Dr. Rusel P Hollister, DDS

Rusel Hollister, D.D.S., M.S.:
I am a native of California, I lived most of my first 24 years a half mile from Disneyland, where my youth was filled with the beaches, mountains and desserts of Southern California. I attended the University of California Irvine for my Bachelor of Science with Honors in the Biological Sciences (1972), and then for my Master of Science in Medical Pharmacology & Toxicology (1974). I gladly left California in late '74 when I was offered a research position at The Upjohn Company (before Upjohn became Pharmacia which become Pfizer). After three years in research, I decided to use my surgical skills to provide health care for people.
In 1977, I went to the University of Detroit Dental School, where, after four long years, I graduated in 1981 with my Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) degree. I was now a dentist. When I first visited Michigan in '74, I was greatly impressed with friendly & kind residents of the Kalamazoo area, so I wanted to return to Kalamazoo …to start my dental practice. Ann, my wife, was born in Kalamazoo, so the decision to move back to Kalamazoo was an easy one. I worked for another dentist as an associate for the first one & a half years, then in 1983, we opened our office on the downtown Kalamazoo Mall. We moved to our present location on KL Ave. in 1995. Ann has been my dental assistant since we began our dental practice and now does much of the laboratory work.
Ann and Rus were married in the Kalamazoo Nature Center's bird watching room in 1975. Our daughter, Eleanor, was born in 1989, and our son, Richard, was born in 1991. Ann & I enjoy winter and summer sports, camping, hiking and road trips. Ann is one of the two Kalamazoo County 4-H Poultry Superintendents and Rus became a Certified Shooting Coach and Instructor and coaches the 4-H Junior Shooting Team, we both go to Michigan and National competitions and Championships. Ann has taken up a new sport in the last couple years, downhill skiing, and now she teaches skiing. We live on a small farm in Cooper Township, where we breed and raise chickens and turkeys, and we raise beef cattle and have a horse.