David Stoltz, MD, PhD, professor of internal medicine and director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, was inducted last weekend into the Association of American Physicians (AAP). The election acknowledges Stoltz’s many achievements in academic medical research, particularly in the field of cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases. The AAP is […]
On an especially cold winter’s night, people from the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine gathered at a lavender farm in Oxford, IA to celebrate the holidays. Faculty, staff, donors, and residents interested pursuing this specialty were met at the door with wafts of the dried flowers, which covered entire walls of the […]
Geoffrey McLennan, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, was a Professor of Internal Medicine, Bioengineering, and Radiology when he passed in 2010. He was a founding member of the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, serving as director from 2005 to his death. He also served as director of Interventional Pulmonology Services for the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care […]
Miles Hagner, MD, instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, was recently awarded a two-year FSR Sarcoidosis Research Fellowship Grant in the amount of $150,000 for his project, The Role of Airway Epithelial Responses in Sarcoidosis Pathophysiology. Read the FSR’s press release here. Sarcoidosis—a syndrome that results in the growth of […]
Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a Catalyst Award from the American Lung Association (ALA) in the amount of $50,000 per year for two years for his project, Submucosal Gland Hypertrophy in a Porcine Model of PCD: Histological, Cellular, and […]
Early in May, Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds hosted three Stimulating Access to Research in Residency—or StARR—Scholars for updates in their NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) grant-funded research. The grant is led by Professor in Pulmonary Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, David Stoltz, MD, PhD, in partnership with UI Stead Family […]
Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, has won a prestigious Parker B. Francis (PBF) Fellowship in Pulmonary Research, sponsored by the Francis Family Foundation. Yu will use this $225,000 award to pursue research on his project, Mechanisms of submucosal gland hypertrophy in muco-obstructive lung […]
Last Thursday, January 25, the Department of Internal Medicine hosted a special Grand Rounds: one in honor of the wealth of discovery, knowledge, and kindness that Stephen McGowan, MD, MA, contributed to his workplace, his patients, and his colleagues over his 40-year career at University of Iowa Health Care. McGowan came to the University of […]
A new NIH-funded grant will offer trainees the opportunity to conduct research in the intersection of climate change and lung health. David Stoltz, MD, PhD, professor and director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Health, will serve as co-PI on this new T32 grant with Peter Thorne, PhD, professor in the Department […]
Lynda S. Ostedgaard, MS, PhD, research associate professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, and David Stoltz, MD, PhD, professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, received a four-year, $2.5M R01 grant from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. With this funding, Ostedgaard and Stoltz will examine the relative contributions of […]