University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has been named one of " 100 great hospitals in America 2016 " by Becker's Hospital Review . Read full article
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The 2016 GME Leadership Symposium, held on April 29 in the Kinnick Stadium Pressbox, recognized the following UI Health Care faculty and staff for their contributions in educating and supporting the next generation of physicians. Read full article
Dr. Connie Pieper will receive this years “M4 Senior Faculty of the Year Award” for the entire CCOM.
What is the neuroscience behind the phenomenon of losing your focus and train of thought once you're interrupted? A study released this morning by researchers offers some valuable clues.
Gordon Buchanan, MD, PhD, was awarded a $1.6M R01 grant from the NIH earlier this year to investigate the causes of SUDEP. Below is the abstract.
Gordon Buchanan, MD, PhD, along with Yuriy Usachev, PhD, received a small pilot grant from the American Epilepsy Society "The role of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) in neuronal excitability and epilepsy"
Rup Sainju, MBBS, Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology was recently awarded an Epilepsy ResearchAward from the Citizen’s United for Research in Epilepsy
Jan Wessel, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychological and Brain Sciences, will receive the Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychophysiology
Faisal Fecto, MD, co authors Nature Genetics publication on genetic mutations in Parkinson's disease
Faisal Fecto, MD, PhD, a Neurology Resident in the Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program at the University of Iowa was recently a co-author of a publication reporting a new cause of Parkinson’s disease.
The University of Iowa Center for SUDEP Research recently enrolled its 50th subject in our study of respiratory physiology of epilepsy patients.