Alfred Healy Clinic

Located at the Center for Disabilities and Development in Iowa City, the Healy Clinic provides individuals with disabilities and their families access to the unique combination of expertise, services, and family-centered care that make the Center Iowa's premier resource for people with disabilities.

The clinic offers amenities as:

• A welcoming, fully accessible reception area
• A family conference room
• 16 spacious and comfortable exam rooms
• A state of the art pediatric dentistry clinic
• Staff from a large array of professional specialties

Alfred Healy first joined the staff at what was then University Hospital School as a physical education teacher. After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, he returned to UHS as a staff pediatrician. He retired, after more than 20 years of service, as director in 1998.

Under Dr. Healy's leadership, UHS became nationally recognized as a resource for people with disabilities. His work took him from Iowa City to such distant places as Ireland, Saudi Arabia, and the then USSR. He also traveled to our nation's capitol, where he became widely known as an advocate for positive change in the field of developmental disabilities. From 1985 to 1989, Dr. Healy served as chair of the Committee on Children with Disabilities, American Academy of Pediatricians. In 1996, as a representative of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, he initiated the first European University Affiliated Program (now called University Centers for Excellence on Disabilities or UCED). This center was created at the University College in Dublin.

Through his long career, Dr. Healy demonstrated both expertise and advocacy in the field of developmental disabilities. The naming of this clinic honors the man, and continues the commitment.