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University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty members whose published research manuscripts have had a lasting impact on science and medicine will be honored at the college’s Wall of Scholarship dedication April 24.
Adding immunotherapy improves outcomes for advanced endometrial cancer, but results from a phase 3 clinical trial offer hope of a new treatment approach that may lead to better outcomes for women with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.
Researchers from the University of Iowa Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation are investigating the relationship between malnutrition and loss of muscle and mobility in older adults who sustained a hip fracture. Iowa orthopedic surgeon Michael Willey, MD, in collaboration with researchers at John Hopkins University and the Slocum Center for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Eugene, Oregon, documented loss of muscle and mobility after hip fracture. Their goal is to identify effective nutrition and rehabilitation interventions to prevent loss of muscle and function while preventing common complications after these injuries.
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.
Approximately 150 fourth-year medical students at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine learn where they’ll be going for residency training on Friday, March 17.
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.