Our people are our strength
Thank you for your interest in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. It’s my privilege to be dean of this exceptional medical school, and my pleasure to tell you a little more about it.
At Iowa, our people are our strength. Our faculty are leaders in cardiovascular disease, brain imaging and neurosciences, orthopaedics, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, and Huntington’s disease. We have the only center of its kind devoted to studying age-related macular degeneration, and the world’s largest center devoted to cochlear implant studies.
Our ambitious researchers attract more and more funding every year, putting us among the nation’s top medical schools in NIH funding. Our dedicated instructors are shaping a compassionate, diverse and exceptionally bright next-generation of physicians and scientists, and our outstanding students take on the challenges of medical school with passion and integrity. Our expert clinicians treat patients with conditions ranging from the most common to the most complex in our state’s only tertiary health care center, and our committed staff — from nurses to secretaries, instructional technology experts to food and nutrition staff, housekeepers to research assistants — provide unparalleled support to help us succeed.
As dean, my philosophy is simple: We all must work together to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. That’s something we do well at Iowa, and its part of why the people of this state take so much pride in their hospital and college of medicine. I share that pride, and hope you also see it in all we do.
Sincerely,
Paul Rothman, M.D.
Dean, UI Carver College of Medicine