Kevin Kaiser

I'm a 21 year-old student at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Currently, I'm a senior majoring in Biological Sciences while obtaining a minor in Business and graduating with Latin honors, Departmental honors, and the Honors certificate from the Honors College. My dream and passion in life is becoming a reality as I will be attending UMKC School of Dentistry starting in Fall 2012 to become a dentist and eventually an orthodontist.

My girlfriend, Megan, and I love to travel. We also love trying to find local restaurants that have exceptional food.

Currently, I volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club of Columbia and have volunteered in the past at St. Anthony's Medical Center in South St. Louis County and The Food Bank in Columbia.
I'm also a big supporter of the mission and goals of Give Kids a Smile and I'm the "Online Communications Chairman" for the Mizzou Predental Club.

My hobbies include participating as a member of the Mizzou Triathlon team and will proudly be representing our school in the Collegiate Nationals race this year. Check out all my past and future races.

You can also find me spending late nights in the lab, as I am currently researching the regulation of the MAPK scaffold KSR-1 in T-cells during the selection process, with my mentor Dr. Mark Daniels.

When I'm not volunteering, socializing, researching, or working I spend my time hanging out at various St. Louis dental offices.

My second passion, after dentistry, is entrepreneurship. In middle school, I started a small lawn business which grew into 15 regular customers plus various projects. I recently closed that business to focus on my schooling and other endeavors but this really sparked my interest in starting/owning my own business as a dentist after school.

I work with a startup venture company as VP of Marketing at SuretyBonds.com. The experience of building a company from the ground up is one that I am proud to participate in and love the life-long friends it has given me. And that makes me only more excited about starting my own practice after dental school and creating more relationships.