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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 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.

Full scope of orthopedics care

Friday, April 18, 2025

New musculoskeletal biobank collects 600 specimens in first month

Thursday, February 13, 2025
A new musculoskeletal biobank has been created at UI Health Care to help advance research on conditions affecting shoulder, elbow, and hip joints.

Is there a safe way to 'make weight' as a high school wrestler? Here's what experts say

Thursday, March 28, 2024
Dr. Andy Peterson is interviewed by USA Today about hydration and nutrition in the wrestling world.

Upcoming UI Carver College of Medicine Events

Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour

Monday, November 10, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building

Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!

This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.

Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series

Monday, November 10, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
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Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 1:00am 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...

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 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

Register by clicking the...

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Rong Grace Zhai, PhD

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Medical Education Research Facility

Harnessing the Power of Drosophila for Therapeutic Discovery for Genetic Neuropathies

Rong Grace Zhai, PhD
Jack Miller Professor of Neurology
Vice Chair of Research
Department of Neurology
University of Chicago

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Pain Interest Group Workshop - Ezgi Yarasir, PT, PhD and Alex Keyes, PhD

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Exercise-derived biomarkers
Ezgi Yarasir, PT, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Kathleen Sluka's Lab

Dynorphinergic neurons in the lateral pons inhibit inflammatory, neuropathic, and post-surgical pain via a descending circuit
Alex Keyes, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Yuriy Usachev's Lab

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants Creating tasks and schedules Active tasks and their unique data output Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
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...

Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC. You are invited to join us during our monthly seminar presentations. 

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 11/13/2025

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
General Hospital

CPC: Cancer-related Pulmonary Hypertension by Cameron Brownlee, Claire Corell, MD (Pathology), and Alicia Gerke, MD