Latest Departmental News

Spring 2025 Iowa DPT Q&A Sessions
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Spring 2025 Question & Answer Sessions for the University of Iowa Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program
Q&A: Jacob Norton, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Q&A: Alex Lewis, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Upcoming Events
PTRS Educational Summit
Mark your calendars for our 2025 PTRS Educational Summit scheduled for October 11, 2025.
UI Physical Therapy Apparel Order
The Physical Therapy Student Organization's (PTSO) spring apparel order is now closed. If you wish to be put on the mailing list for the fall order, please email us at physical-therapy@uiowa.edu.
Alumni Newsletters
The alumni newsletters provide an opportunity for us to share many of the accomplishments of previous classmates, faculty, and staff from the UI Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences Community at Iowa. These newsletters will go out annually to keep you informed of the new developments and future plans within the department.
College of Medicine Events
REDCap Intermediate Training
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Thesis Defense: Jordan Riley
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 1:00pm to 1:50pm
"Transcription Factor Binding Enhances UV DNA Damage at Specific Loci within Their Binding Sites"Jordan Riley, MS CandidateMS Thesis DefenseAdvisor: Miles Pufall, PhD
REDCap Surveys Training
Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:
Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys
Manually and automatically sending surveys
Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms
Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login
This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of...

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Amy Barry
Thursday, July 10, 2025 11:30am
Amy Barry is a PhD candidate in Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. She is a member of Drs. Bengi Baran and Peg Nopoulos's labs.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom.https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95329954724
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, July 10, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC. You are invited to join us during our monthly seminar presentations.