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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In February 2017, Edee Wildman, a second-year podiatric medical student at Des Moines University, wrote a post on Facebook about a bill proposed in the Iowa Senate that would define life as beginning at conception. The bill, Senate File 253,
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Dennis Orr, D.O.’03, is a board-certified general surgeon at IU Health Ball Memorial Physicians General and Vascular Surgery in Muncie, IN. He specializes in endoscopic and Da Vinci robotic treatments of GERD, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders, and morbid obesity. Other
Are you getting ready to re-up your running program now that winter is turning to spring? Or are you thinking of starting one? For many people, that’s a great idea. Running is an inexpensive, accessible form of exercise with great
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