, 2016
■ Annual End-of-the-Year Staff Luncheon [PDF]
Kiewit Auditorium
Dec. 15, 2016
■ Annual Division of Rheumatology/Arthritis Center Faculty & Staff Luncheon [PDF]
UA Arthritis Center Conference Room
Dec. 16, 2016
At the Rheumatology event, gatherers were joined by a jolly man in red and the keynote speaker for the UA Arthritis Center’s 15th Annual Living Healthy with Arthritis Conference, Esther Sternberg, MD, a professor of medicine and psychology, research director, UA Center for Integrative Medicine, and director, UA Institute on Place and Wellbeing. A Arizona Daily Star reporter later interviewed Dr. Sternberg as a preview to the Jan. 28 conference — read more.
We appreciate all that you do. Hope you have/had a good winter break and enjoy a prosperous and happy New Year!
—David Mogollón