Through classroom discussion and sustainability advocacy in his own community, Brian Drummond, MD, encourages students to consider how climate change affects patient health.

With Division of Endocrinology presenters Ronadip Banerjee, MD, PhD, division chief, and Jennifer Stern, PhD, the key focus was on glucagon and GLP-1 receptor agonists’ role in weight-loss and healthspan improvement as we age.

Researchers received a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to examine how being awake in the middle of the night could impact a person’s ability to make decisions.

With a focus on pandemics, lungs and sleep research, this NIH-funded program is recruiting biomedical sciences research candidates for the 12th cohort of an scientific training fellowship led by Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, Francisco Moreno, MD, and Janko Nikolich, MD, PhD. Starting in July, it’s open to applicants from across the U of A Health Sciences. Learn more and apply.

With multiple Department of Medicine faculty acting as judges and evaluators, poster and oral vignette presenters outdid themselves at this annual event to cap off research projects often presented at symposiums and conferences around the nation.

People living with chronic pain are more likely to have treatment-resistant depression — or not receive any treatment at all. Dr. Jennifer S. De La Rosa hopes to address the unmet needs of this population.

With a high of six for the Division of Inpatient Medicine and five each for the Hematology & Oncology and Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine divisions, this is the most promotions in decades for the department. Congrats, one and all!

Several College of Medicine – Tucson and Department of Medicine faculty participated as panelists and moderators at this event, which celebrated the serendipitous missions in efforts to improve medical therapies and healthcare throughout Southern Arizona.

A five-year, nearly $14 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, will support a University of Arizona-led clinical trial headed by Sairam Parthsarathy, MD, comparing three common treatments for obstructive sleep apnea.

Bital Savir-Baruch, MD, FACNM, a professor of radiology and imaging sciences at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, received the Steven M. Pinsky Distinguished Service Award/Gold Medal.