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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.

A workshop chaired by Dr. Franz Rischard goes beyond how much a person’s race outweighs their mixed ancestry, sex and/or social determinants of health in a disease directly affecting over 2 million people in the U.S.

With just a few weeks under her belt as a faculty member, Dr. April Ehrlich, in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, was off to NIA headquarters for a weeklong summer aging research symposium named for the institute’s first two directors.

Dr. Liz Connick received NIH/NIAID bridge funding to identify factors in secondary lymphoid tissues that lead to continuous low-level expression of HIV in people living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral therapy, or ART.

Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA, is the new head of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and associate director of basic science at the Sarver Heart Center.

Researchers are studying the effects of circadian rhythm disruption on the lungs.

A fellowship for women in medicine and science supported projects that are improving education, research and patient care — and preparing participants for leadership.