Upcoming Events
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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
2025 Seminars
February 26, 2025, 12 PM: A Discussion with Program Directors |
January 24, 2025, 12 PM: Research Talks |
2024 Seminars
December 10, 2024, 12 PM: All of Us Research Hub Seminar |
November 6, 2024, 12 PM: Wellmark Data Resources Seminar |
October 29, 2024, 12 PM: Implementation Sciences Program |
September 18, 2024, 6 PM: Welcome Back Picnic, Iowa City |
August 14, 2024, 12 PM: Advanced Presentation Skills Workshop |
July 9, 2024, 12 PM: PSTP Seminar Panel with UIOWA CCOM Distinguished Mentor Awardees |
April 30, 2024, 12 PM: Presentation Skills Workshop |
March 27, 2024, 12 PM: Preparing Your Biosketch |
2023 Seminars
November 15, 2023, 12 PM: Faculty Promotion & Tenure |
October 25, 2023, 12 PM: Resident Talks |
September 21, 2023, 12 PM Financial Planning |
August 29, 2023, 6:30 PM: Welcome Back BBQ |
March 29, 2023, 12 PM: Opportunities for Clinical Research in the ICTS |
2022 Seminars
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: David Stoltz, MD, PhD |
September 27, 2022, 12 PM Discussion Part I: Research Grants, Presenter: David Stoltz, MD, PhD |
July 13, 2022, 6 PM PSTP Welcome BBQ, Hosts: Joel Kline, David Stoltz |
June 1, 2022, 12 PM Research Presentation on Internal Medicine |
April 27, 2022, 12 PM Research Presentation on Emergency Medicine |
March 30, 2022, 12 PM PSTP Alumni Panel Discussion, Q & A Panel Members: Georgina Aldridge, MD, PhD; Alejandro Pezzulo Colmenares, MD; Jennifer Streeter, MD, PhD |
February 15, 2022, 12 PM Workshop: Using master project lists, finding time for high priority work, value of planning each week and each day |
January 28, 2022, 12 PM Presentation: 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 |
2021 Seminars
| 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 |
2020 Seminars
| 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 |
2019 Seminars
| 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 |
2018 Seminars
| 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 |
2017 Seminars
| 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 |
2016 Seminars
| 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 |
2015 Seminars
| 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 |