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.
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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...
Dr. Carol Scott-Conner , Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair, UIHC Dept. of Surgery, has been invited to give the Olga M. Jonasson Lecture at the 2019 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco, CA, on October 29th, 2019. The Olga M. Jonasson Lecture was established in...
The UI Council on Teaching has announced that W. John Sharp, MD , has been selected to receive the 2019 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence. As described in the announcement letter, the award is a testament to the dedication and success of the recipient in enhancing the quality of...
Trudy Laffoon, MA, RN-BC, nurse manager in Dermatology and Surgery Specialty Services–Ambulatory Nursing, has been named the 2019 recipient of the University of Iowa Health Care Culturally Responsive Health Care Award. Read more here ...
The North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (NANETS) has elected UI surgical oncologist James Howe, MD , as its 2019 chair. Although the organization has been chaired solely by medical doctors since the first in 2008, Dr. Howe is the first surgeon to serve as its chair. Read more here ...
Dr. Joseph Cullen, MD , Professor of Surgery in the UIHC Dept. of Surgery, was featured on Nov. 19th, 2018, in a news segment on CBS2/FOX28 TV discussing the research he and others are doing at the University of Iowa's Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center into the treatment for various cancers. Read...