Welcome to the University of Iowa's Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplant training program. Here at Iowa’s only comprehensive health care center, you’ll be challenged by a broad range of pediatric blood diseases and childhood cancers.
Your outstanding clinical opportunities will include:
- Bone marrow transplants.
- Comprehensive hemophilia care.
- General hematology and oncology care, both inpatient and outpatient.
- Hemoglobinopathy care.
Quick Facts
- Number of fellows accepted each year: 2
- Three-year fellowship
- ABP and ACGME-certified
- Highly-ranked team
- Medium patient volume
- New oncology patients annually: 100-110
- Bleeding and clotting disorder patients: 400
- Hemoglobinopathies patients: 150
- Iowa's only BMT program
- Protected-time research blocks
- Primary doctor for your own patients
- Rotate weeknight call from home and rotate weekend call
- New, freestanding hospital
Since 2022, our program has recruited faculty and expanded programs to levels never seen at the University of Iowa. Built on a strong foundation of the patient care experiences as well as community and institutional support, our program is now capable of providing an experience like nowhere else.
The Iowa Difference
Recognizing the nationwide downward trend in specialty trainees, we have recommitted our program to helping trainees build healthy, sustainable careers.
You should choose Iowa for:
- Work-life balance. Our clinical service is not dependent on fellows to cover service. This allows us to schedule fellows with a balance between service and education.
- Freedom to explore. You are not bound into existing divisional faculty research projects. Chart your path and we’ll get you there.
- Access to the most challenging cases. Diseases are not exclusive to big programs. Neither are medical breakthroughs. We have both.
Previous hematology-oncology trainees have received local and national training awards.
Dance Marathon Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Dance Marathon Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center is your clinical space on the 11th floor of the children’s hospital. All of our divisional inpatient and outpatient space is contained on one floor, and you’ll love the views. Named after a 24-hour dance party fundraiser, Level 11 is also home to our pediatric bone marrow transplant (BMT) program, the only one in Iowa. We have state-of-the-art transplant rooms, inpatient and outpatient space, infusion space and one lead-lined room for patients receiving radiotherapeutics.
Facility Dogs
Our facility dogs help our pediatric patients reach specific clinical goals and promote healing through animal-assisted interventions. Examples of interventions include procedural support, pain management, treatment compliance, and outcome-driven play.
Alongside their handlers, who are child life specialists, these gentle canines support patients through motivation, encouragement, and companionship.
Latest Division News
Department Honors/Recognition
2024 U.S. News and World Report rankings:
- No.1 children's hospital in Iowa
- No. 41 in pediatric cancer
- Highly ranked in eight other pediatric specialties
View some of our other distinctions and designations.
Pediatric researchers at the University of Iowa have a long history of breakthrough discoveries in both the clinical and laboratory setting. Explore our research.
