Colleen Campbell, PhD, MS, LGC, clinical associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been elected 2024 President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC). In 2023, she will serve as President-Elect, and then Past President in 2025. Campbell completed her term as Secretary/Treasurer for the NSGC at the end of December 2021. […]
Sabarish Ayyappan, MD, and Chandrikha Chandrasekharan, MBBS, both medical oncologists in the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, have each taken on a leadership role in two of the multidisciplinary oncology groups (MOGs) within the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC). Ayyappan now leads the Lymphoma MOG, and Chandrasekharan now leads the Gastrointestinal […]
We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2022. We wanted to take the opportunity to go a little past the names and faces and learn a couple things about them. We asked them each to tell us about why they chose Internal Medicine at Iowa for their residency. And, now that they […]
The Rheumatologist, official scientific newsmagazine of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), has named Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, clinical assistant professor in the Division of Immunology, Kelting Family Scholar in Rheumatology, and associate director of the rheumatology fellowship program, as its next Physician Editor for the 2023–2027 term. In this role, Kumar will work with […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, August 18, 2022, will be: Medical Futility: Clarifying the Question, Calibrating the Response 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, August 18, 2022 Lauris C. Kaldjian, MD, PhD, Professor, General Internal Medicine Click this link on Thursday just before noon to join the presentation: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/97684686800 This Grand Rounds presentation will be recorded […]
Article: Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life of Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Patients and Nontransplant Patients With Aggressive Lymphoma: A Prospective Cohort Analysis Authors: Christopher S Strouse, Melissa C Larson, Shawna L Ehlers, Kathleen J Yost, Matthew J Maurer, Stephen M Ansell, David J Inwards, Patrick B Johnston, Ivana N Micallef, Brian K Link, Umar Farooq, […]
In my last post, I wrote about our focus on quality, on the quest for excellence. But whether it is a cutting-edge therapeutic or a process designed to minimize the risk of error, how we deliver that care—what happens outside of the clinics and procedure rooms—is just as critical. When things run smoothly outside, physicians, […]
We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2022. We wanted to take the opportunity to go a little past the names and faces and learn a couple things about them. We asked them each to tell us about why they chose Internal Medicine at Iowa for their residency. And, now that they […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, August 11, 2022, will be: Modulating the Path: New Breakthrough Therapy (Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor or ELX/TEZ/IVA) for Treatment of Adults with Cystic Fibrosis 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, August 11, 2022 Douglas B. Hornick, MD, Clinical Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine Brittany Wright, PharmD, BCACP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Adjunct Assistant […]
Article: Antibiotic stewardship implementation at hospitals without on-site infectious disease specialists: A qualitative study Authors: Daniel J Livorsi, Kenda R Stewart Steffensmeier, Eli N Perencevich, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Heather Schacht Reisinger Journal: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 May;43(5):576-581 Abstract: Background: Hospitals are required to have antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs), but there are few models for […]