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2013 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 157
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From trainer to teacher
UA appoints ‘triple threat’ senior VP to health sciences the finest institutions in the country and will bring that experience and quality to the University of Arizona Health Sciences,” The UA has appointed an internationally Hart said, adding that she looks forward to known physician, scholar and researcher Garcia’s leadership experience and depth to be the new senior vice president for of understanding in moving the UA Health Sciences forward. health sciences. “He will … bring to the University of Dr. Joe G.N. Garcia, current vice president for health affairs at the University of Illinois, Arizona a level of experience and expertise and an Earl M. Bane professor of medicine, that will, we think, have a tremendous pharmacology and bioengineering at the impact on the quality of our programs and University of Illinois at Chicago, will begin research going forward,” she said. With UA medical schools in Phoenix his new position and be endowed as a UA and Tucson, the expansion of research for professor of medicine, on Sept. 1. “I think it’s fantastic that he accepted health sciences at the UA is a major goal for the position,” said George Humphrey, the university. “I know that one of the priorities at assistant vice president for public affairs at the Arizona Health Sciences Center. “We the university is to advance our health consider Dr. Garcia a triple threat player for sciences enterprise because there’s a lot of potential,” Humphrey said. “You know, we academic medicine.” In his new role at the UA, Garcia will have a College of Medicine in Phoenix with oversee the Arizona Health Sciences a lot potential for growth and I think that Center colleges, which includes the UA Dr. Garcia is the right person to bring us to College of Medicine in Tucson, UA College the next level.” Along with expansion in research, growth of Medicine in Phoenix, UA College of Nursing, UA College of Pharmacy and and supporting both colleges, Garcia said that increasing diversity the UA Mel and Enid in academic medicine Zuckerman College of is also important to him Public Health. as a leader. His position requires It’s a tremendous portfolio “I think training a a medical professional of talent, intelligence and very diverse biomedical who has financial and experience… workforce in healthcare leadership experience in — Ann Weaver Hart is critical for us to be UA President order to bring together able to address many of all the health science the issues that confront colleges at the UA, said the American healthcare community,” he UA President Ann Weaver Hart. Prior to working for the University of said. Garcia’s new position will require the Illinois, Garcia served as director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care long training and experience of a healthcare Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, medical professional, according to Hart. “It’s a tremendous portfolio of talent, chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago and vice intelligence and experience,” she said. chancellor of research at the University of “And there just aren’t many people who have that combination of characteristics.” Illinois at Chicago. “He has tremendous impact at some of Stephanie Casanova Arizona Summer Wildcat
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UA gymnast Shana Sangston, assists in the Bill Ryden’s Sonoran Gynmastics Camp that runs from July 7 to July 14. The camp allows young gymnasts from around the community to learn from current Gymcats and alumni.
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