Terry Lassiter, DDS
Lecturer
Dr. Terry Lassiter graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 1987 and holds both a Bachelor of Science from Baylor University and a Master of Arts in Global Leadership from Dallas Baptist University. As a Baylor student and Pre-Dental/Biology major, Dr. Lassiter says that he strongly sensed that God’s purpose in his life was to become a medical missionary overseas. He read books on medical missions and sought out missionaries that could assist him in his preparation. Later, he met his wife, Vicki, also a Baylor alum with the same passion of becoming a medical missionary. Together, they began a 26-year journey serving the poor in the Caribbean and the Amazon. They began teaching and training other new missionaries to pass on what they had learned.
In 2017, Dr. Lassiter and his wife returned to Waco where he began his own dental practice, Alpha Omega Dental Associates. He learned about the Medical Humanities Program through Dr. Barron and Dr. Hoy, and they asked him to consider teaching a course on medical missions. He currently teaches the highly popular course, Medicine, Missions, and the Gospel.