Held Expands Role with Project Stretch
Project Stretch, a non-profit group providing dental services to underserved children around the world, this month elected Kathy Held, assistant professor of general dentistry and assistant director of extramural programs, to its Board of Directors. Held has volunteered for missions with Project Stretch and has helped raise funds for ongoing outreach activities. She is a […]
Blackburn to Speak at Dental Pipeline Meeting
David Blackburn DMD 06 next week will speak at a national conference promoting community-based dental education. Blackburn, first delegate for BUSDM’s chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA), will discuss his ten-week volunteer experience delivering dental services to the Navajo population at the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital in Arizona. Blackburn heard Monday that his […]
Stoute Reports from Iraq
Sixty-eight kilometers north of Baghdad, in a building once part of Saddam Hussein’s main air force base, Dr. Gregory Stoute, associate professor of general dentistry and director of minority affairs, is practicing dentistry under vastly different conditions than ever before. “Our site daily is affected by mortar fire,” says Stoute. “The dental clinic is marred […]
International Symposium on Implantology Sees Fourteenth Year of Success
The fourteenth annual International Symposium on Implantology, organized by the school’s Division of Continuing Education, attracted more than 500 participants from around the world last week to the Boston Marriott Long Wharf. Fifty speakers from ten different countries presented basic and advanced implantology topics, including implantology in orthodontics and implantology for allied dental professionals. At […]
ASDA Students Lobby on Capitol Hill
BUSDM’s American Student Dental Association (ASDA) joined more than 170 dental students from across the country in Washington, DC April 5 and 6 for the 2005 National Student Lobby Day. Representatives David Blackburn DMD 06, Britt Soden DMD 06, Monika Srivastava DMD 07, Elisa Sin DMD 07, and Chrys Constantinou DMD 08 lobbied U.S. congressmen […]
Decortication Technique Gets Symposium Spot at AADR/IADR
The AADR/IADR has chosen a BUSDM research area, "Rapid Orthodontics Following Selective Alveolar Decortication," as one of 15 symposia to be presented at its 2007 annual meeting in New Orleans. Dr. Thomas Van Dyke, director of the school’s Clinical Research Center, was influential in the AADR/IADR’s selection of decortication as a symposium topic. "This symposium […]
Drs. Garcia and Dietrich Present at International Periodontology Symposium
Drs. Raul Garcia, professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, and Thomas Dietrich, visiting research scholar, will speak at Current Controversies in Periodontology, an international periodontology symposium in Berlin December 9, 2006. Dietrich, who is one of five co-organizers of the symposium, will speak on the topic "Case selection—discriminating […]
BUSDM Student Joins Faculty on Dominican Health and Outreach Program
BUSDM student John Fitzsimons DMD 10 joined Susan Cote, instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, as she returned to the rural mountains north of Santiago in late July for her ninth year providing preventive dental care such as oral health education, screenings, and fluoride varnishes to underserved residents in the […]
Congratulations, Carolyn Wehler!
Carolyn Wehler, assistant professor, project manager, and clinical examiner, received the Dental Hygienist of the Year award from Massachusetts Dental Hygienists’ Association (MDHA) at the organization’s annual meeting September 9, 2006, in Natick. "It was a great honor to receive this award from my peers," Wehler says. "I’ve worked with so many wonderful hygienists through […]
Graves Named JDR Associate Editor
American and International Association of Dental Research (AADR/IADR) boards this week appointed Dr. Dana Graves, BUSDM professor of periodontology and oral biology, associate editor of the Journal of Dental Research (JDR). In this role, he will be responsible for the Journal’s Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine (CROBM) section. "My goals for CROBM are […]