May 2004/Vol. 20 / No. 4
UA students receive national medical honor
UA College of Medicine students Heather Glanzberg, Nancy Kim and Kamalesh Ramalya, from the Tucson campus, and William "B.J." Spire from the Phoenix Campus have been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha national honor medical society for their outstanding excellence in medical science.
`Ryan White' federal funding allows University of Arizona
Health Sciences to expand HIV/AIDS care
The University of Arizona has been awarded $360,000 from the federal Ryan White CARE Act to expand its patient care services for HIV/AIDS patients in Pima County. Ryan White Early Intervention Services Clinics now are held at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and at Kino Hospital.
Arizona Health Sciences Library offers new online newsletter
"Focus on AHSL" (http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/news/newsletter) is a new, online newsletter designed to bring you the latest information on the events, services and resources of the library. For more information, contact Joan Schlimgen, 626-6140, joan@ahls.arizona.edu
Arizona AHEC Helps Fund Community College Nursing Programs
Thanks in part to funding from the Arizona Area Health Education Centers Program (Arizona AHEC), six Arizona community colleges are taking individual approaches to address a chief contributor to the state's shortage of nurses - a lack of capacity in Arizona's nursing education programs. Arizona AHEC consulted with each school to help identify its needs and craft project proposals. Each project takes a unique approach to training more and better-prepared nursing students in the schools' communities.
AHSC Phoenix Campus
News and Notes
Proceeds from book sales to help support scholarship fund for UA College of Medicine students in Phoenix
Lori Arviso Alvord, MD, the first Navajo woman surgeon in the United States, spoke about ceremony and healing to over 1,000 people during her two-day visit to Phoenix in March. Proceeds from sales of her book, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, were contributed to a scholarship fund for medical students in Phoenix who plan to serve underserved populations.
Reservations now accepted for lecture series
The Health Sciences Lecture Series brings a new three-evening lecture program on medical ethics to the AHSC Phoenix Campus on consecutive Wednesdays, beginning May 12. "Medical Ethics: The Moral Dilemma Facing Today's Medical Discoveries" will feature such topics as, "Is Genomics Playing God Responsibly" and "When Do We Stop? Myths About Death, Dying, Advance Directives and 'Pulling the Plug." To register, call (602) 631-4600.
Faculty appointment
David E. Bank, MD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics, has been awarded a faculty appointment to the AHSC Phoenix Campus.
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Dr. Keith Joiner, COM dean, performs simulated surgery using a
laparoscopic trainer during the Surgery Simulator Expo held Friday,
April 16, in Kiewit Auditorium. Sponsored by the Arizona Surgery Club
and the Department of Surgery, the expo featured demonstrations of
medical simulators that are allowing surgeons to practice delicate
operations on virtual patients.
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