Having grown up in an Iowa town of about 7000 people, I found Des Moines big and a little intimidating when I moved here to go to DMU in the mid-1980s. I remember driving by the school the night before
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Des Moines University Global Health and Aging Resources of Central Iowa were honored with the AARP 2012 Partners in Service Award for their work with AARP Iowa to make Des Moines one of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Network
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Tomorrow, October 17, our global health department and the Heartland Global Health Consortium, partnered with Pioneer and Iowa’s Healthiest State Initiative, are again hosting their annual thought-provoking conference. This year’s topic, “partnering for a healthy ecosphere,” is sure to put your
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Des Moines University students Amanda Jepson, D.O. ’15, and Michael Stencel, D.O. ’15, won prizes for their posters and presentations at the 16th Annual Iowa Physiological Society Meeting held September 29 in the Medical Education Center. Jepson received first place
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DMU podiatric medical students Ali Binder and Amy Kruger recently shared with me the latest edition of “Footnotes,” the representative newsletter for the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery (CPMS). The newsletter’s goal is to provide students with information about
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Medical assistants are at the heart of health care, and every year, Medical Assistants Recognition Week (MARWeek) is celebrated during the third full week in October: Medical Assistants Recognition Day is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 17 and there is a special celebration
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Last Friday I was invited by the American Heart Association of Iowa to join a table of local bloggers at the Go Red For Women Luncheon. While there I learned that heart disease is the number one health risk of women, but many