Latest Departmental News
UI Carver College of Medicine Investiture Ceremony to celebrate endowed professorships to Sluka, Petkov, Tomchik
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
University of Iowa Health Care faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend an investiture ceremony honoring Kathleen Sluka, PT, PhD; Christopher Petkov, PhD; and Seth Tomchik, PhD, at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23.
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
Upcoming Events
PTRS Educational Summit
Mark your calendars for our 2025 PTRS Educational Summit scheduled for October 11, 2025.
UI Physical Therapy Apparel Order
The Physical Therapy Student Organization's (PTSO) spring apparel order is now closed. If you wish to be put on the mailing list for the fall order, please email us at physical-therapy@uiowa.edu.
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.
College of Medicine Events
REDCap Data Handling
Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:
Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()
Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering
Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables
Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables
Transforming unusable data to a...
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Melissa Jurica
Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
This event is open to the public."Exploring intron recognition by U2 snRNP with spliceosome inhibitors"Melissa Jurica, PhDUniversity of California Santa CruzFaculty Host: Lori Wallrath, PhD
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 9/18/2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
John B Stokes III Iowa Kidney Lectureship: "Polycystic kidney disease: current and future therapies" by Alan Yu, MD (University of Kansas)
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Jon Resch, PhD and Snehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhD
Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Salt hunger driven by hindbrain HSD2 neurons: Regulation by aldosterone and afferent controlJon Resch, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Neuroscience & PharmacologySpatial transcriptomic and epigenetic signature of the retrosplenial cortex during memory consolidationSnehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture - Mary Carrington, PhD
Thursday, September 18, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
The Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high-impact research in a variety of areas.The seminars will be of broad interest and are open to all University of Iowa faculty, staff, students and the public.