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

Lab Members:

• Peter Veng-Pedersen, PhD, Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy
• Ronald G. Strauss, MD, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology
• Donald M. Mock, MD, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Health Sciences
• Robert Schmidt, Research Assistant
• Earl Gingerich, Research Assistant

Affiliations:

• Department of Pediatrics
• Division of Neonatology
• CTSA Clinical Research Unit , Associate Director, Responsible for Flexible Nursing Services
• NIH Neonatal Network, Associate Director for University of Iowa Site

Model System

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

Recent Publications

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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