On March 1, 2021, Angela L. Walker Franklin, Ph.D., marked her 10-year anniversary as DMU’s 15th president and CEO. The decade brought some difficult decisions and needed changes, an unexpected pandemic, a successful fundraising campaign and the biggest development in […]
A Purpose-Driven Decade Read More
Editor’s note: After working at DMU for the past 28 years, including more than two decades as dean of the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, Robert Yoho, D.P.M., M.S., FACFAS, will retire as dean at the end of this
A conversation with retiring CPMS Dean Yoho Read More
Planning a Commencement ceremony for hundreds of medical students and guests is no small feat in a good year. Doing so amid a pandemic, however, is nothing short of Herculean. “I have 450-some email messages relating to this year’s Commencement,”
Commencement 2021: The hybrid edition Read More
DMU is an innovator and leader among medical schools with its multifaceted efforts to develop students’ cultural humility. One example is the osteopathic medical program’s year-long Foundations of Physicianship course, the second semester of which focuses on socially and culturally
Grant bolsters cultural humility course at DMU Read More
You can hear the excitement in the voice of Jun Dai, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., associate professor of public health at DMU, when she talks about the three-year $488,819 grant she recently was awarded by the National Institutes of Health. A
DMU prof lands NIH grant to compare genetic and environmental factors Read More
Kevin Smith, D.P.M., Ph.D., FACFAS, has been named the new dean of Des Moines University’s College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery (CPMS). A 1995 graduate of the college, he will assume his new position on June 1, 2021. He currently serves
New dean named for DMU’s College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Read More
Des Moines University has been awarded a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA). This funding will help support the acquisition of the latest telehealth technology and equipment that will
By all standards, Kirk Raeber, D.O.’76, had an epic dream 25 years ago. He held it in the back of his mind for years, eventually sharing it with his wife and friends. “You’ve got to write a book,” they told
Grad’s novel spans “war, love, religion and history” Read More
Townsen Kennington’s externship back in February with Gage Caudell, D.P.M.’05, FACFAS, at Fort Wayne Orthopedics in Indiana was everything an aspiring podiatric physician could want. “He placed me as his assistant in surgery. It’d be him, the scrub tech and
CPMS alumnus leads virtual journal club Read More
One would be hard-pressed to imagine what Patrick Crocker, D.O.’80, M.S., FACEP, did not experience in his nearly 40 years in emergency medicine in Texas. Babies found in dumpsters. Patients who seemed beyond help who somehow rallied and recovered. Those
Alumnus’s new book reveals the “human theater” of emergency medicine Read More