Dreams

come true

Vol. 6, No. 2 • Fall 2011

92 new D.O.s graduate in
ATSU-SOMA’s inaugural classOur point of view
ATSU celebrated five commencements this spring, and you’re looking at a few of the 92 new D.O.s who graduated from
ATSU-SOMA’s inaugural class in June.

A.T. STILL UNIVERSITY
Board of Trustees 2011
Carl G. Bynum, D.O., M.P.H., ’75
Chair
Jefferson City, Mo.

Friends,

Kenneth E. Jones, D.O., ’83

It seems like every issue of the magazine is special, and this one is,too, celebrating the first graduating class of our School of Osteopathic
Medicine in Arizona. SOMA began as a dream six years ago when Dr.
Douglas L. Wood joined us as the founding dean. Now the dream has
become reality as 92 men and women of the inaugural class took partin commencement ceremonies on June 3 and, receiving their D.O.
degrees, became osteopathic physicians. I am proud of each and every one of them, and I am equally proud of the innovative curriculum
which Dr. Wood and his staff have implemented and which Interim
Dean Thomas McWilliams is carrying on.

from the president

At the Innovators’ Gala the evening before
commencement I had the distinct privilegeof presenting to Dr. Wood the Presidential
Proclamation of Thanks and Appreciation for
his years of excellent service to SOMA, to the
University, and to medical education nationwide. The entire evening was a marvelous
celebration of SOMA students, faculty, andstaff, including the 11 community campuses
across the country at which students spent
three years of their medical education.

Vice Chair
Clinton, Mo.

Cynthia D. Byler, D.O., M.P.H.,
KCOM ’85, SHM ’04
Secretary
St. Louis, Mo.

Richard W. Anderson, D.O., FACGP, ’46
Dallas, Texas

Manuel C. Bedoya, D.M.D.
Tucson, Ariz.

Daniel L. Biery, D.O., FACOI, FACG, ’72
Phelps, N.Y.

Kenneth A. Burdick, J.D.
Minneapolis, Minn.

Clyde H. Evans, Ph.D.
Needham, Mass.

Robert L. King, J.D.
Lexington, Ky.

Martin S. Levine, D.O., M.P.H., FACOFP,KCOM ’80, SHM ’03
Bayonne, N.J.

Now that the first class has graduated, theAmerican Osteopathic Association’s Commission on Osteopathic
College Accreditation has awarded SOMA its initial full accreditation
status. Congratulations to all who made this important recognition
happen, and congratulations to everyone at SOMA and ATSU for the
splendid success of the dream that became reality.

Paul A. Lines, D.D.S., M.S.

Other dreams are taking firm shape, too, including the Missouri dental
program to be centered on our Kirksville campus. Many people at
ATSU have already put in countless hours to move this project ahead.
The next steps are to work with community health centers in Missouri
and to obtain concrete plans from the architects for our Kirksville dental building. I look forward to the first class of 40-45 students enteringin fall 2013.

Robert W. Uhl

Beginning with the dream of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, ATSU continues
as an institution full of vitality and excellence. The wonderful andtalented people at this great institution take pride in being part of themission, the vision, and the many dreams that have become—andwill become—real. I am proud to play a role in the success of ATSU as
we go forward to pre-eminence, and I thank you—the faculty, staff,
students, alumni, and friends of the University, as well as the Board ofTrustees—for all that you do. It is a pleasure and an honor to represent
you wherever I go.
Peace,

Jack Magruder, President

Tempe, Ariz.

Linda C. Niessen, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Dallas, Texas

John G. Robinson
Phoenix, Ariz.
Phoenix, Ariz.

Paul R. Willging, Ph.D.
Ellicott City, Md.

Ronald W. Winkler
Kirksville, Mo.

Our mission
A.T. Still University of Health
Sciences serves as a learningcentered university dedicatedto preparing highly competentprofessionals through innovative
academic programs with acommitment to continue its
osteopathic heritage and focus
on whole person healthcare,scholarship, community health,interprofessional education,
diversity, and underserved
populations.

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Contents

Vol 6, No. 2

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Symbol of peace installed in
ArizonaMortarboards flew as ATSU
celebrated spring commencements.

6 Win-win: Truman and ATSU

FeaturesIn every issue

20 Dreams come true

5 In brief
Hot sheet
Faculty news
From the archives

Years in the making, SOMA graduates its first class of D.O.s using a
new model of medical education.

28 ASHS graduates 222 students

33 Connections
Donor recognition
Class notes
In memoriam
The last word

Degrees are awarded in six online programs.

29 175 years of world-class D.O.s

ATSU and AOA Executive Director John Crosby, J.D., celebrate
175 years of educating D.O.s at KCOM.

15 The students’ professor

30 SHM online students take the stage

Still Magazine strengthens andextends the positive connections of alumni, faculty, staff,
and students to the university
and each other by informing,
entertaining, and engendering
pride in a shared experienceand university mission. The
magazine focuses on a varietyof academic, social, political,
cultural, scientific, and artistic
issues through the lens ofstudent and alumni achievements, faculty research, andinstitutional news.

30 Fifth class of ATSU dentists enter the profession

Fall 2011

SHM’s ninth commencement recognizes 241 graduates.

ASDOH graduates 59 new community-focused dentists.
Dreamscome true“What has happened here over the
past six years is utterly amazing.”
Douglas L. Wood, D.O., Ph.D.,
senior vice president – academic affairs;
founding dean, School of Osteopathic
Medicine in ArizonaVol. 6, No. 2 • Summer 2011

92 new D.O.s graduate in
ATSU-SOMA’s inaugural class

Cover photoby Mark Skalny

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STILL magazine is published three

Good-byetimes per year.

Submit letters and editorial material to:
EDITOR
ATSU Communication & Marketing
800 W. Jefferson St.
Kirksville, MO 63501-1497
stillmagazine@atsu.edu

This letter is bittersweet.
No longer will I have the privilege of continuing our conversation as editor of Still Magazine, as my family and I are leaving
Missouri for Oregon in the manner of Lewis and Clark – but
without the keel boat. He, to continue his career in fisheries
and wildlife, and I to Oregon State University, where I will continue writing about health and communicating with alumni in
the College of Health and Human Sciences.

To record a change of address, contact:
Terry Hilpert
Alumni Affairs
thilpert@atsu.edu
PRESIDENT Jack Magruder, Ed.D.
VICE PRESIDENT for COMMUNICATION & SPECIALASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT Heinz Woehlk, Ph.D.
EDITOR Kathryn Stroppel, B.J.
CO-EDITOR Lee Cashatt, B.S.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Ann Bailey, B.F.A.
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lee Cashatt, Michelle Fiore,
Jo Gambosi, Sarat Pratapchandran, Ashley Whalen
PHOTOGRAPHERS Kelly Rogers, Ashley Whalen

I have enjoyed working to transform this publication to one
that represents the university and both of its campuses, and I leave knowing
I truly did my best to make this magazine something we can be proud of andwhich also, and most importantly, serves you. Still Magazine has earned a namefor itself, and I see no reason why that won’t continue.
This university has changed by leaps and bounds since I joined its family six
years ago. One thing that hasn’t changed is its commitment to students and its
mission and belief that we are responsible for caring for those in need and fortreating not just the disease, but the person – the whole person.

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not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion,
national origin, sex, gender, sexual preference, age ordisability in admission or access to, or treatment or
employment in its programs and activities. Any personwith questions concerning ATSU’s nondiscrimination
policies is directed to contact the following persons:
Employees may contact Donna Brown, director of Human Resources, at 660.626.2790. Students, membersof the public, or beneficiaries may contact Ron Gaber,
vice president for student affairs, at 660.626.2236.
Both may be reached at 800 W. Jefferson St., Kirksville,
MO 63501.

from the editor

Still Magazine is published by the department ofCommunication & Marketing, A.T. Still University, 800
W. Jefferson St., Kirksville, MO 63501, 660.626.2272.

This university has given me much and has been more than a job. It’s provided
a support system of friends and colleagues, as well as access to a network ofstudents and alumni who unfailingly impress me with their talent, skills, anddedication to care for others in a holistic way.
Thank you for the opportunity to tell your story, tell you a story, educate andentertain you. It’s been a pleasure serving you, and I look forward to continuing
to share the story of osteopathic medicine in my travels.
As one colleague always says, and which seems appropriate considering my
new adventure West …
Happy trails!

Kathryn Stroppel, B.J., editor

No one accomplishes anything alone,
and I’m part of an awesome staff in
Communication & Marketing. I’m herewith half the team celebrating SOMA
students at the Innovators’ Gala.

In my absence, please send communication to stillmagazine@atsu.edu to ensure
your mail gets to the next editor.
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Hot sheet
Faculty news
From the archives

In brief

The Tree of Peace

After a long journey to ATSU’s Arizona campus, the Tree of Peace, which symbolizes oral
health as a bridge to peace nationwide, was officially unveiled and dedicated May 26
before more than 40 guests. The bronze sculpture, which was funded by ATSU-ASDOH
supporters, is the first to be installed in the United States and symbolizes the pioneering
partnership of medicine and education and the enduring desire to achieve peace within
the global community.

Pictured are (right) ATSU-ASDOH
Dean Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S.,
M.P.H., and (left) Adam Stabholz,
D.M.D., dean, faculty of dental
medicine, the Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem, who are standing
with (center) Hedva Ser, arenowned contemporary artist
who sculpted the Tree of Peace.

The original sculpture is located at the Hebrew University School of Dental Medicine,where it symbolizes the peaceful, pioneering partnership between Israeli and Palestinian
dental students at the university and also Al-Quds University, both of which are located in
Jerusalem, Israel.

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KCOM president
emeritus isGreat Pioneer

Truman State University President Troy D. Paino and ATSU President Jack Magruder look tostrengthen cooperative ventures.

Win-win:

Truman and ATSU share bright futures

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Strategic partners in many ventures,
Kirksville’s two universities are poised
to take that partnership to the nextlevel. Troy D. Paino, J.D., Ph.D., TrumanState University president, and ATSU
President Jack Magruder have spentmonths in conversation regarding theadvantages of a confirmed collaboration, especially in support of ATSU’s
new dental school.
“The fates of Kirksville, ATSU, andTruman are inextricably joined; overtime, our individual successes will
benefit the entire community,” Dr.
Paino said. “Truman’s support for
ATSU’s dental program is unequivocal,
and we will do whatever we can toensure its success.”
Initiatives in support of Missouri
Dental include Truman’s developmentof a pre-dental club and pre-dentistryconcentration as well as a cooperatively developed admissions process
to co-enroll Truman students in thedentistry program.
Other exciting initiatives also areon the radar, such as possible newgraduate degree programs in pharmacy and nursing.
“I am excited about the increasingly valuable partnership between our
universities, especially with respect
to ATSU’s new dental program,” said
President Magruder. “ATSU, Truman,
and the city of Kirksville will be thebeneficiaries of our cooperation.”
While no timelines for these initiatives have been outlined, it is certainthat each institution will share continued successes, building upon theiralready strong relationship. For many
years the universities have pooled
resources – Truman uses ATSU’s
anatomy lab, ATSU makes constantuse of Truman’s Baldwin Hall Auditorium, and researchers from both
campuses share new ideas at ATSU’s
annual Interdisciplinary Biomedical
Research Symposium. Countless otherexamples abound, each a win-win for
Kirksville’s fine institutions of higher
education.

On July 15, the American Osteopathic
Association honored KCOM President
Emeritus Fred C. Tinning, Ph.D., for
his contributions to the osteopathic
medical profession with its Great
Pioneer Award.
Additionally, the American Academy of Osteopathy presented Dr.
Tinning with its 11th annual Academy
Award in recognition of his supportof osteopathic philosophy, principles,and practices.
Dr. Tinning earned his bachelor’s(1959), master’s (1961), and doctorate(1973) at Michigan State University(MSU). He served as president of
ATSU-KCOM from 1984-96. In 1994,
the college dedicated the Tinning
Education Center in his honor.
Dr. Tinning boasts numerous otherrecognitions, having been selectedby the Kirksville Osteopathic Alumni
Association Board of Directors toreceive its Living Tribute Award (2003)
for his many years of outstanding
service to KCOM and to the osteopathic profession. In 1999, the MSU
Alumni Association honored him with
the Distinguished Alumni Award for
his exceptional community, state, andnational service.

Dr. and Mrs. Tinning

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Helle Brand, PA, Memory Disorders Clinic, outlined issues associated with each stage of Alzheimer’s.

