October 29, 2026
Paul M. and Dorothy E. Seebohm Visiting Lectureship in Allergy:
Translating Cytokine Signaling: Bench to Bedside and Back
John O’Shea, MD, National Institutes of Health 

October 22, 2026
6th Dr. Douglas LaBrecque Lectureship in Hepatology:
Changing Epidemiology, Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Mindie Nguyen, MD, MAS, AGAF, FAASLD, Stanford University

October 15, 2026
Department Quarterly Update
Upi Singh, MD

October 8, 2026
A cardiologist, an oncologist, an immunologist, and a chemical engineer walk into a bar … 
Bob Weiss, MD

October 1, 2026
Geoffrey McLennan Visiting Lectureship in Pulmonary Disease and Biomedical Imaging
Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Lung Transplantation
Jason D. Christie, MD, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania

September 24, 2026
Value Based Care in Practice: Data-Driven Strategies for Population Health Management
Timothy Judson, MD, University of California-San Francisco

September 17, 2026
Adipose-Heart Communication in Health and Disease
Renata Alambert, PhD

September 10, 2026
Studying the Care We Actually Deliver: Advancing Health Services Research in the Department of Internal Medicine
Michihiko Goto, MD, MS, FACP

September 3, 2026
A Toxicology Mystery
Pamela Moore, MD (Emergency Medicine)

August 27, 2026
Telomere Biology Disorders: Why does it matter and What Internists Need to Know
Moon Ley Tung, MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath (Pediatrics)

August 20, 2026
Asthma - How to Prevent Exacerbations
Alejandro Comellas, MD

August 13, 2026
Hyponatremia in Cirrhosis: Everything you always wanted to know but never dared to ask
Marta Tejedor, MBBS, PhD

August 6, 2026
Patient with strep pneumoniae pneumonia, pleural effusions, and organizing fibrinous pericarditis who required ECMO
Kirstin Brainard, DNP, ARNP, Katie Christel, MD (Pathology), and Charles Rappaport, MD

July 30 2026
The Hereditary Cancer Landscape in Iowa: Population Insights and Integrating Precision Medicine into Clinical Care Through Epic Genomics 
Colleen Campbell, PhD, MS, LGC

July 23, 2026
Lassa call for flight 2026 to Cedar Rapids
Karen Brust, MD

July 16, 2026
Toxicology Grand Rounds
Your Guide to Legal Highs: Management of toxicity and withdrawal of novel psychoactive substances
Conner McDonald, MD

July 9, 2026
Canceled

July 2, 2026
Canceled

June 25, 2026
Lung nodule management in the era of robotic bronchoscopy
Robert Smyth, MD

June 18, 2026
Dr. Thomas O'Dorisio Lecture:
Advances in Alpha Particle Radionuclide Therapy for Cancer: Pb-203/Pb-212 Theranostics
Michael Schultz, PhD, Perspective Therapeutics

June 11, 2026
Quarterly Department Update
Upi Singh, MD

June 4, 2026
Chief Residents' Presentations
Cardiac Rehab Referrals for Heart Failure by Adam Blaine, MD
From Sleeping Sickness to Kidney Failure: The Story of APOL1 by Tyler Maggio, MD
Beyond the Bowel: Severe Malnutrition and Kwashiorkor Like Physiology in Ulcerative Colitis by Marcus Osman, MD
Annie are you No-K? by Mackenzie Walhof, MD

May 28, 2026
CPC: Connecting the Clues to Systemic Amyloidosis
Jennifer Houser, MD, Dennis Firchau, MD (Pathology), and Hira Shaikh, MBBS

May 21, 2026
Trabecular Bone Score in Clinical Practice: Beyond BMD and FRAX
Amie Ogunsakin, MD

May 14, 2026
DiBona Lecture: Type 1 Diabetes 150 years: Past, Present, Future
William Sivitz, MD

May 7, 2026
Nicotine, Hypertension, & Inflammation: The Smoking Gun (audio starts at 3:54)
Sailesh Harwani, MD, PhD

April 30, 2026
Building an ADPKD Center of Excellence at the University of Iowa: Integrating Patient-Centered Care and Emerging Therapies
Lama Noureddine, MD

April 23, 2026
Raynaud Phenomenon! Or is It? The differential, diagnosis and management of red, white and blue color changes in the fingers and toes
Robyn Domsic, MD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh

April 16, 2026
Occupational Lung Disease in the Mining Industry
Vanessa Govender, MBBCh, DOH, MPH

April 9, 2026
First Quarter Department Update by Dr. Upi Singh
Research Day Award Winner presentations

April 2, 2026
CPC:Alpha-1 Anti-trypsin
Jacob Heath, MD, Sameh EFL Abdalla, MBBCh,PhD (Pathology), and Alan Gunderson, MD

March 26, 2026
Lung cancer screening, the newer kid on the screening block: Challenges and opportunities
Gerald Silvestri MD, MS, University of South Carolina

March 19, 2026
Canceled

March 12, 2026
Division of Endocrinology Update by Dr. Ayotunde Dokun and
Improving Length of Stay (LOS) by Dr. Martha Carvour
Postponed: First Quarter Department Update by Dr. Upi Singh

March 5, 2026
Toxicology Grand Rounds
Josh Trebach, MD

February 26, 2026
Polishing the crystal ball: improving prognostication during serious illness
Brian Gehlbach, MD

February 19, 2026
Updates on an Interventional Pulmonologist’s Role in Thoracic Oncology
Nicholas Pastis, MD, The Ohio State University

February 12, 2026
CPC: A Case of Disseminated Histoplasmosis
Katrina Soyangco, MD, Juan Sanchez Ramirez, MD (Pathology), and Michael Olthoff, MD

February 5, 2026
Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Are We Still Afraid? From urgency-driven decisions to precision-based care
Prajwal Dhakal, MBBS

January 29, 2026
The Many Faces of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
Gatr-Alnada Gheriani, MBChB

January 22, 2026
Building Community Partnerships for Health Research, Clinical Education, and Public Health Practice
Martha Carvour, MD, PhD

January 15, 2026
Canceled

January 8, 2026
Canceled

January 1, 2026
Canceled