Search Results for: medicine

April 24, 2012

• Doctor Residencies Report  |   Video
  • A new report highlighting physician residency programs and the role they play in economic development, ensuring Arizona’s health care workforce is robust enough to meet the State’s health care needs. Guests include: Suzanne Taylor, Senior Vice President of Public Policy for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Michael Grossman, Director of Medical Education for Maricopa Integrated Health System; and Dr. Michael Whitcomb, a Flinn Foundation Medical Innovation Visiting Scholar at the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix.

March 28, 2012

• Ethics and Owning Your Genetic Code   |   Video
  • Drs. Gary Marchant and George Poste of ASU and Stephanie Buchholtz of TGen explore the moral and ethical dilemmas facing personalized medicine when individuals have access to their own genome sequences.

November 16, 2011

• Personalized Medicine  |   Video
  • The Greater Phoenix Economic Council is hosting a summit on the future of the personalized medicine industry in Arizona. GPEC President and CEO Barry Broome; Richard Mallery, Founder and Chairman of the International Genomics Consortium; and ASU Professor Anna Barker director of the university’s Transformative Healthcare Networks initiative talk about Arizona’s growth opportunities in personalized medicine.

November 11, 2011

• Journalists’ Roundtable  |   Video
  • Arizona journalists discuss the week's top news stories.

July 19, 2011

• Valley Fever  |   Video
  • John Galgiani, MD, Director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence at the University of Arizona College of Medicine explains why he expects a significant increase in Valley Fever infections following the huge dust storm that swept across the Valley on July 5th.

May 18, 2011

• Arizona Technology and Innovation: Rapid DNA Testing   |   Video
  • After Osama bin Laden was killed, his identity was quickly verified through DNA. It likely required massive equipment in a nearby command center, but the UofA is working on technology to make the process more portable. Dr. Frederick Zenhausern, Director of the Center for Applied Nano-bioscience and Medicine at the UA Medical School in Phoenix, discusses the development of Rapid DNA testing equipment.

August 10, 2010

• UA College of Medicine - Phoenix   |   Video
  • Dr. Stuart D. Flynn, Dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, discusses the latest news involving the downtown Phoenix medical school.

November 19, 2009

• Maintaining Arizona’s Bioscience Momentum  |   Video
  • The Arizona Biosciences Roadmap Steering Committee has identified “Four Key Needs” to maintain Arizona’s recent momentum in building its bioscience industry. We’ll discuss those needs with Stuart Flynn, Dean of University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University; Craig Thatcher, Exec. Dean of the ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation; and Don Keuth, President of the Phoenix Community Alliance.

July 24, 2007

• Health Epidemics? Sleep Disorders
  • What is �normal,� healthy sleep? We continue our series on increasingly prevalent health issues with an examination of sleep disorders. Dr. Robert Hooper, a sleep disorder specialist, joins us to talk about the most common and dangerous of these conditions, Obstructive Sleep Apnea. We discuss symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment with Dr. James Parish, who runs the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center, and Dr. Lois Krahn, chair of Mayo Clinic�s Department of Psychiatry and Psychology. Learn more: National Sleep Foundation Sleep Education Sleep Medicine Education and Research Foundation American Academy of Sleep Medicine American Board of Sleep Medicine Associated Professional Sleep Societies Association of Polysomnographic Technologists Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine American Association for Respiratory Care American College of Chest Physicians American Thoracic Society

October 11, 2006

• Remaking American Medicine
  • Thousands of Americans die in hospitals each year of preventable medical errors and one million more are injured. The nationally aired 4-part PBS program �Remaking American Medicine� examines critical health care issues facing Americans today including patient safety, medical and medication errors and hospital-acquired infections. The series also explores innovative solutions undertaken by providers, patients and their families to transform the care provided by the health care institutions on which we all depend. Arizona Medial Association President Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser and Maureen Dicker, Patient Safety Officer, Veterans Integrated Service Network, join Michael Grant to talk about these efforts.

October 10, 2006

• University of Arizona Medical School in Collaboration with Arizona State University
  • The University of Arizona is celebrating the opening of its College of Medicine-Phoenix located on the Biomedical Campus here in the Valley. Find out about the school and its partnership with Arizona State University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

August 1, 2006

• Medication Errors
  • The Institute of Medicine recently released a report outlining the prevalence of medication errors in the United States. Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the Arizona Medical Association provides information about prescription medication safety.

January 19, 2006

• Credit Card Payments
  • It's a dose of medicine for consumers that's going to be painful at first. This month, your credit card minimum payments could double. That's because of new rules put in place by federal regulators to help people pay off credit cards, instead of just treading water. Learn more about the new rules.