Like her fellow faculty in DMU’s master of health care administration program, Associate Professor Ann York, Ph.D., believes lifelong learning is increasingly important in our fast-changing world. One way she walked that talk is by earning the credential of fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Two members of the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Class of 2013 were selected to receive scholarships, while another was awarded the Michael L. Stone D.P.M. Outstanding Professional Conduct Award at the annual business meeting of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery.
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DMU podiatric medical student Michael Johnson believes the business component of medical practice should be part of the copious volumes that medical students need to learn. That’s why he sought – and won – election as the student liaison for the American Podiatric Medical Students’ Association to the American Academy of Podiatric Practice Management.
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Medical students in general are a competitive bunch, but that rose to a whole new level when DMU’s College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery and the American Podiatric Medical Students’ Association (APMSA) hosted the annual APMSA basketball tournament in April. DMU students seized the opportunity to showcase the college and Des Moines.
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J.D. Polk, D.O., FACOEP, has taken care of people ranging from astronauts 250 nautical miles above the Earth to Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile below its surface. This August, the chief medical officer of the Department of Homeland Security will take the reins as dean of DMU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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On a Saturday in March, the students who handled human organs, scrubbed in for surgery and made plaster casts were decidedly younger and shorter than usual on the DMU campus: The University’s eighth annual Girls in Science Day drew more than 200 current elementary-school girls, tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and leaders.
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Amid the pain and worry of her husband’s illness and subsequent passing, Julie Powell-Mohr was comforted by his decision to make the ultimate gift – and the response she received from the DMU community. Attending the University’s body donor memorial service, she says, felt like “sitting in the lap of God.”
Fall means many things in Iowa: cooler days and nights, the start of a new school year, and the broad beautiful spectrum of colors from the surrounding trees and landscape. But here at Des Moines University it also means many
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Over a recent (healthy) lunch, my friend Caitlin, a graduate of DMU’s master of public health program, and I had a lively discussion of possible topics for this blog and for DMU Magazine. Ideas ranged from the positive impact of
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Can you hear that? It’s Jazz in July time again and things are off to a great start. Metro Arts Jazz in July is Central Iowa’s longest-running summer music festival and the only festival to focus exclusively on jazz. This
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