On May 5, 30 first- and second-year podiatric medical students and physical therapy students teamed up to provide health screenings to participants in Easter Seals Iowa’s Walk for Independence at Camp Sunnyside near Des Moines. They took pulses, tested strength […]
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Jaime England, D.P.T.’11, is owner of the Market Place in Manning, IA, which offers loose-leaf tea, drink accessories and gifts for teens and college students. Previously, she worked as a physical therapist for five years at Mercy Clinic in Ankeny,
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Jessica McIlrath, D.O.’10, is a board-certified psychiatrist who recently joined the Winona, MN, Health Behavioral Health staff. She will provide psychiatric care for adults in outpatient psychiatric and counseling services beginning in June. She is experienced in adult psychiatry assessment
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Salwa Bakkali-Derksen, D.O.’11, joined the Mayo Clinic Health System at its practice in Owatonna, MN. A board-certified physician who sees patients in the internal medicine department, she has special interests in rheumatology, gastroenterology, cardiology and pulmonology. She completed her internal
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Sarah Hallberg, D.O.’02, is the medical director at Virta Health, which provides clinically proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery. A physician and exercise physiologist, she is responsible for providing medical supervision to
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Kathy Bloemker, M.S.P.T.’94, joined Big Stone Therapies in Marshall, MN. Her professional interests include extensive experience in women’s health areas of urinary incontinence, pelvic pain, maternal health, osteoporosis and breast cancer rehabilitation.
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Jill Hasenberg, D.O.’01, was named the 2018 Physician of the Year at HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls, WI. The award is the highest clinical honor a physician can receive at the hospital. She joined HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital
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Jennifer Havens, M.H.A.’16, a registered nurse and administrator who has worked in health care for more than 28 years, was appointed as chief executive officer at UnityPoint Health-Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Grinnell, IA. She will assume day-to-day leadership of
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No textbook or model can substitute for the human body in the study of medicine. On May 11, 2018, Des Moines University will honor 54 individuals, 12 of them honored veterans, who generously donated their bodies to further medical education.
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For several months earlier this year, a four-member health team worked diligently to help two 64-year-old individuals overcome their addiction to opioids. Adding to the patients’ challenges were the fact they live in a rural West Virginia mining community racked
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