Meet Our APPs: Brianne Foulker, MSN, 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 […]

Liquid-liquid phase separation facilitates the biogenesis of secretory storage granules

Article: Liquid-liquid phase separation facilitates the biogenesis of secretory storage granules Authors: Anup Parchure, Meng Tian, Danièle Stalder, Cierra K Boyer, Shelby C Bearrows, Kristen E Rohli, Jianchao Zhang, Felix Rivera-Molina, Bulat R Ramazanov, Sushil K Mahata, Yanzhuang Wang, Samuel B Stephens, David C Gershlick, Julia von Blume Journal: J Cell Biol. 2022 Dec 5;221(12):e202206132 […]

Collaboration is easy at Iowa

The northwest corner of neighboring Coralville is home to the UI’s Oakdale campus and now our Health Care Services Support Building. But it was also once the site of our tuberculosis wards, among some other, less publicized but critical functions of the Carver College of Medicine and UI Health Care, particularly of its research arm. […]

Lessons from the Inflammation Program’s sustained decades of success

“I think that mutual commitment is essential to creating and sustaining a collaborative environment.” Josalyn Cho, MD, is nearly two years into her role as director of the Iowa Inflammation Program. The associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine succeeded William Nauseef, MD, in spring of 2021. The goals that […]

Meet Our APPs: Emily Rockafellow, ARNP, FNP-C

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 […]

A valued voice: A qualitative analysis of parental decision-making preferences in emergent paediatric surgery

Article: A valued voice: A qualitative analysis of parental decision-making preferences in emergent paediatric surgery Authors: Erica M Carlisle, Laura A Shinkunas, Emily Ruba, Caleb J Klipowicz, Maxwell T Lieberman, Richard M Hoffman, Heather S Reisinger Journal: Health Expect. 2023 Feb;26(1):531-541 Abstract: Introduction: Shared decision-making, with an emphasis on patient autonomy, is often advised in […]

Iowa trainees reunite at CF career development retreat

Last week in Oceanside, California, the strength of the Iowa bond was visible. The setting was the location for a Physician Scientist Career Development Retreat hosted by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), a longtime partner of the Lung Biology Research program at Iowa. Specifically, the CFF’s Career Development Committee organized the two-day event for late-stage […]

Meet Our APPs: Carla Pies, DNP, 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 […]

Is There a Place for Complement Inhibition with Monoclonal Anti-C5a Antibody Vilobelimab in the Treatment of Patients with ANCA-associated Vasculitis?

Article: Is There a Place for Complement Inhibition with Monoclonal Anti-C5a Antibody Vilobelimab in the Treatment of Patients with ANCA-associated Vasculitis? Authors: Gatr-Alnada Gheriani, Bharat Kumar, Petar S Lenert Journal: touchREVIEWS in RMD. 2022;1(2):46–9 Abstract: Recent studies have implicated the complement system in the pathogenesis of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), prompting the development of […]

Achievements and challenges

The University of Iowa and our department are recognized as experts in a sizable list of diseases and conditions. We have a reputation for understanding and treating diabetes, cystic fibrosis, acute kidney injury, a host of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular complications, just to name a few. We are national leaders in outcomes for lung and kidney […]