Des Moines University awarded 472 degrees in nine programs at the 116th annual Commencement Ceremony on May 28. Family, friends, faculty and staff celebrated the graduates throughout the weekend with banquets, awards and a campus picnic. Check out the photos of […]
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Des Moines University’s master’s degree programs in public health and health care administration equip individuals to become leaders in diverse roles that improve the health of individuals, communities and populations on local, regional and even global levels. To effectively equip
New DMU department expands degree options Read More
Margaret Galvez, R.N., M.P.H.’14, was selected as one of the 2016 DFW Great 100 Nurses, which honors 100 registered nurses annually in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Honorees are nominated by their peers for nursing excellence and are selected based upon
Margaret Galvez, R.N., M.P.H.’14 Read More
Pam Harrison Chambers, PA-C, M.P.H., was elected president of the DMU Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is associate professor in DMU’s physician assistant program
Pam Harrison Chambers, PA-C, M.P.H.’01 Read More
Cynthia James was working on public health issues years before they were considered “public health.” Now a student in DMU’s master of public health program, James delved into farm policy issues as a member of two congressional staffs before President
Student pairs public health and preparedness Read More
Members of the DMU Alumni Association Board of Directors want their 12,179 fellow alumni to also “get on board,” so to speak, by getting more engaged with the University. New Alumni Board leaders include President Pam Harrison Chambers, M.P.H.’01, PA-C’92,
Alumni Board seeks to engage grads Read More
Assistant professor named PA of the Year and an Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellow Laura Delaney, PA-C’99, M.P.A.S., had provided health care to patients in the West African nation of Mali before she joined DMU’s physician assistant faculty in 2008. That’s why
Something to crow about Read More
Meghan Francis has conducted biomedical research on several topics, and she’s currently working as a research assistant in the nutrition sciences department at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, identifying immune markers in obese mice with renal cancer. But broader societal factors
Built to bridge research, health outcomes Read More
The more than 500 graduate and undergraduate students, faculty members, staff, residents and other researchers who attended the 2015 DMU Research Symposium on Dec. 3 enjoyed a stimulating mix of scientific topics and difficult questions posed on the ethics of
DMU Research Symposium probes ethics, awards presentations Read More
We’ve come a long way in reducing rates of HIV infection since the peak of the epidemic 30 years ago, but this is no time to let up on those efforts. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates
World AIDS Day: the time to act is now Read More