Chair of Internal Medicine and Clinical Chief of Medicine University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma We are pleased to announce that Dr. Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD has been named Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Clinical Service Chief at OU Health. Dr. Grumbach will step into her role in July 2025.Dr. Grumbach is a nationally recognized physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine. She joins OU from the University of Iowa, where she has served in several key leadership positions, including interim chair of Internal Medicine, vice chair of Research, chief of Cardiology at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, and associate director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship program. Her multidisciplinary research program has earned international recognition in the field of cardiovascular medicine.Dr. Grumbach’s research, supported by multiple National Institutes of Health grants and a VA Merit Award, focuses on signaling pathways in atherosclerosis and vascular disease, as well as radiation effects on the vasculature. A University of Iowa Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Grumbach has held national leadership roles in the American Heart Association and is a member of the Association of University Cardiologists.Grumbach received an MD and PhD in neuroanatomy from Ruhr University Medical School in Bochum, Germany. She completed her internal medicine residency at Georg-August-University Medical Center in Göttingen, Germany, and at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, followed by a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta.Grumbach succeeds Dr. Michael Bronze, who concludes an extraordinary 25-year tenure as department chair.Read the full press release about Dr. Grumbach’s appointment here. Ariannah Mirick and Randi Herrick led this search with Erin Schwass.
