Dare to Discover, 2023

Since 2016, the University of Iowa’s Office of the Vice President for Research has sponsored a banner campaign around downtown Iowa City to feature researchers whose ideas are already making an impact on the world. The Dare to Discover campaign has at times focused solely on faculty members or undergraduates, but more recently, like this year, they […]

Work smarter, not harder

Welcome to the new year! In December, in preparation for the State of the Department address, I reviewed oodles of tables and numbers and pie charts. And it became immediately clear that despite many surprises and challenges we faced together, we did really well in 2022 in meeting the department’s mission: to provide superior health […]

Meet Our APPs: Melissa Mohling, AGACNP-BC, ARNP

We are pleased to present the next in our weekly series introducing you to Internal Medicine’s Advanced Practice Providers. In addition to sharing information about where they work in the department, we asked them each to tell us a little bit about their “Why” (the sustaining pull for their work) and what relaxes them. (Read […]

Goedken named ACDA for Internal Medicine

The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce that Kristin Goedken, MBA, has been named to the role of Associate Clinical Department Administrator (ACDA), effective 9 January 2023. This new position will work alongside Denise Zang, MBA, FACMPE, the Clinical Department Administrator, on a variety of projects including a closer look at the department’s […]

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The Rapid Reduction of Infection-Related Visits and Antibiotic Use Among People With Cystic Fibrosis After Starting Elexacaftor-Tezacaftor-Ivacaftor

Article: The Rapid Reduction of Infection-Related Visits and Antibiotic Use Among People With Cystic Fibrosis After Starting Elexacaftor-Tezacaftor-Ivacaftor Authors: Aaron C Miller, Logan M Harris, Joseph E Cavanaugh, Mahmoud Abou Alaiwa, David A Stoltz, Douglas B Hornick, Philip M Polgreen Journal: Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 30;75(7):1115-1122 Abstract: Background: People with cystic fibrosis (CF) routinely […]