Department of Internal Medicine

October 28, 2016 Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, Named Associate Chair for Clinical and Health Services Research

October 18, 2016 Gwen Beck has been awarded the UIP Patient Satisfaction and Service Excellence Award.

October 12, 2016 Dr. Kantima Phisitkul, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nephrology, recently received the 2015-16 Mobile Clinic Distinguished Faculty Award for her volunteer work with the University of Iowa Mobile Clinic.

October 11, 2106 Residency Program Director Dr. Manish Suneja has been awarded the Laureate Award by the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Physicians.

September 30, 2016 Dr. Namrata Singh has been the PI of the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry since May 2015.

September 29, 2016 Kamal Rahmouni, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, has been awarded the 2016 Paul Korner Award by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH)

September 14, 2016 Dr. Ryan Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been awarded one of four new grants from the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center.

September 13, 2016 Immunotherapies direct a patient’s immune system to seek out and destroy cancer. This seemingly simple idea of using the body’s natural defense mechanisms to fight cancer has been around for more than a century, but only recently has an understanding of how cancer and the immune system interact advanced sufficiently for the concept to achieve clinical success.

August 29, 2016 Dr. Joseph Szot has been named the Medical Director for Continuing Medical Education (CME) in the Carver College of Medicine, taking over for the recently retired Dr. Joel Gordon, who served in this role since 2006.

August 26, 2016 Dr. Richard Hoffman is one of two researchers at the University of Iowa to receive a Special Interests Project (SIP) grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. SIP grants are funded through the CDC’s Prevention Research Center.