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The Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona

The Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) at the University of Arizona is a network of health-related organizations and activities unique in the state and region. Arizona’s only academic health sciences center, AHSC is based on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson and maintains a growing presence on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix. From these vantage points, AHSC reaches across the state of Arizona and well beyond its borders to provide health-care education, research, patient care and service for Arizonans and their neighbors today and for the future.

AHSC: Helping People Live Better, Longer

AHSC Office of Public Affairs, 520-626-7301

J. Lyle Bootman, PhD, ScD, University of Arizona senior vice president for health sciences, has a vision for the Arizona Health Sciences Center : to assist Arizona in once again becoming a health destination. A significant focus for AHSC is contributing to healthy lifestyles among a growing population of seniors.

“Aging is being redefined in our society,” Dr. Bootman says. “Today many more of the Baby Boomers will live beyond 80.

That population segment consumes the majority of health-care services in today’s world of health-care delivery.”

 

Center for Sleep Disorders Opens at The University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus

More information: Katie Riley, 520-626-4828; riley@email.arizona.edu

A new Center for Sleep Disorders at The University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus is treating patients for a variety of sleep problems, including sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome and others.

“The mission of our sleep center is to not only diagnose and treat sleep disorders but also to promote sleep health for adults and children,” said Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, medical director of the Center for Sleep Disorders.


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Rural Experience for Future Physicians

More Information: Janet Stark, (520) 626-7301, janets@email.arizona.edu

From Snowflake to Springerville, Benson to Bisbee, University of Arizona medical students experience life, work and learning in rural Arizona communities.

Each year, a group of first-year medical students at the UA College of Medicine is selected to participate in the Rural Health Professions Program. During the summer between their first and second years of medical school, these students live in a rural community in Arizona and work side-by-side with a physician preceptor who has volunteered as an RHPP mentor. Returning to the same community during each year of medical school, students learn to appreciate the area's culture and community character and begin to experience the lifestyle of rural residents.

 

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Learn Sarver Heart Center’s Continuous Chest Compression CPR

More Information: Katie Maass, (520) 626-4083, kmaass@shc.arizona.edu

Sarver Heart Center’s newest video makes it easy to learn Continuous Chest Compression CPR. Every three days, more Americans die from sudden cardiac arrest than the number who died in the 9-11 attacks. You can lessen this recurring loss by learning this hands-only CPR method that doubles a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest.  Watch physician researchers Gordon A. Ewy, MD, and Karl Kern, MD, demonstrate the easy, life-saving method that they developed at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.