Noreen O'Shea, DO

Noreen O'Shea has 35 years of experience in Family Medicine, with most of those years spent serving with underserved populations in both rural and urban populations. She earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences (now Des Moines University) in 1984. She completed her Family Medicine residency at Creighton University's St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, NE in 1987. She has worked at Community Health Centers and Family Medicine clinics in Kentucky, New York, Iowa, and South Dakota. 

She returned to Des Moines University in 2014 where she served as both a clinician and faculty member in the Family Medicine department. She joined the Behavioral Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Bioethics department in the summer of 2017. Her current academic duties include being course co-director for Physician as Professional and course director for Medical Ethics II and the Healer's Art, as well as being section co-director for the Preventative Medicine and Nutrition and Dermatology/Allergy sections of the Clinical Sciences III and IV courses. Her clinical practice is at Primary Health Care, a local federally qualified health center. She recently became the medical director at the Clive Free Clinic in the Des Moines metro area.