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and you will hear them say they enjoy interacting Terms Expire 2011:
Jemma Allor, ‘00 DH, Mt. Clemens, MI
with our students and the opportunity to “give Sondra Moore Gunn, ‘78 DDS, ‘80 MS, Ann Arbor, MI
something back” for the outstanding education they George Yellich, ‘72 DDS, ‘77 MS, Los Gatos, CA
Michael Cerminaro, ‘86 DDS, Muskegon , MI
received here at Michigan. John McMahon, ‘82 DDS, Grand Rapids, MI
Many also say that the discussions they have Terms Expire 2012:
Metodi C. Pogoncheff, ’76 Lansing, MI
with our students help them “to stay on their toes.” Wayne Olsen, ’81 Traverse City, MI
Sheree Duff, ’80 BSDH, Grand Blanc, MI
It’s not uncommon for members of the Dean’s David O. Cramer, ’93 Grand Rapids, MI
Faculty to incorporate some of what they learn here Scott Schulz, ’96 Traverse City, MI
and put it to use in their own practice. Student Representative: Anh Pham (D2)
Ex Officio Members:
I am extremely grateful for the time and effort Peter Polverini, Dean
that every one of them gives to us, especially during Janet Souder Wilson, ‘73 DH, Northville, MI
Alumni Association Liaison
these tough economic times when everyone’s Steve C. Grafton , Executive Director, Alumni Assoc.
Richard R. Fetchiet, Director of External Relations and
resources are stretched to the limit. Continuing Dental Education
The presence of each member of the Dean’s The University of Michigan, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer,
complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination
Faculty enriches the lives of our students and speaks and affirmative action. The University of Michigan is committed to a policy of equal
opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
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volumes about the profession of dentistry. expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status in employment,
educational programs and activities, and admissions. Inquiries or complaints may
be addressed to the Senior Director for Institutional Equity, and Title IX/Section
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Sincerely, For other University of Michigan information call (734) 764-1817.
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Speaker Sandro Galea says oral
health care a global concern
PROFILES
17 17 Faculty
Dr. Paul Krebsbach
21 Alumna
Dr. Karen-Lee Jones Stewart
DEPARTMENTS
19 Faculty News
23 Department Update
25 Dental Hygiene
27 Research
30 Alumni News
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Jerry Mastey
Dan Bruell
Drawing W
Internet. The School, which launched its YouTube Channel in March
(www.youtube.com/user/umichdent), was recently the second
most-viewed educational channel on the popular Web site, topped
only by Stanford.
The dental school’s videos are included on the University of
Michigan’s new YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/um) launched
“ This is the best
in September. The University’s portal includes videos focusing on video I have ever
special speakers and events, classroom lectures, and other highlights.
seen on caries
School of Dentistry videos are the result of an effort that began
several years ago to digitize more than 1,200 videotapes that were removal. Thank
created in the School’s television studios in the 1970s. Ana Iacob, you so much.”
a Dental Informatics research associate, has been working on this
project from the start and is adding more items to the digital archives (Egypt)
each week.
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Screen shot of a vintage Dental Hygiene
instructional video.
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Dean’s
Faculty:
Volunteering Time...
Sharing Experience
Dean’s Faculty Members
Cariology, Restorative
Sciences & Endodontics
• Robert Coleman
• Anthony Dietz
alk to any member of this select group and you will hear each one say that • Richard Han
they enjoy “being involved” and passing along what they have learned during • Allan Jacobs
their years of practice to dental students who are beginning their predoctoral • Jed Jacobson
clinical education. • Thomas Johnson
• James Laidlaw
Members of the group, known as the Dean’s Faculty, travel to the School of • Michael Lindemann
Dentistry at least one half-day a week to pass along their knowledge and experiences • Oscar Link
to eager-to-learn students in the School’s predoctoral and graduate clinics. • Charles Murray
“Their involvement at the School supports all of our missions, and I’m extremely • Richard Rubinstein
grateful for the time and effort each one of them gives us,” said Dean Peter Polverini. Periodontics & Oral Medicine
“Their contributions, which support our preclinical and clinical programs, are • William Beck
invaluable, especially during tough economic times such as those we’re now facing, • Suheil Boutros
when everyone’s resources are strained.” • William Carroll
• Heather Charchut
Established 16 years ago, membership in the Dean’s Faculty is by invitation only. • Kok-Heng Chong
All 35 practitioners, both general dentists and specialists, have been recommended • Roger Hill
by a colleague. The nominee meets with a department chair before his or her name • Salah Huwais
is submitted to a committee for consideration and approval. • Jeffrey Johnston
• Mitch Kaplan
• Amar Katranji
Mutually Beneficial Interaction • Christopher Kazor
Five members of the Dean’s Faculty, featured on pages 4-6, are enthused about • Michael Krause
the opportunities they have to teach students as well as learn from them. • William Mason
• Steve Meraw
“Being in contact with the students helps me to stay on my toes,” said Dr. Roger
• Kelly Misch
Hill, who teaches in the graduate periodontics clinic once a month. • Allan Padbury
Dr. Deborah Priestap agrees. “Being a member of the Dean’s Faculty has expanded • Luis Perez
my knowledge of dentistry in ways I never imagined when I entered the dental • Mark Setter
• Anthony Spagnuolo
profession,” she said.
• Diego Velasquez
One of the charter members of the Dean’s Faculty, Dr. Richard Han, says he enjoys • Mark Zahn
challenging students to think through a problem to develop answers to questions. • Greg Zann
However, not all learning takes place in a clinic.
Dr. Thomas Bloem meets with students in discussion groups twice a month to Orthodontics &
Pediatric Dentistry
talk about some of the finer points of running a practice and treatment plans. • Deborah Priestap
“We will continue to rely on these master clinicians and practitioners in the
various disciplines to help launch and sustain exciting new initiatives that will be a Prosthodontics/Biologic
part of our new vision for dental education at Michigan,” Polverini said. & Materials Sciences
• Thomas Bloem
Each fall, a recognition dinner is held to honor and thank Dean’s Faculty members
for their contributions. “We realize this is a small gesture of appreciation on our
part, but it is one that is offered with heartfelt sincerity,” Polverini said. “It gives us
a chance to say ‘thank you’ to each on a very personal level.”
