Black History Month: Music Pioneer Berry Gordy Jr.
Berry Gordy Jr. was a high school dropout who created an American icon. Born Berry Gordy III in 1928 (later known as …
Black History Month: Space Pioneer Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician with genius-level skills whose work as a “computer” at NASA enabled the first Americans to travel into …
Black History Month: Medical Pioneer Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Williams was a pioneering surgeon who performed the world’s first successful surgery on the human heart in Chicago in 1893. Dr. …
Black History Month: Medical Pioneer Vivien T. Thomas
Vivien T. Thomas With no formal education beyond high school, Vivien T. Thomas developed a procedure to treat cyanotic heart disease (Blue …
Managing Stress During the Winter Break
Written by: Dr. Kathy Killian-Harmon and Kären Robinson, RVU Mental Health and Wellness Counselors Adapted from https://www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad.htm Say Good-Bye to the Winter …
Get to Know the RVU Staff: Jen Fisher, MLIS
Jen Fisher, MLIS, is the Research Librarian, an Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities, and the Urban Underserved Track’s Co-Director. They joined the …
A Plea to Fellow Students
As a fourth-year student who has been through the wringer that you all are going through right now, I want to start …
A Brief History of Purple Heart Day
By Sean Lynch, OMS II, President of SAMOPS The roots of the Purple Heart extend back to the Revolutionary War, when it …
Alumni Spotlight: The Many Phases of a Military Medicine Career
Before joining the 75th Ranger Regiment as the Medical Director and Battalion Surgeon, Charles Hutchinson, DO ’15, was enrolled in the US …
Graduates Come Together to Treat Patient
A complex emergency case had arrived at the University of Iowa, and Robert Sand, DO ’16, was tasked with setting up the …