As Ike Chinyere, PhD, a University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson third-year medical student, breaks it down, biomedical research, clinical care and entrepreneurship fit together naturally.

It has been two decades since the publication of Unequal Treatment, the first major report to point to longstanding systemic racism as the primary reason for the nation’s deeply entrenched health disparities. Jennie Joe, PhD, MPH, a professor emerita of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and interim director of the UArizona Wassaja Carlos Montezuma Center for Native American Health, is quoted.

College of Medicine – Tucson Class of 2024 medical students will receive their white coats on Feb. 25.

Even as they take a moment to celebrate their successes over the past 65 years, the College of Nursing looks to the future with the launch of a Certified Nurse Midwifery program.

Opinion piece by Geoffrey Boyce, PhD, academic director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program in Tucson and Sam Chambers, PhD, a researcher in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers were awarded a $6.6 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop the Center of Excellence in Addiction Studies to improve addiction research and develop therapies that can stem the opioid epidemic and impact other substance abuse disorders.

A new initiative seeks to unite global experts from universities, government agencies, nonprofits and industry to develop solutions to future pandemics.

Michel Corban, MD, a board-certified interventional cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the UArizona Sarver Heart Center, explains the causes and symptoms of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). “Four percent of all heart attacks are related to SCAD and in particular, up to 35 percent of heart attacks in women less than 50 years of age are related to SCAD,” Corban said.