M.P.H. Alumna Named to “Forty Under 40” List
This spring Rebecca Goldsmith, M.P.H.’13, was chosen for the Des Moines Business Record’s “Forty Under 40” list.
An alumnus I wish I’d met: Louis Reznick, D.O.’70
DMU graduates every day make life-changing contributions in their professions and communities. Louis Reznick, D.O.’70, who died Jan. 21, 2022, did that and more: He made people laugh. An old lady asks her lawyer to prepare her will and requests …
“All about the mission”
Alumni share what has disheartened and sustained them during the pandemic – and lessons learned in the process. The tolls taken by nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic are evident in the health care workforce, shifting attitudes toward science …
Meeting urgent needs with a new medical model
The newest member of the DMU Board of Trustees brings to the University decades of business experience and acumen. By any measure, Bernard Swift Jr., D.O.’76, M.P.H., took a big risk in 1982 when he launched a practice using a …
You name it: Make your mark on DMU’s new campus
DMU’s new West Des Moines campus is still a work in progress, but Dave Kapaska, D.O.’86, M.B.A., and his wife, Mary Ann, already have made their mark on it by naming the Telehealth Room, to be located in the Innovation …
DMU alumni serve as ACOFP Iowa leaders
Jennifer Holmes Latterell, D.O.’05, C.P.E., was elected president-elect of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Iowa Chapter, at the Midwinter Osteopathic Family Practice Virtual Conference in January. She is the associate chief of staff for education and the designated …
CPMS alumna and her “mommy group” tackle PPE shortage
Reem Sheikh, D.P.M.’12, well remembers the early days of the pandemic. As a podiatric surgeon at New York Metropolitan, Lincoln and Harlem hospitals and a surgery faculty member at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine, she experienced firsthand how …
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What has health care learned from the pandemic?
“The first lesson I learned is how dumb I am. A year and a month ago, given the oxygen saturation levels we were seeing, I couldn’t have imagined not intubating people. We in Iowa got to learn from our confreres …
Alumnus crushes the Iditarod – on foot – for the sixth time
Eric Johnson’s idea of a good time is no walk in the park. It’s a 1,000- mile slog that he does on foot with Old Man Winter up wind-whipped mountain passes, over rivers, across desolate tundras and through dense forests …
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