Wordless Wednesday: Cultural diversity panel
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Danniele S. Anderson, PA-C’11
Anderson and her husband welcomed a daughter, Brockelyn Danniele, to their family on September 1, 2012. Anderson is a family medicine physician assistant with Lake City McCrary Rost Clinic in Lake City, IA. The family resides in Lohrville, IA.
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Hannah J. Lokenvitz, PA-C’07
Lokenvitz and Matt Lokenvitz were married November 2012. Matt is the high school business and technology teacher and head baseball coach for Hampton-Dumont Community High School in Hampton, IA, and Hannah is a family medicine physician assistant at Iowa Specialty
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Alumni mentor program at work
After Brett Henderson, D.O.’15, received the names of alumni to contact from DMU alumni director Ronnette Vondrak, he applied his scientific background and research experience in utilizing those alumni as mentors. First, he gave careful thought to his questions. “I’d
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Alumni spotlight: Robert C. Birk, Jr., PA-C’02
DMU alumnus named Wisconsin PA of the Year. Robert Birk, PA-C’02, is an Air Force veteran, a father and a health care provider in the Wisconsin county where he grew up. To many, he’s also a hero who always goes
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Anthony L. Yarand, PA-C’06
Yarand began a mobile aesthetics business, Anthony Loren, in November 2011, which provides VIP house call access. He now has 25 spa partners in the Tampa Bay, FL, area and has recently launched a prescription and non-prescription skincare line carried
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Early Career Healthcare Executive Award
One of our current MHA students, Kari Dyjak, received the Early Career Healthcare Executive Award last week at the Annual Iowa Hospital Association meeting here in Des Moines. The award recipient was determined by the following criteria: Must be an
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Kurt A. Helmrick, PA-C’91
Helmrick practices at the Ellsworth Medical Clinic in Ellsworth, WI. The clinic received one of the two nationwide award from the Million Hearts Initiative, a public-private effort by the Department of Health and Human Services. The initiative has a goal
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DMU dean receives national recognition as AAPA Distinguished Fellow
Jodi Cahalan, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., PA-C has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), a designation received by less than 1% of physician assistants nationally. She has been a physician assistant for 23
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Rick M. Willenbring, D.P.T.’10
Willenbring and wife, Whitney F. Willenbring, D.P.T.’10, met at Des Moines University and since graduation have been enjoying lives and careers as traveling physical therapists. They have lived in six different states in the past two years, gained a lot
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