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42008 Department of Internal Medicine Promotions

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4News Items

- Chapleau elected president of American Autonomic Society (9/5/2008)

- Hunninghake named lecturer, appointed to CTSA group (9/5/2008)

- Davidson awarded new NIH grant for "high-risk, high-reward" research (9/3/2008)

- UI researchers part of $10 million rural health grant to VA Medical Center (8/19/2008)

- Fruit flies help UI team understand bacterial infections (8/19/2008)

- Weiner named to cancer clinical trials leadership group (8/15/2008)

- Toussaint Presentation as Part of Lecture Series (8/11/2008)

- UI postdoctoral fellow receives $100,000 cancer research fellowship (8/1/2008)

- 'Outsiders' receive grant to study asthma (7/25/2008)

- UI physician chosen for national research training program (7/15/2008)

- Internal Medicine ranks again with America's best (7/11/2008)

- UI helps identify gene mutation related to atrial fibrillation (7/10/2008)

- Leducq Foundation international grant aids UI heart research (7/8/2008)

- Sigmund named to Carver Chair in Hypertension Research (7/2/2008)

- UI study identifies brain pathway that shuts down seizures (6/9/2008)

- Rothman named new dean of UI Carver College of Medicine (5/30/2008)

- Holden Cancer Center recognized for high-quality cancer care (5/23/2008)

- UI contributes to hemodialysis study that shows challenges remain (5/14/2008)

- Discovery has implications for heart disease (5/1/2008)

- Renovations Invigorate Specialty Clinics (4/30/2008)

- Helms wins Fulbright award to study vaccine policy in Australia (4/18/2008)

- Play, "Grand Rounds," explores cancer from patients' perspectives (4/4/2008)

- UI Hospitals and Clinics recognized for complex, rare cancer care (4/3/2008)

- Advances made in fructose intolerance recognition and research (4/1/2008)

- UI to host obesity conference April 8 (3/11/2008)

- Protein target for diabetes drug regulates blood pressure (3/5/2008)

- Study: rare syndrome provides clues on obesity, blood pressure (3/4/2008)

- Immune deficiency and balance disorder result from single gene defect (2/22/2008)

- Functional immune cells derived from embryonic stem cells (2/13/2008)

- Medical error reporting by doctors to hospitals seems underused (1/15/2008)

- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center receives Lance Armstrong Foundation grant (1/14/2008)

- UI cancer specialists team up to fight melanoma (12/27/2007)

- UI cancer specialists team up to fight sarcoma (12/26/2007)

- American Cancer Society begins fourth decade of funding UI cancer research (11/28/2007)

- Abboud, Heistad honored by American Heart Association (11/13/2007)

- UI receives $23.7 million contract to conduct vaccine research (11/8/2007)

4Recent Faculty Profiles

- Joel Gordon, M.D., Professor

- Isabella Grumbach, M.D., Assistant Professor

- Allyn Mark, M.D., Professor

4Internal Medicine in the News

-	Remarkable Start-Up (University of Iowa website) Vida Diagnostics - Geoffrey McLennan, M.D., Ph.D.
-	Patients today want to be more involved in care (amednews.com) Alan Christensen, Ph.D.
-	Video: Emphysema Treatment Study (courtesy KCRG TV) Geoffrey McLennan, M.D., Ph.D.
-	VA unveils new research center Gary Rosenthal, M.D. (reproduced with permission from the Iowa City Press-Citizen)
-	Gordon sees clinical curriculum challenges Joel Gordon, M.D. (courtesy Med Ed Update, Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum)
-	Video: Learning About being a Medical Researcher (courtesy KCRG TV) Mark Anderson, M.D. with Summer Writing Contest Winner Ivan Ye
-	Video: Cancer Screening (courtesy KCRG TV) Robert Summers, M.D.
-	OSAC Efforts Focus on Teaching Karl Thomas, M.D. (courtesy Med Ed Update, Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum)

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