Check Out the New Videos on the GSDM Experience!
Four new videos complete with interviews of students, faculty, staff, and researchers are available for viewing on the GSDM website. The videos were designed to give potential applicants a taste of the excellent educational experience available at GSDM, but are fun for everyone to watch. Keep an eye out for appearances by your friends, teachers, […]
Drs. Friedman & Calabrese Join Forces to Educate Nursing Home Staff
GSDM teamed up with Mass Senior Care, which represents 80 to 90 percent of the nursing homes in Massachusetts, this summer to bring a seminar series on senior oral health care to nursing home staff throughout Massachusetts. The program, called Oral Health & Overall Health: It’s a Two-Way Street, hit Northampton, Peabody, Randolph, and Marlborough […]
Externship Trio Gets the Word Out About Smoking
Three students recently went above and beyond to fulfill their externship community outreach requirement. The students—Sayed Al-Mousawi DMD 12, Amy Mann DMD 12, and Vera Chernomordik DMD 12—attended an outreach event in East Boston held in the Shaw’s parking lot. The event included volunteers from Boston University School of Medicine, The Family Van, and the Dana Farber […]
Spreading Smiles Across the Atlantic
Volunteers from GSDM attended the 2011 World Summer Games in Athens, Greece from June 25 to July 4. The group volunteered as part of Healthy Athletes® Special Smiles® initiative to provide oral health screenings, flouride treatment, mouth guards, oral hygeine instruction, and referrals to the athletes. Led by Senior Global Clinical Advisor of the Special […]
Prosthodontics Says, “Hello & Goodbye”
A reception was held on July 15, to simultaneously bid farewell to the seven members of the 2011 graduating class of the Advanced Specialty Education Program in Prosthodontics program and welcome in the new class of residents. Professor & Chair of Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials Dr. Dan Nathanson greeted the assembled group. To the class of 2011 […]
Exams Are Done; Let’s Eat!
DMD students from the class of 2013 were invited to a luncheon to celebrate the end of their second year on Thursday, July 14. The students powered through exams before enjoying their pizza, and then heading out for a two week break. These students have been studying hard for the last two years and when […]
CHP Promotes Oral Health to Population with Psychiatric Disabilities
On July 6, CHP Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri led a group of students to the Center Club, a Program of Bay Cove Human Services. That day the Club was hosting a Dental Health Promotion Day. The group of volunteers— Joe Bousaba DMD 13, John Costandi DMD 12, Michael Donavan DMD 13, Michelle Holzinger […]
Two GSDM Students Selected to MDS Leadership Institute
Dee Gulis DMD 12 and Ana Serrenho DMD 13 have been selected to participate in the Massachusetts Dental Society Leadership Institute Program. The training they receive as part of this Program will push them to think outside the box, run effective meetings, motivate and inspire others to get involved, and understand and articulate to others […]
Ceremony Celebrates First Graduates of BUIDRE
There was an atmosphere of celebration and accomplishment for the 12 graduates and their families at the first graduation ceremony of the Boston University Institute for Dental Research and Education Dubai (BUIDRE), held on July 9, 2011. Graduates from the postdoctoral programs in endodontics, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics wore traditional academic robes with […]
Neelam Shah DMD 14 Wants to Educate Local Mothers
Neelam Shah DMD 14 wants women to know just how important oral health is during and after their pregnancy. The second-year dental student recognizes that there are misconceptions out there about oral health that many women believe to be fact. Earlier this year Shah came up with an idea to integrate the OB/GYN and Dental […]