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Jerry Mastey Jerry Mastey
Dr. Roger Hill talks to second-year periodontal resident Dr. Dr. Deborah Priestap and Dr. Annelise Preslan, a third-year
Hsun-Liang Chan about the work he did on a patient in the orthodontic resident, share a lighter moment following Priestap’s
School’s graduate periodontics clinic. review of a treatment plan Preslan developed for a patient.
When he’s teaching in the School’s graduate “Being a member of the Dean’s Faculty has
periodontics clinic, Dr. Roger Hill, a charter member expanded my knowledge of dentistry in ways I never
of the Dean’s Faculty, says he often brings with him imagined when I entered the dental profession,” says
examples of treatments he has provided to some of his Dr. Debby Priestap.
patients during the past 20 or 30 years so the residents A member of the Dean’s Faculty for 10 years,
better understand the long-term implications of their Priestap travels about 40 miles to the School of
work. Dentistry every Friday from her office in Milford,
“These cases, where the names and other identifying Michigan to teach and work with residents in the Robert
patient information are confidential, are what I call W. Browne Orthodontics Clinic.
‘proof of principle’ that demonstrate the results of “The residents are intelligent, energetic, and open
treatment and maintenance of dentitions over 20 or 30 to new ideas. That attitude has inspired and challenged
years,” Hill said. “Students can actually see what work me to reconsider what I have learned and how I practice
has been done, and I often tell them ‘this is what can orthodontics,” she says.
happen to a patient over an extended period of time’ A cutting edge area of orthodontics that has
when they perform a certain procedure,” he added. impressed Priestap is how microimplants are being
“Seeing the results decades later is information that is used for maximum anchorage control. “When I see
very helpful and useful to them.” the residents using these implants and how patients
Hill makes the 200 mile round trip once a month benefit,” she says, “I realize the significance of what
to Ann Arbor from his practice in Bay City. Saying he’s is being done at Michigan and how it will impact our
a teacher whose role “is to show students how to save specialty in the years ahead.”
a patient’s teeth,” Hill says he’s also a student. Priestap says she considers herself “fortunate
“Being in contact with the students helps me to to have regular contact with some of the finest
stay on my toes,” he says. “I’m staying abreast of new orthodontists in the world at the School of Dentistry.
developments in periodontics, especially in research. Their knowledge and insights are invaluable assets to
Having first-hand access to that kind of information Michigan’s orthodontic community.”
from the students and other faculty members, in turn, A member of the State Board of Dentistry and an
helps me to be a better periodontist at my own practice.” examiner and consultant for the American Board of
Orthodontics, Priestap was a member of the University
of Michigan swim team as an undergraduate.
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Jerry Mastey
Dr. Richard Han listens as fourth-year dental student Beth Vinckier
points to the chart of an electronic record and describes the work
she has performed on a patient and her treatment plans for the
patient’s return visit to the 3 Green Clinic.
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Jerry Mastey Photo courtesy of Dr. Charles Murray
As part of a treatment planning seminar, Dr. Thomas Bloem (center) Dr. Charles Murray
talks to graduate prosthodontic residents Drs. Zeina Al-Salihi (left)
and Dimitrios Chronaios about various private practice perspectives
when presenting oral health care options to their patients.
Since practice management is important in dentistry, “This is something I have been pleased to do for
Dr. Thomas Bloem comes to the School of Dentistry twice more than a decade. It’s my way of giving back to the
a month for a discussion group meeting to talk about dental school for all it did for me when I was a student at
treatment planning from a specialty practice perspective. Michigan,” says Dr. Charles Murray.
A member of the Dean’s Faculty for three years, Bloem A general practitioner in Birmingham, Michigan until
taught predoctoral and graduate prosthodontics for 17 his retirement in 1998, Murray was invited to become a
years until 1996. member of the Dean’s Faculty about a year before retiring.
“Clinical skills are important,” he said, “but students Twice a week during the winter semester he travels to the
also need to be practical in successfully managing their School of Dentistry to teach first-year dental students in
patients.” Citing the current economic environment, the Dr. Roy Roberts Preclinical Laboratory.
Bloem said it has become increasingly important for “The technology being used to educate students today
dentists to be adaptable. is certainly more advanced than when I was a student,” he
“Today, a good practitioner will closely listen to what said with a laugh. “Today’s dental students are savvy when
the patient is saying and, when necessary, offer options it comes to technology and, overall, are very sharp. We’re
that help a patient reach his or her oral health goals. You getting the cream of the crop.”
have to embrace flexibility,” he says. That might mean, for Technology aside, Murray says it’s been interesting
instance, “working with a patient over a longer period of to see how the composition of dental classes has changed
time instead of trying to complete treatment in the fewest since when he was a student.
number of appointments possible. You want the patient “In the 1950s, we had only one female dental student
to reach their goals without abandoning the plan you share in our classes. But today classes are about half male and
with them.” half female,” he says. “I think that’s good because dentistry
Bloem says he enjoys talking to graduate students is one of those professions that offers a lot of opportunities
because “many times their perspectives are refreshing. to both women and men.”
It’s their willingness to learn and their curious nature that Murray adds that teaching in the preclinic helps him to
makes me willing to help.” stay abreast of advances, both technical and scientific. “I
Active in dental organizations and a regional director enjoy working with the first-year dental students. They’re
of the American College of Prosthodontics, Bloem says he very appreciative of what you do for them.”
always emphasizes how crucial it is for students to give
back to the dental profession. “I know how important
it has been to me and my career, and I want to convey to
students that this will be something that’s important for
them and their careers too.”
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School of Dentistry
Selected for Pilot Program
The U-M School of Dentistry is one of three dental schools nationwide
selected to participate in a pilot program designed to increase access to
oral health care among underrepresented minorities and low-income
groups, develop programs to encourage adolescents from these groups
to consider and ultimately pursue careers in the dental profession, and
enhance academic-community partnerships.
The American Dental Education Association, the national
organization that serves dental education, has received a grant from
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to develop the program. Results from the
ADEA-supervised initiative will be shared with the nation’s other 56
dental schools.
Building on the success of its community outreach program, the
U-M School of Dentistry will increase its activities at sites where its
students already provide care – the Bay Mills Health Care Center that
serves Native Americans in Brimley, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula;
the other at a community based dental clinic in Washtenaw County. The
pilot program began in August and will continue for 18 months.
