David, a 6-year-old boy from Chiapas, Mexico, traveled with his family 18 hours by car to receive the second in a series of surgeries to repair his cleft lip and palate. Maria, a young woman in her 20s, walked with a noticeable limp and couldn’t use her right arm. She complained of pain in her […]
The Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation has continued its Provisional Accreditation of ATSU’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. “It is the highest level a school can have until they graduate their first class, and we are honored to have this continuation,” said Senior Vice President – Academic Affairs Douglas L. Wood, D.O., Ph.D. SOMA […]
KCOM welcomes back classes of ’60 and ’85 The Missouri campus welcomed alumni back to Kirksville in September with CME events, tours, dinners, lectures, unveilings, and book signings. Not to mention a Still-a-Bration that encouraged faculty, staff, and alumni to get their game on and show their team spirit. The three-day celebration kicked off with […]
More than 80 students, faculty, professionals, and guests gathered October 9 in the Connell Information Technologies Center on ATSU’s Missouri campus for the second annual Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Symposium (IBRS) sponsored by ATSU’s Still Research Institute (SRI).
Services Administration (HRSA) granted ATSU eight awards totaling more than $5.86 million. In all, ATSU was awarded more than 60 percent of HRSA’s Federal Health Professions grant funding in Missouri and more than 75 percent of all grants in Arizona.
A.T. Still University’s 26th annual Northeast Missouri (NEMO) Triathlon was held September 12 at Thousand Hills State Park. Participants began checking in for the event at 6:30 a.m. on race day, and the triathlon began at 8 a.m. Nearly 160 participants competed individually and in teams in the 3/4-mile swim, 18- mile bike ride, and […]
In August, ATSU-ASHS’ Human Movement program held its second institute at the Phoenix-East Mesa Hilton in Mesa. More than 100 online students attended the residential institute, which featured town hall meetings, presentations, and workshops over five days.
Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine Researcher receives $300k NIH grant Vineet Singh, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology/Immunology, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for $308,874. Dr. Singh’s research focuses on controlling staph infections by studying the significance of an aggressive bacterial pathogen, staphylococcus aureus, which causes a variety of diseases ranging from […]
ATSU is considering requests by three groups based in southern California, central Florida, and Kirksville to bring to those regions the university’s successful and innovative dentistry program. University President Jack Magruder met with the ATSU Board of Trustees in late September and soon announced a formal feasibility study to be completed before the next board […]
On August 21, ATSU-KCOM‘s newest class of 172 medical students participated in the Induction and White Coat Ceremony. The class of 2014 received their white coats at the ceremony, held in Baldwin Hall Auditorium at Truman State University. The White Coat Ceremony was established in 1996 and impresses upon first-year students the significance and symbolism […]