Carver College of Medicine recognizes faculty as Impact Scholars

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will honor 47 of its faculty as the college’s inaugural group of Impact Scholars—researchers who have made a major scientific impact over the course of their careers.
The honorees will be added to a newly created commemorative space in the Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF).
Impact Scholars are selected based on the Hirsch index, also known as the H-index, which represents the number of research papers a faculty member has published, and the papers’ impact as gauged by how many times they have been cited by other scientists and scholars in subsequent research articles.
For example, a researcher with an H-index of 50 has published at least 50 articles that each have been cited at least 50 times. An H-index increases as multiple papers are cited multiple times. The H-index calculations for the Carver College of Medicine Impact Scholars are based on research abstract and citation data from Scopus.
The Impact Scholars are current Carver College of Medicine faculty who have achieved H-index scores of 100 or higher (“gold” level) and 50 or higher (“silver” level).
Following is the inaugural list of faculty members to be honored:
Gold Level
- Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD; Department of Psychiatry
- Kevin P. Campbell, PhD; Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Michael J. Welsh, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
Silver Level
- François M. Abboud, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
- E. Dale Abel, MBBS, DPhil; Department of Internal Medicine
- Edwin (Ted) Abel, PhD; Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
- Harold P. Adams Jr., MD; Department of Neurology
- Edward F. Bell, MD; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Donald W. Black, MD; Department of Psychiatry
- John M. Buatti, MD; Department of Radiation Oncology
- Joseph A. Buckwalter IV, MD, MS; Department of Orthopedics
- Garry R. Buettner, PhD; Department of Radiation Oncology
- William H. Coryell, MD; Department of Psychiatry
- Colin P. Derdeyn, MD; Department of Radiology
- Franklin Dexter, MD, PhD; Department of Anesthesia
- Daniel J. Diekema, MD, MS; Department of Internal Medicine
- John F. Engelhardt, PhD; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Frank M. Faraci, PhD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Bruce J. Gantz, MD; Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
- Charles Grose, MD; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- John Harty, PhD; Department of Pathology
- Donald D. Heistad, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Eric A. Hoffman, PhD; Department of Radiology
- Henry T. Hoffman, MD, MS, FACS; Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
- J. Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; Department of Pathology
- Samuel Kuperman, MD; Department of Psychiatry
- Steven R. Lentz, MD, PhD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Vincent A. Magnotta, PhD; Department of Radiology
- Paul B. McCray Jr., MD; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- William M. Nauseef, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Peggy C. Nopoulos, MD; Department of Psychiatry
- Daniel S. O’Leary, PhD; Department of Psychiatry
- Eli N. Perencevich, MD, MS; Department of Internal Medicine
- Robert C. Piper, PhD; Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Patrick M. Schlievert, PhD; Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Val C. Sheffield, MD, PhD; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Michael E. Shy, MD; Department of Neurology
- Kathleen A. Sluka, PT, PhD, FAPTA; Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
- Richard J. Smith, MD; Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
- Douglas R. Spitz, PhD; Department of Radiation Oncology
- Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Daniel Tranel, PhD; Department of Neurology
- George J. Weiner, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Stuart L. Weinstein, MD; Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Jerrold P. Weiss, PhD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Robert M. Weiss, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
- Joseph Zabner, MD; Department of Internal Medicine
Honorees will be recognized annually as new faculty achieve an h-index of 50 or higher, or as current honorees reach an h-index of 100 or higher.