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.
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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...
Geeta Lal, MD, MSc , has been named Associate Chief Quality Officer for Adult Inpatient Care effective March 1. Dr. Lal is Associate Professor of Surgery and is an endocrine surgical oncologist. She has served as the Co-Medical Director of the inpatient oncology unit (4JPW). In her new role, Dr...
January 18, 2017 The Department of Surgery will soon welcome its first pediatric surgery fellow as part of its newly accredited Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program. Read more...
A multidisciplinary team of experienced and skilled surgeons including Dr. Luis Garcia operated on one patient for necrotizing pancreatitis and a massive hernia. View this video to see how this patient's outlook on life has changed.
The Breast Multidisciplinary Fellowship Program was recently re-approved for five years by the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO). The fellowship is part of the University of Iowa Department of Surgery’s Division of Surgical Oncology, and it is one of only 46 programs in the United States and...
ECMO utilization has increased as an alternative to long-term maximum ventilation. It is a proven therapy that has helped save thousands of lives, and timing is crucial to its success. Joseph Turek, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery is the ECMO Program Director. Read more here .