DMU is proud to “share” alumnus Jeff Kinyon, D.O.’02, with Cornell College, where he completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry and molecular biology and philosophy in 1994. An emergency medicine attending physician at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, […]
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Dustin Arnold, D.O.’96, is leading the coronavirus response from the hospital where he was born – as chief medical officer of UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, IA. With the hospital since 2005, he has emerged as one of
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When the Army asked retirees to return to active duty to help with the coronavirus response effort, Colonel Arthur Wittich, D.O.’71, 81, answered the call. Col. Wittich spent 44 years in the Army. He’s been deployed to Central America, Africa
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Story and photos submitted by Mollie James, D.O.’03 I am an ICU physician from St Louis volunteering in NYC. I’ll be here for 10 days, and will return home as the surge hits STL. I’ll be working in my home
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DMU is in debt to two graduates who were steadfast advocates of the osteopathic profession and their medical alma mater. Gilbert Bucholz was a 1958 graduate of Des Moines University’s osteopathic medical program and a steadfast advocate for his profession.
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James J. Arnold, D.O.’03, FACOFP, FAAFP, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps, was named Family Physician of the Year by the Uniformed Service Academy of Family Physicians. He is a member of the family medicine/obstetrics faculty
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Captain Rachel Ely, D.O.’14, joined Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services in Harris County, TX. A nationally registered paramedic for the past 10 years, she is an emergency medicine physician with Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) who has been on active
This story was submitted by Guriqbal Bhullar, D.O.’24. My encouragement came after an email sent by Dr. Ciara Lewis on 3/16/20. In it, Dr. Lewis spoke about how the response to the virus may cause feelings of distress and anxiety.
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It is common for critically ill patients on life support to develop delirium, a form of acute brain failure for which no effective treatment is known. A study from Indiana University School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute researchers, led by
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Jonathan Crosbie, D.O., an assistant professor of family and internal medicine at Des Moines University and a physician in the DMU Clinic, will participate in a one-hour special about the respiratory disease COVID-19 in a program on Iowa PBS on
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