News
11/24/2021
Wanda F Moore, who expanded community education and outreach activities to include underserved minority communities, is the 2021 recipient of Greater Tucson Leadership’s Founders Award.
11/03/2021
Researchers hope that finding a connection between carotid disease and Alzheimer’s could provide a new pathway for preventing dementia.
10/29/2021
Sarver Heart Center is a site for a clinical study, led by Preethi William, MD, to evaluate the effectiveness of finerenone for treating patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
10/21/2021
Faculty have expertise in interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, advanced heart disease, transplant cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.
10/14/2021
Researchers seek to reduce bias and remove barriers to equitable treatment for advanced heart disease through standardized health care protocols.
10/06/2021
"Science is super fun and I love it, but I really love helping others with their career development,” Dr. Nancy Sweitzer said. “It’s the No. 1 pleasure in my job.”
09/29/2021
Training to become a cardiologist takes a lot of time, patience and guidance. But with advanced technology in the form of the College of Medicine – Tucson Sarver Heart Center’s Harveys – animatronic devices capable of being programmed with a wide range of heart beats and health issues – future cardiologists are able to learn what to listen for and how to treat heart ailments.
09/23/2021
Sarver Heart Center researchers clarify the interaction between blood pressure medications and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
08/25/2021
Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson are assessing the long-term effectiveness of “inspiratory muscle training” for reducing blood pressure and improving cardiovascular health in adults with obstructive sleep apnea.
08/24/2021
Dr. Nancy Sweitzer, advanced heart disease cardiologist, teamed up with Nima Toosizadeh, PhD, a biomedical engineer, to study a way to make frailty assessments less subjective when it comes to determining advanced treatments for patients diagnosed with heart failure.