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Fall 2007
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Lung transplants available again in Iowa
Dianna Bauman is living, breathing proof that the Lung Transplant Program recently re-launched by University of Iowa Health Care was sorely needed. After a long battle with lung disease, the Grinnell woman's physician gave her two more years to live. She needed a transplant, but that would have meant moving to St. Louis — an idea Bauman rejected. "I'd rather spend the time I had left with my family," she said. Then she found out about the UI's program, recently approved by the United Network for Organ Sharing, and within weeks she became a transplant recipient. Lung diseases that can be considered for transplant include:
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Interstitial lung disease
- Airway disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
For more details or to refer a patient, call UI Consult and ask for Jana Beaver, RN, BSN.
Spine Center leads the way with non-invasive options
Are you treating a patient who is looking for a non-surgical approach to managing chronic spine pain? The UI Spine Center has helped hundreds of people lead active lives following back injury or disease. "The UI Spine Center now has three physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians who examine and treat patients using specialized services like electrodiagnosis, spinal injections, and medical acupuncture," said medical director Joseph Chen, MD. Since 1985, the Center has offered Iowa's only interdisciplinary Spine Rehabilitation Program for patients with chronic pain. For more information or to refer a patient, call UI Consult and ask for the UI Spine Center.
Two pediatric weight management programs launched
UI Children's Hospital has launched two new pediatric weight management programs.
- Pediatric Health Intervention and Treatment (PHIT) is an eight-week program for six- to 12-year-old elementary school children. It involves education about nutrition and behavioral issues for parents and fun learning activities for children. The next session is planned for January. For more information or to refer a patient, call UI Consult and ask for Stacy McConkey, MD.
- Shapedown: Just For Teens is a 10-week program for overweight adolescents in grades seven to 12. It incorporate a range of family therapy and psychoeducational techniques to help increase physical activity and improve esteem and family communication. The pilot program is currently under way, and organizers hope to make future sessions available. See www.uihealthcare. com/healthyweight for referral information and schedules.
Spotlight on UI Neurosciences
Rest assured in UI Sleep Disorders Center
The Department of Neurology's Sleep Disorders Center is a one-of-a-kind resource for patients with excessive daytime sleepiness, severe chronic insomnia, unusual spells during sleep, and more. Led by Mark E. Dyken, MD, and fully accredited by the American Sleep Disorders Association, the Center boasts a laboratory and a variety of subspecialty clinics, including a pediatric sleep clinic specializing in children with developmental disablities and their sleep complaints. "We recently became a selected site for a drug study for people with persistent sleepiness despite successful treatment of sleep apnea with CPAP, as we have one of the world's few formal CPAP follow-up clinics," Dyken said. "We also recently moved to the Center for Disabilities and Development [a short walk from UI Hospitals and Clinics], where we offer continental breakfast, HDTVs, and a beautiful, quiet garden setting." For more information or to refer a patient, call UI Consult and ask for the Sleep Disorders Center.
Acoustic neuromas treatable
In the journal Otology & Neurotology (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2006], "we reported a large number of patients who were identified early and had small tumors not touching the brainstem," said Bruce Gantz, MD, head of the Department of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery. "With small tumors, surgical removal using a hearing preservation procedure has been very successful." In fact, UI's results were among the best reported. "If an individual has a tumor less than one centimeter long and has better than 70 percent word understanding preoperatively, there is a more than 70 percent chance of preserving the hearing at that level or better. Preservation of normal or near-normal facial nerve function was 97 percent in this group of individuals." Patients with unilateral hearing loss and/or unilateral tinnitus should be imaged for an acoustic tumor. For more information or to refer a patient, call UI Consult and ask for Bruce Gantz, MD.
Outpatient services expand to offer enhanced patient care
To accommodate the growth of the program, a new Department of Neurosurgery clinic and office space complex — optimally designed for academic, clinical, and administrative activities — has been completed. In other "moving" news:
- Internal Medicine Specialty Clinics and Dermatology have moved to the third level of Pomerantz Family Pavilion (PFP) along with Pulmonary Diagnostic and Interventional Services, Bone Densitometry, and Phlebotomy Intake. The internal medicine specialty practices include allergy/immunology, complementary alternative medicine, endocrinology (including diabetes and weight management), infectious diseases (including virology and travel clinic), nephrology, rheumatology, and surgical co-management. As part of the Dermatology move, the Phototherapy Unit added UVA-1 services to treat eczema, morphea, scleroderma, and graft-versus-host disease.
- A new UI Women's Health Center has opened, home to UI Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Wellness and Counseling. The Women's Center, also located on the third level of PFP, consolidates ob/gyn services from previous locations and brings it closer to such key services as the UI Maternity and Breast Imaging centers.
- These openings complete the $39.6 million ambulatory services project, which included the opening of the new UI Ambulatory Surgery Center
One call puts you in touch
UI Consult is a centralized resource linking health care providers to University of Iowa physicians and services at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Whether you are seeking a consultation, are providing a referral, need patient information, or want news about clinical trials or CME courses, a single call is all it takes to put you in touch with the right person. UI Consult is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Simply call 800-322-8442. When referring a patient, you may also fill out an online referral form at www.uihealthcare.com/consult.
