Lee E. Travis is one of the first to record human activity with an EEG.

Elmer L. DeGowin, MD, develops modern-day blood banking which demonstrated that it is safe to refrigerate, ship, and use banked blood.

William D. “Shorty” Paul, MD, developed buffered aspirin, which later became known as “Bufferin,” and developed the antacid Rolaids.

Early in the 1950s, Ignacio Ponseti, MD, developed the first non-surgical method to treat clubfoot. The Ponseti Method is still being used worldwide as the best way to treat clubfoot.

University of Iowa establishes the first cryobank for frozen semen. 

The first baby conceived with sperm stored in a cryobank is born at University Hospitals.

Edward Mason, MD, and his team develop the most common surgical method for severe obesity: Vertical Banded Gastroplasty.

A three-year-old-boy, Tim Brandau, receives the first cochlear implant designed for children by Bruce Gantz, MD.

Monzer Abu-Yousef, MD, is the first in the world to introduce the “Water-Simethicone-Rotation” technique to improve pancreatic visualization by ultrasound.

First hospital in the United States to have a National Institute of Health funded center for research on anemia in newborn babies.

Virtual Hospital® is launched. It is one of the first 250 websites on the Internet and a premiere source for health information.

Joseph Zabner, MD, and Michael Welsh, MD, develop the nation’s first successful, though temporary, gene therapy to correct the defect in cystic fibrosis.

First baby born in Iowa under 400 grams (13th in the world).

World’s first bilateral cochlear implant during the same surgical procedure.

Researchers identify the gene responsible for glaucoma.

At the time, the smallest patient in the world to undergo robotic surgery (Amber Vairo) happened under the care of John Meehan, MD.

First hospital in the U.S. with a functioning BabySim® to practice on.