The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics is located in Iowa City, Iowa, which is a college town of 70,000 located on both banks of the Iowa River near the intersection of the U.S. Interstate Highways of 80 and 380 in southwestern Iowa.  UI Hospitals & Clinics is a tertiary referral base for the State of Iowa and several surrounding states.  The Vascular Surgery Section was established in the Department of Surgery in 1987 and became the Vascular Surgery Division in the Department of Surgery in 2001.  The Vascular Surgery Fellowship began in 1985 and the Vascular Surgery Residency began in 2013.