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Jeritt Tucker on Insight on Business

Stress in the Midwest

Being “Iowa nice” doesn’t mean that we’re stress-free.  Insight on Business the News Hour reached out to DMU’s Jerrit Tucker, Ph.D. to get his thoughts about stress in the midwest.  Tucker shares his thoughts about stressing at work, finding fulfillment,

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Brenda Jeffers, M.H.A.’01

Brenda Jeffers was named the director of clinical quality at River Hills Community Health Center (RHCHC) in Ottumwa, IA. RHCHC is a federally funded health center providing comprehensive primary care, pediatric care and behavioral health services as well as general

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2015 Alumni of the Year

They work in different roles in health care and represent different eras of Des Moines University alumni, but the 2015 DMU Alumni of the Year share a deep commitment to service to their professions, their patients and their medical alma

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Braving the Cold

Reprinted courtesy of the San Angelo (TX) Standard-Times and gosanangelo.com. San Angelo, TX, doctor and DMU alumnus warmly recalls mission to Antarctica. The temperature wasn’t expected to get above minus 45, and with the wind chill, it felt like minus 75. One of the harshest terrains

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Life lessons taught by patients

DMU physical therapy student Shellina Herink gave up her spring break to work with post-stroke volunteers, other students and physical therapists during DMU’s second-annual stroke camp. “Come to find out, it was the best spring break adventure during my lifetime of education,” she says.

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The ‘ultimate gift’

Amid the pain and worry of her husband’s illness and subsequent passing, Julie Powell-Mohr was comforted by his decision to make the ultimate gift – and the response she received from the DMU community. Attending the University’s body donor memorial service, she says, felt like “sitting in the lap of God.”

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