Health

The University of Arizona College of Public Health has been awarded a $1.7 million federal appropriation for expansion of a collaborative program to enhance prevention and control of diabetes in border populations.

The University of Arizona "Mini-Medical School" is offering a six-week evening lecture series on basic anatomy and how our bodies fall prey to cancer and heart disease beginning Feb. 28 at the UA College of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.

Investigators at the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry are joining colleagues at more than a dozen other academic medical centers to study the treatment of depression over two and one-half years.

Tara L. McMahon has been appointed director of development for the Arizona Respiratory Sciences Center, a Center of Excellence at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

Patients at high risk for medication problems can receive innovative and valuable help from pharmacists, without increasing overall health-care costs, according to a College of Pharmacy researcher.

Tucson guitarist and composer Chris Burton J

A new pediatric otolaryngolgist (ears, nose and throat), whose research helped to pinpoint the genetic cause of deafness, is now working to further understand the role of genetics in deafness.

Marjorie A. Isenberg, an internationally noted nursing educator, researcher and administrator, has been appointed dean of the University of Arizona College of Nursing, effective Jan. 8, 2001.

The latest equipment in technology-based vision screening for young children was demonstrated Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 655 N. Alvernon Way, Suite 108. Three experts in pediatric eye disease and visual development presented a lecture and demonstration on "New Strategies for Preschool Vision."

Marjorie A. Isenberg, an internationally noted nursing educator, researcher and administrator, has been appointed dean of the University of Arizona College of Nursing.