While embedded in a teaching health center, Jeremy Berger, OMS IV, SOMA, rediscovered the importance of patient advocacy. Ten years ago, when I was a caregiver for my ailing grandfather, I realized patients often need advocates.
The Navajo American Indian Reservation in Cameron, Ariz., is only three hours from the ATSU campus in Mesa, Ariz., but to the medical and dental students who participated in a Project Pueblo service trip, the area appeared more like a Third World country.
Work hard, play hard During Founder’s Day, second-year Smashers fought it out with first-year Kirksville Crunchers in the annual women’s flag football game on the Missouri campus. Smashers won 37-7.
With spring break upon us, Kathleen DiCaprio, PhD, chair of the Doctor of Health Sciences program at A.T. Still University-College of Graduate Health Studies, discusses Zika virus. Zika is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that has been recorded in Africa, South America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Dr. DiCaprio has a history of teaching undergraduate, graduate, […]
1960s Wilbert W. Stoever, DO, MACOI, ’61, received the 2015 Outstanding Physician award from the Osteopathic Founders Foundation of Tulsa, Okla., for his service to patients, community, the osteopathic profession, and the education of young osteopathic physicians in the Tulsa community.
Nelida Acosta is ATSU’s new senior administrative assistant for strategic university partnerships. She has worked at the University since 2011.
Larry Wickless, DO, ’67, was named board president for 2016 for the American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF). Dr. Wickless grew up in Kirksville, Mo., and graduated with his undergraduate degree at Truman State University. He then went on to earn his doctorate at A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM). Dr. Wickless also served […]
Board members often make big decisions. Not too often do board members make unanimous decisions. As for ATSU, its Board of Trustees embraces a collaborative, consensus decision-making process whereby all members must agree on every issue.
“Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.” – Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
Ron Winkler is a busy man. Yet he always seems to find time for ATSU. Since becoming a member of ATSU’s Board of Trustees in 2009, he has attended every quarterly board meeting as well as every Missouri campus commencement program.