PA program update

Museum gets funds for cranial collection

The Accreditation Review
Commission on Education for the
Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has
granted continued accreditation
to A.T. Still University’s Physician
Assistant program. Continued
accreditation is an accreditation
status granted when a currently
accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.
Continued accreditation remains
in effect until the program closes
or withdraws from the accreditation process, or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure tocomply with the Standards. The
approximate date for the nextcomprehensive review of the
program by the ARC-PA will be
March 2014.

The Cranial Academy Foundation
extended funds to the Museumof Osteopathic MedicineSM andInternational Center for Osteopathic History to support theViola Frymann Legacy Collection.
The collection comprises thelife work of Viola Frymann, D.O.,
FAAO, FCA, a pioneer, innovator, advocate, and friend of theosteopathic profession for morethan 50 years. The gift will help
the museum assess, prioritize,and make Dr. Frymann’s unique
work available for education andresearch.
“There are few among us who
are more worthy of high esteem
and few who have such a distinguished body of work as theprofession’s beloved Dr. Viola Fry-mann,” said Michael Lockwood,
D.O., ’81, FCA, president of The
Cranial Academy Foundation.
The Cranial Academy Foundation is dedicated exclusively
to teaching, advocating, andadvancing osteopathic medicine,
specifically osteopathic medicine
in the cranial field. “It is distinctly
our honor to aid in the research
and advancement of the Osteopathic Paradigm and Sutherlandconcepts,” Dr. Lockwood said.
“Members of the board of directors embrace the philosophy that
serving is not an obligation or
opportunity but a gift.”

ATSU’s Committee on Aging
hosted its 7th annual Lecture
on Aging on April 1 to enhance
healthcare providers’ understanding of the challenges associatedwith Alzheimer’s disease andshare current concepts related
to diagnosis and patient care.
The lecture, “Meeting the challenge of Alzheimer’s: Current
concepts in diagnosis and care,”featured speakers from the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute (BAI)in Phoenix, and was held on the
Arizona campus with simultaneous videoconferencing on the
Missouri campus.
In his presentation, “Diagnosis
and treatment of Alzheimer’s
disease,” Roy Yaari, M.D., MAS,associate director of BAI’s Memory Disorders Clinic, discussed theearly warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease, the key elements
to diagnosing Alzheimer’s, anddrugs currently used to treat thedisease. He stressed that it is important to note that these drugs
slow down the progression of thedisease but are not curative.
Helle Brand, PA, Memory
Disorders Clinic, addressed thestages of Alzheimer’s disease andthe key issues associated withearly, moderate, and late stagesof the disease. “In each of thesestages, it is important to recognize the impact of the disease on
caregivers and offer support andunderstanding,” she said.
“ATSU was honored to partnerwith BAI for this lecture,” said
Elton Bordenave, M.Ed., directorof the ATSU Aging Project for the
Arizona campus. “We plan on
future collaborative projects with
BAI and other community organizations to enhance our student,
faculty, and staff’s awareness of
issues affecting the elderly.”

hot sheet

Lecture on Aging
focuses on
Alzheimer’s

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Fraternity prepares campus, community for disaster
ATSU-KCOM Sigma Sigma Phi
honors fraternity brought together members of the Kirksvillecommunity for the first Disaster
Preparedness and AwarenessDay (DPAD) on March 26. Cold
temperatures couldn’t keep thecrowd away as 250 healthcare
professionals, students, volunteers, and community members
gathered to raise awareness ofthe steps to take whenever acommunity disaster occurs. Second-year ATSU-KCOM students
Colleen Emge and Michael Musso
coordinated the event.
“We wanted to raise community awareness,” Emge said. “Afterthe tornado in 2009, Red Cross
and FEMA weren’t able to gethere for two days and locals wereself-dependent and we wanted
to get out information on how to
respond to a future crisis.”
Community fire departments,
ambulance districts, and local law
enforcement joined with Northeast Regional Medical Center, A.T.

Still University, and other community healthcare organizations,setting up stations, lectures, anddemonstrations to benefit thecommunity and students.
“We definitely want to see thisbecome an annual community
event,” Musso said. “We will lookto bring back everything next
year and to add new pieces aswell.”
With the success of DPAD,
Emge and Musso were asked topresent the event as a workshop
at the 2011 Student Osteopathic
Medical Association national
convention in Washington, D.C.,
on April 9.
Two other schools of osteopathic medicine have alreadytaken notice. Pacific Northwest
University of Health Sciences in
Yakima, Wash., and Touro University Nevada in Henderson, Nev.,
have inquired about a videoconference session with event
organizers to implement similar
programs on their campuses.

Bottom photo: Pictured are Colleen Emge, Dan Holte, R.N., director of
the Emergency Department at Northeast Regional Medical Center, andMichael Musso.

Gallup taps ATSU for campus well-being

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ATSU has been selected as oneof only three inaugural member
institutions of the Gallup Campus
Wellbeing Consortium. The consortium works to create a new
discussion about the wellbeing of
the people who learn and workat colleges and universities, andto create a community where
people use a common vocabulary about what is right withindividuals. These institutions
are collectively committed to increasing the wellbeing of all thepeople on their campuses and in
the surrounding communities.
The University of North Texas andTexas Christian University are theother schools selected.
Universities were selectedfrom a pool of interested schools
based on their outstanding
levels of commitment to
the project and thepowerful impact
they are proposing
to make on theircampuses and intheir communities.
This announcement marks the beginning of a five-year
journey for each university
to become a wellbeing campus
and to help students, faculty,
and staff reach thriving levels of

wellbeing.
This is a landmark commitment to improving the lives of
those who learn and work at
ATSU. It clearly aligns withthe university’s mission to improve thewellbeing not only of
the university family
but also the greatercommunity.
“The goals of theconsortium are highly
congruent with the mission of the university,” ATSU
President Jack Magruder said.
“We are committed to educate
caring professionals dedicated towhole person healthcare and toprovide a healthy learning andwork environment, in keepingwith our osteopathic heritage.
Our participation in the Gallup
Consortium will help us maximize
progress toward that goal.
“I am excited about thisimportant project and confident
that everyone will benefit fromour participation. This is a chancefor us to make a difference
nationally as we move toward
becoming the pre-eminent
healthcare university.”
For more information about
the program and its goals, visit
campuswellbeing.gallup.com.

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The American Dental Association(ADA) and ATSU-ASDOH announced in March the launch of
the Community Dental Health
Coordinator (CDHC) educationand training program based at
ATSU’s Mesa, Ariz., campus. The
program will provide training forcommunity health workers withemphasis on oral health education, prevention, and helping
patients who may normally facebarriers to care, receive dental
care.
ATSU-ASDOH is one of four
university-affiliated dental
schools providing the CDHC program, which is jointly sponsoredby the ADA. Other universities
offering programs in conjunction
with their dental schools include
Philadelphia’s Temple University,
the University of Oklahoma, andthe University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA).

In their initial phase of training
in Arizona, students, who arepracticing dental assistants anddental hygienists, will complete
12 months of online courseworkadministered by Rio Salado
College in Tempe, Ariz. Upon successfully completing the didactic
portion of their training, they
begin six-month internships at
ATSU-ASDOH. Students receivea certificate upon completion of
the program.
Temple University’s Kornberg School of Dentistry trains
students to work in inner cities;
the University of Oklahoma trains
students to serve in remote rural
areas; and students currently at
the UCLA School of Dentistry
are training to work in American
Indian communities. The UCLACDHC program will end with thegraduation of its second class ofstudents in fall 2011. The final

group of students training
to work in American Indian
communities will begin andcomplete their training in the
ATSU-ASDOH program.
“We’re excited to open thisfinal phase of the CDHC pilot
project at the Arizona School of
Dentistry & Oral Health,” said ADA
President Raymond F. Gist, D.D.S.
“It will leverage the university’s
many ties to the American Indian
community and its proximity toboth Rio Salado College and thesouthwestern tribal communities
in which some CDHCs will work.”
ATSU-ASDOH has the largest
contingency of tribally enrolled
American Indian dental students
of any dental school in thenation, with a 100 percent
graduation rate for Native
students. All of ATSU-ASDOH’s
Native graduates practice in
Native communities.

Museum to participate inconservation program
The Museum of Osteopathic
MedicineSM has been chosen toparticipate in the 2011 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP)
and joins 2,600 museums thathave participated in CAP in its
21-year history of serving small
museums.
CAP will provide a generalconservation assessment of themuseum’s collections, and a professional conservator will spend
two days surveying the site before preparing a comprehensive
report identifying conservation
priorities. The onsite consultation will enable the museum toevaluate its current collections’care policies, procedures, andenvironmental conditions. The
assessment report will help
the museum make appropriate
improvements for the immediate,mid-range, and long-range careof its collections.
“The museum has worked
toward this professional review
for almost 14 years since its lastevaluation and is confident thatthe work accomplished will beevident in the new CAP report,”
said Museum Director Jason
Haxton.

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ATSU-ASDOH joins elite group in training community health workers

ATSU-ASDOH visits Jordan
ATSU’s Arizona School of Dentistry& Oral Health recently visited Irbid,
Jordan, to meet with leadership fromthe Jordan University of Science andTechnology (JUST) about a potential collaboration to include ATSUASDOH, JUST, and Lutheran Medical
Center to start an Advanced Education in General Dentistry programon the JUST campus.
From left to right: Prof. Elham S.J. Abu Alhaija, dean of the faculty of dentistry, JUST; Tony Hashemian, D.D.S., special assistant to the ASDOH dean, global
oral health; Sabah Kalamchi, D.D.S., ASDOH assistant dean; Prof. Ahed M. Al-Wahadni, president, JUST; Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S., M.P.H., ASDOH dean;
Elizabeth Russell; and Prof. Khalid El-Salem, dean of graduate studies, JUST.

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“Universitizing” continues with new support desk, unified library
The new, university-wide A.T.
Still Memorial Library (ATSMLib)and its Educational Technology
Development Center have established the Academic Computing
Support Desk. The support desk
staff will provide answers tobasic questions about the use ofacademic computing softwareand services and, if needed, referindividuals for more in-depth
consultation. The support desk islocated in the ATSMLib-Arizona.
Access and use of the support
desk are available to both the
Arizona and Missouri programs’faculty and staff.

ATSU’s new university-widelibrary launched on April 5,
unifying the Arizona and Missouri
campus libraries. The establishment of the A.T. Still University Memorial Library is part of
the university’s move toward
combining the two campuses
into a single unified university
structure.
Working together, the two
campus library locations will takethe lead in providing focused
library and academic computing
support of the schools on each
campus.

“The new unified library structure will provide a consistent,
coordinated set of resources andservices across the ATSU community,” said Michael Kronenfeld,
university librarian and directorof the Arizona ATSMLib site. “Theopportunity to better pool ourresources and expertise will
enable us to upgrade these
services for everyone.”
Doug Blansit, formerly director of the ATSU Memorial Libraryin Missouri, will serve as directorof the Missouri ATSMLib site.

D.H.Sc. Institute inspires
ATSU’s Arizona School of Health
Sciences held its second winterinstitute for the online Doctor of
Health Sciences program in February. More than 100 students, 15
faculty, and five alumni attended
the 2011 institute, titled “Minding, Mending, and Moving Health
Forward.” Students toured the campus, listened to faculty and alumni
presentations, and shared research
projects with their colleagues. The
week also provided an opportunity
for students to meet face to faceand discuss pertinent issues inhealthcare.
Said one attendee, “I knowthat I made a great choice when
I chose A.T. Still University, andthe experience gave me an evengreater desire to achieve thisdegree from this University.”

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Arizona and Missouri students bond over b-ball
Arizona students visited the Missouri campus to take on its students in the annual Rotator Cuff basketball tournament. This is the fourth time ATSU-ASDOH Vice Dean James Bell, D.D.S., has taken students toMissouri to compete in the tournament, which he says is a nice way for students who don’t interact witheach other regularly to come together.
The sixth time Arizona teams have played in Missouri, the boys’ team included ASDOH students,
and the girls’ team comprised ASDOH and ASHS students. According to Dr. Bell, the girls’ team won four
straight games and took it all. “It was cool,” he said.