“This program seeks to improve the oral health of traditionally
underserved minorities,” said Dr. Stephen Stefanac, associate dean for
patient services, whose office supervises the School’s outreach program.
“But this initiative also offers something new, recruitment through
engagement,” he added.
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School of Dentistry histologist Chris
Strayhorn holds an encased sample of
a molar from a 40,000-year-old baby
wooly mammoth whose remains were
discovered and featured on television
and in National Geographic magazine.
Definitely
the Coolest
Thing I’ve
Done
Jerry Mastey
“It’s definitely the coolest thing I’ve done because the tooth I looked at was
40,000 years old,” said Christopher Strayhorn as he talked about his role in “The
Dental School
Baby Mammoth Project” that was featured on the National Geographic Channel Histologist
and was the cover story in the May issue of National Geographic magazine.
Strayhorn, a histologist in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Discusses His
Medicine, analyzed portions of the creature’s molars, small intestine, and
other tissues at the request of U-M paleontologist Dr. Daniel Fisher. Role with “Baby
The baby mammoth, known as Lyuba, was discovered on a riverbank in
northwest Siberia about two years ago. The discovery excited Fisher, whose
Mammoth
research was funded by National Geographic, because of what he described Project”
as “the quality and completeness of her preservation. No other specimen
preserves this much of the original anatomy.”
Strayhorn said after he received tissue specimens from Fisher, he cut small
sections of the specimens and stained them to make cellular features more
apparent. “Usually I’m doing this same work on rodent teeth and bones, but
this was unlike anything I’ve done in the 17 years I have been here,” he said.
“A couple of years ago, I examined the tusks of a mammoth that was about
10,000 years old. But now I was looking at teeth more than four times that
old.”
Strayhorn said of the nearly one dozen tissues he examined, “the teeth
were, by far, the most exciting specimens to look at. Since we examine a lot
of teeth, we know that they don’t change over time, even though surrounding
tissues do,” he said. Strayhorn added that as he examined another tissue
sample, an intestine, he discovered a blade of grass that was also the same age.
You can read more about Lyuba, the baby mammoth, and role of U-M
paleontologist Daniel Fisher at “Baby Mammoth Studies Validate U-M
Researcher’s Techniques” at www.dent.umich.edu/news/current.
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Kathleen Richards (right), the daughter of the late
Prof. Albert Richards, and Dr. Sharon Brooks, hold
a replica of the plaque citing his achievements.
Stohler Receives
Distinguished Service
Award
Dr. Christian Stohler, world renowned researcher
and former chair of the Department of Biologic and
Materials Sciences, received the Distinguished Service
Award from the Alumni Society Board of Governors.
Call Photography
The award recognizes and honors a living person who
has made outstanding contributions to the U-M School
of Dentistry, the dental profession, or the Society.
Dean at the University of Maryland Baltimore
College of Dental Surgery since 2003, Stohler was with
the University of Michigan School of Dentistry for
more than 20 years. During that time, he conducted
extensive research on pain, including its causes and
manifestations, its effects on jaw functions, and
how oral health care professionals can help patients
experiencing the malady.
Stohler has returned to Michigan several times,
including delivering a keynote address about pain in
February 2007 during the School’s annual Research Day
program.
Call Photography
Eric Lorey, the son of the late Dr. Robert Lorey, and Dr. Ron
Schaffer, a fellow classmate of Dr. Lorey.
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Clayton
Scholarship
When he retired, Dr. Joseph Clayton
gifted more than $100,000 to the U-M
School of Dentistry to establish the Dr.
Joseph A. Clayton Graduate Scholarship
Fund. Each year, the Fund awards
a $5,000 scholarship to one or more
students in the graduate prosthodontics
program.
2009-2010 Recipients
Drs. Herman Kupeyan, Joseph Clayton, and Marie Gale. For the 2009-2010 academic year,
scholarships were awarded to Quinn
Chan and Carl Pogoncheff.
Former Instructor Becomes Chan earned a bachelor’s degree
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Looking For Leaders!
Alumni Society Board of Governors
Here’s your chance to make a difference. In September 2010 five members will be elected to the U-M School of
Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board of Governors. The group will include four dentistry graduates and one dental
hygiene graduate. All will serve a three-year term. This is a perfect opportunity for you to become involved with
the School, build relationships with students, faculty, and staff, and perform a worthwhile and satisfying public
service. If you’re interested in serving, or if you would like to nominate someone, send in the form below. In the
event more than 10 individuals are nominated, the Board’s nominating committee will select a representative slate.
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If you nominate yourself, please send your biography (45 words or less) on a separate sheet of
paper. However, because of time constraints on our staff and limited space in the magazine,
we cannot accept a CV. Instead, please take a few moments to highlight what you consider are
major achievements, whether personal or professional.
Return the form, and your biography if you’re nominating yourself, to:
Carrie Towns
Office of Alumni Relations
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
540 E. Liberty, Suite 204
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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PROFILE
published in the textbooks that dental
students were reading.”
Following a conversation with Dr.
Robert Gorlin, a prominent Minnesota
pathologist who convinced him to
participate in a summer research
program, Krebsbach remained in dental
school and graduated with his DDS in
1987.
“I was in the early stage of my
dental school education, and couldn’t
see beyond my efforts in the preclinical
labs,” Krebsbach said. “Dr. Gorlin
opened my eyes to a broad range of
possibilities that included more in
Per Kjeldsen
depth science and research. These
opportunities reshaped my attitude and
career aspirations and led to a rewarding
Working to Take Science and Dental career that includes teaching, practicing
dentistry, and scholarship.”
