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Researchers hope that finding a connection between carotid disease and Alzheimer?s could provide a new pathway for preventing dementia.

Dr. Wei Zhou, chief of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the University of Arizona Department of Surgery, was named president elect of the Western Vascular Society for 2021 and will step into the position of president for 2022-2023.

Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, will join the University of Arizona College of Medicine ? Tucson in January 2022 as head of the Department of Surgery.

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

Dr. Tanya Anand, clinical assistant professor of surgery at the University of Arizona, led a group of women in medicine to craft a first-of-its-kind framework for building an appropriately diverse search committee.

Get to know PGY 3 General Surgery Resident Dr. Yadira Villalvazo in three questions.

In June, Dr. Taylor S. Riall, professor and interim chair of the Department of Surgery, was diagnosed with lung cancer. In part 2 of her blog series, she shares how the challenges of transitioning from physician to patient have given her a new perspective to integrate into her practice.

What happens when a surgical oncologist learns they have lung cancer? Dr. Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD, FACS, professor of surgery and interim chair of the department, shares how she is facing her diagnosis with perseverance and patience.

With the help of grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, Dr. El Rasheid Zakaria, an assistant professor of trauma, surgical critical care, burns, and acute care surgery in the Department of Surgery, has developed a new technique that will help improve treatment for combatants injured in the battlefield.

The UArizona College of Medicine ? Tucson has accepted six high school graduates in a new program that reduces the time to a medical degree to seven years.