For the last 33 months, it has been my honor to serve as Interim Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. Nearly three years is unusually long for an interim, but I have been grateful for the extra time to shepherd several projects farther down the road. I am indebted to those who have held […]
Over the last couple months on this page, I have revisited each of the department’s overarching missions and provided examples from among the countless ways in which we are meeting them every day. The exercise should help us know that we are all working in concert and remind us that we are a part of […]
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. […]
In my recent post assessing our education mission I said that most of us chose careers at an academic medical center because of a passion for education that is just as important to us as our call to clinical work. That education most of us provide is clinically focused. We want to address immediate patient […]
In my last post I talked about the ways in which our approach to education makes us unique among our peers and even throughout the nation. We prioritize innovation in curricula and methods, we tailor our training programs to fit individual learner interest while ensuring the fundamentals are achieved, and we train up future education […]
This week’s news that the newly named director of the University of Iowa’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Mark Burkard, will begin his job on October 1 means this academic year promises to start off with a lot of change! Dr. Burkard is a breast oncologist and will join our department. You will recall that […]
We are at the end of both the academic and the fiscal year, and as with every year, this has set in motion the review of the current year’s plans and goals, and planning for the next fiscal year with many targets to define. This work raises many questions: How many new faculty members will […]
Tonight the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine will celebrate the graduation of their fellows, members of five different subspecialty programs—general cardiovascular disease, cardiac electrophysiology, transplant, interventional, and cardiac imaging. The scope of training that exists within the division speaks to the breadth and depth of our efforts toward steeping our trainees in wide-ranging experience as well […]
Transitions are all around us right now. Commencement exercises this evening for our medical school graduates is obviously the most immediate marker of coming change. We are as proud as ever of Dr. Manish Suneja, our Vice Chair for Education and Residency Program Director, who will deliver their commencement address, the overwhelming favorite of these […]
A study released last month commissioned by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) revealed that the United States is likely to face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036. In addition, this report also projected that the percentage of Americans 65 and older will increase by 34.1 percent, and those 75 and […]