Between studying for exams, preparing for simulated patient encounters and cramming for national board exams, a growing group of students at DMU are leading changes in medical education. They are building on DMU’s legacy of diversity and inclusion. They are […]
DMU students are “seeking justice” Read More
You’ll never forget them: the preceptors who helped you gain skills and confidence. The ones who intimidated or shamed you. The ones who made you love a specialty or abandon it altogether. The one who, as Tucker Brady, D.O.’19, describes
Precepting is my Superpower Read More
Two distinguished members of the Class of 2011, both graduates of the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, will join the DMU Alumni Board of Directors this spring. Marc D. Jones, D.P.M.’11, FACFAOM, and Brian T. Dix, D.P.M.’11, FACFAS, will
DMU Alumni Board welcomes two new members Read More
LiLian Yuan, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology, won the inaugural scientific photo competition at the ninth annual DMU Research Symposium on Dec. 6 with this image of cerebellar Purkinje cells in a mouse’s brain, taken with a Nikon
Getting the big picture of tiny brain cells Read More
Des Moines University, a graduate medical and health sciences university, on Dec. 8 announced it has begun the public phase of the largest capital campaign in the institution’s history with a goal to raise $25 million or more. To date,
DMU announces $25 million capital campaign Read More
Noreen O’Shea, D.O.’84, FAAFP, assistant professor of behavioral medicine, medical humanities and ethics and a family physician in Des Moines, was named the 2018-2019 Iowa Family Physician of the Year by the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP). The award
Alumna O’Shea named Iowa Family Physician of the year Read More
Fifteen years ago, a small group of community members met to discuss how they could open opportunities and foster diversity at Des Moines University. They established a fund at DMU that would generate scholarships for minority students under-represented in health
DMU, community celebrate Glanton Fund’s 15th anniversary Read More
As a high school foreign exchange student to Costa Rica, Kenneth Anderson Jr., D.O.’78, M.S., CPE, grew close to his host family, enjoying Saturday night fiestas and Sunday soccer games after Catholic mass. He was mystified when his “adoptive uncle”
Finding “joy in our work”: meet interim COM Dean Kenneth Anderson Read More
Doctors take an oath to save lives but are taking their own at an alarming rate: That’s the focus of a new documentary and panel discussion that will take place at Des Moines University on Sept. 26 at 6:45 p.m.
Shining a light on a dark topic: physician suicide Read More
Ketamine is an anesthesia medicine that may be a powerful antidote to depression – if only scientists knew more about how it affects the brain. A group of researchers at Des Moines University and the University of North Carolina recently
DMU researchers land NIH grant to explore potential new antidepressant Read More