Year in Review
July 2007
UI Health Care receives $382.2 million in external support for 2006-07
UI Hospitals and Clinics ranks among ‘America’s Best Hospitals’
UI Children’s Hospital opens new unit for premature babies
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center receives $11.9 million renewal grant for lymphoma research from National Cancer Institute
August 2007
UI names Sally Mason its 20th president
UI Carver College of Medicine welcomes 148 first-year medical students
September 2007
Leaders break ground for University of Iowa Institute for Biomedical Discovery
$33.8 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from NIH
First mobile emergency medicine simulation lab debuts
Community open house for new UI Women’s Health Center
Health care providers from 30 countries attend UI clubfoot symposium
October 2007
UI establishes Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging
UI receives $7.5 million grant to study post-traumatic joint degeneration
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation renews UI clinical research fellowship program, one of 12 in U.S.
UI licensee Optherion secures $37 million in startup financing to pursue age-related macular degeneration research
November 2007
UI receives $23.7 million to study vaccines for infectious diseases
‘Best Doctors in America’ lists 269 UI Physicians
American Heart Association honors François Abboud, MD, and Donald Heistad, MD
December 2007
UI Hospitals and Clinics names Ann Williamson, PhD, RN, chief nursing officer
UI Hospitals and Clinics names Duke University’s Gordon Williams interim CEO
Wellmark names UI Hospitals and Clinics bariatric surgery center of excellence
UI awards honorary degrees to long-time benefactor Marvin Pomerantz and non-surgical clubfoot treatment pioneer Ignacio Ponseti, MD
January 2008
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center receives Lance Armstrong Foundation outreach grant
Iowa Hospital Association study shows strong economic impact of health care centers like UI Hospitals and Clinics
UI study examines decision-making deficits in older adults
UI Center on Aging develops volunteer registry to connect mature individuals with UI research studies
Discovery of an unexpected protein-protein interaction leads UI scientists to identify drug that slows the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and nearly doubles the animals’ lifespan
February 2008
$1 million Carver Trust grant will help buy high-tech electron microscope
Dance Marathon exceeds $1 million goal for UI Children’s Hospital
President Mason declares campus a smoke-free environment by July 1, 2009
Simulation Center for health sciences students opens in Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
March 2008
‘Great Iowa Nurses’ program honors seven UI Health Care nurses
Regents OK a series of renovations to improve patient care facilities
UI receives grant to develop enhanced prostate cancer vaccine
$2.1 million NIH grant advances UI child health research
Physician assistant, physical therapy and primary care graduate programs rank in top 7 by U.S.News “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2009”
Med students receive residency assignments on annual ‘Match Day’
April 2008
UI Hospitals and Clinics opens expanded Emergency Treatment Center
Wellmark recognizes UI Health Care for complex, rare cancer care
UI contributes to gene therapy breakthrough for blinding eye disease
May 2008
Commonwealth Fund “scorecard” ranks Iowa first in health care for children
In vitro fertilization program celebrates 20 years
UI researchers prove prostate cancer vaccine can be safely given to patients
UI-led study reveals new dimension for key heart enzyme and sheds light on important biological pathway involved in cell death in heart disease
UI researchers show for first time that an antidepressant and a form of talk therapy can prevent or delay the onset of depression in people who have had acute stroke
June 2008
UI Carver College of Medicine names Paul Rothman, MD, dean
Flooding causes $235 million in damage to UI buildings, research
Thousands of UI faculty, staff, and students volunteer to fight area flooding
UI Health Care proposes new ambulatory care campus in Coralville
UI heart doctors first in Iowa to use HeartMate® II ventricular assist device
UI study identifies brain pathway that halts seizures
July 2008
UI Hospitals and Clinics names Kenneth Kates CEO
UI Hospitals and Clinics ranked among “Best Hospitals in America”; nine specialties cited
UI team helps piece together genetic puzzle of schizophrenia
New UI technology helps better detect developing cervical cancers