Honors, awards, and other achievements earned by Internal Medicine personnel.
As much as they are leaders in the residency program, the Chief Residents’ acumen as clinicians and educators is rarely on full display to the entire institution and beyond. Every year, they are invited to deliver a Grand Rounds in Internal Medicine close to the end of their term in office. (View previous years’ presentations here: […]
The William R. Wilson Award The 2022–23 William R. Wilson Award goes to Ioannis Kournoutas and Stephanie Saey. These two have shown exceptional accomplishment in their clinical work in Internal Medicine. The Wilson Award was created in 1982 to honor the memory of an Internal Medicine faculty member who exemplified the finest in teaching, clinical […]
Gwen Z. Beck, MD, has been awarded one of the highest distinctions the Carver College of Medicine grants, the Dr. Ernest O. Theilen Clinical Teaching and Service Award. This award, sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development, recognizes a faculty member each year who embodies the ideals Theilen exemplified in his compassion and […]
Aloha Wilks will receive a 2023 Board of Regents Staff Excellence Award. For thirty years, the Regents have recognized those staff members who have “significantly benefited The University of Iowa, brought honor or recognition to the University, and had a significant positive impact on the State of Iowa.” In her role as the Research Program […]
At an event next month, Amal Shibli-Rahhal, MD, will receive a 2023 Collegiate Teaching Award. Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development, this award acknowledges faculty who “demonstrate unusually significant and meritorious achievement” as instructors in an academic year. Shibli-Rahhal is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism as well […]
At an event next month, Donald Brown, MD, will receive a 2023 Collegiate Teaching Award. Sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development, this award acknowledges faculty who “demonstrate unusually significant and meritorious achievement” as instructors in an academic year. Brown was nominated by Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD, Interim Chair & DEO, and Manish […]
The University of Iowa Health Care Making a Difference program is designed to recognize individuals who have performed in an exemplary manner, consistent with the goals of service excellence, and with a commitment to quality care. Over the last few months, members of our department were nominated by colleagues, patients, and patient family members for […]
Congratulations to the Internal Medicine recipients of the Education Innovation and Scholarship Grants awarded by the Carver College of Medicine’s Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education (OCRME)! Below are the recipients named in the second and third round of awards. Milena Gebska, MD, MME, was one of the first three awarded an EIS […]
Measuring a leader’s impact in academic medicine can be done more easily by examining growth of revenue or faculty members or patient care volume. But less tangible factors like lives transformed, world views changed, or careers redirected toward greater success are arguably even more important. Over the course of an evening on the second floor […]
In what is now officially an annual tradition, members of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism gathered on a recent Saturday evening to celebrate a number of achievements, anniversaries, promotions, and to say farewell to one valued but departing member. About two dozen faculty, staff, and their loved ones met in the Courtyard by Marriott, […]