We recently honored 20 of our faculty members for their work as scientists, scholars, and educators at the Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship, Teaching, and Service. We applaud their dedication and commitment to advancing medicine. 💛 spr.ly/6019jHnhc

In recognition of Alcohol Awareness Month, a few of our addiction medicine clinicians came together in consideration of how alcohol may affect a person’s life.
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We love a good group photo! Here is our University of Iowa PCCM Fellowship fellows and their program director Dr. Alicia Gerke & APD Dr. Jeff Wilson. Thank you, all, for your hard work & dedication in the University of Iowa Health Care MICU & clinics!

Join us 5/15 for a night all about discussing updates in the tx of breast cancer! Myself & my three breast med onc colleagues from University of Iowa Health Care UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center will be there. Excited to update everyone on the state of breast cancer care!

Register here: event.onclive.com/event/1baeb3c2…

April's IM Honor Roll has been released! Here are a few of the honorees:
- Mallory Ruden, ASC, Cardiovascular Medicine
- Chloe Miller, ASC, Cardiovascular Medicine
- Diana Jalal, MD, Nephrology
- Stefano Byer, MD, MS, R1, Internal Medicine
Read more: internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/15/int…

Enjoying a fantastic presentation by the incomparable Leonard Calabrese on diagnostic reasoning for primary CNS vasculitis at the Internal Medicine at Iowa 34th annual Iowa Rheumatology Symposium!

Bharat Kumar 😷Dr. Rebecca Tuetken Lemon(Ruoning) Ni, MD Alick Feng Ibiyemi Oke

The team led by Dr. Dan Livorsi proposed a novel metric for ASP programs on previously overlooked aspects of antibiotic prescribing. Congratulations!!!

Novel risk-adjusted metric to compare hospitals on their antibiotic-prescribing at hospital discharge academic.oup.com/cid/article/do…

The annual Quality and Safety Symposium was held last week during Patient Safety Awareness Week at
University of Iowa Health Care , focusing on the positive work being done in the area of quality assurance and patient safety. internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/23/qua…

Congrats to Dr. Jack Stapleton on his receipt of the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence!

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Happy Administrative Professionals Day! We are grateful for the admin staff who are vital to our mission. We see you! Thank you!

Azaj Ahmed, MSc, PhD, a postdoc in the lab of Sanjana Dayal, PhD, FAHA, has received a two-year American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship award. He is investigating how prediabetes contributes to cardiovascular complications, and how to mitigate these risks. internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/18/ahm…

Saving lives and crossing finish lines… all in a day’s work. 🏃‍♀️ Congrats to all who participated in this year’s Doc Dash 5k!

We recently marked our 500th procedure using a tiny implanted device that helps catch blood clots before they leave the heart. The #Afib treatment effectively decreases the risk of stroke for those patients by 80%. spr.ly/6013bd9TJ

The Int Med Transition to Residency course has completed its second year, with the number of registrations for the course more than doubling from its pilot last year.

Read the story 👉internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/17/tra…

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How successful was the novel Home Monitoring Program University of Iowa Health Care? A new pub looks at >1100 COVID-19-positive patients from March to June 2020.

Lessons in successful hospitalist telehealth from Drs Andrew Bryant, Ethan Kuperman, et al.

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Excited to welcome our newest Fellows at this year’s ACP Convocation Ceremony! Drs. Wendy Fiordellisi, Alpana Garg, and Adrianna Shuey pictured here with ACP Governor Dr. Katie Harris 🏅 👩‍⚕️

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO, is a professor of medicine at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute Institute. He was invited by Yousef Zakharia, MD, onto the Iowa campus last week to deliver a Grand Rounds presentation and to meet with residents and fellows. internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/16/res…

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Christopher Strouse, MD, received the 2023 Donald D. Dorfman Award for lymphoma research in the amount of $25,000 for his research.

Read more: internalmedicineiowa.org/2024/04/16/c-s…

Yesterday’s University of Iowa Health Care Quality & Safety Symposium, organized by Internal Medicine at Iowa faculty, featured some of our residents in the poster session. Good work, scholars!

Love how Dr Lloyd Provost is talking about Deming’s Science of Improvement for the Iowa Quality and Safety Symposium.

It’s particularly apt because Deming was born here in Iowa!

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