The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to introduce some of the faculty members who joined us from August through December 2023. We are happy to welcome them to the department. Gregory Gullickson, PhD – Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Gregory Gullickson is a psychologist who comes to the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & […]
Though they are needed all year long, assessments, resolutions, and recommitments always belong to the days around New Year’s. This kind of reflection is not any more effective in this last week of the year, but beyond the flip of the calendar, perhaps it is the pause, the slowing down that most of us get […]
On the evening of Friday, December 8, Internal Medicine staff and faculty came together at the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame to celebrate the holiday season. Denise Jamieson, MD, MPH, Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, stopped by for […]
Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae Isolates: A Nationwide Multicenter Evaluation at the Veterans Health Administration Authors: Shinya Hasegawa, Daniel J Livorsi, Eli N Perencevich, Jonas N Church, Michihiko Goto Journal: Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Nov 30;77(11):1492-1500 Abstract: Background: Many clinical guidelines recommend that clinicians use antibiograms to inform empiric antimicrobial therapy. However, hospital antibiograms are typically […]
Introducing the Internal Medicine Honor Roll – an employee recognition program where team members (providers, staff, etc.) can recognize other team members who are doing great things. We are pleased to recognize the contributions of the December 2023 honorees below! Jaime Bonner, Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation Nominated by: […]
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds paid tribute to one of its trail-blazing members last week with the first Dr. Thomas O’Dorisio Lecture. Named for the recently passed endocrinologist, researcher, and educator, the event welcomed Lauren Fishbein, MD, PhD, MTR, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Before Fishbein delivered her […]
The following is an abridged and edited transcript of yesterday’s State of the Department address. To view the entire presentation, click here (hawkid login required). Welcome to all of you, to this other holiday tradition, the State of the Department presentation. Loreen Herwaldt asked me if she should introduce me. I said there’s probably no […]
Rheumatologist Aleksander Lenert, MD, MS, FRCPC, recently received a five-year, mentored, and patient-oriented K23 research career development award in the amount of $837,000 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) entitled, “Investigating Disease Activity, Bone Damage and Interleukin-1 Genes in Adult SAPHO Syndrome and Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis.” The research will […]
Article: CFTR-rich ionocytes mediate chloride absorption across airway epithelia Authors: Lei Lei, Soumba Traore, Guillermo S Romano Ibarra, Philip H Karp, Tayyab Rehman, David K Meyerholz, Joseph Zabner, David A Stoltz, Patrick L Sinn, Michael J Welsh, Paul B McCray Jr, Ian M Thornell Journal: J Clin Invest. 2023 Oct 16;133(20):e171268 Abstract: The volume and […]
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 […]