Education in New Directions
NIH: “Felt Like a Kid in a
His father was an anesthetist and, Candy Store”
for about two years, the only one in He then traveled to the east coast
the western Upper Peninsula town of and in 1993 earned both a certificate
“I saw coming to Bessemer, Michigan. His mother was a in periodontolog y and a PhD in
Michigan as an nurse. So, naturally, from an early age, biological sciences at the University of
Paul Krebsbach thought about becoming Connecticut. Krebsbach also became an
opportunity for a physician. attending periodontist at the Veterans
“But since my dad was the only Administration Hospital in Newington,
me to broaden my anesthetist covering that part of the Connecticut, and was in private practice
credentials and state and on call twenty-four hours a for three years in Laurel, Maryland.
day, seven days a week, I began thinking “I enjoyed being a clinician, but
to interact with about a career in dentistry,” Krebsbach didn’t have the experience I needed
experienced faculty, said. “Dentistry seemed to be more to become a research scientist, so I
interesting and more fun because you jumped at a post-doctoral fellowship
not just at the could combine science and art and set opportunity at the National Institutes of
your own office hours.” Health,” he said. “During the three years
dental school, but But doubts about becoming a I was there (1993-1996), I felt like a kid
with other units on dentist surfaced during Krebsbach’s first in a candy store. It’s the best place in the
year in dental school. world to do basic science research.”
campus.” “The science was not as deep as I had Krebsbach said he took advantage of
hoped,” he said. “I spent a lot of time opportunities to collaborate with other
memorizing information, but wanted to principal investigators. “I’m especially
do more than memorize what I read in grateful to three of my mentors at NIH,
a book. I wanted to be more hands-on Yoshi Yamada, Ken Yamada, and Pam
and do science that someday would be Roby,” he said.
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As Krebsbach was considering his teaches at U-M Hospital, and does
next steps and wrapping up his work at research in the areas of embryonic and
NIH in 1996, he met Dr. Peter Polverini, adult stem cells and tissue engineering
who chaired the University of Michigan and regeneration.
School of Dentistry’s Department of “We’re conducting embryonic and
Oral Medicine and Pathology. Polverini adult stem cell research to understand
urged Krebsbach to visit Ann Arbor and how a stem cell either remains a stem cell
decide if Michigan might be a good fit for or becomes a more specialized type of
him and his research plans. cell,” he said. Asked what role the School
It was. Krebsbach said several of Dentistry would have in the new U-M
factors influenced his decision. consortium to create new embryonic
“I saw coming to Michigan as an stem cell lines that was announced in
opportunity to broaden my credentials the spring, Krebsbach said, “it’s too early
and to interact with experienced faculty, to tell, but several dental school faculty
not just at the dental school, but with members will have the opportunity to
other units on campus,” he said. “I contribute.” Per Kjeldsen
was impressed with the dental school’s As for tissue engineering and Dr. Paul Krebsbach explains some of the
emphasis on ‘the big picture.’ That is, regeneration research, he said he and innovative ideas the committee is discussing
this School sees itself being connected to reshape education to the Alumni Society
other researchers are “trying to take the
Board of Governors.
to other units, such as medicine and knowledge discovered in recent years
engineering. I thought Michigan would and develop new tissues for patients gene therapy trials are underway and
give me the opportunities I wanted to to replace those that may have been in other instances proteins are being
not only conduct research, but also teach damaged or lost.” delivered from materials and are
and be involved with those other schools In the past, Krebsbach said that currently used in clinics. But as we
and colleges here.” research “might have focused on learn more, new questions arise that
In March 2005, Krebsbach was regenerating a single tissue, such as need answers.”
named chair of the Department of bone or cartilage, but our current work
Biologic and Materials Sciences and the is much more complex because these Rewards of Teaching, Benefits
Division of Prosthodontics by Polverini tissues don’t exist in isolation.” to Students
who, two years earlier, returned to the Describing some of the research Mentoring PhD students
School of Dentistry to become dean. As being conducted, Krebsbach said “we and teaching at the U-M Hospital
chair, Krebsbach directs a department are developing methods to spatially c o m p l e m e n t K re b s b a c h ’s o t h e r
with 36 faculty members, 26 adjunct control how growth factors and genes duties. “I am a teacher, a scientist, an
faculty, and 86 staff. are delivered from biomaterials to administrator, and a mentor, so as a
regenerate the interfaces between result, I’m super busy. But I enjoy that,”
Stem Cell Research, Tissue tissues, like the bone and cartilage he said.
Regeneration interface of an articulating joint.” He “What’s especially gratifying is to
“It was a major transition from added that these approaches will require see a student who takes the information
managing a handful of people in a incorporating concepts from both from a classroom lecture or research
laboratory to managing so many more biology and engineering. “Consequently, laboratory or clinic, understands it,
as department chair,” he said with a the work requires collaboration with and comes up with what I call ‘the
laugh. “But I enjoy the challenge of scientists with different backgrounds. total picture.’ What’s even more
running a complex scientific and clinical That’s what makes it fun,” he said. impressive is when the student takes
operation.” Asked how soon it might be before that information and begins exploring
In addition to his administrative that laboratory research might be used in new directions,” he said. “When that
responsibilities, Krebsbach also mentors by dentists in their offices, Krebsbach happens,” Krebsbach said, “It shows
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, said it would take time. “Already, we have done our job as teachers or
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as mentors and that a student has
confidence to think independently and Faculty News
go in a new or different direction.”
Giving Direction to the Dr. Lysle Johnston Receives Callahan Memorial Award
Dean’s Vision for 50 Years of Contributions to Orthodontics
Krebsbach is doing some of that
himself. As chair of the dean’s Vision Dr. Lysle Johnston, received the School of Dentistry’s
Implementation Steering Committee, Jr., who chaired the Distinguished Service Award during
he is investigating possible new School of Dentistry’s graduation ceremonies in May 2005
opportunities for dental educators and Department of for his contributions to U-M, the
new directions for dental education. Orthodontics and School, and orthodontics.
Since December 2008, the Pediatric Dentistry, directed the Johnston is the recipient of
committee has been meeting weekly graduate orthodontics program numerous honors, most notably the
to take the findings of the Strategic from 1991-2004, and who was the Albert H. Ketcham Award from the
Assessment Facilitating Committee Robert W. Browne Professor of American Board of Orthodontics,
and implement Dean Peter Polverini’s Dentistry, was honored by the Ohio the 5th International Award of the
directive to create the dental school Dental Association for his 50 years of Italian Society of Orthodontists and
of the future. Key elements include contributions to orthodontics. the Dewel Award of the American
continuing the School’s tradition Johnston received the prestigious Association of Orthodontics.
of excellence while also developing Callahan Memorial Award during He has delivered the
innovative approaches to classroom this year’s Callahan Celebration Mershon and Salzmann Lectures
education, clinical instruction, research, of Excellence in Columbus, Ohio. of the American Association of
and outreach that could reshape The award is named for John Ross Orthodontics, the Angle Memorial
dental education and the profession Callahan, a noted Ohio dental Lecture of the E.H. Angle Society of
of dentistry itself. “Soon we will have researcher and leader in organized Orthodontists (twice), the Northcroft
recommendations that we can begin dentistr y. Established by the Lecture of the British Society for
implementing,” he said. association in 1920, committee the Study of Orthodontics and the
When he’s away from the dental members consider the achievements Arthur Thornton Taylor Memorial
school, Krebsbach relaxes playing and contributions of nominees Lecture of the Australian Society
baseball with his children and playing worldwide before selecting a recipient. of Orthodontics. He is a fellow of
the piano. “I’ve been taking lessons for Dr. Sunil Kapila, current chair both the American and International
four or five years. I enjoy the blues and of Orthodontics and Pediatric Colleges of Dentists and, by election,
jazz, especially improvisational jazz.” Dentistry, lauded Johnston as “an a fellow in dental surgery of the Royal
Krebsbach sees a connection exceptional intellectual who has College of Surgeons of England.
between his new leisure pursuit and his continued to challenge his students Johnston has served on the
work. and the profession. Lysle has always editorial boards of a number of
“When I was studying for my dental sustained a superior level of excellence journals, including the American
degree, I didn’t want to just memorize as a teacher and scholar, and has set a Journal of Orthodontics, Dentofacial
someone else’s science, I wanted to make high standard for future generations Orthopedics and the [Br itish]
new discoveries and take science in new of educators. For all these reasons, Journal of Orthodontics. He was
directions. That’s innovation. It’s like he is highly deserving of the Callahan also a member of the Oral Biology
playing jazz because you learn the basics Memorial Award,” Kapila said. and Medicine Study Section of the
and then see what happens when you go Johnston earned his DDS from National Institutes of Health and
in a different direction.” U-M in 1961 and a Master of Science a director of the Edward H. Angle
degree in orthodontics in 1964. He Society of Orthodontists.
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Richards Receives AAP students have praised Richards for Faculty Promotions
Teaching Award “his passion for educating students,”
“treating us as colleagues,” and “his Five U-M School of Dentistry faculty
willingness and ability to share his members were promoted during
Dr. Philip Richards,
knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for the meeting of U-M Regents in
clinical professor
dentistry.” May. The promotions were effective
of dentistry in the
Richards, who earned his dental September 1.
De par tment o f
degree from U-M in 1984 and a
Periodontics and
master’s degree in periodontics four Tenure Track
O ral Medicine,
years later, has received numerous Vesa M. K aar tinen, MS, PhD,
has received the
teaching awards from students. promoted to associate professor of
American Academy of Periodontology’s
Ten times he received the School’s dentistry, with tenure; Department
Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring
Paul Gibbons Award for outstanding of Biologic and Materials Sciences.
Award for 2009.
teaching and 11 times was named
The organization’s major teaching
Instructor of the Year. George W. Taylor, DMD, DrPH,
award was presented to Richards, who
promoted to professor of dentistry,
also directs the School’s predoctoral
Sohn Elected APHA w i t h te n u re ; D e p a r t m e n t o f
periodontics curriculum, during the
School’s convocation program in late
Governing Counselor Cariology, Restorative Sciences and
Endodontics.
August. According to department
chair, Dr. Laurie McCauley, the award Dr. Woosung Sohn,
Clinical Track
“is given to the periodontal educator assistant professor
Rodrigo de Faria Neiva, DDS, MS,
who has demonstrated a commitment in the Department
promoted to clinical associate
to excellence” and conveys knowledge o f C a r i o l o g y,
professor; Department of
and enthusiasm to students in clinics. Restorative
Periodontics and Oral Medicine.
Richards also received the award in Sciences, and
2005. Endodontics, has
Samuel Zwetchkenbaum, DDS,
“ T his award has special been elected a Governing Counselor
MPH, promoted to clinical associate
significance for me because it’s in the Oral Health Section of the
professor; Department of Oral and
based on nominations and votes of American Public Health Association.
Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital
support from faculty members who His two-year term begins in November
Dentistry.
are my colleagues in this department,” at the conclusion of APHA’s annual
Richards said. meeting in Philadelphia.
Joint Appointments
Richards talked about his ability In his role, Sohn will work with
Jacques E. Nör, DDS, MS, PhD,
to “connect” with students in a feature other members of the Oral Health
Department of Cariology, Restorative
that appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of Section and APHA’s Governing
Sciences, and Endodontics, promoted
DentalUM, the School of Dentistry’s Council, the association’s legislative
to professor of otorhinolaryngology,
alumni magazine. “I really work hard body. However, Sohn added he plans
without tenure, in the Medical
to treat students as professional to use his election “as an opportunity
School.
colleagues from day one,” he said. to inform students and faculty at the
The students notice and appreciate dental school about the work of the
his commitment to excellence, both APHA in general and the Oral Health
in the classroom and in clinics. Many Section in particular.”
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P R O F I L E
Jerry Mastey
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Society and the National Dental Society. her father, Karen teaches two mornings
She’s a member of the MDA’s Public a week in the School of Dentistry’s Dr.
Relations Committee that is developing Roy Roberts Preclinical Laboratory.
statewide television commercials about “Working with the dental students
good oral health that are scheduled to keeps me on my toes,” she said. “Their DDS 1961
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in oral and maxillofacial pathology and the University of Washington’s Summer
qualify to take the specialty board
exam. Interested candidates will also
Institute in Clinical Dental Research
Methods which focused on methods that
Awards & Recognition
be able to enroll in a master’s program enhance one’s ability to perform clinical • Steve Stefanac and Laurie
in dentistry or a PhD program in oral research. McCauley inducted as
health sciences. Dr. Paul Edwards is the Dr. Jill Bashutski completed Fellows in the International
residency program director. the ADEA Academy for Academic College of Dentists.
For practitioners outside the Leadership last year. Dr. Gustavo Avila • Flavia Pirih (finalist) and
School of Dentistry, as well as those in- will complete this program that provides Jill Bashutski (1st place)
house, we offer a cone beam computed teaching tools for new faculty who are named in the AAP Orban
tomography (CBCT) service. CBCT is an entering academia. Both Jill and Gus competition.
x-ray technology that produces three- had fellowship support from the AAP • Julius Bunek named a finalist
dimensional images of bony structures to attend this program. for the AAP Kramer Award.
at ver y high resolution. Dental • Rodrigo Neiva named a
applications include implant planning, Dental Hygiene finalist for the AAP Tarrson
evaluating temporomandibular joint The past year was one of major Fellowship.
dysfunction, and detecting jaw diseases. change in dental hygiene with the • Flavia Pirih and Xin Li named
Drs. Sharon Brooks and Erika Benavides, retirement of two long-time and valued
recipients of the American
board certified oral and maxillofacial faculty members – Joan McGowan
Association for Bone and
radiologists, interpret the scans. For (DentalUM, Fall 2008, p. 43) and Susan
Mineral Research (ASBMR)
more information, please call the Pritzel (DentalUM, Spring & Summer
Young Investigator Award.
School’s Dental Faculty Associates at 2009, p. 28).
• Dr. Xin Li received three
(734) 764-3155 or (734) 936-0332. As we thanked them for their
young investigator awards
contributions and said good-bye, we
Encouraging Teaching Excellence welcomed others. Dr. Susan Taichman in two months from ASBMR,
We are always working to develop and professors Anne Gwozdek and Harold Frost Sun Valley, and
faculty by encourag ing them to Janet Kinney became full-time faculty Cancer and Bone Society.
participate in educational programs, members July 1, 2008.
leadership institutes, and sabbaticals. As a part-time clinical instructor,
Recently, Dr. Nisha D’Silva completed Gwozdek was instrumental in creating both within and outside our School.
a six-month sabbatical at the Michigan and implementing the E-Learning Dental hygiene students have
Center for Translational Pathology with Degree Completion Program. As a significantly expanded their
Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan. They studied the full-time faculty member, she serves as involvement in community activities.
use of bioinformatics to evaluate head director of degree completion programs The program received the Key Award for
and neck cancer biology and biomarkers. for dental hygiene. Kinney, an assistant Outstanding Community Service earlier
Dr. Robert Eber was chosen for professor, is a clinical and didactic this year from the Huron Valley Boys
American Dental Education Association’s instructor who is also active in clinical and Girls Club. The E-Learning Degree
Dental Education Leadership Program. research studies at the Michigan Center Completion program continues to
Drs. D’Silva and Taichman were for Oral Health Research. Taichman thrive and gain national recognition.
members of the inaugural class of the is also an assistant professor and Recently, Gwozdek, Emily Springfield, an
MBA Essentials and Entrepreneurship teaches research methods and scientific instructional technology designer, and
Program at the Ross School of Business. communication and provides guidance Kerschbaum participated in conferences
The program focuses on business to dental hygiene students with their and presentations showcasing this
fundamentals and offers insights on annual Research Day presentations. program. The first cohort of students
how to be an entrepreneur. She brings expertise in women’s health graduates this December. (more online
Dr. Preetha Kanjirath completed research and collaborates with faculty at www.dent.umich.edu/news/current)
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research scientist at the School of dental hygienists for their continuous
Dentistry. involvement with the club during the
Class president Metaxia Roumanis past six years and expanding the oral
said Taichman “introduces dental health care education initiative from an
hygiene students to an aspect of their annual event to a 12-month program.
profession that they may not be aware “The School of Dentistry’s dental hygiene
of – research.” program has become an important
Taichman told the dental hygiene component of our club and has done
students “you clearly have made the much to improve the oral hygiene and
connection that understanding research, overall health of our members,” he said.
along with developing excellent clinical “We hope to continue this collaboration
skills, is essential to the practice of dental for many years.”
hygiene.”
1st Place in National Call Photography
DH Students and Faculty Competition for DH Student The late Frances Shook was one
Participate in “Smile for Life” A graduate student in the School’s of three persons posthumously
Dental hygiene students and faculty dental hygiene program won first place inducted into the School of
joined the University of Michigan earlier this year at a nationwide student Dentistry’s Hall of Honor during
community earlier in the year to support competition sponsored by the American
Homecoming Weekend. Holding
the American Cancer Society’s efforts to Dental Education Association.
a replica of a plaque describing
save lives through cancer research and Amy Coplen received top honors at
provide support to those fighting cancer the ADEA’s annual session in Phoenix Shook’s achievements are Mary
and their loved ones. It was the first time for her winning poster, Dental Hygiene Layher (left), and Melva Baxter
in the history of this event at U-M that Students’ Knowledge of Genetics in who earned a certificate in dental
the School participated with its “Smile Dentistry: Baseline Measures. She hygiene from the School of
for Life” team. The team’s formation was assessed the genetics knowledge of 30 Dentistry in 1950.
a collaboration between the leadership of first-year dental hygiene students and
the Student American Dental Hygienists’ 18 fourth-year dental hygiene students.
Association and the American Student Her projected preceded the launch of represented dental hygiene students
Dental Association. the Web-based genetics case simulations from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and
for dental hygiene students. These Kentucky at ADHA’s annual session
U-M Dental Hygiene simulations, designed to encourage in Washington, D.C. in June. In
problem solving, were incorporated into addition to attending all sessions of
Program Honored the curriculum last fall. the ADHA’s House of Delegates, Bolduc
The University of Michigan School will participate in district and student
of Dentistry’s dental hygiene program Students Receive National caucus meetings at the annual session
has been honored for its community and attend educational and networking
involvement and oral health care
Appointments events.
education. Two U-M dental hygiene students, Washburn, also a fourth-year
During the Huron Valley’s Boys and Lindsey Bolduc and Michelle Washburn, student, is a member of the ADHA
Girls Club annual Leadership Award have been selected to serve in national Student Advisory Board. Washburn,
Recognition ceremony in the spring, roles with the American Dental along with three other students chosen
the School received the Key Award Hygienists’ Association (ADHA). by ADHA’s president from a national pool
for Outstanding Community Service. Bolduc, now a fourth-year student, of applicants, assists the ADHA Council
Club Director Frank Rigger presented was selected to serve as ADHA District on Student Relations in planning the
the award and praised the School’s V Alternate Student Delegate. She student track of ADHA’s annual session.
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or the second time in five years, a the laboratory of Dr. Peter Polverini, dean
School of Dentistry Students
student from the U-M School of of the School of Dentistry, assisting in Receive Major Research Awards
Dentistry was selected as one of cancer research, specifically angiogenesis.
