ATSU honored five Kirksville community leaders April 15 during its 6th annual Still Spirit Awards ceremony held at Truman State University. From 32 outstanding nominations, five were chosen to receive a Still Spirit Award, including Gary Cunningham, G.E. “Shag” Grossnickle, Marietta Jonas Jayne, John Rowe and the Hon. Martha Rowe, and Bertha Thomas. More than 200 […]
More than 220 prospective students came to visit ATSU’s Arizona campus on Saturday, April 10, making it the largest open house to date. The day consisted of tours, question-and-answer with current students, presentations, and lunch. The following programs were represented at the event: athletic training, audiology, occupational therapy, physician assistant studies, physical therapy, osteopathic medicine, […]
On April 6 the Southeast Maricopa Regional Partnership Council (SMRPC) held their monthly board meeting on ATSU’s Arizona campus. Prior to the board meeting, Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S., M.P.H., dean of the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health and SRMPC member at large, conducted a tour for council members of the ATSU campus and the […]
On Feb. 15-19, ATSU-ASHS audiology alumna and adjunct faculty member Lisa Koch, Au.D., ’03, took part in a mission with Operation We Care at the Amang Rodriguez Medical Center in Marikana City, Manila, Philippines. The Operation We Care team performed 116 major operations and a number of minor procedures, performed 180 hearing screenings, and dispensed […]
ATSU-KCOM graduate and professor Delbert E. Maddox, D.O., 97, of Kirksville died March 28, 2010. Born in 1912 in Hannibal, Mo., Dr. Maddox graduated from Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University) in 1936. After serving in the Navy in WWII, Dr. Maddox accepted a teaching position at Truman in 1945 and entered […]
Students, faculty, and alumni tell you what a D.O. is.
A.T. Still University – Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM) Dean Philip Slocum, D.O., and School of Health Management (SHM) Dean Kimberly O’Reilly, D.H.Ed., were selected to participate in the 2010 Harvard Graduate School of Education summer programs. Dean Slocum will attend the Institute for Educational Management (IEM). The IEM program provides administrators with at […]
President Jack Magruder is pleased to announce the dedication and renaming of the Old Administration Building on the Missouri campus to the Couts Learning Center. Fred A. Couts, D.O., is a 1953 KCOM graduate, former member of the ATSU Board of Trustees, and former member of the Kirksville Osteopathic Alumni Association Board of Directors. KOAA […]
Two recent graduates from ATSU-ASHS’ Transitional Audiology program were named Professional Leadership Award recipients by the Audiology Foundation of America (AFA). Award winner Johnnie Sexton, Au.D., ’10, has worked with children who are deaf and hard of hearing for 33 years, and was one of the first educational audiologists in North Carolina. He is also […]
ATSU Provost Craig M. Phelps, D.O., FAOASM, has been named for a second consecutive year to the coveted annual list of “Top Docs” in Phoenix Magazine. Dr. Phelps is listed as one of the Valley’s top sports medicine doctors, a specialty that has only been part of the issue for two years. “It is […]