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Team members serve as champions for the optimal use of antibiotics and educate physicians, residents, medical students, pharmacists and other health care providers in the proper use of antimicrobials.

They also participate in the Banner multi-hospital system to recommend and design policies, programs and tools to improve antibiotic use system-wide. Contact: Co-Directors, Justin T. Infection prevention protocols and programs at the Banner — UMC Tucson and South facilities are coordinated through a multidisciplinary team that has won state and national recognition for its preparedness methodologies, with infection prevention specialists often providing training for community health-care providers as well.

This multidisciplinary program is involved in educational, clinical, and research projects and services that support the transplant programs. Patients receive care in both the inpatient and ambulatory clinical settings from physicians experienced in preventing and treating transplant-related infections.

Contact: Tirdad Zangeneh, DO , director, The division operates the Refugee Preventive Health Screening Program that provides initial health screenings for about 1, foreign refugees a year.

These clinics often serve as the first encounter refugees have with Western medicine. Services—provided in cooperation with the UA Department of Family and Community Medicine—include preventative exams and physicals, primary care procedures for common illnesses, prenatal care and child delivery, and other specialized services for refugees.

Learn More. Not including health-care partner organizations, affiliated community practices and providers, and mobile clinic services offered by our physicians, these are the major facilities where our physicians practice, train and teach:. Ajo Way, Tucson, AZ Campbell Ave. To schedule an appointment with one of our physicians, please call You can also request an appointment online here. Or, if you already are a patient with us, you can log-in to the MyBanner Patient Portal to schedule or request an appointment.

Please send any completed surveys or other feedback on how you are using this tool at your agency or clinic to anneryan email. A Resident physician in the UA Department of Family and Community Medicine strongly believed that people should learn about their right to designate someone to make future health care decisions for them when they become unable to do so and to specify the types of care they would want to receive.

In partnership with St. Rogers College of Law, TFAP developed and now conducts Advance Directive clinics for low income elderly or disabled residents at three public housing facilities in Tucson. At these clinics, a Resident physician first explains the importance of advance directives from the medical perspective. Then students from the College of Law, under the supervision of TFAP staff or volunteer attorneys, help housing residents understand and complete medical powers of attorney and living wills.

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