On April 4th, 2018, the Association of Women Surgeons and the AWS Foundation announced that Dr. Geeta Lal had been selected as the 2018 Kim Ephgrave Visiting Professor. The Kim Ephgrave Visiting Professor Program provides opportunities for institutions to host distinguished women surgeons as...
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Dr. James Howe , Professor of Surgery and Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, has been elected Vice President of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO). The SSO is the premier society of surgeons and healthcare providers dedicated to the advancement of the treatment...
On March 28th, 2018, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (COT) announced that the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital have successfully been reverified as a Level I trauma center and a Level I pediatric trauma center...
Carlos Chan, MD, PhD , University of Iowa assistant professor of Surgery, was awarded the Turcotte Award from the Central Surgical Association Foundation (CSAF) for his proposal “Effect of Biliary Bacterial Contamination in Peritoneal Metastasis of Peri-Ampullary Cancers”. The award was presented...
Drs. Ingrid Lizarraga and Lilian Erdahl of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery are part of a UI team of researchers taking part in a new breast-cancer study which employs "watchful waiting" as part of the trestment for women with ductal carcinoma in situ. Click the heading to...
Dr. Marco Ricci joined the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery as Professor in November.
Patient Audrey Smith's entire stomach was flipped upside down and had slipped up into her chest. She had pain every time she ate a meal. Two weeks after a minimally invasive surgery by Dr. Kalpaj Parekh and his team, the 86-year-old is looking forward to enjoying her favorite snack. View her...
Mohammad Bashir, MBBS , has been appointed the Surgical Director of the Structural Heart Disease Program . The program offers numerous percutaneous therapies for heart disease including trans-catheter therapies such as TAVR . Dr. Bashir received his MBBS from the University of Jordan and completed...
Dr. Jay K. Bhama has been appointed the Section Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery for the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the ECMO and Perfusion Programs. Dr. Bhama was recently promoted to full Professor in the Department of Surgery. He received his MD from Baylor College...
On Dec. 1, 2017, the editors of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM) notified Drs. Kal Parekh and Anthony Swatek that their article "Depletion of Airway Submucosal Glands and TP63+KRT5+ Basal Cells in Obliterative Bronchiolitis" had been accepted for publication...