July 2005

• U.S.News & World Report ranks UI Hospitals and Clinics as one of "America's Best Hospitals"; nine hospital specialties make the top 50 in their respective categories.
• University of Iowa Children's Hospital celebrates the renovation of a pediatric inpatient unit, providing private rooms with more space, accommodations, and technologies.
• Hundreds of North Corridor residents attend an open house/heart health fair in the new UI Heart and Vascular Center outreach clinic at the UI Family Care Center, North Liberty.

August 2005

• National Cancer Institute grants 5-year renewal of "NCI-designated cancer center" status to Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, and doubles annual funding to $2.2 million.
• College of American Pathologists re-accredits the hospital's Emory Warner Clinical Laboratories.
• Neurosurgeon Timothy Ryken, MD, discusses brain tumors in conjunction with the annual Cancer in Iowa report issued by the State Health Registry of Iowa.

September 2005

• Clinical trial at UI Hospitals and Clinics shows digital mammography is better than standard film for detecting breast cancers in about 40 percent of high-risk women.
• Hospital staff donate 45 pallets of bottled water, diapers, cleaning supplies and other donated goods, along with $21,000, to assist relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina.
• A team of specialists performs the world's first magnetically guided procedure in the human lung using a revolutionary magnetic guided technology called Stereotaxis®.

October 2005

• Dedication ceremonies at the Iowa Lions Donor Memorial and Healing Garden honor eye, organ, and tissue donors at UI Hospitals and Clinics.
• Linda Everett, PhD, director of Nursing Services and Patient Care, is president-elect of American Organization of Nurse Executives.
• University of Iowa Children's Hospital pediatricians Jeff Murray, MD, and Val Sheffield, MD, PhD, are elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.

November 2005

• UI Heart and Vascular Center specialists perform Iowa's first kidney artery stent placements using Angioguard®, a new "filter" device to improve procedure results.
• One-day old Iowa girl becomes the youngest person ever to receive robotic surgery in the world following a duodenal procedure at University of Iowa Children's Hospital.
• UI Hospitals and Clinics project titled, "Hold That Needle! Reducing Lab Tests," receives prestigious national performance improvement award.
• UI transplant specialists join Nebraska transplant team in a procedure where eight organs are obtained from a single donor for first time in Iowa history.

December 2005

• UI researchers contribute a new journal article showing that intensive glucose control lowers the risk of heart disease and stroke by 50 percent in people with type 1 diabetes.
• Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center awards ‘seed grants' to six UI researchers who are conducting new studies related to the causes, prevention, and treatment of cancer.

January 2006

• University of Iowa Children's Hospital neonatologists will be assigned full-time to Genesis Medical Center in Davenport to care for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• Imaging experts Laurie Fajardo, MD, John Buatti, MD, and Mark Madsen, PhD, voted "best of the best" by peers in Medical Imaging magazine survey.
• The Patient Voice, which links chronically ill patients at UI Hospitals and Clinics with the writing expertise of students at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receives national grant.

February 2006

• Pioneering tool developed by newly recruited UI urologist Moshe Wald, MD, helps physicians tailor infertility treatments for couples who cannot conceive naturally.
• Ophthalmologist Gregory Hageman, PhD, receives the annual Foundation Fighting Blindness award for outstanding achievements in macular degeneration research.
• A UI study—the first of its kind to include detailed family interviews of relatives of persons with pathological gambling—concludes that problem gambling runs in families.

March 2006

• Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approves the hospital's request to purchase a 64-slice computed tomography (CT) unit to advance cardiac care for adults and children
• The Patients' Library, in partnership with the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, receives national award for a project that helps people learn more about cancer.
• Gifts totaling $13.7 million—including $10 million from the Carver family—will fund three new endowed chairs, create a genetics testing lab, and rename the Center for Macular Degeneration.

April 2006

• University of Iowa Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is one of 16 centers chosen for elite national Neonatal Research NetworkDeb Thoman, the hospital's compliance and privacy officer, appointed to Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and UI muscular dystrophy expert Kevin Campbell, PhD, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

May 2006

• Eva Tsalikian, MD, professor in the Department of Pediatrics, is elected to a three-year term as Chief of Staff at UI Hospitals and Clinics, succeeding Charles Helms, MD.
• 19 nurses from UI Hospitals and Clinics are among those honored at the 100 Great Iowa Nurses celebration held on the campus of Drake University.
• UI Community Medical Services Inc. opens a new Cancer Center in Ottumwa in partnership with Ottumwa Regional Health Center.

June 2006

• UI Hospitals and Clinics earns three-year re-verification from the American College of Surgeonsas a statewide Level I Trauma Center.
• Reviewing agencies cite superb burn care and institutional support as major factors in re-verifying the Burn Treatment Center as Iowa's only adult and pediatric burn center.
• UI's highly successful cochlear implant clinical research center headed by otolaryngologist Bruce Gantz, MD, wins $10 million award from the NIH.