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Jason Edward JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Frank FILIPPELLI, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 14-2061.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted Sept. 24, 2015.
    Filed Dec. 7, 2015.
    Jamie Hunter, Dickey & Campbell, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Jason Edward Johnson, Newton, IA, pro se.
    Forrest Guddall, Attorney General’s Office, Des Moines, IA, for Defendant-Ap-pellee.
    Before LOKEN, BEAM, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Jason Johnson, a former inmate at the •Newton Correctional Facility, appeals the district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against his attending physician, Dr. Frank Filippelli. Johnson claims the doctor was deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs.

The crux of Johnson’s suit against Dr. Filippelli focuses on an alleged twenty-nine day delay in treatment dating from the time Dr. Filippelli first reviewed Johnson’s x-rays that revealed a fractured ■wrist and immediately referred Johnson to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) for further care (August 18, 2011), and the day UIHC later placed Johnson in a cast for the injury (September 16, 2011). Upon de novo review, we conclude that the summary judgment record clearly established beyond genuine dispute that Dr. Filippelli did not deliberately disregard Johnson’s serious medical needs. We therefore find that summary-judgment was properly granted in Dr. Fi-lippelli’s favor. See Marksmeier v. Davie, 622 F.3d 896, 899 (8th Cir.2010) (grant of summary judgment reviewed de novo); Holden v. Himer, 663 F.3d 336, 343 (8th Cir.2011) (“The level of culpability required to demonstrate deliberate indifference on the part of prison officials is equal to criminal recklessness.”). Importantly, as noted by the district court in its thorough and well-reasoned opinion, Johnson presents insufficient, if any, verifying medical evidence showing that the delay had detrimental effect. Moots v. Lombardi, 453 F.3d 1020, 1023 (8th Cir.2006) (to prevail on Eighth Amendment claim for deprivation of medical care, inmate complaining of delay in treatment must offer verifying medical evidence showing that delay had detrimental effect).

Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 
      
      . The Honorable Ronald E. Longstaff, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.