We are proud to present this year’s incoming interns. 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 have been […]
Chang’s recognition of rare case published in JAMA IM
Amanda Chang, MD, third-year internal medicine resident, and her mentor, Manish Suneja, MD, clinical professor in Nephrology and residency program director, shared a “teachable moment” that became so much more with its publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. While working together in inpatient Internal Medicine services, the pair encountered […]
Rivals and friends
Stop the presses! It is not often that dramatic events require a last-minute addition to a Friday post, but here we are. Yesterday’s news that Dr. Michael Welsh will receive the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award certainly qualifies. For 80 years the Lasker Foundation has recognized discoveries in basic and clinical science that fundamentally change […]
Transcriptional Response to Fasting Studied in the Liver of Mice That Express Phosphorylation Resistant Perilipin 5
Article: Transcriptional Response to Fasting Studied in the Liver of Mice That Express Phosphorylation Resistant Perilipin 5 Authors: Corinne E Bovee, Ryan P Grandgenett, Michelle B Trevino, Sucharita Dutta, Spencer J Peachee, Shayla Kopriva, Farakh Haider, Siming Liu, Gourav Bhardwaj, Christie Penniman, Brian T O’Neill, Yumi Imai Journal: Endocrinology. 2025 Apr 22;166(6):bqaf075. Abstract: Perilipin 5 […]
Meet your Interns 2025, part 5
We are proud to present this year’s incoming interns. 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 have been […]
Endocrinology potluck, 24 Aug 2025
As summer begins to wind down and the shift to fall grows near, the members of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism were invited to share a bit of sunshine together on a Sunday afternoon. Hosted at the home of Amie Ogunsakin, MD, clinical assistant professor in the division, guests were invited to bring their […]
Welsh receives Yergin-New International Prize for Biomedical Research
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has awarded its prestigious 2025 Yergin-New International Prize for Biomedical Research to Michael J. Welsh, MD, professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Occupational Medicine, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to cystic fibrosis (CF) research. Welsh’s pioneering work uncovered the cellular mechanisms behind CF, notably identifying the absence of […]
Meet your Interns 2025, part 4
We are proud to present this year’s incoming interns. 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 have been […]