First-year occupational therapy student Jake Bishop took up photography eight years ago and has been a professional photographer for three. “I spent my life savings,” he says, “on a digital camera in 2001 that’s about as powerful as the one that’s now in my cell phone.” These days, what began as taking photos for friends […]
Kellie Holloway, DPT 2012, says her photography skills have developed primarily since beginning graduate school at ASHS. “Learning so much about the physiology, pathophysiology, biomechanics, and intricacies of the human body helps me remember to look outside into the larger world and the beauty there,” she says. [cincopa 10558860] “Being the daughter of my father […]
Joshua Davidson, a member of ASDOH’s class of 2011, began carving wood in 1993 while working as a glassblower. He enjoys working with wood because it is “a terrific surface to alter,” he says. “It can be dyed, shaped, inlaid, painted, carved, etc.” Davidson says he’s always been interested in pattern and works with wood […]
Changes at SHM reflect University’s vision for quality ATSU’s School of Health Management continues not only to increase its student population, but also to cultivate its quality. Since taking office as SHM’s third dean in December 2008, Kimberly O’Reilly, D.H.Ed., ’08, M.S.W., has led the school in a suite of changes to ensure its academic […]
For three years in a row, A.T. Still University has been recognized as a Gold Level Recipient of the American Heart Association’s 2009 Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Recognition program. The university joins an elite group of AHA awardees who have created a culture of physical importance in the workplace. ATSU was nationally recognized in the September […]
Thanks to a $75,000 grant from the Arizona-based Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, ATSU’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health is providing much-needed dental care to older adults. Through its Smile Forward for Mature Audiences Program, the school, which contributed an additional $25,000 to this program, hopes to meet the dental care needs of […]
More than 100 faculty, students, and alumni attended ATSU-ASHS’s Inaugural Research Symposium at the Arizona campus on Nov. 6. Several years of discussions, hard work, and planning allowed the school to hold the event, which showcased interdisciplinary research efforts within ATSU. The day included a continental breakfast; opening remarks from Randy Danielsen, Ph.D., PA-C, dean […]
Inaugural event addresses virtue, professionalism in medicine For faculty, it was about paying it forward. For students, it meant staying focused on their reasons for entering the profession. For both, and approximately 200 of their peers, the inaugural medical ethics night held December 3 on ATSU’s Missouri campus, meant a renewed commitment to values. Howard […]
Ed Cohen, D.O., FAOCD, ’69, has been interested in photography “ever since my parents bought me my first Kodak Baby Brownie Special in 1948. I still have the camera, and one day I will develop the film that I recently discovered remains on its spools.” His early interest has evolved into a full-time avocation, and […]
William B. Leibow, D.D.S., MSD, co-director of endodontics at ASDOH, says he tries not to get caught up in the reasons behind his art. He simply wants to create. “Photography is for me an exercise in creativity,” he says. “It allows me to get away and immerse myself in something other than teeth. I never […]