Alumni
Homecoming 2025: Celebrating leadership, innovation and community
Alumni returned to Kansas City University for a weekend full of inspiration, connection and celebration.
KCU alumna leads first-of-its-kind perinatal practice in Oklahoma
When Kansas City University – Joplin welcomed its inaugural class in 2017, Kalee Woody, DO, signed on to help launch something new.
Revolutionary leaps
Joseph McGuirk, DO, didn’t just follow a path in medicine — he blazed one.
The gift of a lifetime
When her doctor in Plainfield, Indiana, asked her to schedule a six-month follow-up — and the earliest available appointment was eight months out — 97-year-old Lucille Ali knew something was wrong.
The journey of giving back: Dr. Ghassan Fahel’s path from KCU to a visionary future
In 1994, Ghassan Fahel, DO, a proud graduate of Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine, embarked on a remarkable journey in medicine that has led him to a thriving career and an enduring legacy of giving back.
While learning about cancer, KCU medical student discovers his own
It started as a joke. Thomas Parpana was in a lecture about cancer when he felt a lump in his neck.
From policy to patients: A student’s unconventional road to medicine
Peter Khoury once had a seat in the boardroom. Now, the aspiring dermatologist is headed to the exam room.
Launching careers in research from KCU’s biomedical sciences program
Some students enter graduate school with a plan. Others come looking for direction. At Kansas City University’s College of Biosciences, both kinds of students find space to grow and the mentorship to figure out what comes next.
The power of purpose in KCU alumna’s journey to healing and supporting others
Deepa Halaharvi, DO, has stood on both sides of the exam table — first as a breast cancer surgeon, then as a patient.
How this KCU Alumnus is protecting worker health at the Department of Energy
Kansas City University alumnus Lt. Col. (Ret.) Scott Everson, DO, MPH, is making a difference at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as chief medical officer.
KCU alum serves up pasta after saving lives
KCU alum Dr. Mitchell Fagan balances life as an ER doctor with his passion for pasta as the owner of Zero Zero, a Kansas City restaurant and pasta shop focused on handmade, locally sourced dishes.
KCU tackles the physician shortage, one doctor at a time
Dr. Robert Steele, a 2022 KCU graduate, shares why Joplin felt like the right place to build his career.