After years of leadership in surgical education and resident training, Jerrod Keith, MD, has been named Vice Chair for Education in the University of Iowa Department of Surgery.

Colin P. Kenny, PhD, assistant professor in the University of Iowa Department of Surgery, has been awarded a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to support research focused on understanding how melanoma adapts and progresses.

As demand for surgical services continues to grow across eastern Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown is expanding access to high-quality general surgery care while bringing advanced surgical technology closer to the communities it serves.

Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD, MBA, Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, and Songhai Chen, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology have been awarded a prestigious National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health T32 training grant to establish the University of Iowa Surgical Oncology Research Training Program.