ATSU-Arizona Provost Craig Phelps, D.O., ’84, and Associate Provost Ted Wendel, Ph.D., welcomed faculty and staff to the annual Provost’s Address held October 28 on ATSU’s Arizona campus. Dr. Phelps highlighted some of the year’s accomplishments, including, most notably, the University’s 10-year accreditation by the NCA/HLC. Reporting on the health of ATSU in Arizona and […]

Valley of the Sun YMCA celebrated the grand opening of its East Valley Family YMCA (EVFY) on the university’s Arizona campus with a VIP reception on October 23 and a grand opening for the general public on October 24. More than 100 people, including Mesa dignitaries and ATSU leadership, attended Friday’s VIP event. Speakers included […]

SOMA student James Simmons, OMS III, was recognized in November with the A.T. Still University Above and Beyond Award for his quick thinking and heroic action, which saved the life of a Bellevue, Wash., man. Simmons witnessed a vehicular-pedestrian accident at a local car wash that left the victim slumped in his own trunk with […]

Eric Sauers, Ph.D., ATC, FNATA, chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA). This distinction recognizes professional achievement in research and/or education, combined with service to the profession. Only the most accomplished scholars in the athletic training profession earn this distinction and are allowed […]

[cincopa 10556818] In a unique collaboration, A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ATSU-ASDOH) and major league baseball’s Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels recently launched the Oral Health for Athletes program, which provides oral health screenings to spring training athletes. The first screenings were held for the Mariners and the Angels […]

  The Kirksville Preferred Merchants Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in 1989 by Kirksville and Northeast Missouri area merchants and professionals. The fund assists students from the Northeast Missouri area with tuition payments at ATSU-KCOM, which lessens their need for educational loans.   Since 1989, ATSU-KCOM has awarded more than $53,000 in Kirksville Preferred Merchants scholarships. ATSU […]

  At the 49th annual convention of the Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons of California (OPSC) in Palm Springs on February 10-14, Mark Burger, associate director of development for ATSU, presented Jeffrey H. Bloom, D.O., ’92 with an A.T. Still portrait in recognition of his 2009-10 service as OPSC president. Dr. Bloom practices family medicine in […]

[cincopa 10555100] More than 30 ATSU faculty, staff, students, and friends jumped into the ice covered Forest Lake at Thousand Hills State Park on February 13 to raise money for Missouri Special Olympics. ATSU raised more than $4,000 and the event brought in a record $29,071. [read more]

At the January 21-23 continuing medical education program, Primary Care Update-International Medicine at Diria Beach & Golf Resort in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, 35 physicians enjoyed insight into healthcare delivery systems and diagnostic and treatment methods of Costa Rica. Updates on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with common medical problems were provided. The Diria […]

Jae Hyun Park, D.M.D., M.S.D., M.S., Ph.D., director of the postgraduate orthodontic program, and Anita Sharma, D.M.D., D.H.Sc., former ASDOH postgraduate orthodontic resident, were recently published in the February issue of the Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry (JERD). Their article, “Esthetic Considerations in Interdental Papilla: Remediation and Regeneration”, was also reviewed by the editor […]