Department of Pediatrics
General Information
The Department of Pediatrics is a vital component of University of Iowa Children's Hospital, offering the region’s most advanced and comprehensive medical and surgical care devoted solely to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults The department is recognized nationally for excellence in teaching, clinical service, and research related to childhood diseases. UI pediatric faculty are among the nation's best trained, as reflected in their authorship of major texts in the discipline, in reports of basic and clinical research in leading journals, receipt of research funds and training grants, election to leadership positions in pediatrics, and receipt of national and international recognition for achievements. For more information, visit the Department of Pediatrics Web site at www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/pediatrics or the University of Iowa Children's Hospital Web site at www.uihealthcare.com/depts/childrenshospitalofiowa.
Michael Artman, MD
Physician-in-Chief, University of Iowa Children's Hospital
Professor and Head, Department of Pediatrics
Edward Bell, MD
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
Thomas George, MD
Vice Chair for Education
Paul McCray, MD
Vice Chair for Research
Eva Tsalikian, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Information and referrals
For consultation or referral, or to obtain information on patients, please call UI Consult toll-free at 1-800-322-8442.
Consultations are facilitated by mailing out or faxing pertinent clinical information in advance, if possible. Department and division addressed correspondence can be directed to:
Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242-1009
Phone: 319-356-2296
Fax: 319-356-4855 (monitored weekdays)
Department Services and Divisions
Allergy and Pulmonary Diseases
Director: Miles M. Weinberger, MD
This division offers evaluation and management of children and adolescents with allergic disorders, too many infections, and acute and chronic breathing disorders. Examples of these problems include asthma, cystic fibrosis, recurrent pneumonia, exercise-induced shortness of breath, hay fever, eczema, hives, food allergy, and stinging insect allergy.
Cardiology
Director: Thomas D. Scholz, MD
This division manages over 5,000 visits annually from infants and children with congenital and acquired heart disease. About 450 cardiac catheterizations are performed annually, in addition to the management of over 170 pediatric cardiac surgical patients. The pediatric cardiology physicians provide management of hospitalized cardiac patients on a consultative basis. Care is also provided in cardiac clinics throughout the state. The faculty also provide consultative readings of echo films via fiber-optic transmissions and hard copy receipt from numerous community hospitals.
Child Health Specialty Clinics
Director: Jeffrey Lobas, MD
With services located in 14 areas around the state, this public health program serves children with special physical and mental health care needs, and their families. Examples include heart problems, diabetes, sickle cell disease, bone and joint diseases, and behavior problems. The program also helps families find and organize other local services that their children may need. Examples include home care, family-to-family support, insurance coverage, child care, and school health. The program works closely with other state and local organizations that help families and encourages family participation in the care of their children. For additional information, refer to the program’s Web site at http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/state/chsc/index.html.
Developmental and Behavioral Medicine
Director: Stacy McConkey, MD
As an affiliate of University of Iowa Children's Hospital, this division provides diagnostic and treatment services to infants, children, and young adults with particularly complex physical, intellectual, learning, adjustment, and/or medical problems. Examples of these problems include autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, spina bifida, and traumatic brain injury. Comprehensive outpatient services are provided daily in the Alfred Healy Clinic, located in the Center for Disabilities and Development. The division’s faculty coordinate care with local providers and schools. A family-focused “team approach” is emphasized. The division operates an 8-bed inpatient acute neurotrauma unit that provides team-based rehabilitation treatment.
Endocrinology and Diabetes
Director: Eva Tsalikian, MD
This division provides consultative services and/or long-term diagnosis and management of patients with common or unusual endocrinologic diseases, and patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. State-of–the-art management of diabetes in children and adolescents is provided by faculty physicians and the medical professionals working with them, in a team approach designed to create the best possible outcomes.
Gastroenterology
Director: Warren P. Bishop, MD
Pediatric gastroenterologists are actively involved in the care of inpatients with primary or secondary gastrointestinal disease. They provide the evaluation and treatment of abdominal pain, Celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, congenital bowl dysfunction, congenital liver disorders, constipation/encopresis, diarrhea, feeding intolerance and failure to thrive, food allergy, gastrointestinal bleeding, gastroesophageal reflux, hepatitis, malabsorption, pancreatitis, Peptic disease, ulcerative colitis, and vomiting. Available procedures include fiber-optic endoscopy, oral intestinal mucosal biopsy, percutaneous liver biopsy, 24-hour pH monitoring for gastroesophageal reflux, and manometric studies of the esophagus and he anal/rectal region.
