During the week ending June 14, 2019, the UIHC six solid organ transplant programs (kidney, liver, pancreas, living donation, heart and lung) hosted a multi-day site survey from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Read more...
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On June 6th, 2019, Vice President for Medical Affairs, J. Brooks Jackson, announced that Kalpaj Parekh, MBBS , has been appointed the Nicholas P. Rossi Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery, effective July 1st. The Rossi Professorship is named for Dr. Nicholas Rossi, a longtime faculty member of the...
Suzy Lin, MD, a critical care fellow in the Department of Surgery, is the winner of the 2019 Meritorious Academic Achievement Award given by the faculty of the Surgical and Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (SNICU) . The award is given each year to the fellow conducting the top research project of...
Dr. Rachael Nicholson , Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, is one of the recipients of the 2019 Ovation Awards from the Iowa Women's Foundation (IWF), as announced on May 13th, 2019. The Iowa Women's Foundation is an organization committed to improving the lives of women and girls in the...
Dr. Lilian Erdahl , Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, has been appointed Chair of the Member Engagement Committee for the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), as announced by the ASBrS on May 3rd, 2019. The American Society of Breast Surgeons is described as "the primary leadership...
Dr. Maen Aboul Hosn, Associate of Surgery, Department of Surgery, talks about Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, its symptoms and treatments on KCRG TV 9's Health Expert segment.
Dr. Kalpaj Parekh ’s laboratory has recently been awarded a $2.9 million R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute , entitled “Pathogenesis of Airway stem cell abnormalities in Obliterative Bronchiolitis”. This grant builds on the prior work...
Kalpaj Parekh, MBBS , Director of the UIHC Dept. of Surgery's Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery , was among a group of surgeons selected into membership in the Society of University Surgeons (SUS), as recently announced. Founded in 1938, the mission of the Society of University Surgeons is to...
Jun Xu, MD , Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, discusses the causes of varicose and spider veins along with treatments for them in this KCRG-TV9 news segment that aired on March 18th, 2019.
W. John Sharp, MD , Director of the Division of Vascular Surgery, was among those honored for their work at the UI Carver College of Medicine Faculty Awards banquet on March 6, 2019. Read more...