When Leigh Rexius, D.O.’15, deployed to Iraq in 2005, he spent a lot of time transporting personnel to and from the troop medical clinic and assisting with urgent care needs. “I saw how medical professionals worked in the military. It
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Bryan Stocker wears his love of abstract art on his sleeve – that is, on his right arm’s full-sleeve tattoo. “It’s a reminder to every day look at the beauty of everything,” he says. Stocker also has always found science fascinating, but his
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The near-eradication of polio is one of the most important and amazing health developments in history. That’s because there is no cure to this crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, so stopping it requires full-scale prevention through immunization. That effort
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While several national podiatric medical organizations continue to discuss ways to address the need for more residencies in the profession, that wasn’t a worry for the DMU College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery (CPMS) Class of 2013. One hundred percent of
CPMS grads land prestigious residency Read More
If you or a loved one required medical treatment, which physician would you choose? That’s the question dsm Magazine posed in a recent survey to about 1,330 greater Des Moines physicians in an effort to identify some of the area’s most highly regarded doctors in
DMU alumni, professor named ‘Top Docs’ in central Iowa Read More
Richard Pitts, D.O.’73, Ph.D., said a lot in the subject line of an e-mail message he recently sent to DMU President Angela Walker Franklin, Ph.D.: “My, how respect for osteopathic physicians has changed over the years.” Pitts’ message shared news of
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Paul G. Martin, D.O.’75, FACOEP, of Broadview Heights, OH, was among several physicians honored at the 2013 Ohio Osteopathic Symposium May 15-19 in Columbus. He received the Honorary Alumnus Award from the Society of Alumni and Friends of the Ohio University
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DMU Magazine recently talked with Marco Coppola, D.O.’89, FACEP, and Kevin Klauer, D.O.’92, EJD, FACEP, who are serving two-year terms as speaker and vice speaker, respectively, of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Council. This deliberative assembly brings to ACEP the collective wisdom
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Robert Suter, D.O.’89, M.H.A.’89, FACEP, was one of the first, if not the first, person to graduate with two DMU degrees simultaneously. (At his commencement, he walked across the stage twice.) That gives him a keen appreciation and valuable perspective as
Alumni board president urges engagement Read More