Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP), recently was elected president of the American Telemedicine Association at its annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. The American Telemedicine Association is the largest and most prestigious professional society in the telemedicine field. Since founding the ATP in 1996, it has evolved from an eight-site demonstration project, funded by the Arizona State Legislature, into one of the largest and most successful telemedicine programs in the world. Program participants include many health care facilities on the Navajo, Hopi and Apache Indian Reservations, the rural Arizona State Prisons, schools in Phoenix, hospitals in border communities (including Nogales, Douglas and Yuma), and health care facilities in many other rural and urban communities throughout the state.

Zhao Chen, PhD, assistant professor of public health, whose abstract "Increased Fracture Risk among Breast Cancer Survivors—Results from the Women's Health Initiative," was selected by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Newsworthy Abstract Review Committee as potentially being of great interest to the media. This year, more than 1,800 abstracts were submitted to the ASBMR 25^th Annual Meeting & Anniversary Celebration. Dr. Chen has been invited to present the abstract at a media briefing during the annual meeting on Sept. 19 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. She will explain her research in lay language and answer questions from media in attendance.

William A. Grana, MD, MPH, professor and head of Orthopaedic Surgery, was elected vice president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and will be a part of that organization's Board of Directors. The AOSSM is an organization of approximately 1,500 orthopaedic surgeons with subspecialty interest in orthopaedic sports medicine. This organization provides leadership and educational opportunities for orthopaedic surgeons and other health professionals in the area of sports medicine.

Obstetricians, gynecologists and pediatricians from UMC and The University Physicians were on hand to answer general questions about pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care at no charge at UMC's "Ask a Doc" booth at the 13^th Annual Baby Fair at the Tucson Convention Center, Aug. 16. Answering questions were Jaime Ledesma, MD, GYN, UMC North Hills Physician Office, Troy Shelton, MD, OB/GYN, 8OPC, Steven Moore, MD, pediatrician, UMC Pantano Physician Office, Anmarie Moore, MD, pediatrician, Amy Mitchell, MD, OB/GYN, 8OPC, Martha Eicher, MD, pediatrician, UMC North Hills Physician Office, Enzie Briskey, MD, OB/GYN, 8OPC, and Sarah Schoel, MD, OB/GYN, 8OPC.

Dennis D. Patton, MD, UMC Division of Nuclear Medicine, attended the annual meeting of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, as an invited observer, representing the UA and the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America. This was the year for the laureates in Medicine or Physiology. For four days, 12 Nobelists lectured about their work and held discussion groups with 500 students from all over the world.

James M. Galloway

Ronald S. Weinstein

Zhao Chen

William A. Grana