Zuhair K. Ballas, MD, UI professor of internal medicine, chaired the program committee for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Kevin Campbell, PhD, head of Physiology and Biophysics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Emory Warner Clinical Laboratories at UI Hospitals and Clinics received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists.

James Folk, MD, and Mark Wilkinson, OD, published a book, Protect Your Sight: How to Save Your Vision in the Epidemic of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, portions of which can be viewed free at www.medrounds.org/protect-your-sight/.

Pursuing Excellence, the UI Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ Annual Report for FY 2003-04 received an Award of Distinction from the Group on Institutional Advancement, Association of American Medical Colleges.

Satish Rao, MD, PhD, received the 2006 American Gastroenterology Association Masters Award in Gastroenterology.

Val Sheffield, MD, UI professor of pediatrics, and Ed Stone, MD, UI professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, received a patent for “Identification of a Gene Causing the Most Common Form of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome and Uses Thereof.”

Deborah Thoman, compliance and privacy officer, was invited to serve on the 2006 board of examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Eva Tsalikian, MD, was elected to a three-year term as Chief of Staff at UI Hospitals and Clinics.