Research and Education

Match Day at Iowa: Carver graduates match in 22 specialties
Mar. 21, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
On Friday, March 21, medical students across the nation discovered where they would go for residency training. The Match is a landmark moment in a student's career and a memory with family and friends to last a lifetime. This year, 163 students will graduate from the UI Carver College of Medicine, after which one-quarter will continue their training in Iowa. The Class of 2025 matched into 22…
Carver graduate matches with UI Health Care OBGYN residency
Mar. 21, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
Match Day Q&A: Ashley Hurd-Jackson. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? My passion for medicine was sparked by my experiences growing up on a farm in rural northwest Iowa. The farm was where I got the opportunity to help my dad deliver baby pigs and is ultimately where my interest in obstetrics originally started. We have raised show pigs all my life, but we also have cattle, crops,…
UI researchers aim to improve care for potentially fatal, rare disease
Mar. 17, 2025 | pediatrics.medicine.uiowa.edu
Lyndsay Harshman, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics-nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, is leading research at the University of Iowa to identify potentially fatal gaps in care as people diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in childhood become adults. This potentially lifesaving research could particularly impact the 40,000 American women living with TSC. The rare, multi…
House fires: Mapping at-risk areas in Iowa
Mar. 04, 2025 | iprc.public-health.uiowa.edu
House fires can lead to deaths, serious injuries, and loss of property. Fires and burns are among the 10 causes of preventable injury deaths in the U.S., resulting in over 3,400 deaths every year. In 2014, structural fires, not associated with wildfires, cost the U.S. over $328 billion. Past research has shown a link between house fires and poor housing conditions, overcrowded neighborhoods, and…
Respiratory flare ups may signal COPD in smokers with normal lung function
Feb. 28, 2025 | medicine.uiowa.edu
Sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms, like shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing, are a hallmark of declining lung function and disease progression in those already diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.) But these so-called respiratory exacerbations could also serve as an early indicator of COPD, even when patients still have normal lung function test results…
Tardigrade protein may help protect cancer patients from radiation side effects
Feb. 26, 2025 | radiationoncology.medicine.uiowa.edu
Radiation has been a mainstay cancer therapy for almost 100 years. But its potent cell-killing power, so effective against tumors, is a double-edged sword when healthy tissue gets in the way. Borrowing from one of nature’s toughest survivors, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care, MIT, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are creating a unique approach to protect healthy tissue during…
Training emergency care providers for all of Iowa
Feb. 26, 2025 | emergencymedicine.medicine.uiowa.edu
Rural emergency departments are often staffed by physician assistants who may or may not have experienced specialty training in emergency medicine. Having this type of training experience is crucial not only for a patient but also for the confidence of the providers providing life-saving care. While the University of Iowa has a program to provide this additional training, it’s not the norm in…
More Iowans surviving cancer than ever before
Feb. 26, 2025 | cancer.uiowa.edu
Nearly 172,000 cancer survivors currently live in Iowa—about 5.4% of the population—according to the latest “Cancer in Iowa” report issued by the Iowa Cancer Registry at the University of Iowa. The report, produced annually by the UI College of Public Health, highlights that more Iowans are surviving cancer than ever before. According to the report, the growing number of survivors presents unique…
Carr provides care for community where she was born
Feb. 20, 2025 | stories.uiowa.edu
Through her parents, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine graduate Wanakee Carr learned at a young age that her education would be a means by which she could support her community. “My family always encouraged me to use my skills because they didn’t want me to worry for anything,” says Carr, who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. “Being a Black female, my family wanted me to be in a career…