ATSU Gutensohn Clinic and North Missouri Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery held its third annual Sports Physicals clinic on June 6-7, 2013. Several hundred school-age athletes from Northeast Missouri were given free sports physicals, including a cardiac, pulmonary, and full orthopaedic exam. Thanks to grant funding, two athletic training students and a faculty member from […]
Lex Towns, PhD, has been chosen to serve as assistant dean, academic affairs for A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM). Dr. Towns is well-known at ATSU-KCOM where he served in the past as chair of the Anatomy Department and as a faculty member for many years. Before returning to ATSU-KCOM, Dr. Towns […]
A.T. Still University (ATSU) is the recipient of three 2013 American Inhouse Design Awards from Graphic Design USA. ATSU received a winning certificate for the Student Connect logo used in the Still-Well Newsletter, Still Magazine Online, and the 2011 ATSU Annual Report.More than 4,000 entries were received, with only 15 percent recognized for inhouse design. […]
Janna Gold, DDS, PhD, assistant professor, A.T. Still University’s School of Health Management, has been selected for poster presentation during the 141st American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2-6, 2013, in Boston. Her abstract is titled Incorporating dental screening into school health days: A best practice for oral health surveillance.
Physician assistant (PA) alumni and students met the evening of May 29 following the AAPA convention to connect with one another and receive updates from Randy Danielsen, PhD, PA-C, DFAAPA, dean, A. T. Still University’s Arizona School of Health Sciences (ATSU-ASHS), and Bert Simon, DHSc, PA-C, chair, physician assistant studies. Below is a recap of […]
Al Peraza, PT, DPT, ’09, co-founder of SafePatientSolutions, kept seeking a way to help people get up more easily from floor exercises who did not have the strength to pick themselves up and move from the floor to chair height independently. Dr. Peraza’s solution was the creation of ResQUp, a plastic fold-away, mobility device with […]
Faculty from the microbiology/immunology department at A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM) presented research and education posters at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held May 18-21, 2013, in Denver, CO. Neil Sargentini, PhD, professor and chair, ATSU-KCOM microbiology/immunology, presented Survey of keio collection escherichia coli mutants for […]
The American Osteopathic College of Radiology (AOCR) recently recognized two A.T. Still University alumni for outstanding contributions to their profession. On April 24, 2013, at the annual convention of the AOCR in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Paul Chase, DO, FAOCR, ’64, was presented the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed to a member of the […]
A.T. Still University’s Museum of Osteopathic MedicineSM Curator Debra Loguda-Summers and Director Jason Haxton were inducted into the honorary status of “The Compagnons” by the Collége d’ Études Osteopathiques in Quebec, Montreal. In English, “The Companions” represents the highest honor of the Montreal osteopathic school. Well-known past recipients in the osteopathic profession include Viola Frymann, […]
The National Center for American Indian Health Professions (NCAIHP) on the ATSU Arizona campus is sponsoring a series of displays and exhibits exemplifying American Indian culture. The current display in the series features totems and fetishes which is on exhibit in Building 5845, Suite 213.