DOM Year-End Luncheon offers opportunity to gather and celebrate 2025

Dec. 8, 2025
David Mogollon, Communications Manager, Department of Medicine

New features such as an igloo-themed holiday photo booth and a raffle drawing made the Dec. 3 event even more fun and spectacular. See a mini-photo gallery and links to more photos.

[From left, Department of Medicine clinical associate directors Monique Murillo and Monica Rodriguez, Megan Rumble, Lauren Melcher, RN, Natalie Provencia-Dean, Sylvia Lopez, RN, Xochilt Ortega, Ken Bottrill, and Gina Dominguez – sporting their photobooth headwear Dec. 3 at the 2025 DOM Year-End Faculty & Staff Luncheon.]

From left, Department of Medicine clinical associate directors Monique Murillo and Monica Rodriguez, Megan Rumble, Lauren Melcher, RN, Natalie Provencia-Dean, Sylvia Lopez, RN, Xochilt Ortega, Ken Bottrill, and Gina Dominguez – sporting their photobooth headwear Dec. 3 at the 2025 DOM Year-End Faculty & Staff Luncheon.

David Mogollon, Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine’s traditional Annual Year-End Faculty & Staff Appreciation Luncheon in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Social Hall got some extra sparkle this year with the addition of an igloo-themed holiday photo booth and a free raffle drawing of prizes.

Many people posted their photo booth pictures in their cubicles across the U of A Health Sciences campus. 

The event, featuring an Italian buffet smorgasbord, capped off a spectacular year for the department, according to Department Chair James K. Liao, MD, the Robert S. and Irene Flinn Endowed Chair in Medicine at the college, as illustrated by a photo slide show of highlights from throughout 2025. 

You can find those photos and more from the Dec. 3 luncheon at this BOX link (use your U of A WebAuth sign-in to access it). Other photos from earlier Year-End Luncheon celebrations can be found here: 2024 and 2023.

(Photos courtesy of David Mogollon, Department of Medicine.)

MINI-PHOTO GALLERY
Click images to enlarge and for captions:

[Arizona Arthritis Center director and past Rheumatolgy division chief C. Kent Kwoh, MD, joins the crowd Dec. 3 in the College of Medicine – Tucson Social Hall for Department of Medicine Year-End Luncheon.]
[Department of Medicine staffers sign in for the Dec. 3 DOM Year-End Luncheon in the College of Medicine – Tucson Social Hall as Division of Infectious Diseases admin Lisa Torres-Jones directs them to the food.]
[Tucson Dean Michael M.I. Abecassis, MD, MBA, stops in at DOM Year-End Luncheon to celebrate with the college’s largest department. Serena Scott, MD, MBA, DOM vice chair for faculty development & wellness, and DOM Chair Jim Liao, MD, are to the right of Dr. Abecassis.]
[The Division of Infectious Diseases’ Connie Chan, PharmD, and Alyssa Guido, MPH (on right in lower foreground), chat as they await their turn at the smorgasbord Italian buffet for the DOM Year-End Luncheon.]
[From left, the Division of Inpatient Medicine chief Tejo Vemulapalli, MD, Kim Neil, and J.P. Ferreira, MD (the trickster), Tyler Wong, Breanna Sherrow-Serrano, PhD, Cesar Munguia, MD, Domingo Maynes, MD, and Jennifer Plitt, MD.]
[At the head of the table, Division of Cardiology chief and Sarver Heart Center director Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, with members of his staff, including (left of Dr. Sadek) Mia Gonzales, and Madhan Sundaram, MD, Joe Alpert, MD (on right, in middle). ]
[From left, Jason Toone, Scott Hall, Jim Knepler, MD, Gebran Abboud, MD, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology chief Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, Avin Aggarwal, MBBS, and Rolando Leal, MD.]
[Aegis Consortium’s PASC-RECOVER research team on behalf of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine (from left): Alyssa Zapien, Alison Slocum, Nayeli Lopez, Lupita Rodriguez, Sydnee Walker, Linda Abdullhadi, Sydney Mintalar, Alison Koleski, Ana Andrade, and Jeannete Peralta.]
[The Division of Infectious Diseases admin Melody Ayon gets her beard adjusted by division colleague Richelle Clemente just before their turn in the igloo-themed holiday photo booth.]
[A collage of staffers — including Megan Rumble, Natalie Provencia-Dean, Sylvia Lopez, RN, and Xochilt Ortega — gather for a photo in the igloo-themed holiday photo booth as Clarissa Evalde, the proprietor of Madaya Rental adjusts the camera for them.]
[From left, Jacquay George, Christene Rogers, Deb Gilmore and Taryn Sanchez, of the Arizona Hemostasis & Thrombosis Center led by Akshay Amaraneni, MD — a unit of the Division of Hematology & Oncology — take their turn in the igloo-themed holiday photo booth.]
[Rheumatology’s Claudia Rosales and Gastroenterology’s Maria Longoria and Pita Moreno show off their pictures from the igloo-themed holiday photo booth at this year’s DOM Year-End Luncheon.]
[DOM Chair Jim Liao, MD, kicks off the festivities by addressing and thanking the department’s faculty and staff for their contributions in making 2025 a wonderful year. ]
[Infectious Diseases admin Melody Ayon hands in her raffle ticket for her prize at the DOM Year-End Luncheon.]
[Steffan Nawrocki, MD, a member of the reinstated Division of Translational Medicine led by chief Jennifer Carew, PhD, accepts a U of A blanket as his raffle prize during the DOM Year-End Luncheon.]
[Internal Medicine Residency Program admin Elizabeth Cazesuz gladly accepts a U of A frame in exchange for her raffle ticket at the DOM Year-End Luncheon.]

Contacts

David Mogollon
mogollon@arizona.edu
520-626-1137