UA Surgeons Perform Rare and Complex Organ Transplants
En bloc kidney transplantation allows two pediatric kidneys to do the work of a single adult organ. Illustration by Dave Cantrell, AHSC Biomedical Communications.
Under the leadership of a new chairman, The University of Arizona Department of Surgery is reaching new milestones and surgeons are performing rare and complex procedures at University Medical Center. A prime example is the Transplant Program, which is offering new hope to people suffering from organ failure.
First Combined Heart-Kidney Transplant
On Dec. 8, surgeons performed the fi rst simultaneous heart and kidney transplant in Southern Arizona. After an earlier failed heart transplant and resulting kidney failure, 41-year-old husband and father Ron Webb now is recovering from the back-to-back dual-organ transplant.
T-Health in Phoenix: A Model for Medical Education And Health Care of the Future
They say that "life begins at 40" -- and the same can be said of the next generation of health-care education programs at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, which turned 40 in November.
Medical education no longer is bound by the walls of classrooms, labs and clinics. Today's medical students are learning medicine throughout Arizona and beyond, while they remain on campus -- and health-care professionals are continuing their medical education without leaving their home towns -- thanks to the UA College of Medicine's Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP).
High-Tech, Interactive: UA College of Medicine Labs Go Virtual
Forty years ago, John Palmer, MD, PhD, was a young assistant professor who would teach pharmacology to the first University of Arizona medical students in the brand-new Basic Sciences Building. Now a professor emeritus at the College, Dr. Palmer still teaches in some of those same labs. But they have undergone quite a transformation.
Arriving in Tucson in 1966 from the University of Colorado, Dr. Palmer worked with College of Medicine Founding Dean Merlin K. ("Monte") DuVal, MD, Philip H. Krutzsch, PhD, and Oscar A. Thorup, MD, to help get the UA College of Medicine off the ground. The building they planned would house the basic science departments – anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, pharmacy and physiology – and would accommodate the teaching needs of each, as well as an interdisciplinary course in neuroscience.
40 Years of Advances in Cardiovascular Medicine
"The signs and symptoms of heart disease can be very different in women and men," says UA Sarver Heart Center member Lorraine Mackstaller, MD.
Life expectancy has increased approximately seven years since 1960, and 50 percent of this increase was attributed to improved health care, according to a study published in 2006 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Some 70 percent of the longevity gain from improved health care was due to advances in the fight against cardiovascular disease. The University of Arizona College of Medicine has been at the forefront of this revolution.
UA College of Medicine History Includes Partnerships in Maricopa County
UA College of Medicine – Phoenix in partnership with ASU
The shortage of physicians is critical, and The University of Arizona College of Medicine is addressing that urgent need.
While the UA College of Medicine celebrates four decades in Tucson, the College is meeting the statewide challenge of training more physicians with an expansion into Arizona's capital city.
Community Shows Tremendous Support During Fund-Raising Campaign For Medical College
Originally published on the College of Medicine's 25th anniversary, 1992.
Community support was “overwhelming” during a historic citizen’s fund-raising campaign in 1963-64 to raise the initial money for a College of Medicine in Tucson, several campaign veterans recall.
Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL)
Arizona Health Sciences Library Reference Desk
The Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL), one of the earliest units planned for the College of Medicine, opened its doors in September 1967. Today, AHSL is the largest, most comprehensive health sciences library in Arizona, providing online access to vast stores of biomedical literature in a collegial atmosphere, as well as instruction and research assistance.
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