Heather Garvin

DMU Professor Co-Authors Visual Atlas of the Human Skeleton from Birth to Adulthood

October 27, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading

With the recent publication of “A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development,” Heather Garvin, Ph.D., D-ABFA, professor of anatomy at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences, is helping provide a much-needed resource for students and practitioners in anatomy, biological anthropology, human biology and health sciences.

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Meghan Gast and Stephanie Cole presenting a research poster at a forensics conference.

DMU Researchers Present Forensic Anthropology Findings at National Conference

March 31, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading

DMU researchers present findings at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference on study that uses saw cut bone to estimate tools used.

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DMU faculty members in the Department of Anatomy recently invited to participate in a special symposium celebrating a decade of study of the fossils of the human relative, Homo naledi.

DMU Anatomy Faculty Attend Pivotal Symposium on Human Ancestor

October 8, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading

Two DMU faculty members in the Department of Anatomy invited to participate in a special symposium on the fossils of human relative, Homo naledi.

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Garvin Reveals the Stories Written in Our Bones

February 29, 2024 / 6 minutes of reading

Professor of Anatomy Heather Garvin, Ph.D., D-ABFA, teaches from behind the podium and on the witness stand.

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DMU Professors Land National Institute of Justice Grant to Enhance Forensic Standards

February 26, 2024 / 2 minutes of reading

DMU anatomy faculty Heather Garvin, Ph.D., D-ABFA, and Lauren Butaric, Ph.D., received a $495,637 grant from the National Institute of Justice to analyze forensic standards used in criminal dismemberment cases.

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Event banner for Mini Medical School at Des Moines University.

Expand Your Medical Knowledge With DMU’s Free Mini Medical School

January 15, 2024 / 2 minutes of reading

Des Moines University’s free Mini Medical School provides health information you can use in four sessions in February.

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DMU’s Top 2023 News Stories: What a Wonderful Year!

January 2, 2024 / 6 minutes of reading

Here’s a look back at Des Moines University’s top news events of 2023. It was a remarkable year in DMU’s history!

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What not to do in forensic anthropological analyses involving youth

September 1, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

The bottom line of an article by a DMU faculty member and students recently published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, “Sex estimation of the subadult ilium prior to acetabular fusion,” is that in in the forensic skeletal analyses of

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DMU faculty land NIJ grant to enhance forensic guidelines

January 4, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

They say the eyes are the window to the soul, but the spaces above them can reveal a person’s identification. These holes in the skull can fill the “holes” in a forensic investigation when a dead body is discovered. “The

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DMU faculty rise to the challenge of teaching anatomy amid a pandemic

November 9, 2020 / 4 minutes of reading

Anatomy is one of the most, if not the most, hands-on aspects of clinical students’ education. Students in DMU’s doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.), doctor of podiatric medicine (D.P.M.), doctor of physical therapy (D.P.T.), master of physician assistant studies (PA)

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