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1
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Summerfield Still

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nephew of AT- founded SS Still College and Infirmary of Osteopathy

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Ell “Dougherty” Still

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Co-founder of SS Still College and Infirmary of Osteopathy (wife of Summerfield Still)

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fall 1898

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SS Still Colelge and Infirmary of Osteopathy

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Abraham Flexner

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wrote reviews on medical schools- said DMU was a business- none in iowa were acceptable

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Effects of Flexner’s review

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many colleges closed and DMU and others reformed

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1911

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SL Taylor became president- School renamed “Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy” -became non for profit

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S.L. Taylor

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became pres. 1911- 15 years

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Pharmacology in osteopathy

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did not teach this until 1920

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DO four year curriculum

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not until 1920

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Des Moines General Hospital

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main teaching site for DMSCO into 21st century

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DO’s during WWII

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excluded from military- became more widely known because MD’s were all in the military

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1958

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school renamed College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (COMS)

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1950

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Still College Hospital opened- residencies for surgery, OBGYN, and peds

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Thomas Vigorito, DO

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Pres 1968-1971 -was supportive of transitioning to MD but quit after this was denied

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Leonard Azneer

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1971-1996 -moved school to current location

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1981

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became university by adding college of podiatric and health sciences