Service to Iowa and beyond

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics serves as the teaching hospital and comprehensive health care center for the state of Iowa, promoting the health of all Iowans regardless of their ability to pay. The organization's commitment to quality health care extends to patients from other states and nations. Over 200 health care specialties are provided by collaborating teams of physicians, nurses, dietitians, social workers, therapists, pharmacists, and other health care professionals and support staff.

UI Health Care partnership

University of Iowa Health Care describes the collaborative partnership between UI Hospitals and Clinics and the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. UI Hospitals and Clinics also collaborates with the other health sciences colleges at the University. Together, these organizations provide world-class patient care, health care education, and biomedical research to the people of Iowa and beyond.

UI Carver College of Medicine

The UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine's major accomplishments during the 2002-2003 academic year included the dedication of a new, four-story Medical Education and Biomedical Research Facility, and groundbreaking for the adjacent seven-story Carver Biomedical Research Building, scheduled for completion in early 2006.

For the year, total external funding (predominantly from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Human Services) for the UI Carver College of Medicine and UI College of Public Health exceeded $211 million. Major research centers and projects were established and renewed for research related to:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Post-traumatic osteoarthritis
• Hypertension
• Lymphoma
• Autism

The College ranked 24th among top research schools in U.S.News & World Report's annual survey of graduate programs. Primary care ranked ninth and rural medicine fourth. UI was named ninth best overall for postdoctoral research fellows by the international science news magazine, The Scientist. UI Carver College of Medicine faculty and staff also welcomed an old friend and new dean, Jean Robillard, M.D., who returned to UI from the University of Michigan.

David Skorton, M.D., a professor of internal medicine who had been serving as the UI's vice president for research and external relations, was installed as UI's 19th president.

UI health sciences

In addition to the UI Carver College of Medicine and UI Hospitals and Clinics, the University's health science campus includes the colleges of dentistry, pharmacy, public health, and nursingÑall offering the highest levels of teaching, research, and clinical services to Iowans and to the world. Health science leadership includes:

University of Iowa
David J. Skorton, M.D., President

UI Carver College of Medicine
Jean E. Robillard, M.D., Dean

UI College of Dentistry
David C. Johnsen, D.D.S., Dean and Professor

UI College of Nursing
Melanie C. Dreher, Ph.D., Kelting Dean and Professor

UI College of Pharmacy
Jordan L. Cohen, Ph.D., Dean and Professor

UI College of Public Health
James A. Merchant, M.D., Dr.P.H., Dean and Professor