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Future access to oral healthcare
just became much brighter
for Missouri’s most vulnerable
populations, including the state’s
uninsured, underinsured, andunderserved populations of allages.
The Missouri Foundation for
Health (MFH) announced it will
provide an initial $500,000 grant
to ATSU to help the university
plan and develop a new andinnovative dental program in
Kirksville. Additional MFH funding of approximately $2.5 million
has been requested by ATSU for
its subsequent 2012 developmental/start-up phase and 2013
launch/implementation phase,contingent upon successful
completion of the initial planningand development phase.
ATSU expects to open its
Missouri dental program with its
first class of 40 to 45 students infall 2013. The four-year Missouri
dental curriculum is being modeled after the highly successful

and innovative dental programat ATSU’s Arizona School of
Dentistry & Oral Health in Mesa.
The goal of ATSU’s new Missouribased dental program is to
educate and produce a whole
new generation of communityminded dentists who will help
fill oral health workforce gaps,
including in Community HealthCenters (CHCs) across the state.
ATSU President Jack Magruder
said, “Adding the dental program
to our ATSU Missouri campus
not only will enhance interprofessional education in our state,
but also provide meaningfuloral health outcomes, especially among Missouri’s mostvulnerable populations. With thisgenerous support from MFH,
we are confident that our dental
program in Kirksville — involving
local and other Missouri CHCs —will be highly successful and will
help fulfill the missions of both
ATSU and MFH.”

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MFH gives $500k grant for Missouri dental program

A reason to smile
Approximately 350 underprivileged elementary school children
went home with brighter smiles
because of Give Kids a Smile®
Day (GKAS) held April 15 on the
A.T. Still University campus in
Mesa. Students from the Mesa
and Apache Junction Public
School Districts and, for the firsttime, children from the Catholic
Healthcare West dental program,
visited ATSU-ASDOH to receive
free basic dental care.
Through a partnership with
the Arizona Dental Foundation(ADF), ATSU-ASDOH students
and faculty took part in Give Kids
a Smile® Day for the sixth consecutive year along with volunteers and volunteer dentists fromaround the Valley. More than
400 volunteers participated in
the event.
According to Ginger Froncek,
executive director of the ADF, thedonated oral healthcare provided
through GKAS is approximately
the equivalent of $300 per child,with this year’s ATSU-ASDOH
event totaling $105,000 in care.

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Approximately 100 guests attended ATSU-ASDOH’s VIP
reception preview of The Center for Advanced Oral Health
Education on April 28. The multi-phased project includes
areas focused on orthodontics, maxillofacial care, advancedcare, and research. The first phase, an expanded orthodontic
clinic, held its grand opening. The center will be designed tobring together expertise in education, advanced care andresearch, and will provide unparalleled opportunities for oral
healthcare innovation and access.

nd
Seco
– COM

Best Video

Produced

ATSU brought home three
American Association ofColleges of Osteopathic Medicine(AACOM) Excellence inCommunications Awards
at the association’s annual
banquet on April 15.
Still Magazine won first place
in Best Magazine – Multimedia
and second place in BestMagazine – Print. iconnect earned
second place for Best Website.
And ATSU won second place
for its video “What is a D.O.?” inthe Best Video – COM Produced
category.
AACOM’s Excellence inCommunications Awards arepresented for outstanding
marketing, media relations,public relations, public
education, writing, and design
efforts at the nation’s collegesof osteopathic medicine.

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First lady of Tanzania visits ATSU-ASDOH
ATSU’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health welcomed
Her Excellency Salma Kikwete,
first lady of the United Republicof Tanzania, to campus in April.
She joined leadership from Project C.U.R.E. for lunch and a tour of
the ATSU-ASDOH Clinic.
HE Kikwete was in town toserve as the guest of honor at thesixth annual Project C.U.R.E. First
Ladies Luncheon at the Arizona
Biltmore. Proceeds from theluncheon will be used to deliver
medical supplies and equipment
to Tanzanian hospitals. Project
C.U.R.E. is a Colorado-based,
non-profit organization dedicated to helping meet the needfor medical supplies, equipment,
and services around the world.
The first lady is also the founder of Tanzania’s Women in Development Foundation, a non-profit
organization committed to anincreased number of economically empowered women, progres-sive communities, and educated,
healthy children. Because of theclose alignment of the organizations’ missions, the lunch andtour provided an opportunity for
ATSU-ASDOH leadership, Project
C.U.R.E. leadership, and the firstlady to discuss how the groups
may be able to collaborate in the
future.

Belles – and beaus –of the Ball

The 2011 ATSU-ASDOH Founders’ Ball was held June 9 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Ariz., in the hotel’s new Camelback Ballroom. All
students from the Class of 2011 were invited to attend the black-tie
formal, reception, and dinner with one guest, at no cost. The event
also included remarks by ATSU-ASDOH’s dean, the presentation of
the student-made DVD yearbook, and dancing. The ball, which wasattended by 252 guests, is primarily funded by sponsorship, andthis year boasted one Platinum-level sponsor ($5,000), six Gold-level
sponsors ($2,500), six table sponsors ($2,000) and 18 Friends of
ASDOH ($100-$1,999).

Women’s Wellness provides $15k in awards

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ATSU’s Women’s Wellness
program members announced
the recipients of the First Annual
Women’s Wellness ProgramAwards. Funds were madeavailable from charitable gifts
received from members to provide ATSU programmatic awards
through a competitive process.
Applications initially werereviewed by the Women’s
Wellness Awards & Scholarship Committee, with finalists
presenting to members of the
Women’s Wellness program at
an on-campus session. Women’s
Wellness members then voted

for program awards that bestaligned with ATSU’s mission.
More than $15,000 in combined
funding was awarded.
Funded recipients include$3,000 to the BRITE program,which provides dental patienttransportation to ASDOH’s dental
clinic; $4,000 to purchase a birthing simulator for ASHS’ Physician
Assistant program; and $8,500
for a hand-held X-ray system
for ASDOH students and faculty
who visit rural villages in Alaska
to provide care to underserved
populations, particularly schoolage children.
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Sixth annual
Still Spirit Awards honors
community leaders
still spirit awards

A celebrationof community

A.T. Still University honored
in March more than 30 Kirksvilleleaders who contribute to thecommunity in a variety of roles
and for more than 60 localorganizations.
Led by ATSU President Jack
Magruder and guest emcee
Alisa Kiger, the 2011 Still SpiritAwards hosted just over 200
community members
and honored seven with Still
Spirit Awards.
This is the sixth annual
ceremony ATSU has held tohonor those community leaders
who exemplify A.T. Still’s compassion and giving spirit. During theceremony, President Magruder
said Dr. Still would have loved
the connection that exists
today between the university
and Kirksville.
“It’s really neat that this community has twice come to the aidof A.T. Still University,” he said,
recalling the money the KirksvilleCity Council gave to Dr. Still toform his medical school, as wellas the $1 million recently raised
to bring a dental program to the
Missouri campus. “This truly is acelebration of community.”

Fall 2011

The 2011 Still Spirit Awardwinners include Tourism Director
Debi Boughton; co-chairs Ranee
Brayton and Larry Gardner ofCommunity Friends for ATSU
Dental; longtime community supporters Bill and Dianthe
Cable; livestock producer Garry
Mathes; and radio host John McConnell.
Last year’s Still Spirit Award
recipients Gary Cunningham,
Shag Grossnickle, Marietta
Jonas Jayne, John and theHon. Martha Rowe, and Bertha
Thomas were recognized, as
well as 25 nominees.

Top photo: Still Spirit Award nominees attended a VIP reception.
Left photo: Alisa Kiger, a 2007 Still Spirit Award winner,
emceed the event.
Right photo: ATSU-KCOM Biomedical Sciences student Paul
Buttars entertained the audience on his guitar during dinner.

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Music to our ears

women’s wellness

International music and noise exposure expert Marshall Chasin,
Au.D., ’03, M.Sc., Reg. CASLPO,Aud (C), shared his knowledge
with 122 attendees of the
Women’s Wellness program’sannual community luncheon
on March 1 at the newly opened
Musical Instrument Museumin Phoenix.
During Dr. Chasin’s presentation, “Hear the Music,” he discussed hearing loss prevention
and the importance of appreciating and not taking advantage
of music.
“It turns out that humans are
wonderful at discerning changes
in pitch, and we can certainly tellwhen people are off key,” said Dr.
Chasin. “However, we are quitepoor discriminators of intensity.
It is intensity that eventuallycauses hearing loss damage.
Rock and roll needs to be
loud, but it does not need to
be intense.”
Dr. Chasin’s presentation covered hearing protection, moderaTop photo: Founding Women’s Wellness co-chairs and incoming co-chairs(l to r) Christine Muldoon, Amanda Weaver, Nancy Dean, and Kim Hochschuler.

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Left photo: Joseph, from Duo Felice, allows the group to literally hear themusic as he performs on his guitar during lunch.

tion, and some tricks to delude
the musician and the listenersuch as lowering the volume andobtaining special noise-reducing
headphones.
Among the Women’s Wellness
crowd sat ATSU audiology faculty,
staff, and students. ASHS Dean
Barbara Maxwell, P.T., D.P.T.,’06, M.Sc., Cert. THE, and Audiology Chair and Associate Professor Tabitha Parent Buck, Au.D.,
provided remarks to the crowd,
informing them of the Arizona
School of Health Sciences, andmore specifically the Audiology
program.
“The Women’s Wellness
Luncheon provided an excellent
opportunity to inform attendees
about the prevention of hearing
loss as well as some key points regarding the audiology programs
at ATSU,” said Dr. Parent Buck. “I
was honored to be a part of thisevent and happy to see audiology students and faculty networking with community members.”
The event also symbolized
the changing of the guards forthe co-chairs of the Women’s
Wellness program. Founding
co-chairs Kim Hochschuler andChristine Muldoon welcomed
both Amanda Weaver and Nancy
Dean as incoming co-chairs forthe program. Hochschuler andMuldoon were both presented
with personal framed copies of“The Healing Touch,” painted by
DeLoss McWilliams.
Guests received ATSU bags
filled with items such as Dr.
Chasin’s book, “Hear the Music,”
informational sheets on hearing,an ATSU calendar, a stress reliefball in the shape of an ear, and aset of ear plugs.
“Hear the Music” event sponsors included Women’s Wellness member Randy Kendrick,
Scottsdale Healthcare, Eytomic
Research, and Dr. Chasin.

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professor
The students’Anatomy Chair Peter Kondrashov,dent’s figurative seat helps. “I
Ph.D., is living proof there’s noalways try to remember when I
substitute for passion. When you
was a student,” he says. “I thinklove what you do, your exciteone of the mistakes that a lot ofment is contagious. Thus explainsteachers make is that they forget
his success in the classroom andwhere the students are and don’t
popularity among students, whoconnect with them. I try to lookthis year voted to grant him theat material not as an expert but
Max T. Gutensohn award.
as a student. And being a visual“I’m hyper; I get excited whenlearner, I usually put a lot of visuI teach. I’ll say, ‘look at this cute
als into my lectures. I like images,
cell,’ and the class just dies laughand I think visual learning is reallying. You need to like what you’re
important.”
doing, or it’s not going to go
well,” he says. “I think the biggest
Pushing new frontiers
reason students like my lectures
Born on the border between Rusis because I love my subject. One
sia and Asia “in the middle of nohistology student wrote saying
where,” Dr. Kondrashov is the son
he thought the class would beof a geologist who moved theboring, but was surprised to findfamily to Moscow when he was abeauty in the stained tissues. I
toddler. It wasn’t until 2001 that
get excited about what I teach,he moved to the United States toand I think students see that.
accept a teaching job at NorthWhen they see I’mwest Missouri
excited about theState University
subject, they get
in Maryville to“I’m looking at
interested.”
teach anatomy
Of course pasdead things, and and histology.
sion is only partjoined ATSUthey come alive Heof the equation.
KCOM in 2006 –Dr. Kondrashov,primarily so thatin my hands.”
an international
he could devoteresearcher trained
more time to his
as an anatomist
research – andat Moscow State University, also
became Anatomy chair threeknows his subject matter.
years later.
“First, I make sure I know myAn active researcher, he
stuff. Then, I make sure I delivercollaborates with international
the material well. And then when
researchers, reconstructing life
I test, I’m always fair. That’s myfrom bones and fossils. Fromteaching philosophy.”such treasures, he can “see theIn addition, he is a selfcreature behind it,” achieving adescribed “laid-back guy,” whobetter understanding of whatforms a positive rapport with stuthe animal was like anatomicallydents based on mutual respect. “Iand how it lived. “Basically, I’mvery much respect the students,
looking at dead things, and theyand I think they notice that – andcome alive in my hands,” he says.
it pays back,” he says. “If you don’t
Ongoing papers include researchrespect them, they’re not goingon a 55-million-year-old skeleton
to respect you. I take this very
from New Mexico and a sloth-likeseriously.”
creature from Mongolia. In total,
Putting himself in the stuhe has described about 10 spe-

