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.
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
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 …
Last year the DMU Department of Global Health signed a memorandum of understanding with Juan N. Corpas University in Bogotá, Colombia, making it one of our newest international sites. Founded in 1971, Juan N. Corpas is a university and teaching …
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, …
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Matthew Kapalis, D.O.’08, a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, joined Bryan Heart in Lincoln, NE.
Kate O’Heelan, D.O.’91, is a family medicine doctor in Lincoln, RI, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Miriam Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center.
When you ask Paul Volker, M.D., FAAFP, assistant professor of family and internal medicine at DMU, about being named the 2019 Medical Educator of the Year by the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP), he emphasizes two points: that there …
DMU faculty member named IAFP Educator of the Year Read More