Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences is excited to announce the 2024 recipients of its prestigious Alumni of the Year and Rising Star awards.
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Ted Crawford, D.O.’84, is a board-certified physician who promotes plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He retired from full-time clinical practice in Tucson, AZ, in 2020, but still works one day a week serving as the medical director for the Pinal
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Brian Meeker, D.O.’84, was awarded the University of Iowa Physician Assistant Program Lifetime Achievement and Service Award for his many years of service to physician assistant education. He has precepted nine to 11 students every year for decades. He is
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Christopher Greer, D.O.’84, FAOCO, FAAO, retired from ophthalmology practice in Fort Smith, AR. He is a past president of the Arkansas Osteopathic Medical Association and a trustee for the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he remains an adjunct faculty
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Des Moines University has donated medical equipment to support the people of Ukraine during Russia’s military invasion. This support started with two DMU faculty members.
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Leonard Mermel, D.O.’84, ScM, AM (Hon.), FSHEA, FIDSA, FACP, leads a startup, Bak and Mermel, that was selected to participate in the New England Medical Innovation Center’s “Activate” cohort. Activate, which NEMIC hosts in partnership with R.I. Commerce Corp., is
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Steven Gottlieb, D.O.’84, joined Atlanta Allergy and Asthma in Athens, GA, after almost 30 years of allergy practice in South Carolina. He treats patients of all ages and across the entire spectrum of allergy/asthma conditions with special interests in nasal-sinus
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Brian Meeker, D.O.’84, was elected president of the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association (IOMA) and Dustin Arnold, D.O.’96, was elected president-elect for the 2022-2023 fiscal year at IOMA’s 123rd annual conference in Des Moines this spring. A Fellow of the American
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Laszlo S. Tekler Jr., D.O.’84, is a cardiologist at Essentia Health in Minnesota. Previously, he practiced with Kaiser Permanente in Kailua Kona, HI, for a year and a half and, before that, at St. Luke’s Cardiology Associates in Duluth, MN, where he saw
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Howard Huey, D.O.’84, FAACE, is an expert in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism with a private practice in New York City. He is affiliated with the New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital and
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