Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D., has had diverse roles in public and private sectors, in human resources, management consulting and global marketing. He emphasizes the critical components of effective human resources management, such as transparency, communication, inclusivity and a team mindset. But …
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Hijinio Carreon, D.O.’03, chief medical officer of MercyOne Central Iowa, has been working 16-hour days, plus additional late-night email messages, phone calls and weekend shifts in the emergency department. Jason Kruse, D.O.’11, an internal medicine physician at Broadlawns Medical Center …
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June 17, 2016, was the first time I lost Ava. While walking through the camp, I turned around and saw her lagging behind. “Ugh,” she moaned, “I’m tired of walking.” I laughed and walked back to join her. At the …
He’s the first D.O. in the role since 1981 Kevin Klauer, D.O.’92, EJD, FACEP, says the personality traits that drove him to become a paramedic and then an emergency medical physician are the same ones that led to his latest …
S. Vincent Grasso, D.O.’91, M.S.I.S., M.B.A., strives to give clinicians an invaluable new tool in providing health care that’s truly high-quality, hands-on and patient-centered: artificial intelligence (AI). The surgeon, solution/software architect and medical informaticist is the global practice lead in …
Alumnus promotes high tech in keeping the high touch in health care Read More
Grad stars in “My Feet Are Killing Me” Ebonie Vincent, D.P.M.’15, M.B.S., sees a wide variety of patients and conditions in her Orange County, CA, practice. One day, she’s inserting a cadaver bone into a patient’s foot to correct her …
Timing, communication and coordination are critical in health care, intensely so in transplant medicine. When an organ becomes available through the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the private, nonprofit organization contracted by the federal government to serve as the …
This March, Laura Jackson and Wayne McKinney Jr. began their terms on the DMU Board of Trustees. Jackson joined Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Des Moines in 2002 as senior vice president of human resources. She now is …
COLLEAGUES DON’T HESITATE when they describe Jodi Cahalan, PA-C’89, M.S.’93, M.P.H.’01, Ph.D., DFAAPA: “Highly respected.” “A very talented health care professional and executive in health sciences education.” “Genuinely passionate about her work.” But ask Cahalan about her retirement in March …