In its nearly 160-year history, the University of Iowa’s Department of Internal Medicine has sustained a tradition of robust achievement and growth in each of its missions—research, patient care, education, and service.
Mission, Vision, and Strengths
Identity and Mission Statement
- We train and recruit the best people – We are expert, collaborative, diverse and committed physicians, scientists, teachers and health science support staff who together focus on the importance of the contributions of our faculty.
- We have rigor – We are at the center of health care, health services education and health science in the State of Iowa. We belong to the regional, national, and international community of academic medicine.
- We are nimble – We harness the expertise of every person to succeed in yielding results across all our missions by being proactive and open to changing paradigms.
- We are innovative – Across all we do in basic science, health services and clinical research and clinical care we embrace innovative, inclusive, disciplined leadership in clinical service, education, and science.
Vision Statement
By sustained effort and commitment to lifelong learning and discovery through diversity of experience and opinion within an engaged, respectful, and open community, we strive to uphold the public trust, discover new knowledge, and contribute importantly to the alleviation of suffering and to the cure of human disease.
Strengths
Recognized Leadership
- Nationally and internationally recognized faculty
- Leaders throughout the University of Iowa, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care and the Iowa City VA Health Care System
America's Best
- Medicine subspecialty clinical areas routinely appear in the U.S. News and World Report yearly ranking of America's Best Hospitals.
- 20 members of the department have served 30 terms as presidents of 17 regional and national professional societies.
- Four individuals served terms as president of the American Federation for Medical Research.
- Two each served presidential terms for the Central Society for Clinical Research, American Heart Association, American Motility Society, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, and the Association of American Physicians.
Leading in Research
- Committed to a wide variety of research themes, including biodefense, bioinformatics, cancer biology, genetic basis of disease, health services research, imaging, immunology, inflammation, membrane biology, molecular therapy, obesity and diabetes, stem cell research; therapeutics, drug evaluation and development; vascular biology, cardiac biology, and virology
- Faculty direct 18 University of Iowa Research Centers, 8 NIH Program Project Grants, 3 NIH Center Grants, a Clinical and Translational Science Program and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratory.
Leading in Patient Care
- Robust clinical activity - in 2017-2018, over 154,232 ambulatory outpatients were seen in specialty clinics at UI Health Care and around the State of Iowa in Outreach Clinics.
- For the same period, 19,850 patients were admitted to medicine inpatient units.
- Leaders in the development of multidisciplinary clinical centers
- The UI Family Care Center
- The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
- The UI Heart and Vascular Center
- The James A. Clifton Digestive Health Center
- Hospitalist Program
Teaching the Next Generation
- At the center of medical education for medical student, resident and fellow training
- Leader in in-house, local, regional, and national continuing medical education
- Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Training Program for medical students
- Graduate Program in Translational Biomedical Research
- Medical Scientist Training Program for MD/PhD students
Investing in the Future
- Leaders in identifying sources of external funding from corporate and private donors
- Endowed chairs and professorships
- Startup funding for young faculty
- Seed funding for new education and research initiatives
- In the first gift to the University of its kind, the national Fraternal Order of Eagles recently pledged $25 million over five years to create the Fraternal Order of Eagles/University of Iowa Diabetes Research Center.
Department of Internal Medicine research, clinical and education programs are healthy and energetic, indelibly linked to one another by faculty who are passionate about their careers, their patients, and their students and dedicated to the principles of innovation and renewal.