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faculty profile

Paleontologist brings
new life to Anatomy

cies of animals new to science.
At ATSU-KCOM, he furthers
discovery and innovation in theclassroom as well. He has big
plans for Anatomy, including
making it more clinically oriented
and incorporating technology.
The latter includes the use ofultrasound, upgrading anatomy
labs with computer stations,and using an online dissector,
as well as a 3-D atlas, which will
help students see and rotate
structures. “I think this will greatly
improve students’ perception of
anatomy,” he says. “I think they
have lost interest in anatomy, andthis will make it more relevant towhat they’ll be learning later on.
I hope to make it more likeable
and interesting again.”Over the last two years he hascompletely digitized the Histology course, which currently utilizes
the most up-to-date technology

to deliver the content of this challenging discipline. Not surprisingly, he’s done his research, talking
with numerous anatomy chairs
across the country to develop aunique system that sets the bar
for the teaching this course in thedigital format.
Teaching “is really where mypassion is,” he says. Other passions include traveling, always
with his camera, and working
and playing outdoors. His officewalls display a colorful collectionof butterfly photos taken on his
many adventures.
Still, at the end of the day,bags unpacked, he’s happy toreturn to Kirksville. “I love my job,
I love my career, my family, andmy life here,” he says. “I’m a happy
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Douglas Wood, D.O., Ph.D.,
senior vice president – academic
affairs, received the Walter F.
Patenge Medal of Public Service
from Michigan State University’s
College of Osteopathic Medicine(MSU-COM) in May. The award isgiven to members of the community and profession who haveshown an outstanding dedicationand commitment to serving the
public good and is the highest
honor the college can bestow.
Named for the first presidentof the Michigan Osteopathic

Medicine Advisory Board, themedal is awarded annually forexcellence in medicine, government, and public service. Dr.
Wood was one of four to receive
the award this year.
Dr. Wood served as associatedean of MSU-COM from 1987-91
and as dean from 1991-95. Heleft to become president of theAmerican Association of Collegesof Osteopathic Medicine until
2005, when he joined ATSU tobecome the founding dean of the
School of Osteopathic Medicine

in Arizona, a position he held
until assuming his current duties
in 2010.
Among his many tributes, Dr.
Wood has received the Phillips
Medal for Public Service from
Ohio University’s College of
Osteopathic Medicine, the Stateof Michigan Senate Concurrent
Resolution for contributions to
the diagnosis and treatment ofkidney disease, the Outstanding
Nephrologist Award from theMichigan Kidney Foundation,and numerous others.

cided by first- and second- year
students who vote on the professor they believe went above andbeyond to teach.
The first-year class chose Dr.
Kondrashov, who earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in zoology and ecology from Moscow
State University. He received
his Ph.D. in paleontology from
Russian Academy of Sciences andworked as a researcher for three
years. He taught anatomy, histology, and zoology at Northwest
Missouri State University for six
years before coming to Kirksvillein 2006. He is an avid nature photographer and goes on digs in
Mongolia, Siberia, China, and allover the southwest United States.
In addition to receiving the
Gutensohn award, Dr. Kondrashov also was awarded the A.T.
Still Staff Award, established torecognize full-time KCOM faculty
who demonstrate excellence inteaching osteopathic philosophy
and principles.
David Kermode, D.O., associate professor in the Departmentof Surgery, also received the A.T.
Still Staff Award.

The second-year class choseDavid Goldman, D.O., J.D.,’91, as its Max T.
Gutensohn award
winner. Dr. Goldman graduatedfrom the University of Illinois inChampaign before
attending Washington University School of Law.
He worked as secretary-treasurerand corporate legal counsel until
he decided to attend KCOM.
He completed a traditionalrotating internship at Kirksville
Osteopathic Medical Center,
after which he began residency
in psychiatry and a fellowship inchild and adolescent psychiatryat Vanderbilt University Medical
Center in Nashville. He serves asa medicolegal consultant andoperates a private psychotherapy
management practice. Most
importantly, he is a professor at
KCOM, as well as Southern Illinois
University Medical School in
Springfield, Ill.

ATSU-KCOM Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean (Arizonaregion) Robert D.
Ligorsky, D.O.,
FACOI, FACP,
FAHA, has beenhonored by theAmerican College
of Osteopatic Internists (ACOI). He
will be inducted into the Gillium
Society of Master Fellows, one of
ACOI’s highest honors for service
to the college and profession. His
induction will take place in San
Antonio on October 14.
The Gillum Society of Master
Fellows honors active ACOI members who have demonstrated
outstanding past and present
contributions to the college or toosteopathic internal medicine on
a local, regional, or national level.
The society is named for Grover
Gillum, D.O., past ACOI president
and outstanding clinician. Dr.
Gillum was, for many years, thedepartment chair and residency
program director at the Department of Internal Medicine at theKansas City College of Osteopathy.
Established in 1994, The Gillum Society honors members
who have demonstrated exceptional service and dedication toboth the college and profession.

{KCOM}
Vineet Singh, Ph.D., associate
professor of microbiology, hosted
faculty from Thammasat University in Thailand forresearch training
in his laboratory.
Sungunya Utaida,
Ph.D., studied with Dr. Singh from
April 2 to June 15.
The following faculty members
have been promoted from thetitle of associate professor to professor. The promotions are basedon their performance in the areasof teaching, research, and/or
scholarly activity and service.
•

Neal Chamberlain, Ph.D.,•

Stephen Laird, D.O.,•

Neil Sargentini, Ph.D.,•

Karen Snider, D.O.,

Department of Microbiology
Department of Surgery

Department of Microbiology

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Department of OMM

Two ATSU-KCOM faculty awards
were handed out this spring, with
one faculty member taking home
two coveted awards – Anatomy
Chair Peter Kondrashov, Ph.D.,
who is profiled in this issue.
The Max T. Gutensohn award
recognizes outstanding teaching
and is a special merit award de-

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faculty news

Tamara Valovich McLeod, Ph.D.,
ATC, CSCS, associate professor,
Athletic Training,
was interviewed
for the article “A
Warning on Overuse Injuries for
Youths,” which wasfeatured April 4 inthe personal healthsection of The New York Times.
Dr. McLeod has also been
named a 2011 National Athletic
Training Association (NATA)
fellow and is also the recipientof the Arizona Athletic Training
Association (AzATA) 2011 Warren
H. Lee Certified Athletic Trainer of
the Year Award.
The NATA Fellows program
recognizes professional achievement in research and/or education, combined with service tothe profession. Only the mostaccomplished scholars in theathletic training profession earn
this distinction and are allowed
to use the prestigious designation of FNATA.

The AzATA Warren H. Lee
Certified Athletic Trainer of theYear Award is the second highest
honor bestowed by the association, and is named after the longtime certified athletic trainer
at the University of Arizona, apioneer in the profession.
Dr. McLeod, regarded as aninternational expert on pediatricsport-related concussion, works
with dozens of local schools,
athletic teams, and policy bodies to implement appropriate
sport concussion diagnosis andmanagement practices to keep
children safe.
ATSU Emeritus Professor Randy
Danielsen, Ph.D., PA-C, senior
vice presidentof the National
Commission on
Certification of Physician Assistants
and former ASHS
dean, is co-authorof the new book
“The Preceptor’s Handbook forSupervising Physician Assistants.”

Les R. Schmeltz, Au.D., CCC-A,
assistant professor of Audiology,
was re-elected to
the Educational
Audiology Association (EAA) Boardof Directors as adirector-at-large
for a term expiring in 2013.
The EAA is an international
professional organization foraudiologists that was established in 1984 to advocate foreducational audiologists and thestudents they serve.
John Parsons, Ph.D., ATC, AT,assistant professor, interdisciplinary health sciences and director,
athletic training,has been namedthe 2011 NATA
Athletic Trainer
Service Award(ATSA) winner. The
ATSA recognizes NATA members
for their contributions to theathletic training profession as avolunteer at the local, state, anddistrict levels. ATSA recipients{SOMA}
Thomas McWilliams, D.O.,
FACOFP, received the Distinguished Service
Award from the
Arizona Society of
the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians at its annual
meeting April 8.
Dr. McWilliams, clinical professor and interim dean of ATSU’s
School of Osteopathic Medicine
in Arizona, is recognized for his
leadership to the society and for
exemplifying the role and impactof an osteopathic physician andeducator.
A third-generation D.O., Dr.
McWilliams entered the Indian
Health Service as one of the first
Public Health Service scholarship

Fall 2011

have been involved in professional associations, community
organizations, grassroots public
relations efforts, and service as avolunteer athletic trainer.
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
staff Eric Sauers, Ph.D., ATC,FNATA, chair, andAlison Snyder
Valier, Ph.D.,
ATC, associate
professor, athletic
training, were recognized with the2011 AzATA President’s Award. Thisaward recognizes
exemplary service
on behalf of theassociation and/or
the profession of
athletic training.
Drs. Sauers andValier are recognized for theirtireless efforts in support of association legislative and governmental affairs activities.

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{ASHS}{SHM}
recipients. He is a diplomate for
the American Osteopathic Boardof Family Physicians and theAmerican Board of Emergency
Medicine and has completed
fellowships in rural medicine,national health policy, teaching
and learning, and leadership. He
has held teaching appointments
at the University of Washington
and at ATSU-KCOM and is pastpresident of both the Arizona
and Missouri Rural Health associations.
Frederic
Schwartz, D.O.,’69, FACOFP,
associate dean
for community
campuses, andprofessor, Family

and Community Medicine, is the2011 recipient of the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association’s
Excellence in Osteopathic Medical Education Award. The award
honors a physician or nonphysician who has contributed
significantly to the advancementof osteopathic medical educationin Arizona.
Dr. Schwartz was the founding chair of community medicine
at the University of New England’s New England College of
Osteopathic Medicine. He also
has served as vice president ofMidwestern University and aschair of family medicine at the
Chicago College of Osteopathic
Medicine and the Arizona College
of Osteopathic Medicine.

Michael Samuels, Dr.P.H.,
professor and chair, public health,contributed to and presented theresearch paper “United States/
Mexico Rural Border Health Issues” at the Rural Health Association’s 34th Annual Rural HealthConference inAustin, Texas, in May.
Keith Earnshaw, Ph.D., adjunctprofessor, public health, hascreated Coastal Giving, a charitythat asks North Carolina owners
to donate their beach houses fora week to either reunited militaryfamilies, injured service members, or families with children
who have life-threatening medical conditions. Donations may bemade to Coastal Giving Inc., P.O.
Box 99566, Raleigh, N.C., 27624.

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{ASDOH}

Larry Leaming, D.H.A., FACHE,SHM assistant professor and CEOof Roosevelt General Hospitalin Portales, N.M., presented to
the Nebraska Hospital Association’s Rural Hospital Conferencein Kearney, Neb., “Bridging theLeadership Gap: Challenges andBest Practices for Sustainable
Leadership Through Succession
Planning.” The presentation wasa review of his research on rural
hospital CEO turnover and bestpractices for minimizing the negative impact of gaps in leadership
through succession planning.

Four current and past faculty
members were published in theJanuary 2011 edition of the Journalof Dental Education. Janet Woldt,
Ph.D., M.S.,
associate dean
for academic assessment; Wayne
Cottam, D.M.D.,
M.S., associatedean of community partnerships;
Robert Cederberg, D.D.S.,
M.A.; and Kneka
Smith, M.P.H., allcontributed to the article “TheArizona Model: A New Paradigm
for Dental Schools.” (Pictured are

Jerimy Blowers, Ph.D., LMHC,
NCC, CAS, CGAS, assistantprofessor for the Doctor of Health
Education program, spoke for the
New York State Council of SUNY
Community Colleges Chief Student Affairs Officers in Lake Placid
in June. He spoke on college
student mental health issues.

