Upcoming UI Carver College of Medicine Events

Pain Interest Group Workshop - Ezgi Yarasir, PT, PhD and Alex Keyes, PhD promotional image

Pain Interest Group Workshop - Ezgi Yarasir, PT, PhD and Alex Keyes, PhD

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Exercise-derived biomarkers
Ezgi Yarasir, PT, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Kathleen Sluka's Lab

Dynorphinergic neurons in the lateral pons inhibit inflammatory, neuropathic, and post-surgical pain via a descending circuit
Alex Keyes, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Yuriy Usachev's Lab

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants Creating tasks and schedules Active tasks and their unique data output Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
Virtual

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 usable format...

Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC. You are invited to join us during our monthly seminar presentations. 

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 11/13/2025

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
General Hospital

CPC: Cancer-related Pulmonary Hypertension by Cameron Brownlee, Claire Corell, MD (Pathology), and Alicia Gerke, MD

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Gage Liddiard promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Gage Liddiard

Friday, November 14, 2025 1:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Gage Liddiard is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, as well as a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). His research has been with the Dr. Joseph Glykys lab.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series

Monday, November 17, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

TriNetX Basic Training

Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual

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...

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 11/20/2025

Thursday, November 20, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
General Hospital

"Alcohol Use Disorder Research" by James Willey, MD, University of Utah

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Cynthia L. Grosskreutz, MD, PhD promotional image

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Cynthia L. Grosskreutz, MD, PhD

Thursday, November 20, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Drug Development in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) – Great Expectations

Cynthia L. Grosskreutz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Part-time
Harvard Medical School