News
08/05/2019
Erika Yee, Sarver Heart Center's health education assistant, has taught chest-compression-only CPR to more than 4,500 people during the 2018-2019 academic year. She also made training materials more accessible by collaborating with other organizations. These include materials in Spanish and American Sign Language.
07/31/2019
BCVS Council Vice Chair Beth McNally and BCVS 2019 Co-Chair Jil Tardiff interview Keynote Lecturer Christine Seidman about her recent work on the genetics of dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and how it might be harnessed to develop new, earlier treatments.
07/06/2019
As the director of the UA Sarver Heart Center, I am working to be an enlightened leader, to sponsor talented early-career cardiologists and grow the diversity in our cardiology division.
06/12/2019
The first part of 2019 was full of awards, recognition and research for Dr. Marvin Slepian, one of the University of Arizona's newest Regents Professors.
06/04/2019
The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center celebrated this year’s graduates from two fellowship programs through the Division of Cardiology at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, including six from cardiovascular disease and two from interventional cardiology.
05/07/2019
Dr. Nancy Sweitzer, who coped with the death of her husband, Kurt, while raising two children and becoming director of the UA Sarver Heart Center, is being honored as one of Tu Nidito's Remarkable Moms.
04/22/2019
Ariel Shirley, a graduating senior at the University of Arizona Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health who completed an internship focused on community education at the UA Sarver Heart Center, writes about the importance of running in the Diné (Navajo) culture.
04/19/2019
Message from the UA Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
03/29/2019
Even people who believe they're blind to another person's color carry unintentional bias. Dr. Khadijah Breathett gives advice to doctors who want to be aware of their biases and how to overcome these.
03/27/2019
March 27, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the first heart transplant in Arizona. Norman “Dutch” Tarr was the 49-year-old patient who was under the care of Brendan Phibbs, MD, cardiologist, and Jack Copeland, MD, the cardiothoracic surgeon who established the 6th heart transplant center in the U.S. at the University of Arizona.