The winners of the 2020 University of Iowa Physicians (UIP) Clinical Awards were presented Oct. 26, 2020 at a special ceremony held online and at the UI Urmila Sahai Auditorium.

A team of cystic fibrosis experts with University of Iowa Health Care have been awarded a five-year, $11.5 million grant by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to research molecular therapies for cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease.

Welsh named a finalist for for Sanford Lorraine Cross Award.

Previously, I wrote to tell you about the University of Iowa’s response to Executive Order 13950, which required a review of employee training programs. I’m pleased to inform you that UI Health Care’s review is now complete, and all our own DEI-related trainings and programming remain unchanged and have fully resumed.

Since the University of Iowa’s response to Executive Order 13950 was published last Friday, we have been in many discussions with our students, faculty, and staff. We’d like to clarify a few things about the impact this order is having on University of Iowa Health Care’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Antibiotics may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis, according to results from the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) Trial reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine.