Upcoming Events

Annual PSTP Trainee meetings are being scheduled for October and November 2024
10/29/2024 12 pm: Implementation Sciences Program Seminar with Professor Heather Reisinger
11/06/2024 12 pm: Wellmark Data Resources Seminar with Professor Knute Carter and Professor Jacob Oleson
12/10/2024 12 pm: All of Us Research Hub Seminar with Dr. Alejandro Comellas Freymond and Heath Davis

Trainees in the University of Iowa Physician Scientist Training Pathway (PSTP) are invited to participate in several career enrichment programs directed toward the physician-scientist. Through these activities, the PSTP trainee will become a member of the large community of physician-scientists at the University of Iowa.

Monthly Seminars and Events

Led by pathway participants and UI faculty members, the series features discussions related to career development, specific research projects, and keys to successful grant applications.

If you are interested to present career development, continuing education or research project(s) please contact us at pstp@uiowa.edu with the details.

Past Enrichment Activities

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 6 PM - Welcome Back Picnic, Iowa City
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 12 PM - Advanced Presentation Skills Workshop, Presenter: Paul Casella
Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 12 PM - PSTP Seminar Panel with UIOWA CCOM Distinguished Mentor Awardees, Panel: Mary Wilson, MD; Edward Bell, MD; Peggy Nopoulos, MD; Joseph Zabner, MD
April 30, 2024, 12 PM - Presentation Skills Workshop, Presenter:  Paul Casella
March 27, 2024, 12 PM -Preparing Your Biosketch, Presenter:  David Stoltz, MD, PhD

November 15, 2023, 12 PM - Faculty Promotion & Tenure, Presenter:  Dr. Peter Snyder, MD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development
October 25, 2023, 12 PM - Resident Talks, Presenters: Dr. Karen Cyndari, MD, PhD, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Jeremy Sandgren, MD, PhD, Neonatology Fellow, Department of Pediatrics
September 21, 2023, 12 PM - Financial Planning, Presenter: Dustin Krutsinger, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, University of Nebraska
August 29, 2023, 6:30 PM - Welcome Back BBQ, Hosts: Joel Kline, David Stoltz, Lindsey Harshman
March 29, 2023, 12 PM -Opportunities for Clinical Research in the ICTS, Presenter: Alejandro Comellas, MD - Director, ICTS Clinical Research Unit

December 6, 2022, 12 PM - Panel Discussion with Department Chairs, Panel Members: Alexander Bassuk, MD, PhD; Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD; Nitin Karandikar, MD, PhD
October 25, 2022, 12 PM - Grants Part II: Mock NIH Study Section, Presenter: Dr. David Stoltz
September 27, 2022, 12 PM - Discussion Part I: Research Grants, Presenter: Dr. David Stoltz
July 13, 2022, 6 PM, - PSTP Welcome BBQ, Hosts: Joel Kline, David Stoltz
June 1, 2022, 12 PM - Research Presentation on Internal Medicine, Presenter: Tyler Rasmussen
April 27, 2022, 12 PM - Research Presentation on Emergency Medicine, Presenter: Karen Cyndari
March 30, 2022, 12 PM - PSTP Alumni Panel Discussion, Q & A, Panel Members: Dr. Georgina Aldridge, Dr. Alejandro Pezzulo Colmenares, Dr. Jennifer Streeter
February 15, 2022, 12 PM - Workshop: Using master project lists, finding time for high priority work, value of planning each week and each day.  Presenter: Susan Johnson, Office of the Provost 
January 28, 2022, 12 PM - Presenter: The late Dr. Patrick Winston, MIT - How to Speak.  This talk has been an MIT tradition for over 40 years and is intended to improve your speaking ability in critical situations by teaching you a few heuristic rules

October 22, 2021, 12 PM - Research Presentations, Presenters: Kathleen Robinson & Quentin Adams
September 24, 2021, 12 PM - NIH Public Access, Open Access, Pre-Prints, and Other Trends in Publishing, Presentr: Janna Lawrence
August 11, 2021, 12 PM - PSTP Welcome Seminar, Hosts: David Stoltz, Joel Kline, Brenda Van Dee
August 4, 2021, 6:30 PM - PSTP Social, Host:  Joel Kline
May 11, 2021, 12 PM - Getting Started with ORCiD, Presenter:  Matt R Regan, MA, MLIS
April 6, 2021, 12 PM - Research Presentations, Presenters: Nanmeng Yu & Jake Miller, Nanmeng Yu, MD, PhD, Jacob N Miller, MD, PhD
March 19, 2021, 12 PM - Data Management Essentials, Presenter:  Brian Westra
February 23, 2021, 12 PM -  Exercise for Work-Life Balance, Presenter:  Gregory Schmidt, MD

December 16, 2020. 12 PM -  "Effects of rTMS on Functional Connectivity", Presenter:  Nicholas Bormann, MD
November 17, 2020, 12 PM - Busting Myths about Scientific Writing, Presenter:  Dr. James Ankrum
October 20, 2020, 12 PM -"Ten Commandments for Failure as an Academic Physician-Scientist", Presenter:  Michael J. Welsh, MD
September 16, 2020, 12 PM - Welcome New Trainees & Best Practices, Host: Program Directors
May 26, 2020, 12 PM - Extremely Pre-term Birth Research, Presenter:  Matthew Rysavy
April 28, 2020, 12 PM - Panel Discussions with PSTP alums, Presenters: Drs. Aldridge, Harshman, and Pezzulo    
Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD, Lyndsay Harshman, MD, Alejandro Pezzulo Colmenares, MD
February 12, 2020, 12 PM - "Nuts and Bolts of K Awards", Presenter: Gordon F. Buchanan, MD, PhD
January 15, 2020, 12 PM - Negotiation Skills, Presenter:  Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA

December 20, 2019, 12PM - Research Focus with Fellow PSTP Colleagues, Presenters: Catherina (Cat) Pinnaro, MD, Title: "Using genomics to understand phenotypic heterogeneity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome" and Jennifer (Jen) Streeter, MD, PhD, Title: "Identifying critical mediators for insulin sensitivity and weight loss in the OPA1-UPR-FGF21 pathway"
November 4, 2019, 12 PM - Overview of REDCap and TriNetX , Presenters: Heath Davis and Ashlee Wilson
October 17, 2019, 12PM - "Addressing rigor and reproducibility in NIH grants", Presenter: Christine M. Blaumueller, PhD
August 29, 2019, 6:30 PM - PSTP Welcome & Social
June 18, 2019, 12 PM -"Pharmacogenomics: What you should know." , Presenter: Colleen A. Campbell, PhD, MS, CGC
May 14, 2019, 12 PM - Institute for Clinical & Translational Science (ICTS) and Clinical Research Unit (CRU) at the University of Iowa, Presnter: Alejandro Comellas, MD
April 30, 2019, 12 PM - Research Focus: "Basolateral amygdala circuits in defensive behavior regulation." & "Metabolic Control of Placental Development", Presenters: Dr. Aubrey Chan and Dr. Sarah Wernimont
March 27, 2019, 6:00 PM - PSTP with MSTP Collaborative Gathering, Hosted by Drs. Stoltz and Kline
January 30, 2019, 12 PM - Data Resources for Observational Healthcare Studies, Presenter: Dr. Jacob Simmering

December 18, 2018    12:00 pm    Biostatistics and Study Design - Presenter: Dr. Patrick Ten Eyck
November 27, 2018    12:00 pm    Short Research Presentations by PSTP Trainees - Part 2
October 24, 2018    12:00 pm    Short Research Presentations by PSTP Trainees - Part 1
October 2, 2018    12:00 pm    Elevator Talks - Presenters: Paul Casella; Alejandro Pezzulo, MD
September 25, 2018    12:00 pm    PSTP Welcome, Orientation, and Overview - Hosts: Dr. David Stoltz; Dr. Joel Kline
August 28, 2018    6:30 pm    2018-2019 Welcome BBQ - Hosts: Dr. Joel Kline; Dr. David Stoltz
June 19, 2018    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "PSTP Trainee Research Presentations" - Presenters: Dr. Lisa Morselli; Dr. Qiang (Johnson) Zhang
April 12, 2018    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Personal Sustainability for Resilience"- Presenter: Maggie Moore, LISW
March 7, 2018    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Scholarly Impact/Impact Factors" - Presenter: Dr. Mirko Von Elstermann
February 26, 2018    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "How the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works to turn discovery into global health benefits"- Presenter: Dr. Jeff Murray
January 31, 2018    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Panel Discussion with Recent PSTP Graduates" - Presenters: Dr. Lyndsay Harshman; Dr. Alejandro Pezzulo

December 12, 2017    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Keeping Current" - Presenter: Mirko Von Elstermann, PhD
December 11, 2017    6:30 pm    PSTP Interview Day and Dinner - Host: Dr. Joel Kline
November 9, 2017    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Intellectual Property" - Host: Paula DeGrandis, JD, MS
October 30, 2017    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Implicit Bias Training" - Presenters: Sherree Wilson, PhD; David Moser, PhD
May 17, 2017    12:30 pm    Lunch Seminar: "New insights into the structure and function of respiratory mucus" - Presenter: Anthony Fischer, MD, PhD
May 17, 2017    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "The effect of alpha synuclein overexpression on dendritic spines of the prefrontal cortex in a mouse model of Dementia with Lewy Bodies"- Presenter: Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD
April 10, 2017    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Tips on Giving a Research Talk"- Presenter: Mike Welsh, MD
March 22, 2017    6:00 pm    PSTP Recognition Dinner - Backpocket, Coralville - Hosts: Joel Kline, MD; David Stoltz, MD, PhD
February 27, 2017    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "Introduction & Applications of 1st, 2nd, 3rd Generation Sequencing"- Presenter: Kin Fai Au, PhD
January 25, 2017    6:00 pm    Lunch Seminar: "The Grant Review Process" - Presenter: David Stoltz, MD, PhD

December 9 & 11, 2016    6:00 pm    PSTP Interview Day and Dinner - Host: Dr. Joel Kline
November 28, 2016    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar/Presentation: "How to Write a Specific Aims Page" - Presenter: Paul Casella, MFA
November 10, 2016    6:30 pm    PSTP Interview Day and Dinner - Host: Dr. Joel Kline
October 11, 2016    12:00 pm    Seminar: "PSTP Trainee Research Presentations" - Presenters: Christine Cho, MD, PhD; Alberto Serrano Pozo, MD, PhD
September 28, 2016    12:00 pm  Lunch Seminar/Presentation: "Team Science" - Presenter: Greg Stewart, PhD
August 31, 2016    6:00 pm    PSTP Kick-Off Welcome Back BBQ - Host: Dr. Joel Kline
March 2, 2016    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar "Conversations with Dr. Sommer, Bloomberg School of Public Health" - Presenter: Alfred Sommer, MD, Johns Hopkins
February 17, 2016    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar "Research Projects in the Core" - Presenter: Dave Meyerholz, DVM, PhD

November 2, 2015    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar "VA Research and Funding Opportunities" - Presenter:  Mark Yorek, PhD
September 9, 2015    12:00 pm    Lunch Seminar "How to Review a Manuscript" - Presenter:  Curt D. Sigmund, PhD