Yay! MSNBC picked Des Moines as one of the top 10 best midsize metro areas to live. (comparing 124 cities in 20 categories). The highest scores went to well-rounded cities with “healthy economies, light traffic, moderate costs of living, impressive […]
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Having an organ transplant is scary. Donating an organ is scary. Donating an organ for your own son’s transplant must be dreadfully frightening. It’s also expensive. And for that reason, and to show our support, my husband & I will
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by Barb Boose, DMU Magazine editor Last summer, Jonathan Thompson, a podiatric medical student at DMU, spent a steamy week in El Salvador, seeing 50 to 70 patients a day. He was one of 14 DMU students on a medical
Doing good in El Salvador over spring break Read More
Today begins spring break here at DMU. Not only does this mean the campus is quiet but it also means the cafeteria is closed. I love lunching with my DMU marketing co-workers and so we’re working on our list of
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(Des Moines) – Health care and legal issues are becoming more intertwined. In recognition of that, two respected universities have partnered to offer a joint program track to prepare graduate students for careers in health law. Drake University Law School
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Dr. Yogi Shah is DMU’s associate dean of global health. Always going so many directions and working on so many great projects, he’s hard to keep up with some days! Global health is a department that’s just exploding with growth
If you read my blog entries even on a semi-regular basis, you’ll realize I’m pretty food-obsessed. Can’t help it – there’s just so many yummy things to eat around here!
DMU D.O. student Jason Sebesto was recently selected as one of five (FIVE out of 235 entries) winners of the American College of Physicians 2009 National Medical Students Abstract Competition. He will present his abstract “MRSA Detection of Colonized Needless Catheter
’96 CPMS grad Michael S. Lee, D.P.M., FACFAS, was recently named president-elect of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS). (ACFAS has 6,000+ members. It’s a big deal!) “ACFAS is a forum and network of the best and the
(Des Moines) – Students in Des Moines University’s Holistic Medicine Club invite you to hear Brent Bauer, M.D., director of the complementary and integrative medicine program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., on April 1. The presentation is free and
April 1 complementary, alternative medicine presentation at noon open to all Read More