David E. Drake, D.O.’83, is president-elect of the national Physicians for Social Responsibility. He joined PSR’s board of directors in 2017. He returned to Des Moines after 18 months working in his native Colorado. His professional interests include psychotherapy, family […]
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David E. Drake, D.O.’83, as of April 10 will take on a new position in his native Colorado, in Pagosa Springs, as the psychiatric director of a five-county integrated health clinic. He and his wife, Claire, plan to continue their
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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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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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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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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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Last July, David Drake, D.O.’83, acted on an idea that had him “hooked”: to voluntarily donate a kidney. His journey included Claire Cumbie-Drake, his wife of 28 years, and some coincidental DMU connections. This is the second part of a
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The desire to make an impact, extraordinary surgical expertise and some coincidental DMU connections came together in the past year to save one life and change others. THE DECISION – Early last summer, David Drake, D.O.’83, wrote a letter to
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