Information needed to refer a patient:
- Patient's name
- Address
- Phone number
- Date of birth
- UI Hospitals and Clinics registration number (if born or previously seen here)
- Type of insurance (i.e., HMO, workers' compensation, medical assistance)
- Nature of the medical problem
- Services you would like us to provide
New Faculty
Anesthesia
- Esther Benedetti, MD
Clinical focus: Pain medicine
Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Randy Stevens, MD
Clinical focus: Congenital cardiothoracic surgery; cardiac transplantation; pediatric cardiac surgery
Dermatology
- Brian Swick, MD
Clinical focus: General dermatology; dermatopathology
Family Medicine
- Natalie Lanternier, MD
(UI Family Care — Lone Tree)
Clinical focus: Obstetrics and gynecology; pediatrics; preventive medicine
- Julia Swanson, MD
(UI Family Care — Southeast Iowa City)
Clinical focus: Pediatrics; women's health
Internal Medicine
(by division)
Allergy and Immunology
- Antoine Azar, MD
Clinical focus: Recurrent and unusual infections; immunodeficiency; immune disorders; general allergy-immunology
- Amy Dowden, MD
Clinical focus: General allergy-immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
- Alexander Mazur, MD
Clinical focus: General cardiovascular medicine
- Kim Staffey, MD
Clinical focus: Cardiac imaging, including echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, and coronary CTA; and general cardiovascular medicine
Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Amal Shibli-Rahhal, MD
Clinical focus: Osteoporosis; general endocrinology
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- M. Nedim Ince, MD
Clinical focus: General gastroenterology
General Internal Medicine
(The first four physicians listed are in the UI Family Care Center — Internal Medicine Clinic on campus)
- Ole Behrendtsen, MD
Clinical focus: General internal medicine; psychiatry
- Dale Bieber, MD
Clinical focus: General internal medicine; pediatrics
- Jason Blackham, MD
Clinical focus: General internal medicine; sports medicine
- Rebecca Davis, MD
Clinical focus: General internal medicine
- Vikas Sharotri, MBBS
Clinical focus: General internal medicine
Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
- Thorvardur Halfdanarson, MD
Clinical focus: Advanced cancer management; general hematology-oncology
- Mohammed Milhem, MD
Clinical focus: Sarcomas; general hematology-oncology
Infectious Diseases
- Birgir Johannsson, MD
Clinical focus: Antimicrobial resistance; general infectious diseases
- Judy Streit, MD, PhD
Clinical focus: General infectious diseases
Nephrology
- Neerja Agrawal, MD
Clinical focus: Kidney transplantation; lupus nephritis; general nephrology
- Heather Muster, MD
Clinical focus: Chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular risk; general nephrology
- Carla Nester, MD
Clinical focus: Glomerular disease; general nephrology
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine
- Julia Klesney-Tait, MD, PhD
Clinical focus: Pre- and post-lung transplant evaluation and management; general pulmonary medicine
- Brent Peters, MD
Clinical focus: Evaluation and management of lung transplant patients; pulmonary hypertension; general pulmonary medicine
- David Stoltz, MD, PhD
Clinical focus: Cystic fibrosis; general pulmonary medicine
Neurology
- Ana Recober, MD
Clinical focus: Headache and facial pain
- Teri Thomsen, MD, JD
Clinical focus: Movement disorders; deep brain stimulation therapy; Botox injections
Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Merida Miller, MD
Clinical focus: General obstetrics and gynecology
Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- Nicolas Noiseux, MD
Clinical focus: Hip and knee reconstruction
Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Michael Wagoner, MD
Clinical focus: Cornea and external disease
Pathology
- Stacey Klutts, MD
Clinical focus: Medical microbiology
Pediatrics
- Alex Bassuk, MD
Clinical focus: Neurology
- Nancy Bonthius, PhD
Clinical focus: Developmental and behavioral medicine
- Patrick Brophy, MD
Clinical focus: Nephrology
- Keala Clark, MD
Clinical focus: Critical care
- Abhay Divekar, MD
Clinical focus: Cardiology
- Eyad Hanna, MD
Clinical focus: Gastroenterology
- Sandy Hong, MD
Clinical focus: Rheumatology
- Riad Rahhal, MD
Clinical focus: Gastroenterology
- Jeannie Sims, PhD
Clinical focus: Child Health Specialty Clinics
- Steve Stasheff, MD
Clinical focus: Neurology
- Amy Stier, MD
Clinical focus: General pediatrics; adolescent medicine
Psychiatry
- Jess Fiedorowicz, MD
Clinical focus: Adult psychiatry
Radiation Oncology
- Anjali Gupta, MD
Clinical focus: Head and neck cancer
Other faculty notes
- Robert Rodnitzky, MD, has been named head of the UI Department of Neurology. Rodnitzky is an expert on movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. He earned a medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1966, joined the UI faculty in 1972, and became a full professor in 1982.
- Jessica Gillespie, MD, recently joined the UI Department of Surgery's Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. A 2001 graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine, she will provide a full range of plastic surgery services, including cosmetic surgery of the body and face and reconstructive surgery.
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