Drew Lewis, associate professor of osteopathic manual medicine at DMU, was among the authors of “Predictive Relationship of Osteopathic Manual Medicine Grades and COMLEX-USA Level 1 Total Scores and Osteopathic Principles and Practice Subscores” published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic […]
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Kaaren Olesen, D.O., M.H.A., joined the DMU faculty on Dec. 1 as assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the specialty medicine department. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Genesys Regional Medical Center in Michigan, where she
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Thomas Benzoni, D.O., joined the DMU faculty in September 2014 as assistant professor of family medicine. He also continues to work as an emergency department physician in Iowa. Benzoni is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and the
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Your typical operating room doesn’t accommodate 130 high school students — especially not in the midst of an open heart surgery. But through a program, “Live from the Heart,” broadcast by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and hosted
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Thirty-four Des Moines University students are heading for warmer weather for spring break. Unlike your traditional spring breaker, these students are going south to provide health care services to the less fortunate. Twenty-four students from DMU’s osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine
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Dr. Said began a fellowship in maternal fetal medicine at St. Louis University in July 2014.
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Dr. Peterson is finishing a fellowship in adult reconstruction orthopedics at Southern Illinois University. His family is moving back to Des Moines so that he can join the team at Capital Orthopaedics in Clive, IA. They welcomed their second daughter, Charlotte, in October
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Dr. Nicole Talbot was voted Seguin’s Best Physician for 2015. She is the owner of Seguin Family Medicine in Seguin, TX.
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They work in different roles in health care and represent different eras of Des Moines University alumni, but the 2015 DMU Alumni of the Year share a deep commitment to service to their professions, their patients and their medical alma
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“Mucus, phlegm” in Latin. Ancient anatomists thought the pituitary produced the mucous secretions of the nose. The pituitary is a pea-sized gland hanging from a stalk on the undersurface of the brain. It is well protected in a bony depression,
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