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Three U of A Department of Medicine staff — Terri Buchanan, Christeana Castro and Bersabe Lopez — are among 16 people up for the Lura Hanekamp Dedicated Staff Award of Excellence. Register to attend the June 25 ceremony.

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 Madhavan Lab offers students and postdocs valuable opportunities to engage the public and sharpen their communication skills.