Newell: Interrupting brain degeneration following brain injury
Pediatrics researcher probes immune system’s role in long-term brain deficits .
UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Activities at Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2023
The UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics is proud to recognize several residents, fellows, postdocs, and faculty who are presenting at this year's Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) conference in Washington, D.C. from April 27-May 1....
Stead Family Scholars program bolsters early-career faculty
New funding program recognizes and advances outstanding early-career faculty.
Rare cancer care
Treating two girls with the same rare cancer—rhabdomyosarcoma—is more than a coincidence for UI adult and pediatric specialists
2023-2024 Pediatrics Residency Match Results
Join us in welcoming another new class of future pediatricians and child neurologists!
This incoming group represents diversity in backgrounds, experiences, personal interests, and professional goals. Several of them are interested in staying in Iowa to do fellowship training or...
Congratulations to our 2022 graduates
Congratulations to our graduates! Our department honors your accomplishments and recognizes the challenges you've overcome through the last several years. We look forward to working with you again, soon or in the future, as colleagues.
Here is our class of graduating fellows, along with...
Stead Family Department of Pediatrics welcomes new learners
We are excited to welcome our new group of learners to the UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics. Our medical student, resident, and fellow programs continue to develop additional opportunities for our current and future trainees, including our rotation for URiM medical students. We welcome...
Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) program launches July 2022
The 2022-2023 academic year will see the pilot of University of Iowa’s Stead Family Department of Pediatrics elective opportunities for visiting medical students from diverse and Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) backgrounds. In conjunction with the Graduate Medical Education’s (GME) Diversity...
Announcing Stead Family Department of Pediatrics' Research Day Winners
Selected for platform presentation by graduating fellows
Michael Cole “Prevalence and impact on quality of life of gastrointestinal and genitourinary symptoms in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy” June Kinoshita, Angelena Edwards, Christopher S. Cooper, Eyad M. Hanna, M. Bridget Zimmerman...
UI Health Care First in Iowa to Offer Non-Surgical Treatment for Congenital Heart Disease
Patients with certain congenital heart disease, which disrupt blood flow from the heart to the lungs, may have previously had multiple open-heart surgeries over the course of their lifetime. Osamah Aldoss, MBBS, UI clinical associate professor of pediatrics-cardiology, says the Harmony valve, recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offers these patients not only a less invasive treatment than open-heart surgery, but also one with less recovery time and fewer restrictions before returning to work or other activities.