Jae Hyun Park, D.M.D., M.S.D.,
M.S., Ph.D., director of ASDOH’s
postgraduate orthodontic
program, pictured left, recently
published four articles.
“Nonextraction treatment of
the labially displaced maxillarycanine” was published in thespring 2011 issue of International
Journal of Orthodontics incollaboration with Kyle S.
Jackson, D.M.D., D.H.Sc., ’09,
a graduate of the ATSU-ASDOH
postgraduate orthodontic proDrs. Woldt and Cederberg.)
gram, and Denton Rex Rogers,
D.D.S., M.S.D., former clinic
Mounir Kharchaf, D.D.S.,
director of ATSU-ASDOH’s postM.D.S., associate professor andgraduate orthodontic program.
associate director of prosthTwo other articles, “Tooth auodontics, has been certified as a
totransplantation as a treatment
diplomate of the American Board
option: A review,” and “Orthof Prosthodontics (ABP). The misodontic treatment of a bilateralsion of the ABP is to certify indicleft lip and palate patient withviduals who have demonstrated
bilateral tooth transpositions andspecial knowledge and skills incongenitally missing teeth,” were
prosthodontics. Certification as
published in the Journal of Clinia diplomate requires a yearlong
cal Pediatric Dentistry. “3-Dimenexam administered by the ABP.
sional cone-beam computed tomography analysis of transversechanges with Schwarz applianceson both jaws“ was published inAngle Orthodontist.
Dr. Park also received theJoseph E. Johnson Clinical Award (Best ClinicalAward) at the American
Association of OrthoFor complete information on
dontists Table Clinic
research published by ATSU
Competition. Dr. Park’s
faculty, visit the Publications tabaward-winning article
on iconnect and check out thetitled,“3-Dimensional
Grants & You and ATSU
Accuracyof Magnetic
Researcher newsletters.
Resonance Imaging Images: An in vitro Comparison of Magnetic ResonanceImaging and Cone-BeamComputed Tomography,” was coauthored by Kiyoshi Tai, D.D.S.,
visiting adjunct assistant professor, postgraduate orthodontic
program, ATSU-ASDOH.

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research

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from the archives
Dr. A.T. Still, in cap andgown, and also as he looked
handing out diplomas
to students from his
front lawn.
Also pictured is thefirst diploma awarded,
handwritten on a plain
piece of paper, for
Dr. Still’s first faculty
member, William Smith,M.D., who needed to bean osteopath to co-sign
students’ diplomas.
Dr. Smith wrote out his
own diploma, and
Dr. Still signed it.

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and those who
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between student and students, between
students and teachers, between students
and significant others …
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people. People who ironed their coats
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This is a story of people who led the way
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STILL magazine“Make us proud.”Dreams come truesoma inaugural graduation

Anne Kennard, D.O., ’11, and husband Ryan, a first-year
Audiology student at ATSU-ASHS“I’m so happy the school put the effort into a ball like this. Not only
because we get to dress up but because administration is celebrating with us. It was fun to see everyone again,” says Dr. Kennard,
who will complete an OB/GYN residency. “I always felt like everyone had our best interests at heart and truly wanted us to do well.
Everyone worked so hard to make our education a success.”“She just had such a good experience,” says Ryan. “We both feel
really connected to the school. The only thing I dislike is it’s not
OUR school any more.”

Class profile
Degree:Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
D.O. graduates:
92
M.P.H. graduates:
2
Average MCAT:
24.4
Avg. GPA:
3.6 cumulative

3.24 science
Avg. age:
27
States represented:
30
Community campus locations:

Alabama, Arizona, California,
Hawaii, Ohio, Oregon,
New York, South Carolina,
Washington

One could add that SOMA’s firstcommencement also is a story of
revolutionizing medical education. Of proactively addressing
the public’s healthcare needs. Of
social responsibility. Of innovation.
These stories and more wereshared by faculty and students
alike at the gala, which featured
student representative Vanessa
DeSousa speaking on behalf ofthe graduating class. After taking
students back to the excitement of the day they first were
accepted at SOMA, through tests
and surveys and experiences at
CHCs that rattled nerves and put
bodies and minds to their limits,
she told students that although
the experience hasn’t been easy,
her hope is that they know they
can take on the next leg of thejourney – residency. “You CAN do
this,” she said.

overheard
Where they’re going:

77 students, or 83.7 percent
of graduates are entering
primary care or NACHC
needed specialties“Like anything in life, the hard work was worth it.”How many?!
336

gala guests

432

tulips used for centerpieces at the gala45

bottles of champagne poured to toast
SOMA’s inaugural class

16months of planning for the gala andgraduation events

80+

faculty and ATSU leadership seatedon stage at graduation

368

handshakes on stage duringcommencement (92 grads shaking
hands four times)

at SOMA Innovators’ Gala & commencement“Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart.”

goodbye to the short white coat!”“Live life on purpose, work at what you love, and follow your own road.”“I feel like your mother sending you off to kindergarten.”“Saying

Fall 2011“We all knew that being apart of something new – beinga part of the inaugural class of
this school – would bring its own
unique set of challenges – andboy, did it! Our perseverance andreflection on our experiences at
our CHCs will make this programmuch stronger. Talking with someof the students in the classes
behind us, many things havealready changed for the better,”she said.
“You know, along the way,
we’ve been called many names:
guinea pigs, pioneers, founders,trailblazers, and my personal favorite, gladiators. And we certainly have been all of these things.
But tomorrow, when we walk
across that stage, they will callus doctors. So, cheers to us! To
perseverance and hard work, tofinishing at a now fully accredited
medical school, and to bright,
bright futures as physicians.”“The only easy day is yesterday.”“There are two typesof people – those
who wait for things
to happen andthose who makethings happen.”23

Commencementsoma inaugural graduation
24

The next day, June 3, more than
1,000 guests joined the 92 SOMA
graduates for commencement
at the Mesa Arts Center, where
they heard remarks from ATSU
Board of Trustees Vice Chair
Kenneth E. Jones, D.O., ’83;
Frederic N. Schwartz, D.O.,’69, FACOFP, professor andassociate dean for community campuses; SOMA
Interim Dean Thomas
McWilliams, D.O., ’76;
and ATSU President Jack
Magruder before keynote
speaker and SOMA
Founding Dean Douglas
Wood, D.O., Ph.D., took
the stage to personallyaddress graduates.
“Today is a dreamcome true – for every
one of you and certainly for me,” said Dr.
Wood, who also serves
as ATSU’s senior vicepresident – academic
affairs.
Believe it or not, hetold graduates as headdressed them on thefloor rather than fromthe stage, 49 years ago
he himself was a first-year
medical student.
Of the advice he conferred to his protégés was
the message to “always be
the doctor.” Act as a professional, dress as a professional, don’t use foul language,
respect your patients, continually develop your character, andhave integrity, he said, defining
the latter as the ability to meetthe demands of reality. “We needto see things the way they are andnot how we wish them to be,” hecautioned.

overheard“We earned our guinea pig status.”“I think this world is in pretty good hands.”

Carey Vaughan, D.O., ’11, and her aunt, Gladys

One of the three oldest students to graduate from SOMA, Dr. Vaughan, 52, says
she is, in a word, relieved. “I’m very happy and feel good about my accomplishment,” says Dr. Vaughan, who will complete a family medicine residency
in Missouri, where she will work with third- and fourth-year students from
ATSU-KCOM in the state’s capital.
Says Aunt Gladys: “I’m so proud of her. She played with everything else’til she figured out this is what she was meant to be. I’ve always known
she has healing hands.”

at SOMA Innovators’ Gala & commencement“It is not important thekind of specialty you
choose, it is importantthe kind of physician
you are choosing to be.”“Congrats! We’re pretty awesome!”“Remember the smiles, laughter, and joy. You’ve earned every one of them.”“I’ve always known she has healing hands.”

STILL magazineAnd the award goes t
o…

The following students were chosen by their respective
CHC as an Outstanding Student:

Adelante Healthcare
Kristina Leinwand
El RioKrystal Chavez
Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center
Versha Srivastava
Lutheran Family Health Centers
Neil Borja
HealthSource
Paul Round
Northwest Regional Primary Care Association
Sarah Dawson
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services
Viraj Modi
HealthPoint
Jessica Brayton
Family Healthcare Network
Vanessa DeSousa
Alabama Medical Education Consortium
Joshua Prickett
North Country Healthcare
Brandon Abbott

Mitch Kasovac, D.O., FACOFP,
professor“It’s (gala/commencement) special because the work Dr. Woodassigned me four years ago, toget us accreditation, is successful.
I’m very happy to see this graduation and to be here,” says Dr.
Kasovac. “These graduates areon to great things. They’ve madephenomenal progress. By theend of the first year, they were
where I was in my third year.”

Cassandra Villatoro-Bank,
D.O., ’11
“The degree is more his [my husband’s] than mine,” says Dr. Bank,a mother of three who decided tochange her life and go into medicine, specifically psychiatry. “Thetrick is to marry a great guy andwork as a team,” she says.

He then gave students an assignment – three things to do as they
begin their careers: to continuallydevelop medical knowledge andskills, to spend 300 seconds every
day thinking about the issue ofcharacter, and to authentically connect with others and build trust.
“We can always improve on us,”he said, advising students to betruthful and develop the ability towork in such a way to reach goals
and continue personal and professional growth. He also advised
them to develop the ability to thankthose who have helped them along
their path.
Dr. Wood, clearly feeling the
moment and full of pride not forhimself but for the graduates,

concluded by quoting his favorite
doctor – Dr. Seuss – and read from
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”soma inaugural graduation

Accredited!

Just days before ATSU-SOMA’s first graduation,
the American Osteopathic Association’s Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation
awarded the school initial full accreditation
status. ATSU-SOMA received official notification of the status May 31.
“To achieve accreditation status is atremendous accomplishment for any
medical school,” said Thomas McWilliams,
D.O., interim dean, ATSU-SOMA. “It isparticularly gratifying to have done thisin a program that is as innovative as
ATSU-SOMA.”“And will you succeed?

Yes, you will, indeed!

(Ninety-eight and threefourths percent guaranteed.) Yes, you’ll move
mountains. …
Today is your day! Your
mountain is waiting. So… get onyour way!”“You are innovators. You will change the face of medicine. You are the future.”“It was a lot of fun working with you and messing with your mind.”“It’s a very special night. It’s nice to see the beginning of something reach a stage of completion.”“You did it. You survived, and you’re champions and leaders.”“Starting a medical school is really hard.”“Remember who you were before you becamea doctor and why you wanted to be a doctor.”
Fall 2011“The days are long and the years are short.”“Let’s hear it for the doctors!”25

soma chc placements

The National Association ofCommunity Health Centers(NACHC) meets the vital primary care needs of more than
20 million Americans in morethan 3,600 communities in all
50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
And it’s at these health centers that ATSU-SOMA students
spend three years completing
their education and residencies at one of 11 CHC sites
across the country. Each servesa unique population, which
includes the homeless, migrant
workers, uninsured families,
and ethnically diverse patientsin rural and urban settings.
What they share in common isa maldistribution of physicians
and an uninsured or underserved patient mix.
These CHCs become
students’ medical homes for acommunity campus learning
experience unlike any other.
ATSU faculty oversee students’
didactic activities at each siteusing adjunct physician faculty
members at each CHC, as well
as distance education andtechnology – and multiple site
visits by Arizona-based faculty.
Frederic Schwartz, D.O.,’69, FACOFP, professor andassociate dean
for ATSU-SOMA
community
campuses,
explains why
students areplaced in thesecenters so earlyin their training. “Students
learn best if it is learned in thecontext where it will actually
be used,” he says. “One of thehallmarks of the new scienceof learning is its emphasis onlearning with understanding.
Expert knowledge is ‘conditionalized’ – it includes a
specification of the context inwhich it is useful.”

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Fall 2011

Northwest Regional Primary
Care Association, Portland, Ore.
Lindsay Sanders, D.O.,’11: “Constant travel during the third and fourthyears gives students theopportunity to experience medicine in manydifferent environments.”

HealthPoint

Waianae Coast Comprehensive
Health Center, Waianae, Hawaii
VershaSrivastava,
D.O., ’11:
“Working withthe warmhearted peopleof Wai’anae
while being surrounded by thenatural beauty of the island has beena surreal experience. The most important lesson I have learned from being
here is simply ma lama kekahi i kekahi(take care of each other) – and that isthe essence of life here in Hawai’i.”

Family Healthcare
Network

North Country
Healthcare

El Rio Community
Health Center

Home away from home
HealthSource, Mt. Oreb, Ohiosoma chc placements

Paul Round, D.O., ’11:
“My experience at the
Ohio CHC site has been
incredible. I have been
exposed to clinical practice in rural, suburban,
and urban practices, inenvironments ranging
from small FQCHC offices to a large, world-renowned teaching
pediatric hospital. I feel I am more than
prepared to enter residency and become acapable physician because of the teaching
and leadership in Ohio.”

