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Bhaskar Banerjee, MD, Hsiao-Hui “Sherry” Chow, PhD, and C. Kent Kwoh, MD, are among the newest Professor Emeritus members at the college. The Department of Medicine now has 16 retired faculty members who’ve gained this august status due to their many career achievements. See who they are.

An FDA-approved osteoporosis treatment might nudge a mutated protein back into shape and improve heart function, according to a study by University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson researchers.

The Sarver Heart Center director and associate director are recognized Feb. 10 with peers, friends and family as team “to build a world-class cardiovascular program here.” With a $75 million fundraising campaign under way by the college (and $27 million already committed) they’re fast on their way to reaching the goal.

Three fellows in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship won top honors in the competition in Phoenix and will be recognized this weekend at the ACC AZ Chapter Annual Meeting and compete at nationals in Chicago in March.

Several cardiovascular professionals were honored at the Wildcats women’s basketball team’s big win over ASU on Saturday, Feb. 8.

Experimental, three-drug chemotherapy regimen didn’t improve survival rates for patients, but treatment might still prove helpful for a small subset of patients.

An international research team co-led by Sarver Heart Center Director Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, shows that about 25% of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack.

Interventional Pulmonology program director Billie Bixby, MD, Infectious Diseases Fellowship associate program director Monica Hinestroza Jordan, MD, and geriatrician Julia Jernberg, MD, who heads the Ambulatory Clerkship Program, are among five new members picked for local society’s board. See who else from U of A is represented.

Proving a stitch in time saves nine, the associate medical director for the Lung Transplant Program at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson spotted an incorrect measurement on a patient’s donor wait list information. A quick update got them a donor offer soon after.

The Division of Infectious Diseases and U of A GME office signed a five-year letter of agreement with the Hospital Clínico Viedma in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a four-week elective rotation there led by assistant professor Monica Jordan Hinestroza, MD, this February.