A nurse practitioner, an administrator and a physician took the honors in the first-ever awards ceremony for the Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine.

The Division of Infectious Diseases and Valley Fever Center for Excellence physician-scientist is on the front line in the fight for her patients and to bring increased attention to the fungal disease.

Celebrating outreach, mentorship, education, patient care and research, the awards were divvied up by eight divisions with the most going to the General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine and Cardiology divisions.

A new paper published in Nature provides insights into why men with loss of Y have increased cancer risks and poorer outcomes.

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.