As a teenager, Jesse Van Maanen knew he wanted to be a surgeon. What he didn’t know is that he would end up practicing in a hospital 10 minutes from where he grew up.

The Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation (CPSS), part of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has been designated as a Comprehensive Accredited Education Institute by the American College of Surgeons. CPSS is one of only 97 centers to earn this prestigious recognition, ranking it among the most elite surgical training centers in the world.

Meet Uchechi Okoroafor, a student of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Biomedical Science Program in Cell and Developmental Biology from Ibadan, Nigeria.

A select group of UI Carver College of Medicine students aren’t just learning the clinical skills they’ll need to be physicians; they’re learning the business and management skills they’ll need to have a seat at the table.

Meet Joshua Lingo, a student of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Biomedical Science Program in Cancer Biology from Tonganoxie, Kansas.

Four members of the Ahrendsen family graduated from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and now practice in Clarion and Storm Lake, Iowa.

UI team contributes uric acid treatment as winning approach for improving stroke therapy within the the Stroke Pre-Clinical Assessment Network (SPAN) study.

Becky Peoples of Bothell, Washington, hopes to match in emergency medicine on Friday, March 17.

Nathen Spitz is from Osage, Iowa. He hopes to match in psychiatry on Friday, March 17.