Denise Jamieson, MD, MPH, Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care, will deliver the inaugural Hospital and Health Systems Leadership Lecture on Feb. 19, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. in Callaghan Auditorium (N110 CPHB).  

The title of Jamieson’s lecture is, “Leading UI Health Care: Perspectives from a Career at the Intersection of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Jamieson’s talk marks the launch of an exciting new annual lecture series, created through the generosity of alumni and supporters of the UI College of Public Health. The series honors the vital role of hospitals and health systems in protecting and improving population health.

“We are excited to launch this new collegiate lecture series and grateful to the alumni donors whose generosity provides this unique opportunity to focus on hospital and health system leadership in navigating the evolving landscape of U.S. health care,” says Edith Parker, dean of the UI College of Public Health.

“It’s especially gratifying that Denise Jamieson will be the inaugural lecturer in this series. Dr. Jamieson is a prominent national leader who is guiding UI Health Care at a time of major challenges in the health care and public health sectors. Her experiences at the intersection of health care and public health hold valuable lessons for students and those in positions of health care leadership.”

As vice president for medical affairs, Jamieson is responsible for integrated planning and operations for UI Health Care, which comprises UI Health Care Medical Centers; the UI Carver College of Medicine; and UI Physicians, the health system’s multispecialty physician group practice. As dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine, Jamieson leads Iowa’s only comprehensive allopathic medical school, which inspires, educates, and trains future health care providers, scientists, educators, and policymakers for Iowa and the global community.

Jamieson came to Iowa from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, where she served as chair of the school’s Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and chief of gynecology and obstetrics for Emory Healthcare. Her scientific work focuses on emerging infectious diseases in pregnancy, including in the areas of influenza, Ebola, Zika, COVID, and maternal immunization. In addition, her work incorporates a population health perspective, with projects addressing health disparities and social determinants of health in the context of maternal morbidity and other adverse pregnancy outcomes.

From 1997 to 2017, Jamieson worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she served in leadership positions such as leading CDC’s Zika emergency response as incident manager. Upon retirement from the U.S. Public Health Service as a captain in July 2017, she received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award granted to an officer in the Commissioned Corps, for “notable contributions to reproductive health and public health practice.”

Jamieson serves on several American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) committees, including the Immunization, Infectious Disease, and Public Health Preparedness Work Group and the COVID Expert Work Group. She has been an oral board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) since 2007, and she served on the ABOG board of directors from 2020 to 2023. In 2020, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Jamieson received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Duke University School of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed postgraduate education in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California at San Francisco and as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.