Some of the nation's leading authorities in medicine,
dentistry, and other health care specialties trained or studied at Iowa, and many stayed on to teach and conduct research here, too.
Dentists
- James
Bramson—Executive director of the 150,000-member
American Dental Association (ADA). BS, 1976; DDS, 1979.
- Marion
Francis—The creator of Crest toothpaste
began his research in fluoride-strengthening, cavity-fighting agents
as a graduate student at Iowa. PhD, Biochemistry, 1953.
- Byron
McKeeby—The pitchfork-weilding man in Grant Wood's American
Gothic portrait
was the artist's dentist, and a UI graduate. DDS, 1894.
Doctors
 Nancy
Andreasen—Psychiatrist, internationally renowned
for her work on schizophrenia and creativity. MD, 1970.- Edmund
Y. Chao—A leading national expert in musculoskeletal joint mechanics,
bone fracture fixation and repair, and artificial joint replacement
in the hip, knee, and shoulder. He established the Biomechanics
Research Program at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School. PhD,
Mechanics and Hydraulics, 1971.
- Kenneth
Culver—Part
of a team that pioneered the first use of gene therapy at the National
Institutes of Health. MD, 1981.
- Bruce
Gantz—Internationally
recognized for his work on the use of cochlear implants to restore
hearing to profoundly deaf children and adults. BS, 1968; MD, 1974.
MS, 1980. Current faculty member in the UI Carver College of
Medicine.
- Edward
Mason—Known
as the "father of obesity surgery," Mason began performing
gastric bypass surgery at The University of Iowa in 1966. BA, 1943;
MD, 1945.
 Ignacio
Ponseti—Perfected a non-surgical method
of treating infants with clubfoot, a treatment now known as the
"Ponseti method." He completed his residency
certificate in orthopaedic surgery
at Iowa
in 1944. He died in 2009.- Sheldon Segal—Before he died in 2009, Segal led the development of birth control devices used by millions of women the world over. He trained as a reproductive biologist at The University of Iowa before being hired as a researcher for the Population Council in 1956.
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