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Lorre Laws teaches nursing students peace and resilience

Assistant professor overcomes her own near-death trauma to pair healing arts with health sciences.

Lorre Laws, PhD, walks in the desert next to a young woman.

Dan Combs, MD, assistant professor in pediatrics and sleep medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Medicine, holds his hand up to a young Down syndrome patient for a high five in an office.

Dan Combs helps young Down syndrome patients get good ZZZs

Oct. 1, 2024

Assistant professor focuses on improving sleep as the first step toward a better quality of life for his patients and their families.

Jonathan Lee-Confer assists a student putting an arm sensor on another student.

Preventing falls a deeply personal mission for researcher

Sept. 23, 2024

After seeing the debilitating effects of slips and falls on older adults, Jonathan Lee-Confer’s research focuses on strengthening the arms to lower risks.

Portrait of Ricardo Correa, MD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix’s Divison of Endocrinology, outside next to a mural.

Ricardo Correa filling the gap for the underserved

Sept. 16, 2024

College of Medicine – Phoenix assistant clinical professor felt called to medicine early to help minorities, the underrepresented and refugees.

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Honors & Awards

Portrait of Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD, standing outside

Jonathan Lifshitz named to NIH neurological study section

Monday

Jonathan Lifshitz named to NIH neurological study section

Portrait of Frank G. Walter, MD, standing outside

Frank G. Walter receives career achievement award from AACT

Sept. 30, 2024

Frank G. Walter receives career achievement award from AACT

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A surprised young boy lifts a bag of sugar behind soda bottles on a table while two women watch him. — Evan Donalds is surprised to learn how much sugar is in a bottle of soda at the activity table run by Alexa Waldfogel (left), a Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health student, during the Wellness and Wonder community event on Sept. 21. Evan’s great grandmother, Susan Dick, looks on.

Photo by Noelle Haro-Gomez, U of A Health Sciences Office of Communications

Sept. 26, 2024

Wellness and Wonder event excites Tucson community

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