Persuaded by the family dentist to follow in his footsteps, the young Dugoni enrolled in dental school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City before completing his D.D.S. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco, the school that would later be named after him.
On August 28, 2004, when Dugoni was 79, the University honored him for his long and distinguished leadership by renaming the school as the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry [REF].