While Zoom fatigue is a real thing after a year of the pandemic, nearly 100 students eagerly jumped on screens this week to talk with graduates who are members of DMU’s Alumni Sharing Knowledge program, or ASK. In addition to […]
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Jesse Plasencia, D.P.M.’89, has been a board-certified podiatric physician with VNA Health Care in Aurora and Elgin, IL, since 2013. VNA Health Care operates 10 clinics in suburban Chicago and serves more than 72,000 patients. In 2018 the VNA Board
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Jesse Plasencia, D.P.M.’89, was selected to receive the 2018 Helen Cearlock Award from VNA Health Care in Chicago. The Cearlock Award is VNA’s highest level of employee recognition. It is presented annually to a VNA employee who expresses the spirit
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DMU’s Development & Alumni Relations department, in collaboration with Sigma Sigma Phi (the National Osteopathic Honor Society) and the Internal Medicine Club, invited 22 alumni from all programs to participate in the most recent Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) event on
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The DMU Board of Trustees welcomed three new members in 2014 and will add two more in March. At its December 2014 meeting, the board approved the appointments of Marcia Grassman Hammers, B.H.A.’88, R.N., FAHM, CHC, and Nicki Nigro, D.P.M.’89,
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Dr. Williams was appointed to the Washington State Podiatric Medical Board by Governor Jay Inslee. His two-year term began in July 2014. The board is responsible for addressing complaints regarding treatment by podiatrists within the state as well as for
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Mandi has retired from medicine to follow her dream of becoming a carpenter and owning her own construction company. Anyone who knows Mandi knows she has “sawdust in her veins,” coming from a family of builders. She is filling in
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Mandi was guest editor of the Clinics in Podiatric Medicine & Surgery‘s April 2012 issue on foot and ankle trauma. She authored articles in the issue on ankle fractures and pilon fractures, the latter co-authored with Justin J. Banks and Brandon
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After graduating from UOMHS, I completed podiatric surgical residency programs in St. Louis, MO, and Dallas, TX. I briefly practiced in Dallas before establishing a private practice in El Paso, TX, in 1995. I received certifications in foot surgery from the American Board of Podiatric Surgery in August 1998 and in reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery […]
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