At its August 2017 meeting, the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) granted full accreditation to A.T. Still University-Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ATSU-MOSDOH), Missouri’s newest dental school. CODA, established in 1975, is nationally recognized by the United States Department of Education as the sole agency to accredit dental and dental-related education programs conducted […]
Elliott Charrow, MS, PA-C, ‘02, adjunct professor in the Advanced Physician Assistant (APA) program in A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Health Sciences (ATSU-ASHS), announced his retirement after teaching Occupational Medicine and Family Medicine for over 15 years. Charrow began teaching in APA in 2002. He announced his retirement at this year’s ATSU-ASHS graduation on […]
This past May, A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Health Sciences’ (ATSU-ASHS) Audiology department worked with Healthy Hearing program to provide hearing exams to Special Olympic athletes. Since 2013, ATSU-ASHS faculty, alumni, and students from the department have screened athletes’ hearing and to identify signs of reduced hearing. During the comprehensive screenings, Audiology staff and […]
By Sarah Murawski, PA, ’17 I started my clinical year worried that I wouldn’t know how to address treatment plans, and that patients would be able to sense my inexperience as a provider. I came to Franklin, Louisiana focused on learning the medicine. What I didn’t realize was that I knew most of the medicine, […]
John Sutton, DO, ’89, is a voice for his profession. A graduate of A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM), Dr. Sutton currently serves as president of the American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI), a group representing thousands of osteopathic physicians who practice internal medicine. The mission of the ACOI is to promote […]
The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) recently awarded Barbara Maxwell, DPT, MSc, PT, ’06, director of interprofessional education and collaboration at A.T. Still University (ATSU), a health case study development grant sponsored by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The goal of the grant is to create a series of interprofessional, problem-based case studies […]
In July, A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM) received an award of $23,360 to improve opioid-related training for future primary care physicians. The one-year funding came as a supplement to a five-year, $1.2 million award from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
Third- and fourth-year A.T. Still University-Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ATSU-MOSDOH) students and faculty partnered with Affinia Healthcare staff to screen and treat students in the St. Louis area for two Back to School Health events at Affinia Healthcare’s Normandy High School and South Broadway locations. Six third-year ATSU-MOSDOH students and two fourth-year […]
Jonathan Beary, DO, ’09, succeeded G. Barry Robbins Jr., DO, FACN, ’70, as chair of the A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM) Neurobehavioral Sciences department July 1. Dr. Beary has served as an adjunct assistant professor in the department for nearly two years. He also chairs Northeast Regional Medical Center’s Stroke multidisciplinary committee […]
We’re still having a ball In the early 1900s, a game called “pushball” became a popular sporting event at the American School of Osteopathy. Pushball, which originated in Massachusetts, resembled a mixture of sports including football and rugby. The giant leather ball was approximately six feet in diameter and weighed more than 50 pounds. The […]