The Fitness Club, along with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Stacey Pierce-Talsma, DO and faculty member, Joel Talsma, MS (a.k.a. DJ Histo), implemented virtual Yoga Jams for the COMmunity via Zoom. The powerful yoga sessions were designed to uplift spirits during these uncertain times and help restore one’s sense of self.
COM Faculty member, faculty member, Dave Johnson, PhD and his son, Ryan, felt inventive of late. They built a coronavirus trap dubbed the “Coronavirus 5000”. The virus is “lured in” by a small plate of human pulmonary epithelial cells in the back. Testing has yet to be conducted. Patent pending…
Alumna, Sarah Shepherd, DO ’08 is working the Emergency Room at Southern Maine Medical Center. She was interviewed by the Maine Osteopathic Association about her experience with COVID-19 in the ER. Read the interview on their Facebook page.
Max Cohen, DO ‘20 assisted the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in writing a paper, “Clinical and virologic characteristics of the first 12 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States”, which was recently published in Nature Medicine. Read the publication.