42 students from across the nation “I want to take full advantage of this The University of Michigan School
to participate in the National Institutes one year, once in a lifetime opportunity of Dentistry continued to be recognized
of Health’s prestigious Howard Hughes to decide if I want to pursue a career in for its research prowess. During the joint
Medical Institute Research Scholars research after earning my dental degree,” meeting of the International Association
Program. she said. “Although I have been involved for Dental Research, the American
Jane Stieber, who completed her in cancer research, I plan to be flexible Association for Dental Research, and
third year of dental studies this spring, and keep an open mind because I may the Canadian Association for Dental
participated in the year-long program discover when I’m there that there may Research, six students from the School
that began in July. Established in be another area that might interest me of Dentistry earned major awards for
1985, the program gives outstanding even more.” their work. Eighty-five abstracts and
students at U.S. medical and dental Participating in the one-year talks were presented by U-M researchers
schools an opportunity to spend a program will delay Stieber’s graduation at the gathering of dental scientists.
year on the NIH campus in Bethesda, plans until 2011. “I don’t mind it,
Maryland conducting basic, translational, however, because I hope my experiences Hatton Awards
or applied biomedical research under will inspire others to seize opportunities The Hatton Awards are presented
the direct mentorship of a senior NIH like this to better themselves. One can by both AADR and IADR to junior
research scientist. Students can choose only do this specific program while investigators who demonstrate the
a mentor from more than 1,200 tenured they’re a student in a dental, medical, or potential for a successful career in dental
or tenure-track intramural scientists veterinary program, so, in reality, it’s now research. An AADR committee selected
working on more than 2,500 research or never,” she said. the six best presentations from among
projects. A native of Boyne City, Michigan, 27 who were nominated. The selected
In addition to pursuing her classroom Stieber came to the School of Dentistry six then competed at IADR with other
and clinical education, Stieber works in after earning a bachelor’s degree in divisional winners.
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Turki Alhazzazi won both a first Gies Award big difference in the U-M approach lies
place IADR/Hatton Award (senior The William Gies Award is presented in the local application and much lower
category) and second place in the AADR/ during the IADR/AADR annual session dose. Instead of injecting the genes into
Johnson & Johnson Oral Health Products for the best paper that was published in the blood vessels, where they can then
Hatton Award (senior category) for his the Journal of Dental Research during the travel through the bloodstream and
poster presentation “SIRT3, Longevity- preceding year. result in unexpected and sometimes
Promoting Gene, A Novel Therapeutic Erica Scheller, a student in the fatal reactions, U-M scientists put the
Target for Oral Cancer.” School’s dual degree DDS/Oral health genes on a localized area, directly on the
The five-year survival rate for oral Sciences PhD program, received the tissue during surgery much like a paste.
cancer, approximately 50 percent, award in the field of biological research for “What the U-M study showed is the
has not changed in several decades. her article, “Wnt/Beta-Catenin Inhibits topical method is very well contained
Alhazzazi, who works in the lab of Dental Pulp Stem Cell Differentiation.” and doesn’t distribute throughout the
Dr. Yvonne Kapila, discovered a novel Scheller EL, Change J, Wang CY (2008). body,” said Giannobile, who also directs
potential therapeutic target for oral J Dent Res 87(2):126-30. This research the Michigan Center for Oral Health
cancer. was conducted with Dr. Cun-Yu Wang, Research and has an appointment
His research and training are now at the UCLA School of Dentistry. at the U-M College of Engineering’s
supported by NIDCR, NIH grant RO1 Department of Biomedical Engineering.
DE014429 and funds from the King “This approach alleviates the safety
Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi concern about negative reactions within
Arabia. Gene Therapy Appears Safe to the body. When the teenager died, it got
Kathleen Neiva received a 1st place Regenerate Gum Tissue into his bloodstream and he reacted to
in the AADR/Johnson & Johnson Oral Laura Bailey, U-M News Service it. It was tragic. This is the first study
Health Products Hatton Award (senior of periodontal disease therapy that
category) for her poster, “Endothelial Scientists at the U-M School of demonstrates the distribution of these
Cell-Initiated Crosstalk Enhances Tumor Dentistry have developed a method genes is very safe, suggesting that it
Cell Survival and Migration.” of gene delivery that appears safe for could be used in the clinic for clinical
Working in the lab of Dr. Jacques regenerating tooth-supporting gum application.”
Nör, Neiva has been investigating how tissue — a discovery that assuages Giannobile added that his new
endothelial cells initiate signaling events one of the biggest safety concerns study “doesn’t look at all the safety
that affect tumor cell biology between surrounding gene therapy research and concerns, but certainly this is very
those cells and head and neck cancer tissue engineering. important to the field. The two clinical
cells. Her research is supported by grant Gene therapy is an accepted, viable applications to date where it shows
P50-CA97248 (University of Michigan therapeutic concept, but safety is a potential are periodontal disease and
Head & Neck SPORE) from the NIH/ major hurdle, said William Giannobile, diabetic wounds. Maybe the reason for
NCI, and grants RO1-DE14601, RO1- professor in the Depar tment of this,” he added, “is that both diseases
DE15948, RO1-DE16586, R21-DE19279 Periodontics and Oral Medicine. The result from a compromised or a defective
from NIDCR, NIH. most notable incident highlighting healing environment.”
the safety concerns of gene therapy The next step for the U-M team is
Other Awards
research and treatment occurred several to use the new gene delivery approach
• Ki-Wan Kim, second-year dental
years ago when a teenager died when in human clinical trials, Giannobile said.
student – AADR Student Research
given the adenovirus during a gene The planning stages for these studies will
Fellowship.
therapy clinical trial at the University begin next year.
• Crystal Rosser, first-year dental
of Pennsylvania. The paper, “Adenovirus Encoding
student – AADR Student Research
Human Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-B
Fellowship.
Why U-M Approach is Unique Delivered to Alveolar Bone Defects
• Anne Ziegler, first-year dental student
The U-M therapy also uses the Exhibits Safety and Biodistribution
– AADR Student Research Fellowship.
adenovirus, Giannobile said, but the Profiles Favorable for Clinical Use,” is
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Sarah Hughs
partially available online. It appeared Spending Tops $1 Billion at U-M
in the May issue of the journal Human
Gene Therapy. Co-authors include Po-
Annual research spending at the
Chun Chang, Joni Cirelli, Yang-Jo Seol,
University of Michigan surpassed
Qiming Jin, Jim Sugai, Nisha D’Silva
$1 billion for the first time in 2008-
and Theodora Danciu. The study was
2009, a milestone that highlights the
supported by the National Institutes of
University’s role as an economic resource
Health and the AO Foundation.
benefitting the entire state.
