Banner – University Medical Center South in Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix have been named to the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals list by IBM Watson HealthTM. Formerly known as the Truven Health Analytics® 100 Top Hospitals, this national…
Longtime PCMS member and surgeon Peter Nevin Herrington MD passed away January 26, 2018. He was 89 Herrington was born on May 11, 1928 in Montreal. He received his medical school degree from McGill University in Montreal in 1954 and…
Pedro Escobar MD, former Medical Director of the St. Mary’s Rehabilitation Center and member of the PCMS Board of Directors, passed away on January 29, 2018. He was 79. Born August 15, 1938 in Cali Valle, Columbia, Escobar attended medical…
Thomas Boyer MD, Director of the Liver Research Institute at the University of Arizona and PCMS member, succumbed to cancer on January 11, 2018. He was 74. Boyer was born October 10, 1943. He graduated from medical school at the…
Some research indicates that women physicians are more likely to suffer from burnout than their male colleagues. One oft-cited study found women’s risk of burnout was a whopping sixty percent greater. Other studies clearly show that female physicians are at…
The American Medical Association (AMA) has release a report focusing on the impact physicians have on state and local economies. The in-depth, state-by-state data on how physicians do their part to power the economy are far more than just an…
A major role of county and state physician organizations is to represent the interests of their physician members. Each year, the Pima and Maricopa County Medical Societies and the Arizona Medical Association hold an annual legislative reception to facilitate positive…
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be holding recruitment information sessions on February 13, 2018 in Flagstaff, AZ and February 15, 2018 in Tucson, AZ. This is your last chance to register to meet our recruitment team and learn about how you can join our pool of…
The complete 2015 Pima County Community Health Needs Assessment is available. Please click the link below for the entire pdf document. Pima County Community Health Needs Assessment 2015
Marion Henry, MD, MPH, joined the faculty as an associate professor in the UA Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics in November. She came to Tucson from Naval Medical Center San Diego, where she was a commander in the Medical Corps. Dr…