Views from the Chair

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…

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…

I am pleased to add my voice to last week’s welcome for Dr. Upinder Singh, who will be the next Chair and DEO of Internal…

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,…

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….

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…

The department, the college, and the rest of University of Iowa Health Care have seen extraordinary changes in a relatively short period of time. Whether…

Aspects of our education mission have received a little more attention than usual, both within the department and throughout the college, for the last few…

It has already been a week since Match Day 2024 and we are still celebrating our success and this full class of interns who will…

As experts in a multitude of aspects of health care delivery and academic medicine, whether it is educating medical students, performing a cutting-edge procedure, or…