Des Moines University’s annual Senior Health Fair, which will occur this year on Saturday, Nov. 7, was named one of 16 “age-friendly good practices” from around the globe by AARP International in its 2015 Age-Friendly: Inspiring Communities Report. A bit […]
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Leonard A. Mermel, D.O.’84, had his first senior-authored original article published in the New England Journal of Medicine: He was among the authors of “Intravascular complications of central venous catheterization by insertion site” (New England Journal of Medicine 373: 1220-1229,
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Col. Arthur Wittich, D.O.’71, the oldest soldier in the military district of Washington, on Sept. 25 retired after 44 years of service to his country. His military career began in 1956, when he enlisted in the Navy and served six
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Sheena Agarwal is a fourth-year DMU osteopathic medical student with aspirations for a career in primary care and preventive medicine. But on a recent Saturday, she was “Jake,” a tobacco-chewing editor of NASCAR Illustrated; a tough attorney suing a cattle
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Troy J. Boffeli, D.P.M.’90, FACFAS, is editor of a book titled Osteomyelitis of the Foot and Ankle: Medical and Surgical Management published by Springer. He also co-authored the article “Surgical Treatment Guidelines for Digital Deformity Associated with Intrinsic Muscle Spasticity (Intrinsic Plus Foot)
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Thomas A. Cavalieri, D.O.’76, was appointed by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan to serve on the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA). Cavalieri is dean of the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (RowanSOM) in
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Jean and Paul Groben, D.O.’75, a radiologist, are thankful their three children and two grandchildren reside in Des Moines. That’s the home of Jasper Winery, which the Grobens launched when son Mason, a viticulturist and enologist, persuaded them to make
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Robert Suter, D.O.’89, M.H.A., FAAEM, FACEP, FACOEP-D, FIFEM, served as the senior executive committee member of the Eighth Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress (MEMC) Sept. 5-9 in Rome. MEMC is a collaboration of the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine, the Global
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A number of DMU alumni were honored by the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association (IOMA) and were elected to its offices this spring. Elected president-elect was Bruce Ricker, D.O.’83, an osteopathic family physician in Mount Ayr. He is the medical director
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In just three years since graduating from DMU, Brooke Schweitzer, PA-C’12, has journeyed from “the middle of nowhere” in Kansas to America’s fourth-largest city, from providing emergency room and family medicine care and coverage of two local nursing homes to
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