Of modern medicine’s many triumphs, the fact we’re living longer may be the greatest achievement – and one that presents great challenges in enabling seniors to live happily and independently. Members of the DMU community have embraced efforts to find new answers to the “old” problem of our impending “silver tsunami.”
Building an Age-Friendly World Read More
The crisis of world hunger likely has endangered humans since they came to exist. But the problem is about to get much worse, and not just for third-world dwellers with distended bellies and protruding ribs. “Nearly one billion people are
Global health conference explores ecosphere, hunger Read More
As a Peace Corps volunteer, Luke Wenzel made some babies cry; learned to speak Portuguese; met and married his wife; and decided on a career in family practice. He also worked to educate the locals on avoiding cholera and preventing or managing HIV/AIDS.
Mozambique piques student’s passion for global and rural health Read More
The team DMU is assembling for a health service trip to the Central American nation of Honduras March 16-24 will wear multiple hats. To date, the group includes students from all three DMU colleges and five of its nine programs;
DMU to send interprofessional team to Honduras Read More
Daniel Cole was a memorable medical school interviewee: Within one week’s time, he was in Panama as a Peace Corps volunteer, then on DMU’s campus as an osteopathic medical student candidate and then back in a remote village in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé.
Building latrines and relationships abroad Read More
In the master of health care administration program’s first on-campus executive residency, students gained insights on personality and communication styles, practiced their interprofessional skills and discovered their faculty are not “Dr. Drone-on.”
MHA students embrace inaugural executive residency Read More
The University lost a distinguished alumnus and small-town Iowa lost a great physician with the passing of Richard “Doc” Coatney, D.O.’60.
DMU mourns alumnus, emeritus trustee Read More
Renee Atherley thought the inability of her DMU classmate and significant other, Jeff Messerly, to be dishonest would prevent him from ever surprising her. She was wrong.
Romance in a hospital room Read More
Coming up with a way to convince older women to wear sensible shoes led a group of Des Moines Girl Scouts to learn teamwork, practice problem-solving and advance in a regional Lego competition. In the process, they gained mentors in some DMU podiatric medical students.
Lego competition sparks friendship between podiatric students, Girl Scouts Read More
Did Associate Professor Matthew Henry really once hang out with pro skateboarder Tony Hawk? Did Associate Professor Wayne Wilson truly once sport a Mohawk? Students pondered these and many other fascinating facts during DMU’s first-ever “Get to Know the Faculty Night.”