Lutheran Family
Health Care Centers

Alabama Medical
Education Consortium

Adelante Healthcare

ATSU-SOMA’s
community campuses

Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton
Comprehensive HealthServices, INC

Adelante Healthcare, Surprise, Ariz.
Alabama Medical Education Consortium, Troy, Ala.
El Rio Community Health Center, Tucson, Ariz.
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Ridgeland, S.C.
HealthSource, Mt. Oreb, Ohio
Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Waianae, Hawaii
Family Healthcare Network, Tulare County, Calif.
North Country Healthcare, Flagstaff, Ariz.
HealthPoint, Seattle, Wash.
Northwest Regional Primary Care Association, Portland, Ore.
Sunset Park Family Health Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.

STILL magazine

27More D.O.s than ever
ATSU-SOMA one of three new COMs
graduating D.O.s in 2011
This spring, the nation’s colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs)
graduated nearly 4,200 students. Last year, that number was 3,845,
and it was just 2,536 a decade ago.
Although some of the growth can be attributed to increasingclass sizes, much of the increase stems from new colleges andcampuses founded in the last 10 years. This year, two other COMs,
in addition to ATSU-SOMA, graduated their first class of osteopathic
medical students. They are Lincoln Memorial University – DeBusk
College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harrogate, Tenn., which graduated its first class of 130 students in May, and Touro College of
Osteopathic Medicine – New York, which graduated more than 100
new physicians in June.
The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
opened its centralized application service on June 1 to begin taking
applications for the 5,716 2012 academic year medical student slots
at the nation’s 26 colleges of osteopathic medicine, four branch
campuses, and four remote teaching sites. More than 20 percent of
all new U.S. medical students are studying at osteopathic medicalcolleges.

				

D.O.?
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March 5, 2011

Where

Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Ariz.

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Programs Human Movement, Occupational Therapy,
Physician Assistant Studies, Audiology, Doctorof Health Sciences, Physical Therapy
KeynoteLearn what it means to be a D.O.
and see ATSU in action on our
YouTube channel at
www.youtube.com/atstilluniversity.

Ellen Owens-Summo, M.Ed., DTR, director ofhealth education, Professional Development,at the Greater Valley Area Health Education
Center. Owens-Summo holds a master’s degreein educational leadership from Northern
Arizona University, as well as an undergraduate
degree from Ball State University in nutritionand dietetics. She is a member of the National
Wellness Institute and assisted in the development of the Arizona Living Well Institute. She
is a member of the American Public Health
Association and currently serves as president of
the Arizona Public Health Association.

Quotable “These graduates demonstrated their commitment to their profession and to lifelong
learning,” said ASHS Dean Barbara Maxwell,
PT, D.P.T., M.Sc., Cert. THE, ’06. “As working
COM
healthcare professionals, their learning has
AAFirstgreater impact as it transcends immediately toiaedMultimthe clinical setting and directly to patient care.”atsu commencements

Gold
Electronic
Newsletterfor Alumni“Mentoring is not always about giving advice.
It is also about taking time to listen, provide
words of encouragement, and being willingto advocate on the behalf of others,” said Dr.
Owens-Summo. “Without mentors, we would beless likely to take risks, strive to do a better job,and lack accountability for reaching our goals.”

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Who

222 students in six online programs

STILL magazineatsu commencements											WhenMay 14, 2011

Where

Baldwin Hall Auditorium, Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo.

KCOM

Programs Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences
NotableThis year’s event marks KCOM’s 175th commencement.

KeynoteJohn Crosby, J.D., executive director of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). Crosby joined the AOA as executive director in
1997, following eight years of service as senior vice president for health policy at the American Medical Association. During his AOA
tenure, the association has increased membership more than 125 percent, doubled its contingency reserve, and launched numerous
programmatic initiatives to advance women’s health, minority health, end-of-life care, and health system reform. His most notableaccomplishments include the Campaign for Osteopathic Unity to make “D.O.” a household word throughout the United States, thefirst unified convention in the history of the AOA, the establishment of the Osteopathic International Alliance, the AOA’s Branding
Initiative, and its current Greatness Campaign. “Each of you is ready to be a D.O,” Crosby said. “There are many ways to show your commitment as a D.O., and as future alumni of this great university, you must look at those who came before you and continue to learn inorder for you to lead our profession into the future.”

Honorary degree John Crosby, J.D., awarded Doctor of Laws
Quotable “There were a lot of very good times here in Kirksville,” said Bridget Casey, D.O., ’11. “White Coat was pretty great, but today will be
my best memory at ATSU.”“I’m honored to know what a responsibility and privilege it is to be in our position,” said Carl Lundberg, D.O., ’11. “I feel like I haveachieved a dream and a life goal that will help make the rest of my life enjoyable and exciting.”“It is an indescribable feeling to graduate. It feels like you have been in a tunnel for years and finally, the light hits you,” said Chris
Wood, D.O., ’11. “The people will be what I remember most. The close friends and the tight-knit community have made this journey
unbelievable.”
Who

Fall 2011

185 total grads
176 D.O.s
15 Biomedical Science grads
3 dual D.O./M.S.

113 men
72 women
8 countries represented
36 states represented

29 average age
12 Army6 Air Force
8 Navy

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SHM

When

May 28, 2011

Where

Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall, Truman State
University, Kirksville, Mo.

Programs Geriatric Health, Health Administration, Health
Education, Public Health, Public Health – Dental
Emphasis, Health Education

atsu commencements
30

NotableThis was ATSU-SHM’s ninth commencement.
Attendance is not a requirement; however,more and more students make the journey eachyear. One grad traveled from as far as Jamaica toshake hands with ATSU President Jack Magruder and SHM Dean Kimberly O’Reilly, D.H.Ed.,
M.S.W. The event also was broadcast online via
video stream for the first time, where hundreds
more watched live.

KeynoteThomas Curtin, M.D., senior vice president andchief medical officer of the National Association of Community Health Centers. “We believe
quality healthcare is a right for all Americans,”
he said.

Quotable “I love that [the Master’s in Public Healthprogram] is online because I work 8-4. It’s beenchallenging learning new things, and what
I previously thought public health was has
been changed for the better,” said Ashley Hill,
M.P.H., ’11. Hill is a research assistant at Proctor& Gamble and hopes to attend medical school,
become a pediatrician, and develop publichealth policies.
Who

241 total graduates
49 total grads who walked
400+ friends and family attending
32 states represented
Master’s degrees conferred		
1 Geriatric Health		
30 Health Administration
		
5 Health Education
		
94 Public Health		
44 Public Health – Dental Emphasis
Doctoral degrees conferred		
67 Health Education

				

ASDOH

When

June 11, 2011

Where

Ikeda Theater, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Ariz.

Programs Doctor of Dental Medicine, Master of Public
Health, Doctor of Health Sciences
NotableThis was ATSU-ASDOH’s fifth commencement.

KeynoteStanley M. Bergman, C.P.A., board chair and CEO
of Henry Schein Inc., and Christopher Halliday,
D.D.S., M.P.H., chief of staff to the United States
Surgeon General. Bergman spoke to graduates about the importance of accepting newtechnology, being involved in community,and being open to a global perspective andleadership. He said that ASDOH has positioned
students more than any other institution to
impact social responsibility. “You are graduatingfrom one of the most unique institutions in thenation that has at its heart community service,”
he said, encouraging students to be proud of
their alma mater, which has brought in “a newgeneration of providers who are consistently
focused on serving the underserved.”

Honorary degree
Doctor of Humane Letters were awarded to
keynote speakers Bergman and Dr. Halliday.
Quotable “I loved my days at ATSU-ASDOH, and I am
ready for the next step in my journey,” said
Andrea Liningood, D.M.D., ’11.
Who

59 D.M.D. grads
8 grads received an M.P.H. in addition
to a D.M.D.
4 grads were orthodontic program
residents receiving a D.H.Sc.
38 grads – more than ever before – are going
into residency programs
65 percent of grads chose community
healthcare settings
9 grads are entering the active military

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How close is Kirksville to Hollywood?
Turns out, it’s closer than you might think.

{Degrees of separation} Kevin Bacon to A.T. Still
Fun fact

Sam Raimi’s brother,Ivan Raimi, is a D.O.
practicing emergency
medicine in Michigan.
Fall 2011

A new motion picture will be
released this winter based on an
unusual wooden cabinet known
as the Dibbuk Box*, currently
in the care of Museum of
Osteopathic MedicineSM (MOM)
Director Jason Haxton.
Haxton, who fills his free time
uncovering new information
about historical objects, cameacross the odd artifact eight
years ago when it was in the possession of the roommate of a student gaining on-the-job museum
experience at the MOM.
The box is claimed by pastowners to have a connection to
Jewish mysticism, and strange
occurrences and illness allegedly
had befallen the box’s previous
owners. Haxton’s innate curiosity
was piqued. But he never had theopportunity to handle the box
until it later was offered for saleon the Internet auction site eBay.
Haxton bought the box in 2004
for less than $200. By contrast,
the motion picture based on thebox cost more than $12 million.
Actors involved in the movie
include Kyra Sedgwick and Grey’s
Anatomy actor Jeffrey Dean
Morgan.
Once he had it in his hands,
Haxton began exploring thebox’s authenticity and cultural
meanings. “I didn’t know what
it was,” he says. “It wasn’t easily{FYI}

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Kevin Bacon TO wife and actress and Dibbuk Box star Kyra Sedgwick TO Dibbuk Box
movie producer Stan Wertlieb TO Museum Director and Dibbuk Box owner Jason
Haxton TO A.T. Still’s granddaughter and former museum director Mary Jane Denslow
TO A.T. Still.

Art by Jamie

identifiable and was an unusual
historical puzzle.”
He began by looking at every
component of the box and its
contents, tracing its ownership,
studying Jewish history andwritings, and talking with Jewish
scholars and Rabbis. The use of
Hebrew writing on the back of
the cabinet and on several items
within it seemed to point to a
Jewish origin. Rabbi Lynn Goldstein of St. Louis assisted Haxton’s
research and provided a concluding message for Haxton’s book on
the box due out this fall.
“I’m the perfect person to
unravel the mystery,” he says, “because this is not of my religious
or cultural background. I questioned everything about it.”
What he discovered is that thebox was a personal item createdby a Jewish person to fulfill a
prayer. “Someone had needs, andthis was a way to focus energy
and come to some level of internal peace,” he says. Not typical ofand even shunned by the Jewish
faith, Haxton says what can be
confirmed is that there is a box,
it had a spiritual use, and somehave felt it is a nuisance.
“Its enigma is that those whohave owned it felt it brought on
bad luck and illness,” he says, adding that his hunch is that suchillness is psychosomatic, and that

dibbuk box

A mystery madefor Hollywood

By Kathryn Stroppel

the box simply feeds on a person’s fear of the unknown. Thatsaid, “There are many strange
occurrences that have happened
that I cannot explain away,” hesays. As a precaution, he’s had
the box contained in a special
protective wooden ark and has
removed it from public contact.
Haxton, who collects ancientart, pottery, and textiles, simply
says, “I’m fascinated by history
and the story objects tell, which
is why I take my work with osteopathic history at the museum so
seriously. My perspective is we’re
just passing through time, andthese objects represent time. I
don’t own them, I just enjoy them
before they go on to the next
person.”
The Dibbuk Box movie, directed by Sam Raimi of Spiderman
fame, throws the old adage thatthe truth is stranger than fiction
on its proverbial ear, Haxton says.
“The unknown is scary,” hesays. “It’s scarier not to know.
Having read the film’s script, theonly thing the actual box has
in common with the upcoming movie is that, well, there’s awooden box.”
Family folklore, hoax, or
web-spawned urban legend, theunknown may create fear, but it
also makes one heck of an entertaining story.
*Dybbuk is the more common spelling,
meaning “an attachment, a cleaving tosomething.”

Haxton is writing a book on the Dibbuk Box artifact, which will
be published by Truman State University Press and released in
October 2011. For more information on the box’s illustrious
history, visit www.dibbukbox.com.

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Honored Patron Lifetime Giving Award ($15,000-$24,999)

Thomas Angelo Castoldi, D.O, ’68, and his wife,
Kathleen, live in San Marcos, Texas, where Dr. Castoldi
has a family practice. Dr. and Mrs. Castoldi’s daughter is
Paula Michelle Bilica, D.O., ’04.

