Garth Summers, D.O.’17, and Taylar Swartz, D.O.’18, M.P.H.’15, became engaged. Both are residents in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
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Clayton Jordan, D.O.’13, joined the Iowa Clinic in Des Moines as a gastroenterologist. He completed training in internal medicine in 2016 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), where he was chief resident 2016-2017. He then completed a gastroenterology/hepatology
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People who want to reduce their carbon footprint might shop with reusable grocery bags, drive hybrid cars or toss their newspapers in recyclable trash bins. But Maurice Ramirez, D.O.’91, Ph.D., and his wife, Allison Sakara, N.P., P.H.R.N., have taken a
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Maggi Schutte Meyer, D.P.T.’16, is a physical therapist in rehabilitation services at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. She has been accepted into the Integrative Oncology Scholars (IOS) Program through the University of Michigan and National Cancer Institute.
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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
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Christopher Colbert, D.O.’03, FACOEP, FACEP, FAAEM, was recently appointed chair of continuing medical education for the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP). In April 2020 ACOEP held the first virtual emergency medicine conference, which addressed cutting-edge topics of emergency medicine and
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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
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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
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Graduation ceremonies are a centuries-old tradition wrapped in the obligatory pomp and circumstance. However, this year’s Commencement at Des Moines University – as at other universities, colleges and high schools nationwide – took on a new format in that it
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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
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