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July 13, 2001

UMC Ranked Among Nation's Top Hospitals in 10 Separate Medical Specialties

University Medical Center is among the nation's best hospitals for 10 areas of specialty medical care, according to U.S. News and World Report's annual guide to "America's Best Hospitals."

July 9, 2001

Kent Rollins Named President of UMC Foundation

University Medical Center has established a fund-raising foundation and selected Kent D. Rollins, former president of the Arizona Alumni Association and director of alumni at the University of Arizona, to serve as the UMC Foundation's first president.

July 6, 2001

AHSC Phoenix Campus Office of Research Awarded $900,000 Grant

Flinn Foundation gift to the AHSC Phoenix Campus to promote greater collaborations between Phoenix and Tucson researchers on a variety of initiatives to promote educational, regulatory and research infrastructure needs.

July 3, 2001

UA Cardiology Expert Says Reports of Clots Caused by Air Travel Misleading

Reports of potentially fatal blood clots developing during long flights have wrongly placed blame on coach-class seating conditions and not on the underlying medical problems, which are rare, says Dr. Gordon A. Ewy, chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona and director of the UA Sarver Heart Center.

June 25, 2001

Arizona Telemedicine Program Honored As Best In Nation, Beyond

The Arizona Telemedicine Program at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center recently was recognized as the premier telemedicine program in the nation and beyond.

June 21, 2001

People and Places On The Move At the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC)

People and Places On The Move At the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC)

June 20, 2001

Copeland Receives National Award for Work with Heart Devices

Dr. Jack G. Copeland III is the recipient of the 2001 Barney Clark Award, a recognition of his success in the use of artificial hearts and heart-assist devices. The award commends Copeland for "interjecting science into the process, and for leadership in moving the total artificial heart from failure to highly successful clinical applications."

June 15, 2001

UA Integrative Medicine Fellows to Graduate

The University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine -- the nation's first postgraduate fellowship program in integrative medicine -- will hold a graduation ceremony for its third class of residential Fellows.

June 13, 2001

Pregnant Women Needed for UA Study of Smoking and Pregnancy

The University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine is seeking pregnant women for a study of smoking and quitting during pregnancy.

June 12, 2001

Lecture On Women's Mental Health Issues

Lecture presented by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

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