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 Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at UI Health Care has thrived under the steady leadership of Kevin C. Doerschug, MD, MS, who has served as Medical Director for more than two decades. Now, as Doerschug transitions into a new institutional role, Desmond Barber, MD, MME, has been named the MICU’s next Medical Director. David […]
Last Thursday, the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine hosted a celebration in honor of Gregory Schmidt, MD, professor of internal medicine, on the occasion of his retirement. The division reserved the department’s Grand Rounds with a guest lecturer to honor Schmidt’s contributions to the department and to University of Iowa Health Care. […]
The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine braved a busy downtown Iowa City to gather on the second floor of the Hotel Vetro. While the rest of the neighborhood was celebrating the annual Arts Fest, the division was celebrating their four most recent pulmonary and critical care fellowship graduates: Desmond Barber, MD, MME; […]
Nearly half a million Iowans live with some form of lung disease—an enduring public health challenge that the American Lung Association (ALA) confronts head-on each year through advocacy, research, education, and community engagement. One of its hallmark events, the Fight for Air Climb, brings people together to raise both funds and awareness for lung health; […]
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 […]
A multidisciplinary team within the Carver College of Medicine has earned a two-year, $575,000 grant from the Ann Theodore Foundation to study cognitive dysfunction in people with sarcoidosis. The team is led by primary investigators Nabeel Hamzeh, MD, professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, and Karin Hoth, PhD, professor of Psychiatry; and co-investigators […]
A mark of any good party and maybe of how much the party guests all like each other is when the social hour lasts about twice as long as scheduled. The reunions, the introductions, the general catching up among colleagues, friends, and families becomes as important as the main reason they gathered in the first […]
Brian Wayson, ARNP, has dedicated nearly 40 years to the field of pulmonary medicine, starting his career as a nurse caring for individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). In 1988, he joined University of Iowa Health Care, working alongside Douglas Hornick, MD (now a Clinical Professor and Director of Pulmonary Patient Care programs) in the inpatient […]