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Interim Director: Jeffrey Lobas, MD
General pediatrics diagnostic and child health/continuity of care clinics handle a wide variety of common outpatient problems, including a large volume of acutely ill pediatric "walk-in" patients. Special clinics include:
- adolescent medicine
- attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders
- behavior management
- child protection
- diagnostic clinic
- growth failure
- sports medicine
Hematology and Oncology
Interim Director: Raymond Tannous, MD
This division offers expertise in the full spectrum of blood disorders and malignancies in children, including severe anemias, thalassemia, sickle cell disease, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and immune disorders. The program’s specialists care for pediatric patients with all leukemias, brain tumors, and solid tumor malignancies, and participate in many national collaborative studies for children with malignant disease. Pediatric bone marrow specialists direct and coordinate all of the pediatric bone marrow transplant activities on an inpatient unit dedicated exclusively to pediatric bone marrow transplantation. In addition to cord blood and bone marrow transplants for treatment of leukemia and aplastic anemia, these specialists perform transplants for inherited diseases such as Schwachman-Diamond, dyskeratosis congenita, metabolic diseases and immune deficiencies. Faculty members conduct research in the use of unrelated marrow donors, genetic susceptibilities leading to bleeding disorders, lymphocyte disorders, and pediatric brain tumors.
Infectious Diseases
Director: Charles Grose, MD
This division provides consultative services for microbiologic diagnosis and treatment of children with infectious and rheumatologic diseases.
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Director: Fred S. Lamb, MD, PhD
The PICU is a multi-specialty combined medical and surgical unit providing the latest respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological monitoring and care. It accommodates patients ranging from infancy to 16 years of age, with physician coverage provided 24 hours a day by faculty from the Division of Critical Care Medicine, and by pediatric, anesthesia, and surgery residents. Specially trained nurses provide care for the varied patient population and assist with air transport of pediatric patients from outlying hospitals to University of Iowa Children's Hospital. Respiratory therapy specialists are present at all times.
Medical Genetics
Director: Val Sheffield, MD, PhD
Medical Genetics serves not only the Department of Pediatrics and University of Iowa Children's Hospital, but also all of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. It includes a genetic counseling clinic, a neuromuscular disease program, and cytogenetics, biochemical genetics, and molecular genetics laboratories. The division cooperates with the Iowa Department of Health in operating a statewide regional genetic consultation service. Faculty work with medical geneticists in several other clinical departments to maintain programs in prenatal diagnosis, behavioral genetics, genetics of eye disorders, skeletal dysplasias, cancer, and craniofacial anomalies.
Neonatology
Director: Jeffrey Segar, MD
The Division of Neonatology is responsible for all newborns admitted to University of Iowa Children's Hospital. The highly advanced Neonatal Intensive Care Unit houses up to 55 critically ill newborns, all in single rooms. It is equipped with the latest equipment and staffed by a large team of highly trained nurses and other staff. A laboratory within the NICU provides around-the-clock service.
Nephrology/Hypertension
Director: Craig C. Porter, MD
Nephrology offers consultation services in pediatrics, urology, and both the dialysis and transplantation units. The team manages pediatric patients with nephritic and nephrotic diseases, acute and chronic renal failure, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte disorders, tubular diseases, and common urological problems. The rheumatology outpatient clinic serves patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, spondylitis, dermatomyositis, and other musculoskeletal complaints.
Neurology
Director: Katherine D. Mathews, MD
The child neurology clinic provides nearly 180 visits a month in response to physician referrals both within and beyond UI Hospitals and Clinics.
Nutrition
Director: Michael Artman, MD
Growth, nutrition, and metabolism are major areas of interest in the department since the 1920s, with the result that much of the normative data utilized throughout the world have had their origin in UI studies. This long history is reflected in our inpatient units and clinics, where patterns of growth are matters of interest and concern, regardless of the nature of the illness. The research effort in metabolism and nutrition is well supported by adequate clinical and laboratory facilities, including a metabolic unit devoted to the study of growth and body composition of normal infants.
Psychology
Director: Lynn Richman, PhD
Specialty clinic evaluations and treatment are provided in the following areas: attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, behavioral disorders, chronic health impairment, learning disorders, and neuropsychological disorders. The division also provides outpatient and inpatient consultation to children with a variety of medical conditions.
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