Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

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Our clinicians employ the most up-to-date techniques for diagnosis and treatment. Research and development have been a central part of our department’s efforts.

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We take pride in providing leading-edge patient care, advancing the field of orthopedics through first-rate research, and offering superior education to the next generation of high-quality orthopedic specialists.

$22M

in external research support for 89 different projects

>80K

patients per year

# 1

Iowa's #1 hospital as ranked by U.S. news & world report

Education

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Education

Research

Our department specializes in top-notch research. See our process.

Research

About Us

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News

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Wolf named chair and DEO of Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

From service to surgery: Helping patients move forward with confidence

Monday, November 9, 2026

Orthopedic surgeon Keith Michael, MD, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026.

Q&A: Keith Michael

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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College of Medicine Events

5th High Performance Neuroimaging Symposium

Monday, November 9, 2026 (all day)

Medical Education Research Facility

The High-Performance Neuroimaging Symposium is a premier forum dedicated to advancing the next generation of MRI technologies. Now in its fifth year, the meeting convenes leading scientists, engineers, and clinicians from around the world to explore breakthroughs in ultra-fast imaging, high-gradient systems, silent MRI, and their transformative applications in neuroscience, psychiatry, and neurology.

Iowa ReSpectacle Glasses Processing Social

Monday, November 9, 2026 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Medical Education Research Facility

Iowa ReSpectacle's first glasses processing event of the semester is happening on November 9th from 6-7 pm in MERF 2189 in collaboration with CCOM's Ophthalmology Interest Group and Mu Epsilon Delta!

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am

Virtual

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:

Importing data from a CSV file

Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic

Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables

Sending automated, conditional email alerts

Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries

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