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Marsh to transition from leadership role, search begins for next chair and DEO of Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
J. Lawrence “Larry” Marsh, MD, the current chair and DEO of the department, will step down from his leadership post in January 2026 and UI Health Care will begin a national search for the next chair and department executive officer (DEO) of the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation.

UI Health Care launches orthopedic access clinic for faster patient care

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
UI Health Care’s new orthopedic access clinic offers quick evaluation, early treatment, and a direct path to the right specialist, helping your patients start recovery sooner.

UI Health Care remains Iowa’s No. 1 Hospital in ranking by ‘US News & World Report’

Tuesday, July 29, 2025
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center is once again ranked among the nation’s “Best Hospitals” and the No. 1 hospital in Iowa, according to the 2025-2026 rankings published by U.S. News & World Report.

Time Capsule: Buckwalter: Lifetime of excellence in orthopedics

Thursday, April 24, 2025
Over a career spanning four-plus decades at Iowa, Joseph “Jody” Buckwalter IV (74MD, 79R), has been a leader in orthopedics care, research, and education.

Q&A: J. Lawrence Marsh

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
When the University of Iowa Health Care academic medical campus in North Liberty welcomes its first orthopedics patient on April 28, the magnitude of the moment won’t be lost on J. Lawrence “Larry” Marsh, MD.

Upcoming UI Carver College of Medicine Events

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, April 16, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

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Fountain Lobby Blood Drive

Thursday, April 16, 2026 11:00am to 4:00pm
General Hospital
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 16th, 2026, at the Fountain Lobby in the ground floor of the main hospital.

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 4/16/2026

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
General Hospital

"Occupational Medicine in South Africa" by Vanessa Govender, MBBCh, DOH, MPH

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Workshop - Nathan Gentilman (Roman Lab) and Hannah Hazzard (Gumusoglu Lab)

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Alter GPCR Activity

Nathan Gentilmann
Pharmaceutical Sciences & Experimental Therapeutics PhD Student
Dr. Dave Roman Lab

Extracellular vesicle interactions with fetal brain microglia

Hannah Hazzard
Neuroscience PhD Student
Dr. Serena Banu Gumusoglu's Lab

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Tate Neff Thesis Defense

Thursday, April 16, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Tate Neff, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student from Ling Yang's lab will defend his thesis titled "The Impact of a Pancreatic Micropeptide in Insulin Homeostasis Under Obese and Diabetic Conditions."

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Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship - Wei Yang, PhD

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship Fund was created in 2004 with a generous gift from Drs. Ramon and Victoria Lim. The fund supports the visits to Iowa City of eminent scientists working in neuroscience and internal medicine.

2026 Lecture:
Wei Yang, PhD

NIH Distinguished Investigator
Section Chief: Mechanism of DNA Repair, Replication, and Recombination
Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

"From RAG to...

Skills for Educators Workshop: AI in Medical Education

Friday, April 17, 2026 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Health Care University Campus

Artificial intelligence is changing the practice of medicine, but how is it impacting medical education? In this session, participants will explore the ethics of using AI, required competencies for AI use, and innovative ways to use AI in teaching and educational scholarship.

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Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Alexander Glebov-McCloud

Friday, April 17, 2026 1:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Alexander Glebov-McCloud is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Science (Molecular Medicine) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Stefan Strack's laboratory.

If you are not able to attend in person, please consider showing your support by attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the Zoom link.

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Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Friday, April 17, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance...

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Alumni Day 2026

Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
Levitt Center for University Advancement
Once a Hawkeye, Always a Hawkeye