Amanda M. Olinger Hjeltness, PA-C’13, joined the gastroenterology team at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. She specializes in pancreaticobiliary disorders.
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Juanita Baranowski, PA-C’96, her colleague Alan Berg, D.O., and their staff provide care according to their clinic’s moniker. Juanita Garcia Baranowski, PA-C’96, grew up proud of her family’s medical legacy. Her great-grandfather Pompilio Martinez Navarette performed the first open heart
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The reasons for celebrating National Physician Assistant Week, Oct. 6-12, at Des Moines University keep pouring in. The latest cause for celebration is news that Luan Montag, who graduated from DMU’s physician assistant program in 2000, was honored as the
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National Physician Assistant Week takes place each year Oct. 6–12 to celebrate the physician assistant profession and its contributions to the nation’s health. This year is particularly special, as it marks the beginning of the profession’s 50th anniversary! Oct. 6 is
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Heather Young Dederman, PA-C’09, and her husband, Nick, welcomed son Barrett Nicholas on Aug. 29, 2016. He joins siblings Katelyn, 4, and Carley, 2. After her maternity leave, Dederman plans to continue her seventh year in the emergency department at
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Guy Sullivan, PA-C’16, joined Iowa Ortho, which has 15 locations throughout central Iowa and the Des Moines metro area. He sees patients at the downtown Des Moines and Ankeny clinics.
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Aubrey Hess, PA-C’10, joined the Essential Health-52nd Avenue Clinic in Fargo, ND, as a physician assistant.
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For many student volunteers, Des Moines University’s free Back 2 School Physicals event is their first time applying skills learned in clinical medicine and practiced in SPAL to real patients, many of whom have barriers to accessing health care. It’s also an opportunity
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As they educate and mentor students, touch the lives of patients and work tirelessly in their professions and communities, the 2016 Des Moines University Alumni of the Year inspire others to aspire. Alumni of the Year honorees are selected by
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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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