Katherine Harris, MD, has been serving as Governor of the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) for a little more than a year. “Do you know how many other women have held this position?” she asked an audience earlier this month. “One. In about a hundred years.” (That woman was Janet Schlechte, […]
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 […]
Each year the Division of Immunology hosts a continuing medical education event around a central topic in allergies, covering everything from the basic science to diagnosing and translational therapeutics. Last week, for the first time since 2017, conference organizers focused their event around food allergies. Attendees and presenters gathered at the increasingly popular nearby Courtyard […]
On Saturday, October 28, we celebrated #InternalMedicineDay along with the American College of Physicians (ACP) and thousands of Internal Medicine physicians across the country. We did this by joining in the conversation, asking our clinicians, “Why did you choose Internal Medicine?” and “Why are you proud to be an Internal Medicine clinician?” We reached out […]
Article: Three-Year Overall Survival with Tebentafusp in Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Authors: Jessica C Hassel, Sophie Piperno-Neumann, Piotr Rutkowski, Jean-Francois Baurain, Max Schlaak, Marcus O Butler, Ryan J Sullivan, Reinhard Dummer, John M Kirkwood, Marlana Orloff, Joseph J Sacco, Sebastian Ochsenreither, Anthony M Joshua, Lauris Gastaud, Brendan Curti, Josep M Piulats, April K S Salama, Alexander N Shoushtari, Lev Demidov, Mohammed Milhem, Bartosz Chmielowski, Kevin B Kim, Richard D Carvajal, Omid Hamid, Laura Collins, Koustubh Ranade, Chris Holland, Constance Pfeiffer, Paul Nathan. Journal: N […]
This past weekend, from October 19-20, 2023, the Department of Internal Medicine’s residents presented posters in Chicago, IL, at the annual Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) conference. SGIM’s mission is to “cultivate innovative educators, researchers, and clinicians in academic general internal medicine, leading the way to better health for everyone.” Under this year’s […]
In September 2023, Kathie Zhang, MD, Chief Resident for Quality and Safety in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of Iowa Health Care and physician in the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System (ICVAHCS), and the rest of her quality improvement (QI) team—called the Narcan Improvement Team—received a HeRO award, an honor in […]
The 33rd annual Iowa Rheumatology Symposium took place at the Iowa City Marriott on Friday, October 13, 2023. Despite the ominous date, rheumatology enthusiasts from across the Midwest braved stormy conditions to enjoy an engaging and informational day covering the expanding scope of rheumatology. Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, kicked off the event with introductions: industry […]
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 […]
Article: Seizures Cause Prolonged Impairment of Ventilation, CO2 Chemoreception and Thermoregulation Authors: Frida A Teran, Rup K Sainju, Eduardo Bravo, Jacy Wagnon, YuJaung Kim, Alex Granner, Brian K Gehlbach, George B Richerson Journal: J Neurosci. 2023 Jul 5;43(27):4959-4971. Abstract: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) has been linked to respiratory dysfunction, but the mechanisms underlying […]