Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship, Teaching, and Service to honor faculty April 26
Seventeen University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty members will be honored for their work as scientists, scholars, and educators at the second annual Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship, Teaching, and Service.
The event will begin at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the Prem Sahai Auditorium in the Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF). A reception following the presentation will be held in the Jean and Reneé Robillard Atrium in MERF.
UI Health Care faculty, staff, students, and volunteers are invited to attend or join a livestream of the event at uihealthcare.org/livestream.
Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA, UI vice president for medical affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean of the Carver College of Medicine, will host the celebration, which honors new inductees to the Carver College of Medicine Wall of Scholarship; the college’s newest Impact Scholars; and recipients of the college’s annual faculty awards.
Wall of Scholarship
The Wall of Scholarship acknowledges current UI Carver College of Medicine faculty who are first or senior authors of published research articles that have made a significant impact on a particular field of science or medicine.
Specifically, the research papers have been cited more than 1,000 times in subsequent published research articles, based on at least two of three recognized academic citation indices: Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.
The following faculty achieved Wall of Scholarship distinction during the 2021 calendar year:
- Ted Abel, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, and the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience
- Robert Mullins, PhD, MS, professor in the Department Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Martin Carver Chair in Ocular Cell Biology
- Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and a University of Iowa Distinguished Chair
- Michael Welsh, MD, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and director of the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute
Impact Scholars
Carver College of Medicine 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 determined 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. Carver College of Medicine Impact Scholars are faculty who have achieved H-index scores of 100 or higher (“gold” level) and 50 or higher (“silver” level).
The following faculty achieved Impact Scholar distinction during the 2021 calendar year:
Gold Level
- Edwin Stone, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, director of the UI Institute for Vision Research, and the Seamans-Hauser Chair in Molecular Ophthalmology
- Daniel Tranel, MD, associate dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies in the Carver College of Medicine and professor in the Department of Neurology
Silver Level:
- Frederick Domann, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology
- Randy Kardon, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Pomerantz Family Chair in Ophthalmology
- Arnold Menezes, MD, professor in the Department of Neurosurgery
- David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD, professor in the Department of Pathology and director of the department’s comparative pathology division
- Delwyn Miller, MD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry
- Laura Ponto, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiology
- Brian Wolf, MD, MS, professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, medical director of UI Sports Medicine, and the John and Kim Callaghan Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine
Carver College of Medicine Faculty Awards
The faculty awards are presented each year to recognize faculty who have made exceptional contributions impacting students, colleagues, and patients.
Carver College of Medicine Faculty Awards recipients:
- Michael Colburn, MD, MEd, clinical assistant professor in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics (Collegiate Teaching Award)
- Kris DeMali, PhD, professor and interim chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (John P. Long Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences)
- Ericka Lawler, MD, clinical associate professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation (Ernest O. Theilan Clinical Teaching and Service Award)
- Tina Tootle, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (Faculty Service Award)