A national search for executive director of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is underway, the university announced. The executive search firm WittKieffer has been retained to help with the search. Amy O’Deen has served as interim executive director of the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital since December 2017, after Scott Turner left the hospital for a position in Wisconsin. O’Deen will continue in this role until a permanent executive director is named. She also maintains her responsibilities as senior assistant director of UI Hospitals & Clinics. Dr. Ian Law, division director of pediatric cardiology at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital, has been named chairman of the search committee.