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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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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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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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
The annual awards bestowed by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) include a new one beginning this year: The AACOM Board Chair Special Recognition Award was created to honor individuals who have made an incalculable impact upon
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Luke Brunkhorst, D.O.’08, practices with Mercy Iowa City in Iowa City and Mount Pleasant, IA. He completed his residency at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Wyoming, MI. Certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery–Urology, he has special
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Some of Ronald Sanzone’s strongest memories of his student days at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (COMS) – now Des Moines University – were of faculty who qualify for the description as, well, characters. For example, Stanley Miroyiannis,
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Des Moines University will honor members of the classes of 1993, 1978, 1968 and earlier years during their milestone reunions May 23-25 on campus. In addition to good times with great friends, reunions give graduates an opportunity to reflect on
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Ashley Bedi, D.O.’18, is passionate about osteopathic manual medicine (OMM). An OMM fellow in DMU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, the hands-on technique fits her views of health care. “I chose DMU because of the OMM department here. I knew it
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