A few years ago, Toshihiro Kitamoto, PhD, and a colleague in the Biology Department, Chun-Fang Wu, PhD, noticed that fly mutants, which Kitamoto’s lab was using as a fly model of epilepsy, were significantly less susceptible to seizures when they were raised on the east side of the river in the...
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Cormac O'Sullivan, PhD, MSN, CRNA, who directs the Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist program at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, received the Program Director of the Year award from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) at its annual conference in Chicago earlier this...
A full life despite pain -- that's the goal of psychological help for patients experiencing chronic pain. Beth Dinoff, PhD, clinical associate professor, Department of Anesthesia Kelly Teuscher of Davenport, Iowa, has suffered from chronic pain -- migraine, back pain, arthritis, Crohn's disease,...
Twenty-one Department of Anesthesia faculty, 12 residents, and one staff member are scheduled to participate in various educational offerings at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Oct. 19-23 in Orlando. The Department's emissaries will present six abstracts, 16...
Traditionally, incident reporting in health care focuses on adverse events. But what if providers could learn as well – or better – from positive incidents? That’s the question Channon McKibben, who recently graduated from the University of Iowa College of Nursing’s Student Registered Nurse...
A generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous has given more than $200,000 to the Department of Anesthesia to create the Anesthesia Research Institute Fund. The fund is intended to provide much-needed money to support research that otherwise would likely go unfunded. “So often, the important...
Jacob Herrmann David Kaczka, MD, PhD Jacob Herrmann, former PhD student under David Kaczka , MD, PhD, was named co-winner of the 2019 Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, “Frequency-Dependent Ventilation Heterogeneity in the Acutely Injured Lung.” Kaczka called him “a once-in-a-...
Congratulations to Tyler Abarca, Joe Metzger, and Alex Novak, recipients of the 2019-2020 Margaret V. Lunsford Award. The Lunsford Award is granted to senior Department of Anesthesia externs with high academic success, and who demonstrate potential to contribute to the specialty of anesthesiology...
Permanently transitioning care from one anesthesia provider to another (not just covering brief breaks) during ambulatory surgery is associated with adverse events and mortality. Frank Dexter, MD, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Miami have come up with four strategies to reduce adverse...
Congratulations to the 12 residents and 10 fellows who complete their Department training as of June 30. The graduates were feted at the Feller Club Room in Carver-Hawkeye Arena Saturday, June 22, for their accomplishments. A few of the graduates are remaining with the Department for the next...