Most anatomical terms are descriptive in Latin or Greek. However, “Eustachian” doesn’t mean anything. It is a term called an eponym. Traditionally, in anatomy the person who first discovered or described an anatomical structure was honored by having that structure […]
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Des Moines University awarded 16 degrees at a summer commencement ceremony held on August 17 at 3 p.m. in the Medical Education Center, 3200 Grand Avenue, Des Moines. The dean from two of the three DMU colleges presented their classes
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After more than 20 years of operating high-risk cases in the Phoenix, AZ, metro area, Wood shifted gears and works primarily in Page, AZ, a small community adjacent to Lake Powell. He also works part-time in outpatient surgical centers near
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Dudley and husband, Ryan M. Dudley, D.O.’08, welcomed a new baby, Rosemary Frances, into their family on May 11, 2012. Rosemary weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 19 3/4″ long. Ryan is an anesthesiologist, and Anne is a pediatrician
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A guide or leader, literally, helm or rudder in Latin. The testis or testicle of the adult male does not originate in the scrotum, but must be guided into its adult position from inside the abdominal cavity. The job of
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Anil K. Sahai, D.O.’79, Ph.D., FACP, a member of the DMU Board of Trustees since 2006, died on July 16, 2012. He was 61. Dr. Sahai practiced internal medicine at the Webster City, IA, Medical Clinic, a private multispecialty group
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Cunningham was named named a top doctor in the July 2012 edition of Mpls. St. Paul Magazine. He has practiced family medicine in Woodbury, MN, for the past 27 years. He and his wife, Pamela, reside in Maplewood, MN, where
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Col. Rustmann, commander of the 147th Medical Group, Ellington Field, TX, has been selected as one of only two Air National Guard physicians this year to work with the National Antarctica Science Project this winter as flight surgeon and general
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Owens joined St. Anthony’s Medical Center at the Southwest Medical Center in St. Louis. After graduating from DMU, she completed her internal medicine residency at Forest Park Hospital in St. Louis, where she and her husband, Ken, and their four
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Shieh is a board-certified general surgeon with the Surgical Healing Arts Center in Fort Myers, FL, and is board-eligible in cosmetic surgery. He is fellowship-trained in both laparoscopic bariatric surgery and cosmetic surgery and offers post-massive weight loss body contouring. Clinical
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