Jane Susan Friehling, D.O., ’78, lives in PhiladelErnest J. Davis Jr., D.O., ’76,

phia, Pa., where she is chief of medicine at Kennedy
Hospital and chair of Gastroenterology.

and his wife, Roberta, live inHarrisburg, Pa., where Dr. Davisis an infectious and tropical disease specialist at the VA Centerin Lebanon.

Distinguished Patron Lifetime Giving Award ($25,000-$49,999)

Al Abbadessa is the owner of two Missouri restaurants,
The Pear Tree in Bevier, Mo., and his newest venture,
AJ’s, in Macon, Mo. His son is Steven Abbadessa,

D.O., ’84.

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Morry S. Fox, D.O., ’56, and his wife, Sylvia, livein Coral Gables, Fla., where he is a family physician
specializing in geriatric care. Sylvia Fox is administrator of the Westchester General Hospital.

A.T. Still Founder Lifetime Giving Award ($300,000 and above)

Charles A. Gard, D.O., ’54, and his wife, Phyllis,
live in West Palm Beach, Fla., where Dr. Gard serves hispatients six days a week as a family physician.

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class notes
1940s

1960s

Leonard E. Staff Jr., D.O.,’45, was honored during the
AzOMA convention in April
in Scottsdale, Ariz., as theoldest osteopathic physician
still licensed and actively
practicing at age 96.

1970s

Thomas Miller, D.O., ’41,
Fountain Hills, Ariz., accepted
the first Lifetime Achievement
Award from USA Triathlon
COO Tim Yount at the National
Duathlon Championships
held in Oro Valley, Ariz., in
April. Having raced for morethan two decades, Dr. Miller
dominated the World Championship scene in the 1990s, withgold medal wins at Cathedral
City, Calif. (1991), Frankfurt,
Germany (1992), Dallas, Texas(1993), Tasmania, Australia(1994), Cancun, Mexico (1995),
and Guernika, Spain (1997). He
also earned gold medals at the
National Duathlon Championships in Santa Fe, N.M. (1991),
Phoenix, Ariz. (1992), andMarlboro, Maine (1999).

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E. Lee Foster, D.O., ’61,
Corland, Ohio, clinicalprofessor of family medicine
at St. Joseph Health Center,has been selected by Ohio
University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) asa recipient of the college’s
Master Faculty Award.
Bestowed once every five
years, the award recognizes
exemplary faculty members of
OU-COM’s system of affiliatedteaching hospitals locatedthroughout Ohio. The award
honors their committed service
and ongoing contributions toclinical education programs.
Dr. Foster specializes in family medicine and in 2002 and2003 was awarded the CORE
Outstanding Faculty Award.

George Thomas, D.O., ’72,
Garfield Heights, Ohio, wasawarded Physician of the Yearat the American College of
Osteopathic Family Physicians’
annual convention in San
Antonio.
Philip Slocum, D.O., ’76,
received the Robert A. KistnerAward at AACOM’s annual
meeting in Baltimore. Dr. Slocum is immediate past dean of
ATSU-KCOM.
Robert Zee, D.O., ’77, has
joined Samaritan Hospital in
Ashland, Ohio, as a part-time
hospitalist.

1980s

Elliot Hix, D.O., ’80, a physician at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Mo., landeda spot on the Best Doctors in
America® list for 2011-12. Only
5 percent of doctors in America
earn placement on the list.

Kenneth E. Jones, D.O., ’83,
received the prestigious titleof fellow of the American
Osteopathic College of Radiology in April at the 2011 AOCR
Annual Convention in Palm
Beach, Fla. Dr. Jones became
an active member of the AOCR
in 1988 and has served on theMembership Committee andthe Revisions Committee. He
is also an active member ofthe Missouri Association of
Osteopathic Physicians andSurgeons. He has served on
many of their committees
and as president in 2002. This
involvement led him to serveas the Missouri delegate to
the AOA House of Delegatessince 1995 and as the Missouri
caucus chair since 2008.
Dr. Jones is currently director of radiology at Golden
Valley Memorial Hospital in
Clinton, Mo. He has presented
several lectures at various state
specialty meetings and served
as clinical professor of diagnostic radiology at PikevilleCollege School of Osteopathic
Medicine in Pikeville, Ky.,
from 2003-07.
Darrell Lovins, D.O., ’83, isthe new president of William
Carey University in Mississippi.
“I feel humbled. I’m a gentleman who never envisioned in
his wildest dreams that I would
be doing what I’m doing,” said
Dr. Lovins, who was hired byWilliam Carey in 2008 to be
the school’s associate deanof clinical sciences. Before
coming to William Carey, Dr.
Lovins taught at various places,
including Pikeville College
School of Osteopathic Medicine, the University of South
Alabama, and the Universityof Washington.

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John Wycoff, D.O., ’85, served
on a panel of experts for a
one-day seminar sponsoredby Health Dimension andMichigan-based companies tointroduce families to doctors
who are part of the Michigan
Physicians Autism Network,
which treats autistic patientswith biomedical therapies.
Dr. Wycoff is board certified
in family medicine and has
served as chief of staff at St.
Lawrence Hospital. He also isthe founder of Wycoff Wellness
Center in East Lansing and hasstudied alternative ways toimprove health and wellness
naturally.
Virginia College of Osteopathic
Medicine faculty member andfamily medicine physician Michael Clary, D.O., ’87, Blacksburg, Va., shared his expertiseon whooping cough in the
town of Floyd, Va., on local TV.
He also was recently featured
in Our Health Magazine’s “BestBedside Manner” awards for his
work as a family medicine physician at Lewis Gale Montgomery Hospital. Dr. Clary received“New River Valley-First Place”
by his patients and membersof the local community.

class notes

Scott Alan Weber, D.O., ’89,
received the 2011 Leonard
Tow Humanism in Medicine
Award by the Arnold P. Gold
Foundation. With this honor,
Dr. Weber is now a member of
the Gold Humanism Society,an international society with
92 established medical school
chapters.

Former KCOM dean
joins NBOME

Dr. Weber has been inpractice at Yankton Medical
Clinic, P.C., since April 2002. He
is currently a clinical assistantprofessor at Sanford Schoolof Medicine, The University ofSouth Dakota, Sioux Falls, S.D.;
director of sports medicine atMount Marty College, Yankton,
S.D.; and board certified infamily medicine and sports
medicine.

The National Board of
Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME), the testingorganization that provides thepathway to licensure for osteopathic physicians in the UnitedStates, announced Gerald G.
Osborn, D.O., M.Phil., ’73,
to the newly created positionof senior vice president forcognitive testing. Dr. Osborn
will be responsible for leading
NBOME’s cognitive testing
department and for oversightof NBOME’s cognitive examinations, including those in the
COMLEX-USA licensure series(Level 1, Level 2-Cognitive
Evaluation, Level 3). Dr. Osborn
joined the NBOME in July andis based in Chicago.
Currently, Dr. Osborn serves
as associate dean for international medicine, chair ofthe department of psychiatry
and behavioral medicine, anddirector of behavioral neurosciences at Lincoln Memorial
University - DeBusk College
of Osteopathic Medicine inHarrogate, Tenn.
“My entire professional life
has been dedicated to promoting osteopathic medicine andmy time with the NBOME,
especially the development
and implementation of the
COMLEX-USA, has been mymost rewarding experience,”
said Dr. Osborn. “To return to
the NBOME in a position ofsenior leadership is simultaneously humbling and exciting.”

1990s

Michelle McElroy, D.O., ‘94,
has joined the faculty of Oklahoma State University Centerfor Health Sciences as a clinicalprofessor. Dr. McElroy will join
the college as a clinical associate professor of obstetrics andgynecology. She is board certified and has been in practicein women’s healthcare since1998, most recently in Arizona.
She is a board member andjunior fellow of the American
College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Kristin A. Severson-Solberg,
D.O., CMD, ’99, is president of
the Wisconsin Association of
Medical Directors. The group of
Wisconsin nursing home medical directors and extendedcare professionals is dedicatedto quality care in Wisconsin extended care facilities througheducation, legislative dialogue,
and cooperation with otherproviders. This is a two-year
position.
Salma Syed, D.O., ’99, Selden,
N.Y., is program director of thepediatric infectious diseases
fellowship program at SUNY at
Stony Brook, N.Y.

Correction

Rob Vandergraaf, D.O., ’83,
became a Fellow of the American Osteopathic College of Anesthesiologists at the group’s
annual convention held in
October 2010. Dr. Vandergraaf
currently practices in northern
California.

On page 57 in the Spring2011 issue, we incorrectly
switched the photos ofDrs. Boyd Bowden andRichard Loerke.
Our sincere apologies.

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class notes

David Abend, D.O., ’89,
Oradell, N.J., received a
Humanitarian Service Award
from the American Red Cross– Northern NJ Chapter fortreating workers for their backand neck discomfort
while working at theStaten Island Landfill
in the wake of 9.11.
Dr. Abend
worked four to five
hours, two days aweek for about six
months at the site,
donating his skill
and time to thoseworkers from avariety of organizations who
were sifting through rubble
and experiencing a great dealof stress.
He also was asked to provide OMT at a family restaurant
called “Nino’s,” about a blockfrom Ground Zero, where
workers could get a meal any
time of day from volunteer
staff.
Says Dr. Abend: “After myfamily medicine office hours in
Emerson, N.J., on any Saturday,
I brought a portable osteopathic treatment table – thesame I used when former

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President Nixon visited mefor back pain in 1993 – to therestaurant, set it up in a corner
there and treated hundreds ofpeople before, during, or after
their meals/shift.
“Unfortunately, Nino’s
was closed down, but a lot ofmemories and great friends
were made. I gained a whole
new respect and admiration
for how New Yorkers came
together to help one another.
I also saw the unique powerof touch and healing that I
could offer and appreciatedthe medical training I received
from the Kirksville College of
Osteopathic Medicine that I
learned throughout my medical school and post-graduate
medical training years. I havea new found pride in my roleas an osteopathic physician
providing primary care andosteopathic manipulation forneck and back pain for mypatients in Bergen County.”
Dr. Abend was among 17
honored by the Red Cross inMay. He was the sole D.O. For
more information, go towww.handsondo.com.

Gregory Janik, M.S., ’00,
associate clinical professor ofathletic training at King’s College, received the 2011 Young
Professionals’ Committee National Distinction Award fromthe National Athletic Trainers’
Association (NATA) at the NATA
Annual Meeting and ClinicalSymposia held in New Orleansin June.
After an internship with
the Philadelphia Eagles, Janikbegan teaching at King’s in
2000. He currently teaches orthopaedic evaluation courses
and serves as and the headathletic trainer with primary
responsibility for the football
and women’s lacrosse teams.
Janik is president of thePennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society and volunteers
with numerous organizations,
including the American Red
Cross, Keystone State Games,
Special Olympics, and the
Middle Atlantic Conference
Athletic Trainers Committee.
Juliëtte Sterkens, Au.D., ’06,
received the Larry MauldinAward for Excellence in Education from Beltone Electronics at the AudiologyNOW!
Convention in Chicago in April.
The Mauldin Award is unique
because honorees are solely
nominated and selected bytheir industry peers.
“Her extraordinary
contributions to the field ofaudiology and the hearing
care industry are profound,”said Beltone President Todd
Murray. “We are grateful forher ongoing efforts to improve
our industry, and to benefit
the people with hearing loss
we serve, through continuing education, advocacy andinnovation.”
Born and raised in the
Netherlands, Dr. Sterkens is coowner of the Fox Valley Hearing Center, with locations inclass notes

2000s

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Oshkosh, Neenah, and Ripon,
Wis. A recent recipient of the
WSHA Wisconsin Audiologistof the Year Award, she also ispast president of the Wisconsin
Alliance of Hearing Professionals, past co-chair of the
Wisconsin Speech Language
Pathology and Audiology Association, and guest speakerat the University of WisconsinOshkosh School of Nursing.
Shu-No Chen, Au.D., ’07, is anaudiology consultant for theCounty of Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
James Pham, D.O., ’08, Jenks,
Okla., and wife, Mikala, areparents to Braylon James, born
Feb. 1, 2011, and daughters
Tori and Alyssa.
Lorin S. Oden, Au.D., ’09,
is an audiologist at the new
Salisbury location of Hearing
Lifestyles LLC in Salisbury, N.C.
Dr. Oden worked for a major
hearing device manufacturer
for four years before establishing the audiology department
of Audiology and Hearing
Services of Carolina ENT Specialists in Concord, where she
provided services for 21 years.
Originally from the Chicago
area, she is a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Audiology, board certified in audiology, and licensed by North
Carolina as an audiologist anddispenser of hearing devices.

