Mariia Kumskova, MD, a postdoctoral research scholar in the lab of Anil Chauhan, MTech, PhD, received a one-year, $60,000 Innovative Investigator Research Award from the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF). Kumskova’s project, “Platelet function in Ehlers-Danlos patients with bleeding phenotype,” project will look at the ways in which platelet dysfunction might contribute to bleeding in people with […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, October 28 will be: Lung Cancer Screening: Racial Disparities & the Newest Recommendations/Mandates 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, October 28, 2021 Bryce Duchman, MD, Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Click this link on Thursday just before noon to join the presentation: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95866177427 This Grand Rounds presentation will be recorded […]
Maybe it was being back in person. Or maybe because the program came so close the previous year our team was just a little more fired up. Whatever the cause or combination of causes, Annie Braseth, MD, and Asad Ali, MBBS, took first place at the 2021 American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG’s) Jeopardy!, a knowledge-bowl style […]
The Department of Internal Medicine would like to introduce some of our newest members who joined us in recent months (start dates in parentheses). We are pleased to welcome them to the department. Margaret Byrne, MD, MS- Clinical Assistant Professor (8/1/21) Dr. Maggie Byrne comes to the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow […]
Article: Time to put it out – nurse-facilitated tobacco treatment in a comprehensive cancer center Authors: David A Katz, Sarah L Mott, Jane A Utech, Autumn C Bahlmann, Kimberly A Dukes, Aaron T Seaman, Douglas E Laux, Muhammad Furqan, Zachary J Pollock, Mark W Vander Weg Journal: Transl Behav Med. 2021 Sep 15;11(9):1726-1738. Abstract: Few […]
Among the many elements that recruits cite as helping them rank our residency program in the Match is being able to hear from the residents themselves. For the last few years, interns and second- and third-year residents have drafted diaries describing what “A Day in the Life” looks like for them. Some go diary-style and […]
Since expanding in 2011 to cover the entire Carver College of Medicine, the University of Iowa Physicians (UIP) Clinical Awards has honored providers in six categories. This year, just as we did last year, the Department of Internal Medicine is proud of our recognition in four of those categories. Earlier this week at a special […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, October 21 will be: Human Trafficking – Our Role as Health Care Providers 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, October 21, 2021 Shannon Findlay, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine Brittany McGraw, LISW, ACSW, Social Work Specialist, Department of Psychiatry Click this link on Thursday just before noon […]
More than three million illnesses and 48,000 deaths are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year with an annual impact of $35 billion in excess health care costs. A newly funded multi-tiered VA grant seeks to directly counterattack growing threats of emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, professor in General Internal Medicine […]
Iowa City’s VA Healthcare System has been accepted as a site to host one of the VA’s Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) Advanced Fellowships in Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D). Michelle Mengeling, PhD, assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, and Michael Ohl, MD, MSPH, associate professor in Infectious Diseases, submitted the successful application and […]