Wednesday, August 17, 2016 Sonia Sugg, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery , and Ingrid Lizarraga, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery , are co-investigators in an ongoing breast cancer cohort project called "Share Thoughts on Breast Cancer" study. University of Iowa is the lead institution...
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Thursday, July 07, 2016 The Department of Surgery is excited to announce that Evgeny Arshava, MD, FACS has joined the cardiothoracic faculty. Dr. Arshava graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Medical School in Moscow. He completed his preliminary surgery residency at the Mayo...
Monday, June 27, 2016 Imran Hassan, MD, FACS , has been elected to the position of Trustee on the Board of Trustees by the Membership of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract ( SSAT ). He will serve a three-year term ending in May 2019. Hassan is a clinical associate professor of surgery...
Friday, April 22, 2016 This message is sent on behalf of Jean E. Robillard, MD, Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean, UI Carver College of Medicine; and Kenneth P. Kates, Associate Vice President, UI Health Care, and Chief Executive Officer, UI Hospitals and Clinics. One of the hallmarks of...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Associate Professor of Psychiatry Gen Shinozaki, MD , in partnership with John Cromwell, MD , of the University of Iowa Surgery Department, recently secured funding from the University’s Research Foundation Commercialization GAP Fund Program to test a new device-driven...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Researchers at the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a five-year, $10.67 million Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant to study neuroendocrine tumors. This is the first SPORE grant ever awarded to fund research on neuroendocrine...
In February 2014, Denise Brown of Robins, Iowa, had a routine mammogram in Cedar Rapids. When the results for her right breast came back abnormal, she underwent a biopsy and two lumpectomies.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 The Gruber lab has just published a collaborative paper that combines novel techniques in genetic analysis to identify disease-causing variants. Wolff–Parkinson–White (WPW) syndrome is a common cause of supraventricular tachycardia that carries a risk of sudden cardiac...
Monday, June 22, 2015 Dr. Barbara Latenser, former director of the UI Hospitals and Clinics Burn Unit, passed away June 15, 2015 after a two and a half year battle with brain cancer. Dr. Latenser was a valued member of the Department of Surgery for years and contributed not just to the institution'...
Friday, June 19, 2015 Two Department of Surgery faculty members will assume new leadership positions within the clinical mission of the department: Muneera Kapadia, MD , clinical assistant professor of gastrointestinal, minimally-invasive, and bariatric surgery, has recently been named the medical...