Michael Artman , MD, physician-in-chief, UI Children's Hospital, and professor and head, Pediatrics, has been named associate hospital director, UI Hospitals and Clinics, and executive director, UI Children's Hospital.

Seven UI nurses were recognized for being among "100 Great Iowa Nurses" for 2008: Linda Crowley; Ami Gaarde; Carolyn Laxson; Penny Smith; Patricia Pezzella ; Sara Vance; and Beverly Vermace .

Charles Helms , MD, PhD, has received a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct vaccine policy research in New South Wales, Australia, during 2009.

Ellen Barron , an independent consultant and principal for the Profit Management Group in West Chester, Pa., has been named University of Iowa Health Care's associate vice president for marketing and communications.

Matthew Howard , MD, has been appointed the John C. VanGilder Chair in Neurosurgery.

Boyd Knosp was appointed to the new position of associate dean for information technology (IT) in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

Val Sheffield , MD, PhD, has been renewed through 2013 as an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

UI Hospitals and Clinics was a University HealthSystem Consortium 2007 Supply Chain Top 10 Award winner.

The UI Obesity Surgery program at U Hospitals and Clinics was designated a United Resource Networks Bariatric Reso urce Services Centers of Excellence.