On a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon, a couple dozen members of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine celebrated the arrival of another class of incoming fellows for their fellowship training programs. Tucked on the northwest end of Terry Trueblood Park, a small pavilion near a playground sheltered members of the division and their loved ones, […]
Cardiology fellowships graduation, 2025
The division with the most fellowship training programs kicked off the department’s graduation season from the second floor of the Hilton Garden Inn in Iowa City. Graduates, faculty, staff, and family and friends of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine filled the room as well as their plates from the many options on the buffet. After […]
Cardiology new fellow welcome picnic, 2024
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, July 21, the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine hosted its annual welcome picnic for new fellows. Faculty, staff, and their loved ones (including furry friends) attended the gathering under a shaded shelter near Terry Trueblood Recreation Area’s sandy playgrounds. Guests enjoyed a buffet of chips, fresh summer fruits, and grilled […]
Cardiology Fellowship graduation, 2024
On the evening of Friday, May 31, the Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship group kicked off the department’s graduation season. From tiny babies to tenured faculty, guests arrived in fine attire to enjoy an artful array of heavy hors d’oeuvres. The room filled with graduating fellows, their friends and family, and celebrating colleagues as the littlest among […]
Cardiology fellows’ welcome picnic
On a recent Saturday, members of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine met at Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, just south of Iowa City, to welcome the newest members of their fellowship programs. A semi-potluck picnic, faculty and trainees brought side dishes and drinks to go along with some furnished entrees. They also brought family. Introductions were […]
Cardiology Fellows Graduation, 26 May 2023
Graduates from the five fellowship programs within the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine were recently celebrated at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Iowa City. After a mixer and some appetizers, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program Director Ferhaan Ahmad, MD, PhD, welcomed guests, made brief remarks, and then presented the division’s annual awards. Division Director Barry London, […]
Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowships’ Graduation, 2022
Graduation season officially kicked off for the Department of Internal Medicine on Friday, June 3, when members of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Iowa City to send off the department’s largest cohort of subspecialty trainees. As friends, family, and colleagues gathered, they helped themselves to refreshments […]
Lakshmanan wins prestigious global award
Suvasini Lakshmanan, MBBS, a first-year fellow in Cardiovascular Disease, was recently selected as a recipient of the 2022 Women as One Escalator Awards Mentor Match Award in the mentee category. Lakshmanan is one of four recipients out of 71 applicants from 25 different countries. As a winner, she will receive several important benefits, including an […]
Cardiovascular Medicine’s Fellowships Graduation
At the same moment the members of the Internal Medicine Residency Program were celebrating their graduates, across the river and up the hill members of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine were honoring graduates of the four fellowships they oversee: Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology. After a […]
Ashwath, cardiology fellows take lectures global
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, education has remained at the forefront for Mahi Ashwath, MD, MBA, FACC, FASE, FSCMR, clinical associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, and president of the Iowa chapter of the American College of Cardiology (Iowa ACC), and Shubha Deep Roy, MD, chief cardiology fellow and co-chair of Iowa ACC Fellow-in-Training (FIT) Council. As […]