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 …
The physical therapy profession has faced change beyond health care reform and evolving patient demographics. The profession’s terminal degree used to be a master’s of science; however, the vision of the American Physical Therapy Association states that by the year …
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A terrific team: DMU physical therapy clinicians include Libby Trausch, Sharon Johansen, Kari Smith, Shane McClinton, Traci Bush, Michelle Brown, Kathy Mercuris and Shannon Petersen, with patient services representative Fran Allen. When the city of Des Moines in 2009 switched …
Physical Therapy Clinic moves patients, improves function in every stage and age Read More
Adverse childhood experiences and their effect on lifelong health By Caitlin Suginaka, M.P.H.’13 and Barbara Dietrich Boose Imagine a world where rates of hypertension, heart disease, lung disease, mental illness, HIV, arthritis, asthma, cancer, stroke and many other leading health …
This fall, Maggi Schutte, D.P.T.’16, invited her classmates to join her in supporting an organization she loves, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. A group of physician assistant students saluted a beloved faculty member by benefitting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. …
DMU students take walks, sleep outside to help others Read More
Article and photo by Mike Spencer, The Leelanau Enterprise. Sander Kushner, D.O.’60, FACOFP, gave up his family practice a few years back, but the Suttons Bay, MI, doctor never gave up being a family physician. The 78-year-old doctor of osteopathic …