From Des Moines to the Dominican Republic and Biloxi, Mississippi, global health students rekindled their commitment to medicine. Students shared the lessons they learned this spring in personal reflections. Adaptability Flexibility • Providing good care with few resources “Today we
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At two new-for-DMU sites for global health service during spring break this year, students and clinicians treated hundreds of patients, provided health education and even swept floors and cleaned up facilities. The biggest impact of the trips, however, was on
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The Polk County Medical Society presented $1,000 Kathie J. Lyman Scholarships to Des Moines University and University of Iowa medical students from Iowa to further their medical education. Des Moines University recipients included Cassandra Drew, D.O.’18, Alex Davis, D.O.’17. Global
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Yogesh Shah, M.D., M.P.H., and 187 other science faculty and researchers from 39 Iowa colleges and universities signed the fifth annual Iowa Climate Statement, supporting action on climate change. “Iowa Climate Statement 2015: Time for Action” summarizes the facts about
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Dana Lowry, D.O.’17, received the 2015 Excellence in Public Health Award from the U.S. Public Health Service Physician Professional Advisory Committee. Yogesh Shah, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, associate dean of global health, and J.D. Polk, D.O., M.S., M.M.M., CPE, FACOEP, dean of
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The Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine has made a commitment to train the next generation of health professionals to address the health impacts of climate change. Deans from 30 medical, public health and nursing schools from 26 institutions
J.D. Polk, D.O., M.S., M.M.M., CPE, FACOEP, dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Yogesh Shah, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean of global health, have been invited by the White House to a pair of events focused on climate change and
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Community leaders will discuss the health and economic benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency at Des Moines University on April 7, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. The panel discussion, titled “Bridging the Clean Energy Divide: Affordable Clean Energy Solutions
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Kimberly Davis, M.P.H.’12, works on the front lines of preventing the spread of Ebola and other dangerous communicable diseases in the United States. A quarantine public health officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she is engaged
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No single nation or entity is to blame for the “botched response” on the Ebola outbreak, said Michael Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., the McKnight Presidential endowed chair and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University
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