Brig. Gen. Marco Coppola, D.O.’89, assumed command of the newly activated 2nd Brigade, Texas State Guard. The 2nd Brigade, “Ad Omnia Parati” (“Ready for Anything”), covers 35 counties to provide emergency and disaster response including medical support, shelter operations, Emergency […]
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Farid Hassanpour, D.O.’92, M.B.A., was appointed chief medical officer at CenCal Health, the publicly sponsored health plan for Medi-Cal in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, CA. He most recently was the chief medical director at Health Net and
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James Matera, D.O.’89, was named senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ. He has a focus on physician burnout and keeping physicians focused with the regulatory changes they face. He
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Last year the DMU Department of Global Health signed a memorandum of understanding with Juan N. Corpas University in Bogotá, Colombia, making it one of our newest international sites. Founded in 1971, Juan N. Corpas is a university and teaching
The team’s patient, Harriett, was a 67-year-old woman who had been brought by ambulance to the rural hospital’s emergency room after a neighbor discovered she’d fallen in her home and was unable to get up. She had high blood pressure,
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Matthew Kapalis, D.O.’08, a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, joined Bryan Heart in Lincoln, NE.
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Kate O’Heelan, D.O.’91, is a family medicine doctor in Lincoln, RI, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Miriam Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center.
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Members of Des Moines University’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) are working to change the world of health care, one interaction at a time: In addition to their on-campus activities, they are engaging with minority grade school, middle school and
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Janean Wedeking, D.O.’16, accepted a position as a family medicine physician at the Floyd County Medical Center hospital and clinic in Charles City, IA. She is currently completing her residency in family medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
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In 2018, Des Moines University became the nation’s first medical school to partner with the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), the nation’s leading advocacy group for mental illness, to offer its provider education program to third-year osteopathic medical students. All medical schools train
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