John A. Widness, MD


Titles
Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program
Associate Director, CTSA Clinical Research Unit
Associate Director, Physician Scientist Training Program Pathway
Professor of Pediatrics

Education
BA – Amherst College; 1968
MD – Duke University; 1972

Postgraduate Education
Internship – Duke University
Internship – University of Pittsburgh
Residency – Case Western Reserve University
Neonatology Fellowship – Brown University

Clinical Interests

  • Anemia, nutrition, growth, and metabolism

Research Interests

  • Survival of transfused red blood cells (neonatal/fetal and adult)
  • Fetal and neonatal anemia
  • Epidemiology of neonatal transfusion medicine
  • Erythropoietin pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in the perinatal period
  • Perinatal iron nutrition and metabolism

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Affiliations:

Model System

Animal models for physiology and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies, human clinical trials

Recent Publications

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John A. Widness, MD

Division of Neonatology

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program

Recent Publications

Contact Information:
Office: 319-356-8102
Fax: 319-356-4685
Lab: 319-335-7902/319-335-8485
E-mail: john-widness@uiowa.edu


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