“It’s an enormous milestone, and the
Neiva Receives fact that it’s happening in the midst of
Dziewiatkowski Award this recession is all the more important,”
says Stephen Forrest, vice president for
Kathleen Neiva, a PhD student research.
in the School of Dentistr y ’s Oral
Kathleen Neiva (center) received the
Health Sciences Program, received
Dziewiatkowski Award this year for her School Receives Federal
the Dziewiatkowski Award this year
for her novel research focusing on the
research excellence. With her is her Stimulus Funds for Research
mentor, Dr. Jacques Nör (left) and Jane
interaction between endothelial cells Damren (right), daughter of the late Dr. The School of Dentistry has received
and head and neck cancer cells. Dominic Dziewiatkowski for whom the nearly $3 million from the federal
According to Dr. Jacques Nör, her award is named.
economic stimulus package known as the
mentor and professor in the Department
I was about this new horizon in my American Recovery and Reinvestment
of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and
life. I discovered a new passion and Act (ARRA) that was approved by
Endodontics, current angiogenesis
realized that more important than Congress in February. The research
research (which focuses on the growth
providing a beautiful smile to patients grants to the School are among more
of new blood vessels from existing ones)
was understanding how things work, than $103 million in research funding
considers tumor cell initiated events
seeking better diagnoses, treatments, that has been awarded to various U-M
as the dominant and most biologically
materials, and strategies to help them.” colleges and schools.
relevant in stimulating head and neck
cancer cells. This spring, Neiva received a First
However, Nör said that Neiva’s Place AADR Hatton Award (senior Research Day: February 9th
research takes an approach that directly category) for her work. In June, her
opposes conventional thinking. “Her work demonstrating strong activation The School of Dentistry’s annual
work has shown that vascular cells send of critical signaling pathways in tumor Research Day will be held on Tues., Feb.
signals that increase the survival and cells that were initiated by angiogenic 9, 2010.
invasion of tumor cells,” he said. “These endothelial cells was published in the Keynote speaker will be Dr. Philip
findings may lead to new treatments for journal Neoplasia. She is a co-author Stashenko, president and CEO of The
head and neck cancers that use drugs of five other manuscripts detailing her Forsyth Institute, Harvard University.
which may be able to block this signaling research and discoveries in the Nör lab. The topic of his 1:00 p.m. presentation
sequence.” Established in 1989, the will be: The Role of Research in the
Ne i va , a B ra z i l i a n - e d uc ate d Dziewiatkowski Award recognizes U-M Dental School Mission.
dentist moved to the U.S. in 2001 School of Dentistry students for their More than 80 poster presentations
and began working as a volunteer in research excellence. The annual award is by dental, dental hygiene, specialty and
Nör’s laboratory a year later. Although named for Dr. Dominic Dziewiatkowski PhD students, and post-doctoral fellows
she never conducted research before who taught at the School of Dentistry are expected. Exhibitors will also attend.
then, Neiva said the more she learned for 18 years and directed the Dental (more online at www.dent.umich.edu/
about research, “the more intrigued Research Institute from 1967 to 1972. news/current)
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NEWS
Dr. Raymond Gist Rickert Inducted into U-M Alums
New ADA Michigan Women’s Elected to MDA
President-Elect Hall of Fame Leadership Posts
School of Dentistry Dr. Jessica Rickert Several School of Dentistry alums
alumnus Dr. (DDS 1975) was were elected to leadership roles with
Raymond Gist recently inducted the 5,500-member Michigan Dental
(DDS 1966) has into the Michigan Association. Elected during the MDA’s
been elected Women’s Hall 152nd annual meeting were:
president-elect of Fame as the • William Wright (DDS 1975, MS
of the American nation’s first orthodontics 1984) of Jackson,
Dental Association female American president.
during the organization’s Annual Indian dentist. She received the Life • Connie Verhagen (DDS 1986, MS
Session in Honolulu. Gist, who Achievement Award from the Michigan pedodontics 1988) of Muskegon,
practices general dentistry in Flint, Women’s Studies Association in vice president.
is the first African-American to October. • Debra Peters (DDS 1993) of Grand
be elected to the top leadership Rickert, who runs a private Rapids, speaker of the house.
position of the nation’s largest practice in Interlochen, is a member • Robert Coleman (DDS 1980, MS
dental association that represents of the Prairie Band Potawatomi endodontics 1987) of Livonia,
approximately 156,000 members. Nation. Through her grandfather, treasurer.
When he begins his one-year term she is a descendent of Chief White • Jeffery Johnston (DDS 1982, MS
on October 13, 2010, Gist will become Pigeon. A founding member of the periodontics 1986) of Bloomfield
the first U-M School of Dentistry Society of American Indian Dentists, Hills, editor.
graduate to serve as ADA president in she is the author of Exploring Careers
more than 40 years. The late Dr. Floyd in Dentistry, a book published in 1983 Susan E. Hinman (DDS 2004) has
Ostrander served a one-year term that describes the profession and been accepted into the endodontics
from 1967 to 1968. offers advice for those interested in program at the Naval Postgraduate
Gist, who has represented pursuing a career. Dental School in Bethesda, Maryland.
Michigan and Wisconsin on the ADA’s Rickert is active in the ADA, MDA, The program begins next July.
Board of Trustees as a member of the American Association of Women Currently stationed at the Parris
the Ninth District since 2005, was Dentists, the National Association Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot in
president of the Michigan Dental of Professional Women, and was South Carolina, Hinman was recently
Association from 2003-2004. He is president of the Resort District Dental promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
also a Fellow of the American College Society (2001-2002). Commander.
of Dentists, the International College
of Dentists, and the Pierre Fauchard Neal Smith (DDS
Academy. 1984), of Bridgman,
Gist’s campaign for the ADA Michigan, received
presidency was led by Dr. Josef the Martin Luther
Kolling, an adjunct clinical associate King Legacy of
professor of dentistry in the School’s Freedom Award
Department of Prosthodontics, who earlier this year
was MDA president from 2005-2006. for his oral health
care outreach initiatives. During the
past 30 years, Smith has traveled to
Mexico, Zambia, and Romania to
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G O B LUE
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