The UArizona Sarver Heart Center recently welcomed four cardiologists: Michel Corban, MD, Craig Hoover, MD, and Saad Kubba, MD, joined the Division of Cardiology; and Robert L. Hooker, MD, joined the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. All are faculty members in the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Medicine, and all are seeing patients at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson.

Faculty have expertise in interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, advanced heart disease, transplant cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.

The Arizona Telemedicine Program celebrates its 25th year as telehealth is growing in demand around the country spurred by increased use tied to COVID-19.

On the cusp of a new role to reduce statewide COVID-19 disparities, Dr. Mona Arora discusses public health preparedness, climate change and the pandemic.

The College of Medicine – Phoenix is one of 11 medical schools in a new anti-racism initiative. The Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education initiative at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai seeks to use a formal change management process developed at New York City-based Mount Sinai to address deeply entrenched racism and bias.

Data from an ongoing research study at the University of Arizona Health Sciences show that first responders – including firefighters, law enforcement, correctional officers and emergency medical service providers – are at elevated risk of COVID-19 infection compared with other essential workers and frontline health care personnel.

Researchers at the University of Arizona are studying why women experience pain and addiction differently than men. Clinical trials have historically favored males, despite females being at a higher risk for both. Hormones could be central to new treatments and recovery methods. Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of family and community medicine from the College of Medicine – Tucson, discuss their research.

The Dance for Parkinson’s community event was held on Thursday at the Health Sciences Innovation Building in Tucson. Dance for PD was born from the idea that people with Parkinson’s disease could benefit from the insight and specific techniques and methods used by dancers to guide their own bodies and minds.

Evidence that the Moderna vaccine produces a higher level of antibodies than the Pfizer vaccine might give it an edge as a booster, some scientists say. Yet some people experience more side effects with Moderna, albeit mostly moderate ones, such as fatigue, muscle aches and chills. And the antibody difference between Pfizer and Moderna isn’t huge. “From the data we’ve got, Moderna is doing a touch bit better,” says Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson. “We’re not talking orders of magnitude.”