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Proceedings in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2010 Oct;1(2):5 
 
University of Iowa Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Center 
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/obgyn/research/wrhr/index.html 
 
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University of Iowa Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) 
Career Development Center 
 
The University of Iowa Women’s 
Reproductive Health Research 
(WRHR) Career Development 
Center is part of a national network 
of mentored institutional career 
development programs for physician 
scientists and junior faculty who 
have recently completed 
postgraduate clinical training in 
Obstetrics and Gynecology and are 
committed to an independent 
research career in women's 
reproductive health. This supervised 
training program is sponsored by the 
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 
Institute of Child Health and Human 
Development (NICHD) and the NIH 
Office of Research on Women's 
Health. 
 
The primary goal of the University of 
Iowa WRHR Career Development 
Center is to train physician scientists 
and junior faculty in the methodology 
needed to pursue basic and 
translational research in the area of 
women’s reproductive health. 
Individuals with little or no research 
experience as well as those with one 
or more years of research training 
are encouraged to apply. Those 
without prior research experience will 
be appointed to the training program 
for 5 years whereas those with some 
research experience may be 
appointed for 2-4 years. Regardless 
of the length of the appointment all 
WRHR scholars will be guaranteed 
75% protected time for research 
education and training. 
 
Applicants may make a preliminary 
choice between a basic research 
track or a clinical-epidemiologic 
research track and choose a mentor 
but a final choice will be made after 
acceptance to the program and in 
consultation with the Research 
Director. 
 
Mario Ascoli, Ph.D., Professor, 
Department of Pharmacology, 
Professor, Department of Obstetrics 
and Gynecology is the Research 
Director of WRHR. 
 
Kimberly K. Leslie, MD, Department 
Head, Department of Obstetrics and 
Gynecology is the Principal 
Investigator of WRHR.   
 
For more information: 
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/m
ed/obgyn/research/wrhr/index.html.  


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University of Iowa Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Center

The Gynecologic Oncology Division at the University of Iowa consists of four attending physicians, three fellows-in-training, two physician assistants, three nurses and supporting research and clerical staff. The concentration of our division remains the care of women with gynecologic malignancies. Our service area includes all counties of Iowa as well as western Illinois. Our patients are seen and treated in the National Cancer Institute designated Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center on the University of Iowa Hospitals campus

Buekers, Thomas E

Proceedings in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2010 Apr;1(1):2 
 
 
 
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Division of Gynecologic Oncology 
 
 
The Gynecologic Oncology Division at 
the University of Iowa consists of four 
attending physicians, three fellows-in-
training, two physician assistants, 
three nurses and supporting research 
and clerical staff. The concentration of 
our division remains the care of 
women with gynecologic malignancies. 
Our service area includes all counties 
of Iowa as well as western Illinois. Our 
patients are seen and treated in the 
National Cancer Institute designated 
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center 
on the University of Iowa Hospitals 
campus. 
 
The clinical work of our division 
includes surgery, chemotherapy and 
radiation therapy treatments. A current 
initiative of the division is minimally 
invasive surgery in women with uterine 
cancers. This has been lead by Dr. 
David Bender who developed the 
robotic surgery program and trained 
Dr. Thomas Buekers in this 
technology. The division currently 
averages five procedures a week in 
women with gynecologic malignancies. 
A review of patient outcomes being 
assembled for publication has found 
significant decreases in patient length 
of stay and post operative 
complications with the use of robotic 
surgery. 
 
The division continues its long-
standing commitment to research 
through participation in clinical trials as 
well as a laboratory research initiative 
by Dr. Michael Goodheart. The 
division has been a member of the 
Gynecologic Oncology Group since 
shortly after its inception and 
continues to actively participate in 
trials. Our division was recently 
recognized as one of the five highest 
accruing sites among all GOG 
institutions. Dr. Goodheart is in the 
midst of a research training grant from 
the National Institutes of Health that 
allows him to divide his time between 
the clinic and laboratory. This year he 
was recognized for his work with a 
three-year, $1.5 million grant award 
from the ARRA program. 
 
Thomas E. Buekers, MD 
Interim Director, Division of 
Gynecologic Oncology 
The University of Iowa 
 


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