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 […]
Jacobson Wins Educator’s Award
Dr. Zhimon Jacobson, director of the Center for Implantology, last month was awarded the Morton L. Perel Annual Award for Dental Implant Educators by the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI). The award recognizes those in the field who "initiate, perpetuate, advance, innovate, encourage, teach, and/or motivate both students and practitioners in the multifaceted discipline of oral […]
BU and BMC Join CIMIT
Boston University (BU) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) announced last week their new partnership with the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a Cambridge-based consortium bringing together clinicians, scientists, and engineers using technology to solve medical problems. Existing CIMIT members include Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, Draper Laboratory, Partners […]
Shenkin Speaks Out About School Nutrition
American children over the past three decades have become increasingly obese. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, the childhood obesity rate during that time has more than doubled for children 2-5 and 12-19 years old, and has more than tripled for children ages 6-11. In 2004 nine million children over […]
Gallagher Wins Top ADEA Teaching Honors
The nation’s premier dental education organization has named Dr. George Gallagher, professor and program director of the Advanced Dental Education Program in Oral Pathology, among the best dental educators in the country. The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) last Thursday granted Gallagher the ADEA/GlaxoSmithKline Sensodyne® Excellence in Teaching Award. Presented annually, the award honors dental […]
Shenkin Appointed ABPD Diplomate
Dr. Jonathan Shenkin, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research and the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, has become a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. Becoming a diplomate, which involves rigorous written and clinical examinations, is the highest honor for a dentist. Shenkin received his DDS from Columbia […]