The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce that Chad Grueter, PhD, associate professor of Internal Medicine, has been named Vice Chair for Research, effective July 1.

Dr. Peter J. Kaboli, staff physician at the ICVA, Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Carver College of Medicine and Acting Executive Director of the VA Office of Rural Health is the recipient of the third DiBona Academics in Service of ICVA Veterans Award.

John Wilde, DO, clinical assistant professor in Palliative Care, has received a UIHC-CCOM Clinical and Educational Program Pilot Grant from the Carver College of Medicine.

Gwen Z. Beck, MD, has been awarded one of the highest distinctions the Carver College of Medicine grants, the Dr. Ernest O. Theilen Clinical Teaching and Service Award.

Mahmoud Abou Alaiwa, MD, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, received his first R01, a five-year, $3.6M award from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Chih-Jen Cheng, MD, associate professor in Nephrology and Hypertension, has received a five-year, $1.55M R01 from the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Two residents—one in her second-year, the other a recent graduate and now allergy/immunology fellow—recently presented work in a poster session at the 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology (ACAAI) in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation has designated the University of Iowa a PKD Foundation Center of Excellence in ADPKD (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease).

Frank Faraci, PhD, professor in Cardiovascular Medicine and of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, has been tapped to co-lead an international research network by the Leducq Foundation.

Sabarish Ayyappan, MD, and Chandrikha Chandrasekharan, MBBS, both medical oncologists in the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, have each taken on a leadership role in two of the multidisciplinary oncology groups (MOGs) within the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC).