Latest Departmental News

Spring 2025 Iowa DPT Q&A Sessions
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Spring 2025 Question & Answer Sessions for the University of Iowa Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program
Q&A: Jacob Norton, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Q&A: Alex Lewis, Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Alumni Newsletters
The alumni newsletters provide an opportunity for us to share many of the accomplishments of previous classmates, faculty, and staff from the UI Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences Community at Iowa. These newsletters will go out annually to keep you informed of the new developments and future plans within the department.
Upcoming Events
PTRS Educational Summit
Was held Friday, October 4, 2024
UI Physical Therapy Apparel Order
The Physical Therapy Student Organization's (PTSO) fall apparel order is now closed. If you wish to be put on the mailing list for the spring order, please email us at physical-therapy@uiowa.edu.
College of Medicine Events
Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour
Monday, January 13, 11:00am to Monday, December 8, 2025 12:00pm
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!
This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.
Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
REDCap Advanced Training
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:
Importing data from a CSV file
Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic
Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables
Sending automated, conditional email alerts
Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries
Register by clicking the...
TriNetX Basic Training
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.
After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.
Register by clicking the virtual event link...

Hardin Open Workshops - Systematic Reviews, Part 2: Literature Searching (In-Person & Zoom)
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
This class will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will also be discussion on selecting journals for hand searching, documenting search strategies, and saving and organizing references.
We suggest that “Nuts and Bolts of a Systematic Review” be taken before...

Department of Microbiology and Immunology - Seminar Speaker - Ernesto Fuentes, PhD
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm