Angela L. Walker Franklin, Ph.D., president of Des Moines University, announced the appointment of Bret Ripley, D.O., FACOFP, FPLI, as dean of the University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, effective January 1, 2018. Named chair of Des Moines University’s family and […]
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Bret Ripley, D.O., FACOFP, FPLI, chair of family and internal medicine and a DMU family medicine clinician, received the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association’s Physician of the Year Award during the annual IOMA meeting in May. He was nominated by multiple
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Gregory Christiansen, D.O., M.Ed., FACOEP-D, chair and associate professor of emergency medicine at Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC, was named dean of the DMU College of Osteopathic Medicine. He will take office on Dec. 1. Christiansen serves as director
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Noreen O’Shea, D.O.’84, FAAFP, readily admits she was “scared” about joining the DMU family medicine program in March 2014, but in the time since she’s aptly applied the wisdom of Lucille Ball to “face your fear and it will disappear.”
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Back to school time means back to sports for kids of all ages. Participating in a sport always brings a risk of injury, none more serious than head injuries. A serious blow to the head can shake the brain around
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One-third of American adults have a dangerous condition that is so hard to detect that 20 percent of those who have it don’t even know it. Known as the “silent killer,” hypertension causes the heart to work harder than it
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Weighing under an ounce, a butterfly-shaped gland in the lower neck is an unlikely candidate to play such a large role in the human body. But the thyroid controls how fast everything works in your body — from the brain, heart
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Former engineer and physicist Bret Ripley left a career in the defense industry to pursue paths much more intensely hands-on and personal: family practice, osteopathic manual medicine and education. In addition to the hats he wears at DMU, he presents
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