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; […]
Members of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine returned to a location that has served them well many times in the past. The Terry Trueblood Recreation Area offers a comfortable lodge with a view of the water. As with previous years, members were invited to bring drinks to share while the program […]
Last week in Oceanside, California, the strength of the Iowa bond was visible. The setting was the location for a Physician Scientist Career Development Retreat hosted by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), a longtime partner of the Lung Biology Research program at Iowa. Specifically, the CFF’s Career Development Committee organized the two-day event for late-stage […]
Recently, every one of our twelve fellows in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program got the day off from their usual clinical duties in order to attend a new training session designed by Kevin Doerschug, MD, Director of UI Health Care’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), and Allison Wynes, ARNP, Lead APP in the MICU. […]
Just a couple months past the halfway mark of their first year of Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship, four physicians were suddenly confronted with a much different set of circumstances than they first envisioned when they applied. The global pandemic of COVID-19 was felt nowhere more acutely than in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) […]
Like almost every graduation celebration this year, the timing could not have been better. The rise in vaccinations and reductions in COVID-19 infection rates allowed for an ease in gathering restrictions for our health care workers. And less than a month later, members of a division that was on one of the many sets of […]
“Among the aerosol-generating procedures,” an April 27 JAMA editorial cautioned, “performing endotracheal intubation is especially hazardous.” At University of Iowa Health Care, over the last ten months of caring for those individuals with COVID-19 admitted to our Medical Intensive Care Unit and needing intubation, it is safe to say that nearly every one of those […]
Fellows from around the region and even some farther corners continue to come every year for the Midwest Fellows Critical Care Ultrasound Symposium. This year, the growth was not in the numbers of fellows traveling for training in point-of-care ultrasound for two days, but in the number of faculty members assisting in the training. Now […]