174 volunteers. 61 patients. One Day for Special Smiles. On Friday, Nov. 4, A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health students, faculty, and staff joined together with Special Olympics Arizona for the 6th annual Day for Special Smiles event, which provided dental care for patients over 21 years old with special needs, […]
A.T. Still University’s National Center for American Indian Health Professions (NCAIHP) hosted a Lunch & Learn event on Wednesday, Nov. 2 with dancers and a flute player from Indigenous Enterprise at ATSU’s Mesa campus. About 70 students, faculty, and staff attended the event which included narration and explanations of the native dances. The three performers from […]
ATSU Student Affairs held the 11th annual National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Recruitment Fair on the Mesa campus on Tuesday, Nov. 1 from 4:00-6:00 p.m., with over 20 recruiters from across the country in attendance to meet with students from various programs. Approximately 85 students from ASDOH, ASHS, and SOMA attended the recruitment […]
The University is pleased to announce the establishment of the A.T. Still Research Institute Center for Oral Health Research (ATSRI COHR). The mission of the ATSRI COHR is to promote whole person health by translating outcomes gained from clinical, behavioral, and exploratory research into advances in dental education and practice. The goal of the ATSRI […]
Randy Danielsen, PhD, PA, DFAAPA, dean, ATSU-ASHS, served as one of three instructors for the 2016 Academy for Academic Leadership (AAL) Compass Program for Academic Advancement online training course in September. Dr. Danielsen’s course was on medical publishing, and included how to choose a journal, audience, and topics for publishing. Dr. Danielsen has published over […]
On Friday, Oct. 21, A.T. Still University’s Mesa Campus held the annual Founder’s Day festival. With about 450 ATSU community members in attendance, guests enjoyed inflatable slides, obstacle courses, bounce houses, face painting, a photo booth, DJ, kissing booth, and food from Dickies BBQ. The family-friendly event was held in celebration of the memorial service of […]
In an effort to augment ancillary campus-based primary care activities, A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (ATSU-KCOM) Primary Care Training and Enhancement grant expanded the scope of National Primary Care Week (NPCW) events on the Missouri campus in October 2016. The goal of National Primary Care Week is to promote primary care career […]
Heather Johnson, RDH, MEd, and Yvette Thornton, RDH, MPH, both co-directors of Integrated Community Service Partnerships at A.T. Still University – Arizona School for Dental and Oral Health (ATSU-ASDOH), won a Wrigley Company Foundation Community Service Grant for their “Community Outreach Education in a Box” program. Each box produced by the program contains models, books, […]
A.T. Still Memorial Library staff hosted their annual Missouri campus open house to kick off ATSU Founder’s Day events. The open house, which was rich with activities for faculty, students, staff, alumni, and visiting guests, was themed similarly to “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine,” a National Library of Medicine exhibit. The exhibit […]
A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health Dean Jack Dillenberg DDS, MPH, and Director of Research Ann Spolarich, PhD, RDH, spoke during the American Dental Association annual session on October 22 in Denver, which was attended by ASDOH alumni, students, and friends. Notable achievements by ASDOH alumni presented at the event included: […]