The addition brings total to a baker’s dozen of residents and fellows since 2023 that the Department of Medicine fund has helped present original research at academic meetings across the country, including three this May.

Vaccinated people generated an overall protective immune response to the Delta and Omicron strains of COVID-19, though with slightly fewer antibodies for the mutated parts of the virus.

Faculty from six divisions in the Department of Medicine can lay claim to new titles come July 1, according to the latest promotion and tenure announcements by the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Division Chief of Dermatology Clara Curiel, MD, is co-investigator on a team hoping to image nerve endings and create objective, quantitative biomarkers for CIPN.

A research team helmed by Sarver Heart Center Associate Director Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, illuminates a potential path toward reversing a type of heart disease that lacks good treatments.

On May 15, 117 University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson students will receive their medical degrees at Centennial Hall.

The 27 honorees include the Department of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology and Sarver Heart Center member Marvin Slepian, MD, JD, and Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, PhD, MPH, associate professor of public health with a dual appointment in DOM’s Division of Infectious Diseases.

The Department of Medicine’s Drs. Danielle Avila, Billie Bixby, Saher Khalid and Amy Klein presented on their Leadership Advancement in Medicine and Science Fellowship projects May 6, as did three other graduating fellows. Incoming 2025-26 LAMS fellows include the DOM’s Drs. Joy Bulger Beck and Jennifer Plitt. See a mini-photo gallery.

More than a quarter of the 115 research posters presented included mentors from the Department of Medicine. See who they were, their presenters and research themes as well as a mini-photo gallery.

Ever since a chance encounter in an outpatient clinic, Curtis McGuire has kept his eye on the prize: a career as an anesthesiologist.