Melissa Swee, MD, MME, clinical assistant professor in Nephrology and Hypertension, and Iowa VA Quality Scholars (VAQS) Program Director, has been awarded the Rising Star Award by the national VA Quality Scholars Program. Swee was nominated by Jaime Wilson, DNP, RN, PCCN, director of the Rural Scholars Fellowship and Office of Rural Health at the […]
The Midwest Fellows Critical Care Ultrasound Symposium is a reliable mark of the start of the academic year. The symposium is a two-day course for critical care fellows from across the region and beyond to focus specifically on how to properly administer point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), to people needing this urgent diagnostic scan, hosted by the […]
Article: Impact of frailty in hospitalized patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation Authors: Shafaqat Ali, Manoj Kumar, Yehya Khlidj, Emily Hendricks, Faryal Farooq, Waleed Alruwaili, Bijeta Keisham, Sanchit Duhan, Karthik Gonuguntla, Yasar Sattar, Ayesha Shaik, Vijaywant Brar, Zain Ul Abideen Asad, Dan Sorajja, Paari Dominic, Tarek Helmy Journal: J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2024 Jul 29. […]
Haley Pysick, MD, PGY-4 and a Physician Scientist Training Pathway (PSTP) and Stimulating Access to Research during Residency (StARR) scholar, has been awarded the American Epilepsy Society’s (AES) 2024 Young Investigator Award. Given on behalf of the AES’s Scientific Program Committee, this award recognizes young investigators conducting basic, translational, or clinical epilepsy research. Pysick’s abstract, […]
We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2024. 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 […]
Bhagirath Chaurasia, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, has received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. The grant will fund Chaurasia’s research program “Role of serine in development of obesity-induced insulin resistance.” Serine—a non-essential […]
Academic medicine has always been described as having a “tripartite mission,” and without a doubt, those three components—education, clinical care, and research—are tightly braided at Iowa. Though I have addressed our relationship to each of these components in separate posts over the last few weeks, there are elements of each embedded in the others. We […]
We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2024. 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: Arteriovenous metabolomics in pigs reveals CFTR regulation of metabolism in multiple organs Authors: Hosung Bae, Bo Ram Kim, Sunhee Jung, Johnny Le, Dana van der Heide, Wenjie Yu, Sang Hee Park, Brieanna M Hilkin, Nicholas D Gansemer, Linda S Powers, Taekyung Kang, David K Meyerholz, Victor L Schuster, Cholsoon Jang, Michael J Welsh Journal: […]
On Saturday, July 13, faculty, staff, and honored guests gathered in the Ted Pacha Family Club at Kinnick Stadium to celebrate 30 years of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, at University of Iowa Health Care. This form of life support assists in managing heart and lung functions when a person’s organs can no longer sustain […]