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News Items

• UI Hospitals and Clinics receives American Heart Association Award (6/23/2009)
• Rosenthal will lead Society of General Internal Medicine (6/23/2009)
• Zavazava and Raikwar honored (6/15/2009)
• Your Heart Is in Your Hands Challenge (6/8/2009)
• Hospitalized patients need better understanding of CPR and outcomes (6/3/2009)
• UI-led team develops DNA compounds that could help treat lupus (5/28/2009)
• UI Ventricular Assist Device Program wins award (5/26/2009)
• UI-led NIH study shows drug aids hemodialysis treatment (5/26/2009)
• Fuortes Receives Brody Award for Faculty Excellence (5/20/2009)
• UI Gene Therapy Center receives $5.5 million grant renewal (5/18/2009)
• UI scientist honored for hypertension research (5/11/2009)
• Iowa Electronic health Market opens H1N1 swine flu prediction markets (5/4/2009)
• Too Little Sleep Could Cause Diabetes (4/29/2009)
• Abboud selected for Kober Medal in recognition of achievements (4/24/2009)
• Translating the conversation between the brain and blood vessels (4/21/2009)
• 'Inspiring Soles' winner benefits Iowa Marrow Donor Program (3/25/2009)
• Wireless technology could boost hand hygiene compliance (3/19/2009)
• Cognitive training lowers the risk of worsening depressive symptoms (3/18/2009)
• New insights on heart's 'fight or flight' response to stress (3/10/2009)
• Study links inflammation and calcium signaling in heart attack (3/10/2009)
• Welsh named founding director of UI Institute for Biomedical Discovery (3/9/2009)
• Great Iowa Nurses List Includes 18 UI Hospitals and Clinics Nurses (3/6/2009)
• UI researcher helps catch 'calcium flickers' in action (2/12/2009)
• ACP Clinical Vignette Competition Winners Announced (2/9/2009)
• Internal Medicine research program gets another grant (2/7/2009)
• Effects of smoking linked to accelerated aging protein (2/6/2009)
• Grant Funds Liver Cancer Research (2/4/2009)
• Research Day Winners Announced (2/2/2009)
• February is American Heart Month (2/1/2009)

Recent Faculty Profiles

• Antonio Sanchez, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor
• Scott Vogelgesang, M.D., Professor
• Rachel Miller, M.D., Clinical Professor
• Joel Gordon, M.D., Professor
• Isabella Grumbach, M.D., Assistant Professor
• Allyn Mark, M.D., Professor

UI Healthcare Today topics - KXIC Radio

• Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Study Looking for Volunteers
  Jennifer Robinson, M.D.
• April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
  Satish Rao, M.D.
• Abboud Wins Kober Medal
  Francois Abboud, M.D.
• Researchers Study the Effect of Vitamin D
  Alicia Gerke, M.D.
• April Is National Donate Life Month: Bone Marrow
  Iowa Marrow Donor Program
• April Is National Cancer Control Month
  George Weiner, M.D.
• March Is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
  Robert summers, M.D.
• Enzyme Contributes to Irregular Heartbeats In Timothy Syndrome
  Mark Anderson, M.D.
• Not All Smokers Develop COPD
  Kim Baker, M.D.
• Clinical Study Looks at New Treatment Options for People With Emphysema
  Geoffrey McLennan, M.D.
• There Are Some Key Heart Disease Prevention Steps You Can Take
  Byron Vandenberg, M.D.
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Offers Alternative Approaches to Heart Repair
  James Rossen, M.D.
• Smoking Causes Premature Aging
  Gary Hunninghake, M.D., Toru Nyunoya, M.D.
• There Are Some Key Heart Disease Prevention Steps You Can Take
  Byron Vandenberg, M.D.
• Clinical Study Looks at New Treatment Options for People With Emphysema
  Geoffrey McLennan, M.D.
• Not All Smokers Develop COPD
  Kim Baker, M.D.
• Enzyme Contributes to Irregular Heartbeats In Timothy Syndrome (February 2009)
  Mark Anderson, M.D.
• Heart Attack Symptoms Are Different for Women and Men (December 2008)
  Theresa Brennan, M.D.
• Hand Washing—A Simple Way to Stay Healthy (November 2008)
  Dan Diekema, M.D.
• UI Study to Compare Two Flu Vaccines (October 2008)
  Patricia Winokur, M.D.
• Heart Research Used to Study Asthma (August 2008)
  Isabella Grumbach, M.D.
• Heart Enzyme Discovery Has Implications for Heart Disease (July 2008)
  Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
• UI Helps Identify Gene Mutation Related to Atrial Fibrillation (July 2008)
  Denise Hodgson Zingman, M.D.
• High Ground for Cancer Patients (July 2008)
  George Weiner, M.D.

Internal Medicine in the News

• Health fears linked to pollution are justified, activists say (Des Moines Register)
  Joel Kline, M.D.
• Drug Combo Keeps Kidney Artery-Vein Grafts Viable (forbes.com)
  Brad Dixon, M.D.
• MDRNA, Inc. Appoints Davidson to Its Scientific Advisory Board (earthtimes.org)
  Bev Davidson, Ph.D.
• Morita is part of drug development team (Champaign News Gazette, March 26)
  Craig Morita, M.D.
• UI researchers develop technology to track hand hygiene (ScienceMode.com)
  Philip Polgreen, M.D.
• UI Advances Colorectal Cancer Awareness (EmaxHealth)
  Bruce Luxon, M.D.

• Be Remarkable: Helping former munitions workers get their due... (University of Iowa website)
  Laurence Fuortes, M.D.
• Racial Differences In Hospital Use After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Does Residential Segregation Play A Role? (Health Affairs journal)
  Gary Rosenthal, M.D.
• Gene therapy may fight cystic fibrosis (UC Berkeley News)
  Joseph Zabner, M.D.
• It's germ warfare now for hospitals (Omaha World Herald)
  PatriciaWinokur, M.D.
• Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You (The New York Times)
  David Elliott, M.D.
• Remarkable People (University of Iowa website)
  Nicholas Zavazava, M.D.
• 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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