Cover: Peg Nopoulos, MD, (left) and Sarah England, PhD.
An online version of Medicine, the UI Carver College of Medicine quarterly alumni magazine.
Foreword
News Briefs
Finding her Calling
Alumna Carol Aschenbrener, MD, thrives in leadership roles.
New Image
Colleagues in medicine and engineering collaborate to diagnose and treat disease.

From Lab to Clinic
A five-year, $33.8 million Clinical and Translational Science Award helps UI researchers’ efforts on campus, around Iowa and across the country.
Future of Science
Groundbreaking ceremony celebrates the University of Iowa Institute for Biomedical Discovery.

Team Approach
There’s an innovative way to prepare students to be clinicians.
UI Health Care
A new team integrates the missions of an academic medical center.
Debt vs. Career Plans
Becca Mueller wants to serve the underprivileged, but first there are student loans to repay.
Alumni news
In memoriam
My (career) game plan
CalenderExecutive Editor Jean Robillard, MD, dean and UI vice president for medical affairs
Editor Dawn Goodlove
Contributing writers
Jennifer Brown, Anne Duggan, Susan Green, Lesly Huffman,
Derek Maurer, David Pedersen, Becky Soglin
Design Connie Peterson
Photography Susan McClellen, Louise Murray
Production Donna Mullink
Associate Dean for Communications
and Advancement and Director,
Office of Health Science Relations Steve Maravetz
Assistant Director,
Publications Office of Health Science Relations Anne Duggan
Executive Director,
Office of Alumni and Collegiate Relations Chad Ruback
For more information on the Medicine Alumni Society and
any of our reunions, volunteer opportunities or Web-based
alumni programs, please contact the College’s Office of Alumni
and Collegiate Relations at
(877) MEDIOWA or via e-mail at medicine-alumni@uiowa.edu.
Produced by the UI Office of Health Science Relations for the Office of the Dean, UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.
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