On Friday, May 17, Des Moines University will honor 62 people who donated their bodies to further medical education in the past year. This year’s service recognizes donors from across the state, as well as Illinois and Missouri. The family […]
Annual memorial service to honor body donors and their families May 17 at DMU Read More
While interactive learning is happening pretty much all the time at DMU, a particularly engaged group of clinicians came to campus last Saturday for a neuroanatomy review course. Designed for participants to review, dissect and discuss gross anatomical structures of
Stimulating Saturday in neuroanatomy Read More
Would you believe that the name for the little bony prominence behind your ear means “like a breast” referring to its shape? The name was more familiar to the public before the advent of antibiotics as mastoiditis. Inflammation in this
Anatomy word of the month: mastoid Read More
Teagarden joined the medical staff at Turkey Creek Medical Center in Knoxville, TN, where she will practice at the Fields Center for Women’s Health and Robotic Surgery. She is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and specializes in general and high-risk obstetrics, weight
Dana D. Teagarden, D.O.’97 Read More
Tara Hughes, second-year osteopathic medical student, was elected National Chair of the Council of Osteopathic Student Government Presidents (COSGP) at a conference over the weekend. COSGP is a council under the governance of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic
Tara Hughes, D.O.’15, elected to national leadership position Read More
The U.S. health care system is undergoing an unprecedented transformation that will inevitably change how health services in this country are delivered, measured and financed. The practice of medicine and how physicians organize in given health markets is also in
“A drink of water from Niagara Falls” Read More
Wow! There is a month left in my second year of medical school! On the first day of orientation, I felt as though this day was an eternity away, at it would take forever before I stated clinical rotations. Looking
National Osteopathic Medicine (NOM) Week kicked off yesterday and runs through the Saturday. NOM Week’s main purpose is to bring the osteopathic medical profession together to focus on one common goal — increasing awareness of osteopathic medicine and DOs in communities
Budi and Nisha Haque, D.O., announced their engagement and plans to wed Nov. 29 and 30, 2013, with a reception to follow on Nov. 30 in Louisville, KY. Budi is a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, and DMU;
John P. Budi, D.O.’12, M.S.A.’10 Read More
Jensen opened a solo family medicine practice, Center Stage Primary Care, in West Des Moines in October 2012.
Malea A. Jensen, D.O.’95 Read More