Dave Kapaska, D.O.’86, and his wife, Mary Ann, have long supported Des Moines University. Dr. Kapaska serves as chair of the DMU Board of Trustees, and the couple has contributed financially to the University, including to its Purple & Proud Campaign. But their latest gift, to name the Telehealth Room on the new West Des …
The gift that Fred Katz, D.O.’66, FAOCR, recently made to the Purple & Proud Campaign to establish an endowed scholarship fund at DMU is the latest in a long list of contributions he has made throughout his career and life. How he came to support his medical alma mater first began as an act of …
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Among the medical schools he applied to, Robert Good, D.O.’77, MACOI, chose the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (COMS) – now DMU – because of the people he met during his interview. “I was so impressed with the people who cared about my image of medicine and what I thought,” he says. As a …
As a pre-health major at Central College in Pella, IA, Benjamin Byers thought he would become a veterinarian. When his adviser suggested he consider human medicine instead, Dr. Byers decided to enter a now-defunct program in which DMU enrolled promising Central undergraduates as a way to recruit future physicians. “I feel that DMU had such …
Marc Baumert, PA-C’14, and Morgan Baumert, M.H.A.’15, shown above with daughters Claire, left, and Reece Watson Gutowski, D.O.’58, has donated to DMU every year since 1972. He and his wife, Catherine, also established the Catherine A. Gutowski and Watson A. Gutowski Endowed Scholarship Fund to benefit DMU students. “It has been an honor and my …
Clifford Houseman, D.O.’07, FACOS, was in fourth grade when he told his parents he planned to become a physician. It wasn’t until his third year as a DMU osteopathic medical student, however, that he decided to pursue neurosurgery as his career. During rotation, he assisted with an emergency surgery on an 18-year-old woman whose prognosis …
Joseph McNerney, D.O.’37, FACOI, was a pioneer and practitioner in internal medicine, a devoted DMU graduate and a lecturer and teacher for more than 50 years. His deep commitment to patient care, osteopathic medicine and medical education inspired and enhanced decades’ worth of students, interns, residents and fellow physicians. He also was a father of …
Growing up, Robert Lowry and his family received medical care from Donald Evans, D.O., a 1937 graduate of Des Moines Still College, now Des Moines University. Years later, the quality of that care inspired Dr. Lowry to pursue his own osteopathic medical degree at DMU. His mentors in medical school including Byron E. Laycock, D.O., …
Pamela Duffy, P.T., Ph.D., FAPTA, is grateful for many things – the lessons of service she learned from her parents, the many faculty mentors she’s had and the opportunities she has now to teach and advise students. The associate professor of public health, health care administration and global health recently demonstrated her gratitude for those …
In the 1950s, an era when osteopathic physicians were viewed by some as inferior to allopathic physicians, Murray Goldstein, D.O.’50, M.P.H., blazed trails. He was the first osteopathic physician to be appointed as a commissioned medical officer in the uniformed services (the U.S. Public Health Service, in 1953); the first D.O. to achieve star rank …
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