In a little less than a month, we will kick off the final season of the academic year with Match Day. This represents a meaningful turning point when we start readying our farewells and finalizing plans for the year ahead. We learn where our medical students are headed, how many will be staying at Iowa […]
Post-TAVR risks examined in large cohort analysis
The transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure replaces a narrow aortic valve that obstructs normal blood flow with a catheter. Three years ago an estimated 300,000 TAVRs had been performed. That number has climbed dramatically since and will continue with the recent FDA approval for expansion of TAVR procedures to even low-risk patients with severe […]
Internal Medicine has an “impact”
In its effort to recognize our superlative scholarship, the Carver College of Medicine has launched a new category of honor, similar to its Wall of Scholarship. The Impact Scholars will be selected based on their h-index score, a calculation that measures scholarly productivity and the number of citations that work receives. In May, the college will […]
Winter Recognition, 2020
With something as intense and absorbing as an internal medicine residency, it makes sense that members come to view their colleagues like family members. All the more reason for the residency program to create moments for interaction between actual family members and the virtual one that grows during their time at Iowa. Last weekend, the […]
Effect of travel distance and rurality of residence on initial surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in VA primary care patient with cirrhosis
Article: Effect of travel distance and rurality of residence on initial surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in VA primary care patient with cirrhosis Authors: Yolanda Rodriguez Villalvazo MD, MPH, Jennifer S. McDanel PhD, Lauren A. Beste MD, MSc, Antonio J. Sanchez MD, Mary Vaughan‐Sarrazin PhD, David A. Katz MD, MSc Journal: Health Serv Res. 2020 Feb;55(1):103-112 […]
Internal Medicine Has Soul!
For its 2020 campaign, Internal Medicine has partnered with international non-profit Soles4Souls, a top-rated international organization with the goal of alleviating the impact of poverty around the world. Thanks to Soles4Souls, more than 40M pairs of shoes have been kept out of landfills and put to good use. Their belief is that one pair of […]
Abboud, Yorek land on the wall
After last year’s inaugural inductees were added to the Wall of Scholarship, with 10 of the 32 publications within the Carver College of Medicine coming from Internal Medicine faculty, it was no surprise that a year later fewer total would be added to the Wall. Still, the department’s ratio to the rest of the college […]
The Future of Immunotherapy-Based Combination Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Article: The Future of Immunotherapy-Based Combination Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Authors: Rohan Garje, Josiah An, Austin Greco, Raju Kumar Vaddepally and Yousef Zakharia Journal: Cancers (Basel). 2020 Jan 7;12(1) Abstract: In the past two decades, there has been a significant improvement in the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC). […]
Big data expands understanding even in rare diseases
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a rare autoinflammatory disease driven by the innate immune system leading to clinical manifestations of fever, rash, and arthritis. Additionally, AOSD patients can present with severe complications at onset including macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and lung disease. Because large prospective cohorts of AOSD patients are lacking, research into long-term clinical […]
The fruits of mentorship
What a month for seeing the fruits of strong mentorship. Once you start to look around for it, the examples are everywhere to be found. Regular readers of these posts know how deeply I value strong and effective mentoring and, more important, how fundamental I believe it is to shaping the future of our department. […]