Clinical training in Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation occurs within the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Iowa City. All faculty are members of the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine in the Carver College of Medicine.
The ambulatory Clinical Cancer Center within the Holden Center is organized in disease or site-specific multidisciplinary teams. Fellows are part of the multidisciplinary team and interact not only with their supervising faculty member, but also with oncology specialists in surgery, radiation oncology or a medicine sub-specialist in the clinic. In addition, fellows can participate in one of more than a dozen disease-specific Tumor Boards.
The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at The University of Iowa coordinates all cancer-related research, education, and patient care throughout the University of Iowa by faculty from 38 departments in six colleges, as well as UI Hospitals & Clinics. Founded in 1980, Holden Cancer Center includes patient care areas such as:
The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. We received this designation in 2000. The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center received its fourth 5-year renewal from the NCI in 2021.
Research is conducted in laboratories throughout the University of Iowa campus. The Roland and Ruby Holden Cancer Research Laboratories, part of the Medical Education and Research Facility, allow the Cancer Center to integrate many researchers in close proximity to each other.
The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics is the designated tertiary care hospital for the state of Iowa and is the nation's largest university-owned teaching hospital, with 50,000 patient admissions and 800,000 outpatient visits annually. Patients with neoplastic diseases are referred to The University of Iowa from a referral area that includes Iowa and its neighboring states. This referral base and the variety of patients seen have been remarkably stable despite recent changes in health care delivery systems.
The Iowa City Veteran’s Administration Medical Center is conveniently located adjacent to UI Hospitals & Clinics. The Iowa City VA Hospital Hematology Oncology Program is staffed by faculty from the University of Iowa. Facilities include a clinic, an infusion area, and a clinic conference room. Fellows rotate in the consult clinic, taking hematology and oncology consults for the hospital and staffing a clinic working up new solid tumor and hematologic diagnoses. Fellows also have the opportunity to run their own continuity clinics, taking full ownership of a large panel of solid tumor and hematologic patients.
The University of Iowa was founded in 1847 and has a total enrollment of 32,150 students. The College of Medicine has over 600 medical students, 180 allied health students, 700 faculty, 1900 support staff, and more than 550 residents and fellows. The research enterprise of the UI Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) garnered $295.1 million in external funding in 2023 and received over $180 million NIH funding in 2023. The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, which is located between the University and VA Hospitals, houses 213,000 volumes, 2,700 periodicals, and 80 on-line databases in a modern 60,000-square-foot building.