The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced that a textbook authored by Dept. of Surgery professors emeriti Carol Scott-Conner and Jamal Hoballah, among others, was awarded the special category prize of ‘Student Textbook of the Year’ at the BMA Awards 2017. Read more...
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Dr. Julia Shelton , Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Dept. of Surgery, was part of a RAGBRAI-bound team that was in the right place at the right time to assist the victim of motorcycle crash near Dike, Iowa. Read more here...
Luis Garcia, MD, FACS , an acute care surgeon and clinical assistant professor in the University of Iowa Department of Surgery, has been awarded the 2017 Off-Service Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, given by the medical residents in the UI Department of Emergency Medicine. “A large part of my...
Former Department of Surgery Training Grant Recipient, Benjamin J. Miller, MD, MS, has been awarded a $100,250 grant from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation/Musculoskeletal Tumor Society that will fund a multi-institutional registry to track the outcomes of sarcoma patients after...
Dr. Mohammad Bashir of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery is featured in this KCRG 9 News video discussing the replacement of two heart valves in a patient at one time by catheter.
In this video from KWWL News, anchorman Ron Steele interviews Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery Mohammad Bashir about the quadruple bypass surgery Dr. Bashir performed on Steele earlier this year. See more here...
The University of Iowa Health Care bariatric surgery program has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center under the under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP). Read more here...
Read about MFA recipient and med school graduate, Mgbechi Erondu, mentored by Dept. of Surgery Professor Emerita, Carol Scott-Conner .
A team of surgeons including Dr. Mark Fisher of the Department of Surgery helped a Donnelson, Iowa, man return to his normal life after battling an infection of a flesh-eating disease. Read more...
William Albright, MD , Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, discusses the risks and expenses of breast augmentation surgery in this KCG-TV9 news segment that aired on April 17th, 2017.