58th Annual Medical Student Research Conference Award Winners

The Carver College of Medicine has sponsored a Research Week for nearly six decades, the most recent of which took place on September 15 and 16. With 64 oral presentations, 141 poster presentations, and a keynote, the college celebrates the research that our medical students conduct and refine in a multitude of ways. Recognizing excellence among the […]

Online presentation: Eye Protection, PPE Use, and COVID-19 Update – September 23, 2021

Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, September 23 will be: Necessity of Eye Protection for COVID-19 Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine PPE Use and Healthcare Worker Self-contamination Loreen Herwaldt, MD, Professor, Division of Infectious Disease COVID-19 Update Daniel Diekema, MD, MS, Clinical Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases   […]

Grumbach named Daum Professor

Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD, professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, has been appointed to the Kate Daum Professorship, which recognizes outstanding women scientists at the University of Iowa. This position is endowed by the Carver College of Medicine in honor of Kate Daum, PhD, who directed the UI Nutrition Department for nearly thirty years and was a […]

Celebrating the many successes of Endocrinology’s members

In the most recent rankings released by US News & World Report, and for the first time, University of Iowa Health Care was listed among the “high performing” institutions in the nation and #1 in Iowa for its adult diabetes and endocrinology care. This was not why the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism gathered in […]

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Prospective correlation between the patient microbiome with response to and development of immune-mediated adverse effects to immunotherapy in lung cancer

Article: Prospective correlation between the patient microbiome with response to and development of immune-mediated adverse effects to immunotherapy in lung cancer Authors: Justin Chau, Meeta Yadav, Ben Liu, Muhammad Furqan, Qun Dai, Shailesh Shahi, Arnav Gupta, Keri Nace Mercer, Evan Eastman, Taher Abu Hejleh , Carlos Chan, George J Weiner, Catherine Cherwin, Sonny T M […]

Meet your Interns – part 7

We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2021. 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 a little bit about why they chose Internal Medicine at Iowa for their residency. And, […]

In Memory of James Brian Martins, MD

The department learned this week of the passing of James Martins, MD, professor emeritus of Internal Medicine, earlier this month at the age of 77. Martins arrived at the University of Iowa in 1971 for residency just after completing his medical degree at the University of Illinois in Chicago. A cardiology fellowship here was followed […]

Breast cancer’s impact on quality of life for adolescents, young adults

Sneha Phadke, DO, clinical assistant professor in Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and Ellen van der Plas, PhD, assistant professor of Psychiatry received a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Group within the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC). Phadke and van der Plas’s project aims to identify factors influencing the quality of […]

Online presentation: Diagnostic Challenge in a Woman with Polyuria

Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, September 16 will be: Diagnostic Challenge in a Woman with Polyuria 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, September 16, 2021 Christina Charis-Donelson, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine Elizabeth Bowen, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism Bruno Policeni, MBA, MD, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology Click this […]

2021 Newly Promoted Professors and Associate Professors

Even as University of Iowa Health Care continues to weather a rise in COVID-19 infections, our faculty members continue to excel. Within the clinic and the classroom, from telemedicine visits to international research conferences, our faculty members manage a combination of research, education, and clinical responsibilities. In addition to all of that, these twenty faculty […]