News

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.
A recent New Yorker magazine cover has inspired women surgeons from around the world to re-create their own real-life versions of the cover, including here at UI Health Care. See many of the women surgeons of UI HealthCare who work in this traditionally male-dominated role in their versions.
Kendall Keck, MD, General Surgery research resident in the Dept. of Surgery, has been announced as the winner of the Best Basic Science Paper Award at the 2017 meeting of the American Assocation of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES). The meeting of the AAES was held in Orlando, Florida, from April 2nd to...
In a recently published study, researchers with Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa including Dept. of Surgery Professor of Surgery, Joseph Cullen, MD, report results and findings from brain and lung cancer trials.
Muneera Kapadia, MD , Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Gastrointestinal, Minimally-Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, is interviewed in this KCRG-TV9 news segment on a recent colon cancer study.
Dr. Tom Lawrence , Director of the Divison of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, was quoted recently in an article about skin removal surgery for People.com. Read the article here...