Leadership
Nicholas Mohr, MD, MS
Emergency Medicine PSTP Co-Director
Research: Regionalization networks for critical illness, telehealth, sepsis, stroke
Hobbies: Playing with my kids, sailing
nicholas-mohr@uiowa.edu
"Twelve years ago, I joined the University of Iowa because of the collaborative environment in a world-class medical center. What keeps me here, though, are the great people and our institutional commitment to practice-changing innovation and biomedical research. We started the PSTP to grow the cadre of innovators imagining the future of emergency care, capitalizing on the diversity of research being done in the Carver College of Medicine and throughout the University of Iowa. My research area focuses on developing acute care regionalization networks and novel care delivery platforms, especially for those with critical illness. The strength of our institution is in the depth and diversity of the work that we do and the great people we meet along the way."
Karen Cyndari, MD, PhD, MS
Emergency Medicine PSTP Associate Director
Research: Joint Space Immune Regulation; Lyme Arthritis
Hobbies: drawing, writing, beekeeping, martial arts, taming chaos
karen-cyndari@uiowa.edu
"I came to Iowa from New York for the unique opportunities provided by this department, and the enthusiastic support for high level research as a practicing EM physician-scientist. As the first graduate of the EM PSTP program, I’m staying for the same reasons. My work and career goals have been stunningly supported because this department understands that we want to change the world for the better. My scientific niche focuses on how our joints maintain homeostasis in settings of infectious and inflammatory arthritis. I study the unique architecture of human joint lining (synovium), and how changes to that structure affect immune functions that result in pain and inflammation for patients. I use Lyme Arthritis as a model system for how an infectious arthritis can become an inflammatory arthritis."