Pima Dermatology announced a new partnership. After thirty years of dedication to dermatology in Southern Arizona, Gerald N. Goldberg, MD,  founder of Pima Dermatology in Tucson, has transferred ownership of his dermatology center of excellence to his existing partner, Matthew…

The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is launching a medical Spanish training program for residents and fellows to better serve the needs of the city’s Spanish-speaking population. “A large portion of our population is predominately Spanish-speaking,” says Victoria Murrain, DO,…

A new $1.9 million grant at the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center will help researchers  discover ways to prevent a deadly disease that affects thousands of premature infants annually. Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC), an inflammatory gastrointestinal disease, is one of the…

Ken Sandock MD, a member of the Pima Medical Society Board of Directors, received the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum’s Silver Spike Award as Benefactor of the Year. The award is named after the Silver Spike mined and finished by the…

It was a dead-end job. Everything was the same, every day. Marquette, Mich.-based family physician Jennifer Dehlin, MD, saw her life stretched out before her and wasn’t excited about her role as a physician. She was only in her 30s…

Physician burnout is not an isolated phenomenon. According to a 2015 Mayo Clinic study, nearly 55 percent of physicians reported at least one symptom of burnout including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, or a sense of decreased personal accomplishment. By 2017, a…

Arizona has launched one of the nation’s first 24/7 hotlines providing free, real-time consultations for clinicians with complex patients with pain and opioid use disorders.  The first-of-its-kind hotline is staffed by medical experts at the Poison and Drug Information Centers…