2010sclass notes

Makoto Uchiyama, D.O., ’10,
celebrated his 30th birthday as
a new physician volunteer inthe tsunami-damaged fishing
town of Kesennuma, Japan,
where he coordinates medical
response and sees patients intheir homes and in shelters.
He currently is completinga residency at Legacy Health
System, in Portland, Ore.,

where he cares for patients at
Emanuel and Good Samaritan
hospitals. Born in Bangkok andraised in Malaysia, Dr. Uchiyama plans to specialize in critical care and says he wanted to
be a physician “to be able toface people’s suffering.”
And he’s getting that
opportunity firsthand as aphysician who came to Tokyothrough the Japan Primary
Care Association, which
promotes general medicine in
the highly specialized nation.
He began March 27 helping tocoordinate disaster response.
“I’ve seen the importanceof being selfless in a situation like this,” he says. “Dignity
and self-discipline really help
people recover.”MAOPS honors KCOM alumni
The Missouri Association of
Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons (MAOPS) held its annual
convention April 16. MAOPS’
2011-12 officers were installedat the Annual President’s
Banquet, including Victoria
Damba, D.O., ’97, who wasinstalled as president. Dr.
Damba hails from Farmington,
Mo., where she practices as a
hospitalist for the Mineral Area
Regional Medical Center.
MAOPS also honored
physicians and friends of theprofession at the banquet.
More than 275 physicians andguests joined to honor those
who have given so much tothe osteopathic profession.
Among those honored were
KCOM alumni Tim Jennings,
D.O., ’89 (DistinguishedService Award); Ken Jones,
D.O., ’83 (Medallion Award);
Stephen Coats, D.O., ’68 (District Leadership Award); andRusty Bond, D.O., ’83 (District
Leadership Award).

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MEMORIAM
1940s ~ Douglas F. Lauder, D.O., ’41, London, Ontario, Canada; Ross Truman Shook, D.O., ’45, Hutchinson, Kan.; Richard W. Anderson,
1950s ~ Harold I. Magoun Jr., D.O., ’50, Centennial, Colo.; Glenn Dale Blankenhorn Jr., D.O., ’51, Massillon, Ohio;
D.O., ‘46, Dallas, Texas
Richard Dunbar Coan, D.O., ’52, Plantation, Fla.; Fisk Edwin Hallidy, D.O., ’53, Portland, Maine; C. Robert Starks Jr., D.O., ’53, Sequim, Wash.;Frederick Vincent Hrachovina, D.O., ’56, Venice, Fla.; Gerald Wilfred Sikorski, D.O., ’58, Tucson, Ariz.

1960s ~ Theodore G. Green, D.O., ’65,

Brookfield, Wis.; Gerald Edward Piesko, D.O., ’66, Flushing, Mich.; Boyd W. Bowden, D.O., ’68, Columbus, Ohio; Kenneth J. McCormick, D.O., ’69,
Cranston, R.I.

in memoriam

ATSU pays tribute to the following legacies

1970s ~ Paul Marshall Dichter, D.O., ’71, Lynnwood, Wash.; Koster Kenneth Peters, D.O., ’71, Dickson, Tenn.; Gary Paul Jelinek, D.O.,
1980s ~ Michael Austin Knauss, D.O., ’81, Rock Port, Mo. 1990s ~ Theresa M. Nguyen, D.O., ’97, Melbourne, Fla.

’72, West Bloomfield, Mich.

ATSU Board of Trustees member Richard W.
Anderson, D.O., ‘46, died July 31, 2011. Born inJanesville, Wis., he was 88 and resided in Dallas,
Texas.
Dr. Anderson, an ATSU-KCOM graduate and
ATSU board member since 2002, had a lifetime ofachievements in osteopathic medicine, volunteerism, and philanthropy. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the KCOM Alumni
Board in 2002. Although he had retired from his
medical practice, he continued to be a major
contributor to the promotion of osteopathic
medicine, as well as to the future of ATSU.
Dr. Anderson made a lifetime of valuable
contributions to his profession, to the lives ofstudents and patients, and to A.T. Still University
and KCOM. In celebration of his contributions,
ATSU recently honored him by declaring May
6, 2011, as Dr. Richard W. Anderson Day. In apresidential proclamation, ATSU President Jack
Magruder cited Dr. Anderson’s membership in avariety of professional organizations, his 50 years of practice, and his leadership in the
Sparks Osteopathic Foundation, which resulted in approximately $1 million in scholarship funds awarded to three osteopathic schools, including $300,000 to ATSU-KCOM.
Dr. Anderson is survived by his wife, Charlotte, two grandsons, a step-daughter,step-grandchildren, and a step-great-great-granddaughter. He was preceded in deathby his wife Bessanne Mills Anderson, his two sons Richard W. Jr. and Jeffrey L. Anderson,and his brother, Esmond Anderson, D.O.
A visitation and celebration of his life was held August 2, with services held
August 3. Memorials may be made to ATSU-KCOM or to Central Lutheran Church,
1000 Easton Rd., Dallas, TX 75128. A memorial was made on behalf of the Board ofTrustees and the University.

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About Dr. Anderson• Born May 6, 1923
• Contributing member of the American
Osteopathic Association since 1947
• Served as a member of numerous organizations including the Texas Osteopathic
Medical Association, the Wisconsin
Association of Osteopathic Physicians andSurgeons, the Dallas Osteopathic Study
Group, two YMCA boards of directors, andthe Kirksville Osteopathic Alumni Association Board of Directors from 1999-2000• Received the Distinguished Service Award
from the KOAA Board of Directors in 2002
• Named KOAA’s Alumnus of the Year in 2002
• Served as a member of the ATSU Board ofTrustees since 2002
• Member of the A.T. Still Founder Lifetime
Giving Club• Still Society lifetime and annual member• Named the Anderson Patient Simulation
Room in ATSU’s Connell Information
Technologies Center after his son, Jeffrey• Established the Dr. Richard W. andCharlotte Anderson Research Endowment
for OMM at KCOM
• Practiced medicine for more than 50 years
in general practice and obstetrics before
retiring in 1997 to serve as chairman of the
Sam and Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation for nearly 20 years

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in memoriam

Boyd W. Bowden, D.O., ’68

Harold Magoun Jr., D.O., ’50

Paul R. Willging, Ph.D.

Boyd W. Bowden, D.O.,’68, Columbus, Ohio, apioneer in osteopathic
medicine and a fellow of
the American Osteopathic
Association (AOA), died
April 14, 2011.
A distinguishedsurgeon, educator, and leader, Dr. Bowden
was a KOAA Board member from 1990 to
1997, having served as president in 95-96.
He then served on the ATSU Board ofTrustees from 1997 until October 2000. Dr.
Bowden received the 2001 KOAA Distinguished Service Award and was the 2010
KOAA Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Bowden also
served on the AOA Board of Trustees andon the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation
Board.
As the first osteopathic physician withtraining in both hand surgery and pediatricorthopaedics, Dr. Bowden was the first
D.O. to join the staff of the Nationwide
Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
He completed residency training at
Doctors Hospital, joined Orthopedic and
Neurological Consultants Inc. and served as
its president from 1973 to 1992.
Since 1974, Dr. Bowden served as teamphysician for several Columbus-area colleges and high schools. As president of the
AOAO, (1990-91) he launched educational programs to improve standards forosteopathic orthopaedic surgery residencies. The AOA awarded Dr. Bowden theDistinguished Service Certificate for his
accomplishments through research andphilanthropy.
Dr. Bowden spent most of his life in
the Columbus area, and in addition to
ATSU-KCOM was a graduate of Denison
University and Ohio State University. In
addition to his children, Erin Bowden, Emily
Bowden, and Kristen (Kevin) McEnery; anda granddaughter, Claire, he is survived by
his wife of 37 years, Ellen.
Contributions may be made in Dr.
Bowden’s memory to the Osteopathic
Heritage Foundation, 1500 Lake Shore Dr.,
Ste. 230, Columbus, OH 43204, or
the American Osteopathic Foundation,
142 E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611-2864.
To view Dr. Bowden’s video tribute oroffer condolences to his family, visit
www.schoedinger.com.

Harold Magoun Jr., D.O.,’50, FAAO, FCA, D.O. Ed.
(Hon), Centennial, Colo.,died May 9, 2011, in
Denver. Born in Scottsbluff,
Neb., on June 11, 1927, Dr.
Magoun was active in theosteopathic profession andreceived numerous awards during his 60
years of practice in Denver. He enjoyed thesymphony and opera, was an avid Broncos
fan and certified diver, skied for 65 years,
tried skydiving, and hosted an internet
radio talk show called “The Good HealthHour.”He also wrote the books “Structured
Healing,” a tribute to A.T. Still that discusses
aspects of lifestyle necessary for good
health and the importance of osteopathic
treatment, and “A tribute to and selected
writings of Harold I. Magoun Sr., D.O.”
His father contributed to “Osteopathy
in the Cranial Field” with author William
G. Sutherland. One of Dr. Magoun Jr.’s
last projects was to work to translate hisfather’s work into Russian. He also donatedmany of his father’s materials to the Museum of Osteopathic MedicineSM in Kirksville, which included work with President
Eisenhower and his wife.
Dr. Magoun hails from an osteopathic
family of KCOM graduates, including hisfather, Harold I. Magoun D.O., ’24, andmother, Helen Magoun, D.O., ’24.
Dr. Magoun is survived by his sister,Martha Quiat; children Kathy Caver, John
Caver, Daniel Magoun, David Magoun, andScott Magoun; and grandchildren Heather,
Chris, Tim, Bonnie, and Meghan. He waspreceded in death by children Ann Caverand Michael Magoun.

ATSU Board of Trustees
member Paul R. Willging,
Ph.D., Ellicott City, Md.,
died May 21, 2011, at age
69 after losing a battlewith cancer.
In addition to his
dedication to ATSU, Dr.
Willging also served as CEO of the American Health Care Association and National
Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). He
led AHCA/NCAL for 16 years in the 1980s
and ’90s and was also past president andCEO of the Assisted Living Federation ofAmerica. Additionally, Dr. Willging wasdeputy administrator of the Health Care
Financing Administration (now the Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services).
Prior to his advocacy and CMS posts,
Dr. Willging worked at Blue Cross/Blue
Shield of Greater New York and was chairof Howard County General Hospital, as well
as chair of the Howard County Commission
on Aging. Most recently, he was a seniorassociate at Johns Hopkins University’s
Bloomberg School of Public Health andassociate director of the university’s Centeron Aging and Health.
“Paul was a resounding voice for longterm care, paving the way for the future of
the profession while spearheading a focus
on quality care for our nation’s seniors,” said
Gov. Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of
AHCA/NCAL.
Dr. Willging’s awards included the Vesta
Bowden Award for Outstanding Service
to the Long Term Care Industry in 2000.
A devotee of German studies, Dr. Willging
also achieved a 1963-64 Fulbright Scholarship at the Free University in Berlin. He issurvived by his wife and two daughters.
Memorial donations may be made toJohns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center,
100 North Charles Street, Ste. 234, Baltimore, MD 21201 or to Gilchrist Hospice
Care Inc., 11311 McCormick Road, Ste. 350,
Hunt Valley, MD 21031.

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ATSU-ASHS Physical Therapy student Erin Shaw took this photo alongside a mountain biking
trail by the Superstition Mountains in Summer 2010. The “Shrek ears,” with a thick cream colored flower growing on top, turned her intense cardio workout into a leisurely ride.
“This was my first time ever seeing a Saguaro Cactus blooming, and nothing could have prepared me for its odd beauty,” she says. “I took this picture standing up on my tip-toes with the
bumblebees dancing around my head. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to capture an
un-fuzzy shot without a scratch or a sting.”
Shaw says her passion lies within nature, rock-climbing above the clouds or zipping down dirt
trails. “Photography is a way to capture the serenity along the trails,” she says, “enjoying thejourney, rather than drudging along seeking the peak.”
Shaw owns a D40 Nokia camera, but for this shot used an average digital camera she doesn’t
mind getting a little dirty.

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