Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, September 22, 2022, will be: McLennan Lecture: Perspectives on precision therapeutics for rare cystic fibrosis genotypes 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, Spetmebr 22, 2022 Eric Sorscher, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Click this link on Thursday just before noon to join the presentation: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95739736737 This […]
Late last month, members of the Rheumatology Fellowship were part of a novel training method to get experience using ultrasound to guide injections. The tools included a needle and point-of-care ultrasound system, as well as a dish of olives and block of semi-firm tofu. Associate Program Director Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, had the idea of […]
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 […]
Article: Direct endoscopic placement of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies with jejunal extension tubes (PEG-J) using ultra-thin endoscopes – long-term outcomes from a U.S. tertiary referral center Authors: Yazan Hasan, Asad Ali, Amer El Sayed, Avraham Levin, Henning Gerke, Hye Yeon Jhun, Mohamad Mokadem, Rami El Abiad, Randhir Jesudoss, Steven Polyak, Nadav Sahar Journal: Surg Endosc. 2022 […]
Back in person for the first time since 2019, Progress 2022: Learning Together in the 21st Century is stressing the “Together” in its title. On Thursday, October 27, and Friday, October 28, at the Hyatt Regency in nearby Coralville, this four-decade-old conference will show that it is still innovating and still providing attendees the most recent […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, September 15, 2022, will be: Endocarditis associated with injection drug use: A problem antibiotics alone won’t solve 12:00-1:00p, Thursday, September 15, 2022 Jacob Hodges, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases Stephanie Stauffer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, Deputy Medical Examiner for Johnson County Click this link […]
The Department of Internal Medicine extends its condolences to the colleagues, friends, and family of John Weiler, MD, who passed away last week at the age of 77. Weiler was a member of the Division of Immunology for 25 years, treating patients and teaching residents, students, and fellows both in University of Iowa Health Care […]
Article: Glucosylceramide synthase inhibition protects against cardiac hypertrophy in chronic kidney disease Authors: Gabriel C Baccam, Jian Xie, Xin Jin, Hyejung Park, Bing Wang, Hervé Husson, Oxana Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya, Chou-Long Huang Journal: Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 4;12(1):9340 Abstract: A significant population of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) develops cardiac hypertrophy, which can lead to heart […]
Federal funds allocated for biomedical research when adjusted for inflation have not significantly increased over the last 10 years. Nonetheless, the NIH has increased the number of research project grant awards in recent years, despite increases in nominal costs. Moreover, the distribution of research project grant costs is shifting toward both the high and low […]
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 […]