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

Nearly $215,000 in seed money will promote research in brain cancer, calorie restriction and healthy aging, vision problems in Parkinson’s patients, strength training for healthy blood pressure during pregnancy and immune defenses against a brain parasite.

Ali Kellerman, headed to College of Agriculture and Life Sciences division, and Julio Valencia and Angelica Bonfiglio, to the College of Medicine – Tucson’s new Department of Dermatology, got certificates. Bersabe Lopez left for Dermatology, too.

The University of Arizona Cancer Center’s annual showcase of research lived well up to its promise this year, with multiple participants from six divisions of the Department of Medicine — and new U of A chief AI and data science officer David Ebert, PhD.

The GI Division chief at the College of Medicine – Tucson may postpone her induction because of a conflict over the date due to her role as Association of American Physicians’ current president.

Held Nov. 14-15 in Mesa, Arizona, Department of Medicine participants at the American College of Physicians – Arizona Chapter annual meeting took home Educator, Resident, Student and Laureate of the Year honors as well as several poster awards. Other DOM faculty presented lectures at the 12-CME event.

With a third more attendees than the first forum, the Department of Medicine’s second Sharing Opportunities & Achievements in Research (SOAR in DOM) event focused on aging research as a thematic challenge.

University of Arizona and Banner Health officials will enhance research processes and cut time from proposal to first-subject-enrolled for clinical trials at the College of Medicine – Tucson and U of A Cancer Center.

As Arizona marks its 23rd Annual Valley Fever Awareness Week, milestones have been reached to identify the fungal disease sooner with Banner Health’s expanded clinical protocols, says the Valley Fever Center for Excellence’s John Galgiani, MD.

Billed as a team-building exercise, the Iron Chef-style contest sponsored Oct. 23 by the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and Banner Health drew 24 cooks from six College of Medicine – Tucson departments and three residency programs.