Alternative Therapies
Several alumni are applying their health care and public health expertise beyond traditional boundaries, promoting lifestyle medicine, healthy nutrition and a love for all earth’s creatures.
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DMU’s Top 2023 News Stories: What a Wonderful Year!
Here’s a look back at Des Moines University’s top news events of 2023. It was a remarkable year in DMU’s history!
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A childhood in wartime inspired a health care career
By Jasmina Salcinovic-Spahic, DMSc, MMSc, M.H.A.’18, PA-C, DFAAPA The Bosnian War (April 1992 – December 1995) changed the life of Jasmina Salcinovic-Spahic, DMSc, MMSc, M.H.A.’18, PA-C, DFAAPA. She has been a practicing physician assistant (PA) for 12 years and currently
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Dean Cahalan retires on a high note
COLLEAGUES DON’T HESITATE when they describe Jodi Cahalan, PA-C’89, M.S.’93, M.P.H.’01, Ph.D., DFAAPA: “Highly respected.” “A very talented health care professional and executive in health sciences education.” “Genuinely passionate about her work.” But ask Cahalan about her retirement in March
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Serving Iowans through every step of life
Tray Wade, M.H.A.’08, and his colleagues reorganized and rebranded EveryStep under a common name to clarify and fulfill its mission. In 1908, when a group of nurses in Des Moines saw the need for public health nursing, they answered that
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DMU M.H.A., M.P.H. students are health heroes amid pandemic crisis
While the coronavirus shut down major aspects of daily life for many, those working in health care and public health, of course, have to soldier on. These front-line health heroes face significant risk of contracting the virus and passing it
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Alumni Spotlight: Megan Knox, M.P.H.’13
At a time of tension over the U.S.-Mexico border, an organization that’s worked for more than four decades to diminish divides and enhance public health and health care access continues to thrive thanks in part to a DMU alumna. The
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