Dr. Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD, MBA , the E.A. Crowell Jr. Professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery with University of Iowa Health Care, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) . The National Academy of Medicine is one of three private, nonprofit institutions operating...
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When doctors and surgeons in the Heart and Vascular Center at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics learned there was a new way to perform an aortic valve replacement that resulted in less pain and shorter recovery times for patients, they knew it was something they wanted to investigate further and bring to their patients.
Using a recently approved update to a device called a MitraClip, surgeons at University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center repaired the heart of an 82 year old who was a poor candidate for traditional repair of a leaky mitral valve.
Dr. Carol Scott-Conner , Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Surgery, will be hosting one of the long-format pre-conference workshops of the 2018 edition of The Examined Life Conference . The Examined Life Conference is a three-day long conference focusing on the links between medicine and the arts. Dr...
Dr. Joseph Cullen, MD , Professor of Surgery, has received notification that his P01 program grant, Exploiting Redox Metabolism Using Pharmacological Ascorbate for Cancer Therapy , will be funded by the National Cancer Institute. This highly integrated program project will test the hypothesis that...
Sharon Larson, DO, MS , Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, will be the keynote speaker for the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women 15th Anniversary event to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Coralville, IA, on November 30, 2018. Go Red for Women is an American Heart Association...
Principal Investigators Edward Filardo, PhD (Department of Surgery, photo at right) and Ashu Mangalam, PhD (Department of Pathology) were awarded a seed grant award from the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing (CBB) at the University of Iowa. The grant, entitled Harnessing gut microbiome-...
In March, 2018, Dr. Lillian Erdahl , Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, accepted a $25000 donation from local support group Team Breast Friends. The funds are to be used for the greatest needs of the breast cancer surgery program of which Dr. Erdahl is a part. Team Breast Friends is a local...
Irfan Qureshi, MD, a critical care fellow in the Department of Surgery, is the winner of the 2018 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...
Lillian Erdahl, MD , Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, has been elected Vice Chair of the Association of Women Surgeons Communications Committee, pending confirmation at the annual meeting of the Association to be held October, 2018, in Boston, MA. The Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) is...