Dr. Mick has been a chronic overachiever (both personally and professionally) since his student days, when he sat in the front and center of class and started to develop his strong passion and dedication to his profession and family. Fellow classmates of his always knew he had a strong drive and focus to be the best and he was already respected by his peers at that time.

Though he does not have direct physical patient contact, as his nominator said, patients “are his absolute priority and of the utmost concern to him. His attention to detail and clinical excellence is unsurpassed and he wakes in the wee hours of the day to deliver timely feedback to doctors.”

Those doctors and their patients hold him in the highest regard and trust his opinion, especially on their most difficult cases. He has an excellent reputation throughout the chiropractic profession and is respected in the medical arena, as well.

Joanie Holst exeplifies teaching experience by excelling in embracing new visions no matter how many practical possibliities the Massage Therapy department has explored. She has adapted 15 years of clinic experiences, the top text books in the profession and created a curriculum for the student involving a multi-disciplined approach including power point lectures, written text notes and hands-on protocol. Joanie feels strongly about the students feeling the work (techniques) as well as performing them as a part of the learning process.

She is also the advisor for the Massage Club, working off-campus on-site chair massage events to brisge the classroom to the world of sports and athletes.