Hilary Mosher, MFA, MD, clinical associate professor in General Internal Medicine, and Katherine Hadlandsmyth, PhD, clinical assistant professor of Anesthesia, received a four-year, $1,400,000 Investigator Initiated Research (IIR) grant from the VA’s Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D). For this interdisciplinary research project, Mosher and Handlandsmyth will test a preventative program for chronic post-surgical […]
Aaron Vose, MD. Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Health System What were some of the projects you worked on while you were at Iowa and how did this work prepare you for your career? The main project that helped prepare me for my career was the ultrasound curriculum that we (Smock, McConomy, Rappaport) developed for […]
Elissa Faro, PhD, research assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, has been with the department for only four months and has already received a University of Iowa Global Research Partnership Award (GRPA). The medical anthropologist will use the $10,000 in starter funds to assess the use of mHealth (mobile health) for mothers and children in […]
Article: Endocannabinoid Receptor-1 and Sympathetic Nervous System Mediate the Beneficial Metabolic Effects of Gastric Bypass Authors: Yuanchao Ye, Marwa Abu El Haija, Donald A. Morgan, Deng Guo, Yang Song, Aaron Frank, Liping Tian, Ruth A. Riedl, Colin M.L. Burnett, Zhan Gao, Zhiyong Zhu, Shailesh K. Shahi, Kasra Zarei, Anne Couvelard, Nicolas Pote ́, Lara Ribeiro-Parenti, […]
Like all other national society meetings, the American College of Gastroenterology moved into a digital space this year. And while individual presentations and panels and even poster sessions may be more easily managed via video conferencing, the Doctor’s Dilemma / Jeopardy competitions posed some technological challenges. This did not stop GI fellows Yazan Hasan, MBBS, […]
Though meeting only virtually, unlike in years past, the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Physicians delivered two distinct honors among its other chapter business. The first, the 2020 Laureate Award, was presented to Katherine Harris, MD, FACP, Clinical Professor and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency. The Laureate Award honors ACP […]
Since expanding in 2011 to cover the entire Carver College of Medicine, the University of Iowa Physicians (UIP) Clinical Awards has honored providers in six categories. This year, the Department of Internal Medicine is proud to have been recognized in four of those categories. Earlier this week in a much more scaled back version of […]
Nirav Dhanesha, PhD, research assistant professor in Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, has earned a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). Dhanesha, a member of the Chauhan Lab, will use the funds to investigate the mechanisms for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in obesity. “Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a […]
Sammantha Kouba, DO, recent Infectious Disease fellowship graduate, and Takaaki Kobayashi, MD, current F3 ID fellow, published a leptospirosis case study in BMJ Case Reports, with patient consent. The publication, with contributions from faculty members Robert Blount, MD, and Loreen Herwaldt, MD, addressed the rare cardiovascular impacts of leptospirosis. Kouba and Kobayashi’s report details a 50-year-old man […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, October 29, 2020, will be: The High Road and Its Tolls: Public Health Lessons Learned from Marijuana Legalization in Colorado and Oklahoma12:00-1:00pmThursday, October 29, 2020 Gerard Clancy, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry Click this link on Thursday just before noon to join the presentation:https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/92518392786 This Grand Rounds […]