Health Sciences Center

As part of the HSC Chancellor's Leadership Forum, UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center presents, "Educating Health Professionals in the Era of Ubiquitous Information," with speaker Charles "Chuck" Friedman, Monday, Dec. 17 from 9:30-11 a.m. ...

To Screen or Not To Screen? Primary care physicians routinely face the complicated decision of when to offer preventive services and to whom. Some preventive services, like screening tests, may not help everyone and may even harm some. Conflicting ...

James Besante, a second-year student at the UNM School of Medicine, was recently given the Nicholas Skala Student Activist Award by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) for his health care reform advocacy efforts in New Mexico. Besante serves ...

The University of New Mexico Medical Group, Inc. has announced the relocation of the new UNM Cardiology Clinic to 4824 McMahon Boule-vard NW, Suite 109, Albuquerque, effective Monday, Dec. 3, 2012.Led by cardiologist Dr. Robert DuBroff, and joined by UNM ...

President Robert G. FrankThe inauguration of President Robert G. Frank begins in his honor with two academic symposia on Friday, Nov. 16. Both symposia are free and open to the public."Inspire: Flagship in Community," a discussion of how research ...

The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, recently awarded a three-year certification to the University of New Mexico Cancer Center. The QOPI® certification identifies ...

The UNM Prevention Research Center presents a Brown Bag lunch titled, "Mediated Risk Communication: Evidence-Based Message Framing and Fear Appeals," by Tamar Ginossar, assistant professor of Communication and Journalism, on Tuesday, Nov. 13 from 12 to 1 ...

Four University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) nurses, Terri Gibson, Lizabeth Gober, Eric Peterson, and Stephanie Sanderson, were among 25 nurses and one individual honored at the 2012 Nursing Excellence Awards at the Hyatt Tamaya Resort recently.Gibson, ...

Teresa StewartThe American Association of Cancer Institutes recently named Teresa Stewart to its Clinical Research Initiative Steering Committee. Stewart is the director of the Clinical Trials Office at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and the ...

A free screening of five short films from the 1930s produced by the New Mexico Department of Health is set for Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the Domenici Center auditorium. The films are titled, "Malaria in New Mexico," "Community Sanitation ...