People and Programs On The Move At The University of Arizona College of Medicine
June 23, 2009
Arizona Center on Aging’s Dr. Nikolich-Žugich Elected President of the American Aging Association 
Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, co-director of the Arizona Center on Aging at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been elected president of the American Aging Association. The appointment was made effective at the Association’s recent annual meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz.
As AAA president, Dr. Nikolich-Žugich will organize and chair the 39th Annual AGE Meeting, “Inflammation and the Aging Process: Causes and Consequences,” which will be held in Portland, Ore., June 4-7, 2010.
Dr. Nikolich-Žugich also is chairman of the Department of Immunobiology at the UA College of Medicine and Bowman Professor of Medical Research at the UA. He is a member of the BIO5 Institute and the Arizona Cancer Center and a professor with the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The American Aging Association (AAA) was founded in 1970 by Denham Harman, MD, PhD, father of the free radical theory of aging, and is the premier national and international organization for biomedical scientists who work on the biology of aging. The primary mission of AAA is to understand, through biomedical research, the basic mechanisms that cause the aging process. Other AAA goals include informing the public of the progress of aging research and of practical means of achieving a long and healthy life, and increasing knowledge of gerontology among physicians and other members of the health team.
For more information about the Arizona Center on Aging, visit the Web site http://aging.medicine.arizona.edu/
For more information about the American Aging Association, visit the Web site http://www.americanaging.org/
Arizona Telemedicine Program’s Dr. Krupinski to Speak at NIH Telehealth Conference, June 25-26
Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD, associate director of evaluation and assessment for the Arizona Telemedicine Program at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, will participate in a conference, “Future of Telehealth: Essential Tools and Technologies for Clinical Research and Care,” June 25-26. Dr. Krupinski will speak on “Implementation and Evaluation of Telehealth Tools and Technologies.”
The National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with Internet2, the American Telemedicine Association, the Veterans Administration and other federal partners, is presenting the two-day conference, which is free and open to the public, on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md.
The event will bring together stakeholders from government agencies, academic institutions, health-care organizations and technology companies to review the state of telehealth science and technology, identify gaps in knowledge that can be addressed through targeted research and evaluation initiatives and explore opportunities to leverage evolving information and communication technologies to advance the field. A portion of the event will be Webcast (http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=7466) and onsite registration will be available. For more information, visit http://events.internet2.edu/2009/NIH/index.html
Dr. Krupinski, who also is a UA professor of radiology, public health and psychology, recently completed her term as president of the American Telemedicine Association.
UA College of Medicine Faculty Members Honored by Gold Foundation and Class of 2009
Three faculty members with The University of Arizona College of Medicine recently were honored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and the Class of 2009. The awards were presented at the recent Senior Awards Brunch.
William Madden, MD, associate professor of clinical pediatrics, received “The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award,” presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. This award is presented to a faculty member who best demonstrates the Gold Foundation’s ideals of outstanding compassion in the delivery of care, respect for patients, their families and health-care colleagues, as well as demonstrated clinical excellence.
The Class of 2009 selected William Adamás-Rappaport, MD, associate professor of surgery, to receive the “Outstanding Teacher in the Clinical Sciences Award,” and Achyut Bhattacharyya, MD, interim head of the Department of Pathology and professor of clinical pathology and clinical surgery, to receive the “Outstanding Teacher in the Basic Sciences Award.”
