Heather Morel, VP/GM McKesson Specialty Health, Dr. Jeffrey Trent, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, TGen, Michele Y. Halyard, M.D, vice dean, Mayo Medical School – Arizona Campus, Dr. Ronald Korn, Medical Director, Virginia G. Piper cancer Center.

Daniel Von Hoff, MD, FACP Daniel D. Von Hoff, M.D., F.A.C.P., is currently Physician in Chief and Director of Translational Research at TGen (Translational Genomics Research Institute) in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also Chief Scientific Officer for US Oncology and for Scottsdale Healthcare's Clinical Research Institute.   He is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona.

SynCardia Systems, Inc. (Tucson, AZ) is the privately-held manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart. The company was formed in 2001 by world-renowned heart surgeon Jack G. Copeland, MD, interventional cardiologist Marvin J. Slepian, MD, and biomedical engineer Richard G. Smith, MSEE, CCE, to commercialize the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart .

A dream come true for downtown Phoenix; Building a new medical school For six local doctors, the creation of what is now one of the newest medical colleges in the nation seemed a distant dream. These seasoned professionals have invested many years, personal and professional commitment, expertise and downright tenacity, to make this campus and this college a reality. All contributed from their respective fields and their respective hospitals. All were teachers and saw the need for the development of the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. Read more at: http://phoenixmed.arizona.edu

The Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona The Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) at the University of Arizona is a network of health-related organizations and activities unique in the state and region. Arizona’s only academic health sciences center, AHSC is based on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson and maintains a growing presence on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix. From these vantage points, AHSC reaches across the state of Arizona and well beyond its borders to provide health-care education, research, patient care and service for Arizonans and their neighbors today and for the future.

Fifty years of progress in one decade.   Arizona State University's President Michael Crow shares insight into how ASU has grown over the last 10 years and where it is going.   Learn more about ASU's strategy, Mission, and the Role that

Raymond L. Woosley earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Louisville and an M.D. from the University of Miami. He began his career as the first scientist in the US operations for Glaxo, now known as GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Woosley specialized in Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine. At Georgetown University he served as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and in 2000 was appointed Associate Dean for Clinical Research. In 2001 he became Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of Arizona and Dean of the College of Medicine. In January of 2005 he assumed the position of President of The Critical Path Institute (C-Path), a non-profit corporation formed by the Food and Drug Administration, SRI, International and the University of Arizona to accelerate the development of safe innovative medicines. Since 1999, he has directed one of seven federally-funded (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT).Under Dr. Woosley’s leadership,  C-Path (the Critical Path Institute) orchestrated the  acceleration of medical product development through a unique collaborative process among industry, academia, and the FDA. Our collaborations among 6 global consortia, 1000+scientists, and 41 companies has already produced these notable successes: First preclinical safety biomarkers (7) qualified by the FDA, EMA, and PMDA (the Japanese counterpart) First CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) therapeutic area data standard First and largest open database of CDISC aggregated clinical trial data for Alzheimer’s disease (6,100 patients and 22 clinical trials) Read more First drug-disease trial model & clinical trial simulation tool submitted and under review by the FDA First imaging biomarker for trial enrichment qualified by the EMA Dr. Woosley’s research has investigated the basic and clinical pharmacology of drugs for the treatment of arrhythmias and the cardiac toxicity of drugs, and has been published in over 260 publications. His research discovered the mechanism of the toxicity of the antihistamine Seldane®. He is the recipient of the Rawls-Palmer Award from the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics for his contributions to medicine and the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation for his work to advise the agency on the toxicity of dietary supplements containing ephedra. Dr. Woosley is a Past-President of the Association for Medical School Pharmacology and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He has served on numerous boards including the US Pharmacopeia. He is a member of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. As a member of the University of Arizona’s Sarver Heart Center and Bio5 Institute, he conducts research on the prevention of adverse drug interactions.

Ground Broken for University of Arizona Cancer Center in Phoenix Ground was officially broken on the new University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center/Dignity Health outpatient facility in downtown Phoenix in February, 2013. Located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus at 625 N. Sixth St., on the northwest corner of Fillmore and Seventh streets, the center is expected to be open in 2015. Follow the project's construction progress at www.phoenixcancercenter.org