Faculty and Staff
Paul Abramowitz
Professor and Assistant Dean
Director, Department of Pharmaceutical Care, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Education
Residency in Hospital Pharmacy, University of Michigan Hospitals and Clinics 1977 - 1979
Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Michigan 1979
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, University of Toledo 1977
Gregory R. Carmichael
Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Associate Dean, Graduate Programs and Research
Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research
Joined the College of Engineering: 1978Â
Education: Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1979
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1975
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, 1974
Special Fields of Knowledge: Atmospheric transport chemistry modeling; high speed computing and sensitivity analysis.Â
Present Research Interests: Air quality and atmospheric chemistry modeling; data assimilation, chemical weather forecasting.Â
Thomas L. Casavant
Roy J. Carver, Jr. Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Joined the College of Engineering: 1989Â
Education: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1986Â
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1983Â
B.S., C.S., University of Iowa, 1982Â
Special Fields of Knowledge: Bioinformatics, computational biology, genome sequence analysis, software tools for human disease mutation identification, computer architecture; parallel processing; distributed computing; software engineering..Â
Present Research Interests:Bioinformatics, computational biology, genome sequence analysis, software tools for human disease mutation identification, computer architecture; parallel processing; distributed computing; software engineering. More...
Deborah V. Dawson
Professor, Preventive and Community Dentistry
College of Dentistry
Education:
B.A., Montclair State College, 1974
Sc.M., Johns Hopkins University, 1976
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1981
Brief Professional Resume:
Dr. Dawson joined The University of Iowa College of Dentistry in 2001. She is professor and director of biostatistics. Dr. Dawson also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Biostatistics and the program in Public Health Genetics, and is a member of the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics.
David Eichmann
Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science
Dr. Eichmann received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Iowa in 1989, with a dissertation in database theory. He has been on the faculty at Seattle University, West Virginia University and most recently at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, where he chaired the Software Engineering program and was Director of Research and Development for the NASA-funded Repository Based Software Engineering project. MORE, one of the systems developed as part of RBSE, received a NASA Group Achievement Award in 1998 from Johnson Space Center and was nominated in 1998 by JSC for the NASA Software of the Year Award.
Robert Forsythe
 Professor Emeritus - July 2006
Academic History
- PhD in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1975
- MS in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1974
- MS in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1972
- BS in Quantitative Business Analysis, Pennsylvania State University, 1970
Expertise
- Experimental economics and games
- Electronic prediction markets
- Financial economics
Mark D Janis
H. Blair and Joan V. White Chair in Intellectual Property Law
BS Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1986 (with distinction)
JD, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989 (summa cum laude)
Michael Kienzle, M.D.
Professor in Internal Medicine
Special Assistant to the Dean
Director, Office of Economic and Business Development
Dr. Kienzle received his medical degree from the University of Iowa and residency and fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, in internal medicine, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. Since his arrival at the University of Iowa in 1984, he has held a number of positions, including Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Assistant Director for Clinical Programs, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Biomedical Communications and Associate Director (Chief Technology Officer), University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Kienzle has served on the Telemedicine Subcommittee of the Federal Communications Commission and chaired the Ad Hoc Task Force on Telemedicine of the American College of Cardiology. He has directed the National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine, an NLM-funded research and development program. Dr. Kienzel has been awarded over $14M in federal grants and contracts to conduct telehealth research. He was a founding board member of the AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR) and recently served as the Chair of GIR. He has served on the IAIMS: The Next Generation task force, a group providing long term strategic planning for the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Kienzle serves on the Board of Trustee.
Dr. Kienzle's current responsibilities include technology transfer, business development, technology planning and strategy, continuing medical education and provider credentialing. His research interests include focus on the study of telemedicine and medical informatics. In addition, expertise includes rural wide-area networks, Internet-based health education and service applications, including home health care and direct to patient communications.
Andrew Kusiak
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Education:
Ph.D. in Operations Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (1979)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (1974)
B.S. in Precision Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (1972)
Special Fields of Knowledge:
Computational Intelligence, Manufacturing, Engineering Design, Operations Research
Der-Fa Lu, Ph.D., R.N.
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Der-Fa Lu, Ph.D., R.N., is Assistant Professor at The University of Iowa College of Nursing.
Dr. Lu earned the B.S.N. (1984) from Taipei Medical College; the M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Iowa. Besides her nursing career in Taipei and at the UIHC, Dr. Lu has also served as an assistant professor of nursing at Tzu-Chi University in Taiwan and a research assistant in the UI College of Nursing. She is a member of the Midwest Nursing Research Society and the American Medical Informatics Association.
Lu teaches courses in Health and Nursing Informatics and is developing a program of research in nursing informatics with focus on 2 areas: knowledge representation and knowledge discovery. She and others developed a methodology for cross-mapping validation between standardized nursing languages and SNOMED CT. She is conducting research to discover clinical nursing knowledge from patient care datasets for elderly populations. She wants to use her training in both informatics and gerontological nursing to advance nursing science.