Hometown Hawkeye: Maggie Mangold

Name: Maggie Mangold
Degree: M.D. (Medicine) ’07
Occupation: Staff physician at Vinton Family Medical Clinic
Residence: Vinton, Iowa

Like many of her fellow Iowans, Maggie Mangold is full of pride—in her family, her profession, and her community. So it was a natural fit when Mangold chose to return to her hometown of Vinton to begin her family medicine practice.

Vinton is in Benton County, Iowa, which includes:

551 UI alumni
83 UI-educated teachers and school administrators
2 UI-educated physicians
4 UI-educated dentists
8 UI-educated pharmacists

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“I’ve always had an interest in helping people,” Mangold says.

“I get a lot of job satisfaction working in a small town and giving back to my community.”

After graduating from the University of Iowa’s medical school, Mangold completed a residency in family medicine through the Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation, one of six UI-affiliated Regional Medical Education Centers (including Davenport, Des Moines, Mason City, Sioux City, and Waterloo) and home to one of eight residency programs that comprise the Iowa Family Medicine Residency Network, also administered through the UI.

Mangold’s story is one example of successful partnerships between doctors and the Iowa communities they serve. Fostering such win-win situations is key to the overall mission of UI Carver College of Medicine.

Mangold knew she wanted to become a doctor as early as her middle school years and says she is glad she made the decision to return to Vinton, for both her profession and her family—husband, Jeff, who’s also from Vinton, and young sons, Hugh, Reid, and Theo.

“It just feels right,” she says, “and it’s gratifying to know that I made the right choice. I plan on being here for my patients for a long time.”

Did you know? More than half of Iowa’s practicing physicians were trained at the University of Iowa.

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