As a group, DMU students are passionate – about their academic success, their future careers and their community service. That passion extends to the University itself, as demonstrated by the many students who volunteer their time to serve as ambassadors for the DMU admissions office. “I tell them, […]
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Three participants in DMU’s health service trip to St. Lucia this spring got to be radio celebrities in addition to health care providers: Katarina Conradson (in the photo above, center) and Julie Fleener, physician assistant students, and Jolene Kelly, MPAS, PA-C’96, program director/chair (in
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Karl “Fritz” Disque, D.O.’07, R.Ph., and colleagues of his family’s Disque Foundation recently coordinated with St. John’s Ambulance to help train medical residents and nursing students at the University of Science of Malaysia on cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques. Disque is the foundation’s executive director and co-founder/chief medical officer
Empowering Malaysia to save lives with CPR Read More
The 31 students who participated in the DMU health service trip to Honduras touched the lives of more than the nearly 1,600 patients they saw over five days in March. They also earned the pride of the clinicians who oversaw and guided them onsite. They inspired a
A journey of much more than 1,887 miles Read More
After producing two research papers based on her work with 10 cadaravic limbs last fall, Mindi Feilmeier, D.P.M.’05, FACFAS, was contacted by representatives of the surgical instrument company Stryker. They proposed bringing in equipment for a session with her, podiatric medical residents and Paul Dayton, D.P.M., FACFAS, a podiatric physician
Saturday workshops expand surgical skills Read More
The white coat signifies the excellence and caring demanded of individuals entering the health care professions. On Aug. 9, 2014, 372 Des Moines University clinical students accepted their white coats and the responsibilities they symbolize at the University’s annual White
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Rachel Reimer, Ph.D., has a proven track record of excellence in teaching and research. After serving DMU’s master of public health (MPH) program as an adjunct faculty member in 2008, she was appointed a full-time assistant professor in 2009 upon
Reimer brings vision as new program director/chair Read More
“I know you want a history of me rather than that of the University,” said William Dyche, Ph.D., when DMU Magazine came knocking on his Ryan Hall office door, “but I find the two hard to separate.” That statement aptly
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Beyond the necessities for survival, is there any more fundamental human need than to connect with others through stories? They let us feel kinship, experience emotion, and understand or challenge the people and world around us. Stories let us learn, share, get angry, become motivated, understand difference and appreciate community.
The Power of Story in Healing Read More
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160205080″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] It doesn’t take an extensive science background to quickly grasp Julie Meachen’s research passion. Just peruse the titles of her co-authored papers tacked up outside her office in Ryan Hall: “Postcranial morphology and the locomotor habits of living and extinct
Spelunking for carnivores Read More