In January, Deborah Berini, MHA, was appointed on an interim basis as chief integration officer and chief administrative officer to lead the management and integration of downtown campus with the plan to begin a search for a permanent leader at a later stage. Her last day in her interim role with UI Health Care will be May 10, as she has accepted a permanent role at SSM Health in St. Louis as…
UI Health Care Updates
UI Health Care Updates
It has been a little over a month since we officially welcomed the downtown campus as part of University of Iowa Health Care. As communicated before the transition, for the most part, much of the day-to-day work at the downtown campus remains the same. Providers are seeing patients and delivering the same high-quality care patients have come to expect. Work is underway, however, to better…
It was almost 7 p.m. and although Bailey Hadden, RN, was near the end of her shift, she wasn’t planning on leaving anytime soon. A patient she had been caring for the past two days was about to give birth, and Hadden wanted her to have a familiar face during the vulnerable moment. Hadden’s willingness to stay late didn’t go unnoticed by the mother-to-be, whose labor was particularly drawn out and…
Bruno Policeni, MD, MBA, has been appointed chair and departmental executive officer of the Department of Radiology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, effective Feb. 26. Policeni, a faculty member in the department since 2006, has served as interim chair of the department since Dec. 1, 2023. He succeeded Colin Derdeyn, MD, who had led the department since 2015.
UI Health Care will begin a national search for the chief administrative officer position at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. This leadership position will oversee daily operations, strategic planning, and financial management of the children’s hospital and pediatric care initiatives.
Mark Brown was 10 years old when he first came to the University Hospital School for children with disabilities in the early 1970s as a resident student. While there he met Ron Lough, who taught industrial arts—woodworking, graphic arts, metal working—at the school now known as the Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD), located on the University of Iowa Health Care main campus in Iowa…
Jana Wessels, JD, MBA, associate vice president for human resources with University of Iowa Health Care, has announced her plans to retire in May 2024.Through 35 years of service at the university, including the past 18 years with UI Health Care, Wessels has held key leadership roles across campus. As associate vice president for UI Health Care, she has overseen human resources activities for the…
UI Sports Medicine is the official medical provider of the Iowa Heartlanders, the professional minor league hockey team based in Coralville, Iowa. Terese Whipple, MD, serves as the Heartlanders’ team lead physician, and Jason Geisler, LAT, ATC, is the team’s athletic trainer. Whipple and Geisler are care providers with UI Sports Medicine, part of the UI Department of Orthopedics and…
One University of Iowa faculty member’s research on how drugs affect the brain’s function has been recognized on a national stage. Stephanie Gantz, Carver College of Medicine assistant professor in molecular physiology and biophysics, was named one of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The honor, one of the most prestigious awards given to early-career scholars,…
Iowa Board of Regents to consider requests for new pharmacy services space, renovation of research labThe University of Iowa is seeking approval of two lease agreements and the renovation of the Histology Research Laboratory in the Medical Research Center from the Iowa Board of Regents at its next meeting on Feb. 28.One of the proposed lease agreements would allow the relocation of some UI Health…