Kenzie Teno’s recent public health internship in Belize, a Caribbean country on the northeastern coast of Central America, gave her a new opportunity – to be part of a interprofessional health team of students and professionals in public health, physical …
The explosion of a gas station near Des Moines University’s campus tossed a recent Saturday morning into chaos. Gas station employees and others in the vicinity who suffered burns, broken bones and other serious injuries were transported to DMU’s Olsen …
Gas station “explosion” sparks real-world learning Read More
Jana Van Rybroek, D.O.’13, joined The Group Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialists P.C. in Davenport, IA.
Elizabeth Baker’s election last fall as a Governing Councilor for the Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) Section of the American Public Health Association, one of the largest of APHA’s 32 sections, is no small commitment. The assistant professor …
Faculty member helps shape public health priorities Read More
Saul Bresalier, D.O.’64, FAOCO, is an ophthalmologist with Eye Associates in Vineland, NJ. He also is affiliated with Shore Medical Center and Virtua Voorhees Health in South Jersey.
Brig. Gen. Marco Coppola, D.O.’89, assumed command of the newly activated 2nd Brigade, Texas State Guard. The 2nd Brigade, “Ad Omnia Parati” (“Ready for Anything”), covers 35 counties to provide emergency and disaster response including medical support, shelter operations, Emergency …
Farid Hassanpour, D.O.’92, M.B.A., was appointed chief medical officer at CenCal Health, the publicly sponsored health plan for Medi-Cal in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, CA. He most recently was the chief medical director at Health Net and …
The Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination of the United States, or COMLEX-USA, is the three-level national standardized licensure exam that osteopathic students typically take after their second, third and fourth years of medical school to become licensed osteopathic physicians. In …
Dr. Martin Schmidt, DMU’s “item writer” extraordinaire Read More
For a tiny agricultural nation in East Africa that was devastated by genocide 26 years ago, Rwanda could teach the rest of the world some big lessons about ending the AIDS epidemic and treating people living with HIV. That was …
James Matera, D.O.’89, was named senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ. He has a focus on physician burnout and keeping physicians focused with the regulatory changes they face. He …
Rob Birk, B.S.P.A.’02, left family practice in Oconto, WI, and in November 2019 joined the Emergency Medicine Group at Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital in Rhinelander, WI. His wife, Jamie, a certified surgical technologist, also joined Ascension St. Mary’s in December.
The team’s patient, Harriett, was a 67-year-old woman who had been brought by ambulance to the rural hospital’s emergency room after a neighbor discovered she’d fallen in her home and was unable to get up. She had high blood pressure, …
Interprofessional education gets “real” in simulation exercise Read More