Faculty and Staff

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

Joined the College of Engineering: 1978

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.

Present Research Interests: Air quality and atmospheric chemistry modeling; data assimilation, chemical weather forecasting.

Joined the College of Engineering: 1989

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1986
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1983
• B.S., C.S., University of Iowa, 1982

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.

Present Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, genome sequence analysis, software tools for human disease mutation identification, computer architecture; parallel processing; distributed computing; software engineering.

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.

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.

Medical School: Pennsylvania State UniversityResidency: Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterFellowship: Stanford UniversityDr. Field's research interest is immunologic tolerance in transplantation and autoimmunity. The laboratory specifically examines the mechanisms of immunoregulatory networks in acquired tolerance and is characterizing the cellular and molecular pathways by which CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells induce or maintain acquired tolerance to foreign MHC antigens.

Education:

B.S., University of Illinois, 1972
D.D.S., University of Iowa, 1976
Certificate, Oral Pathology, University of Iowa, 1972
M.S., Oral Pathology, University of Iowa, 1982

Dr. Finkelstein joined The University of Iowa College of Dentistry in 1982. He is the Centennial Endowed Professor of Teaching and Curriculum in the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine. He also has an appointment in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the College of Medicine.

Teaching Activities: Dr. Finkelstein's teaching for pre-doctoral students includes oral histology for freshman dental students, oral pathology for sophomore and junior students. He is involved with problem-based learning and treatment planning for the first- through third-year students. His graduate student teaching responsibilities include surgical pathology. He is the collegiate health and safety officer and teaches infection control to students, faculty, and staff.

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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

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. Kienzle 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.

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

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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.

Medical School: University of Adelaide

Residency: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Dr. McLennan's clinical interests are in general pulmonology with a particular focus on diagnostic and therapeutic uses of bronchoscopy. His clinical research includes studies of new applications for fiber optic bronchoscopy.

Joined the College of Engineering: 1997

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1994
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, 1988
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985

Special Fields of Knowledge: Image processing; medical imaging; signal processing; cardiopulmonary imaging.

Present Research Interests: Pulmonary image analysis; cardiovascular imaging; 3-D medical imaging.

CV

• Northwestern University 1977-1981 MS and PhD (Psychology)
• University of California, Berkeley 1974-1977 AB (Psychology)

• B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1980 Computer Engineering (Honors)
• A.B. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1980 LAS/Music Theory (Distinction)
• M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1983 Electrical Engineering
• Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1987 Electrical Engineering

CV

• Ph.D., Social and Administrative Pharmacy, University of Minnesota 1984
• B.S., Pharmacy, University of Oklahoma, 1979
• B.A., Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1972

Padmini Srinivasan, Ph.D., is Professor of the University of Iowa's School of Library Information Science, Department of Management Science, Computer Science Department (Courtesy), and College of Nursing (Courtesy). Srinivasan, who is also a Research Fellow in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, joined the University of Iowa in 1989.
Professor Srinivasan earned an M.S. (Hons) in Biological Sciences from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 1978 and her Ph.D. in Information Studies from Syracuse University in 1985. Since her appointment, Professor Srinivasan has been instrumental in the award of several grants to the SLIS, including close to $1M to recruit and train 20 students in the area of digital librarianship. She was also the recipient of the prestigious Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Her research interests include text mining, web mining, topical crawlers, text categorization, information filtering, and formal models for information retrieval (with special emphasis on biomedical applications).

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1994, Computer Sciences
• M.S., DePaul University, 1990, Computer Science. Graduated with distinction.
• B.A., Drake University, 1985, Mathematics and Computer Science. Named Outstanding Computer Science Student. Graduated with honors.

Biosketch

Courses Taught

• Topics in Health Administration: Quality Module
• Quantitative Management in Health Care

Current Research Interests

• Workforce Development
• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Steve Wieting's interests are in the sociology of the family, research methodology, and the sociology of sport. Current projects include: (a) the study of the history of divorce within the Icelandic family from 870 to the present; (b) sport and cultural memory, and (c) gender and sport in international contexts.