David E. Drake, D.O.’83, FACN, DFAPA, and his wife, Claire Cumbie-Drake, participated last October in lobbying efforts, with Physicians for Social Responsibility and other organizations, at the United Nations in support of a proposed resolution to commence negotiations in 2017 […]
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When I read a March 24 article in the Santa Fe New Mexican titled “Los Alamos team visits Japan to gain perspective on atomic bombings,” my first reaction was anger. Anger that the Los Alamos “team” can spend tens of
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I trace my own roots in working for social change to several family members – a grandfather, Philip S. VanCise in Denver, who served as district attorney back in the 1920s and fought the Ku Klux Klan; my father, Frank
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Alesia Wagner, D.O.’83, was promoted to the rank of associate professor at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also was named the 2016 W. Douglas Ward, Ph.D., Educator of the Year by the American Osteopathic Foundation’s Committee on
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First-, second- and third-year physical therapy students made DMU proud by providing recovery services to more than 150 runners participating in the IMT Des Moines Marathon and half-marathon on Oct. 18. Tyler Wishau, D.P.M.’14, participated in the half-marathon while juggling
David E. Drake, D.O.’83, spent 10 days in January as part of a 13-member medical delegation to Gaza, organized by Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. His assignment was to facilitate a seminar over several days for postgraduate students in mental
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David E. Drake, D.O., was asked to serve on the security committee of the national organization Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), which focuses on the abolition of nuclear weapons. PSR also seeks to use its members’ medical and public health
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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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David E. Drake, D.O.’83, had an editorial published in the Des Moines Register on Oct. 31 titled “Where has the patient’s life gone in medical practice?” The editorial made a case for allowing physicians and other health care professionals to
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A number of DMU alumni were honored by the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association (IOMA) and were elected to its offices this spring. Elected president-elect was Bruce Ricker, D.O.’83, an osteopathic family physician in Mount Ayr. He is the medical director
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