Division of Cardiology faculty and fellows selected two University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson internal medicine resident physicians to receive the Charles W. Hall Jr. and Virginia C. Hall Memorial Endowment Award for Outstanding House Officer in the Cardiac Care Unit.
“Our residency program really appreciates the work the cardiology division invests in our learning and the Hall family is a critical part of that. Thank you for being a continued part the University of Arizona community and specifically the internal medicine residency community.”
The daughter of a trauma surgeon and a nurse, Samantha Jane Russell, MD, was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada and 
Dr. Russell is grateful for the lessons of her cardiology studies, which allowed her to enrich her understanding of the cardiovascular system. She looks forward to putting all her College of Medicine – Tucson experiences to use in her future career as a geriatrician. “I extend my sincerest thanks to the Hall family for this tremendous honor. Words fail to express how grateful I am.”
“The Hall Award inspires and rewards our most outstanding internal medicine residents based on their performance and excellence in the cardiac care unit. This award recognizes our talented residents who become highly engaged in cardiovascular learning. No matter your future discipline in medicine, you will see patients with cardiovascular disease, the most common killer of women and men in the United States – in fact, in the world. Training all our internal medicine residents in expert care of common cardiovascular diseases is a critical part of our mission. We are delighted to recognize the excellence of these two engaged young physicians,” said Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD, director of the Sarver Heart Center, professor of medicine and chief of cardiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson.