In a routine established during his doctoral studies, Daniel Cook, MD, PhD, has attended the annual AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago every spring. This April, that tradition will take on a new meaning when the American Society for Clinical Investigation honors Cook with a Young Physician-Scientist Award (YPSA). David Stoltz, MD, PhD, director for the […]
The below is a message from Rachel Kirchner, MHA, Director, UI Community Clinics & Outreach, UI Health Care. I am pleased to announce that Dr. Chris Iverson has been appointed as Clinical Director of Occupational Health, effective immediately. With his extensive expertise in clinical care and a proven track record of leadership, Dr. Iverson will […]
This spring, the Department of Rehabilitation Therapies’ Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, led by Jeff Wilson, MD, medical director and clinical professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, was given the first-ever Distinguished Program of the Year award by the Iowa Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation (IACPR). Part of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, IACPR […]
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 […]
Each year, the Department of Internal Medicine recognizes excellence in science and education through a growing series of inspired lectures, each of which celebrates the lives of the people for whom they are named. We look forward to hosting prominent professors for eight of these highlighted talks each year. Below is a list of upcoming […]
Sunday night, while most of the community took a break from shoveling to warm themselves by a fire, the members of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine warmed themselves with some company and good cheer. The division’s annual holiday gathering went a little farther away from downtown Iowa City than they did […]
Count on the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine to resist expectation and to search out the new. The typical trappings of a holiday party typically do not feature murals of flying saucers above sun-loungers and specialty mixed drinks named for famous fictional plants. But last week’s gathering at one of Iowa City’s […]
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 […]
Four departing faculty members of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine were sent off in style at an event held in the Jean and Renée Robillard Atrium of the Medical Education Research Facility earlier this week. Fellow researchers and clinicians, faculty colleagues, trainees, and staff all came to bid farewell to Michael […]
The message below was sent to the Department of Internal Medicine earlier today. I have the great pleasure to announce that David A. Stoltz, MD, PhD, has been named Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, effective December 1. We are grateful for the 11 years of leadership that his predecessor, […]