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Health Enhanced by Art 2020 (HEArt Journal)

Compassion As Our Compass

Art Description

I wrote this poem while working from home and I wanted to reflect what is happening in this world.

Artist Statement

Artist: Melissa Comstock, Employee

Melissa Comstock is a research project coordinator in the Department of Research Support at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her work for the past three years has been working with Dr. Brian Degenhardt, the Director of the Center for Research in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine with the A.T. Still Research Institute. Melissa has a background and passion for exercise physiology. She played five sports in high school and grew up in Fulton, MO. Melissa came to Kirksville in the fall of 1999 to attend Truman State University. She then received two master's degrees. One in exercise physiology from Illinois State University and the other online in recreation management from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.