Annual Report (2016)

2016 Annual Report July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016

Mission Driven

OUR MISSION The Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine will be the premier academic dental institution promoting excellence in dental education, research, oral health care, and community service to improve the overall health of the global population.

We will provide outstanding service to a diverse group of students, patients, faculty, staff, alumni, and health care professionals within our facilities, our community, and the world.

We will shape the future of the profession through scholarship, creating and disseminating new knowledge, developing and using innovative technologies and educational methodologies, and by promoting critical thinking and lifelong learning.

We will do so in an ethical, supportive environment, consistent with our core values of respect, truth, responsibility, fairness, and compassion, and our operational values of excellence, service, and effective communication in synergy with the strategic plan of Boston University.

We will support this mission using responsible financial policies and philanthropy.

CONTENTS Message from the Dean

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The Year in Numbers

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Highlights 6 Students 14 Community Service

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Faculty & Staff

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Patients 38 Research 40 Alumni 50 Financial Summary

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Message from the Dean The 2015–2016 academic year was a highly successful one for the entire Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) community. I encourage you to read the pages that follow closely to get a full grasp of the amazing things that GSDM’s students, residents, faculty, and staff accomplished.

It is with great pride that I share with you the latest rankings of the annual World University Rankings for Dentistry by British-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Corporation. In these new rankings, the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine placed 24th globally and eighth in the United States. In the first-ever QS World University Rankings by Subject for dentistry, which were released in April 2015, GSDM placed 30th globally and eighth nationally. The 2016 rankings placed GSDM six positions ahead of the 2015 global ranking and in the same place as the 2015 national ranking.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks universities from around the world in 42 fields with a score of 0 to 100. The rankings are designed to be utilized by prospective students hoping to identify top schools in their chosen field.

While the QS World University Rankings by Subject have been published annually since 2011, 2015 marked the first time that dentistry was added as a subject. Prior to this, a reputable ranking of world and U.S. dental schools had not existed.

While moving up six positions in these rankings in just one year is certainly an impressive feat, I know that you will join me in our efforts to ensure that GSDM keeps improving its reputation on both a global and a national stage as we achieve our vision of being the premier institution promoting excellence in dental education, research, oral health care, and community service to improve the overall health of the global population.

I know that this 2015–2016 Annual Report will provide you with a comprehensive overview of all the ways in which the GSDM community has worked toward this goal in the past year. Our 325 faculty and 282 staff members played an integral role in our success, which allowed us to care for 33,324 patients in the last year. GSDM continues to be one of the most selective schools in the country, as our acceptance rate across the three programs ranges from 2.9 percent for the DMD to just over 6 percent for the Advanced Standing DMD and post-doctoral programs.

Finally, our research initiatives are among the most well funded in the nation, bringing in more than $10 million, a 21 percent increase from last year, and third among our peers. On the following pages, The Year in Numbers will highlight even more of the accomplishments of which we at GSDM are so proud.

Thank you for being a valued member of the GSDM community.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jeffrey W. Hutter

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THE YEAR IN NUMBERS

8th

24th

IN UNITED STATES

GLOBALLY (up six positions)

INTERNATIONAL ELECTIVE INTERNSHIPS

16

TRIPS

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8

COUNTRIES

LOCAL COMMUNITY SERVICE

415

PRE-DOCTORAL STUDENTS

 36 CURRENT STUDENTS’ COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN

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107

FACULTY AND STAFF

COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAM PARTNERS

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GSDM 2016 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

145

SCHOOL-BASED ORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

 3,970

117

3.44

TOTAL DMD APPLICATIONS

STUDENTS ENROLLED

AVERAGE GPA

17,880 SCHOOLCHILDREN SERVED

FACULTY

STAFF

325

RESEARCH AWARDS

282

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PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

PATIENTS

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44

AWARDS RECEIVED

APPOINTMENTS

33,324

146,978

CARED FOR BY GSDM

CARED FOR BY GSDM

RESEARCH DOLLARS AWARDED

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    ALUMNI

$10,387,507 (21 PERCENT INCREASE FROM FY15 TO FY16)

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3rd

12

AMONG PEERS in 2015 NIH $ (in millions)

14.00 12.00

10.00

9

NIDCR $

4.92

OTHER NIH $

8.00

6

3.58

6.00

81 PERCENT 2016 CLASS GIFT PARTICIPATION (highest rate of BU Schools and Colleges)

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3 0

5.01

7.34 4.64

2.00

0.00

2.86

4.71 1.70

U Penn

NYU

0.78 1.54

BU USC Tufts

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HIGHLIGHTS

The 2015–2016 academic year saw many accomplishments and events within the GSDM community. Here are a few highlights.

New Students Complete Orientation Program For two weeks in July and August 2015, new DMD 19 and AS DMD 17 students at GSDM participated in several events and activities during the 2015 GSDM Orientation Program.

DMD 19 students pose for a picture with Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter

New students were welcomed to the home of Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter and Mrs. Kathleen Hutter for six special new student receptions, which took place during a three-day period of the Orientation Program.

Professional Ceremony New students marked the end of their first week of orientation on Friday, July 31, 2015, at one of the most significant events in their educational careers, the annual Professional Ceremony. The Keynote Address was delivered by Dr. Carl McManama.

The students marched into the ceremony grounds, the Talbot Green, and took their seats under a large white tent. Hundreds of friends and family members looked on and cheered as the DMD 19 and AS DMD 17 students participated in the 2015 Professional Ceremony.

Applied Strategic Planning Committee Holds 2015 Meeting On August 18, 2015, the GSDM Applied Strategic Planning Committee held its most recent meeting, at which the committee members discussed the various accomplishments since the creation of the Applied Strategic Plan (ASP) in 2011.

At the meeting on August 18, the ASP Committee reviewed its goals and updated them in order to accurately portray the progress the committee has made with each goal. Many accomplishments have

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been made in the five years since the ASP began, and the committee acknowledged those accomplishments at the meeting.

Everyone agreed that as a result of the Dean’s vision and the hard work of GSDM’s community, a lot has been accomplished with the ASP since its implementation in 2011. Our strategic plan continues to be a living document and guides us toward being the premier academic dental institution in the world.

Descriptions of some of the many activities and events that members of the GSDM community participated in are noted below.

(l–r): Shadi Daher DMD 90 OMFS 94, Spiro Saati DMD 80, Josephine Pandolfo DMD 79 PERIO 82, Nazila Bidabadi DMD 87, and Bob Miller DMD 84 PERIO 86

Megan Sullivan DMD 18 at her winning research poster with Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter and Assistant Director of Pre-doctoral Research Ms. Afaf Hourani

Dr. Shadi Daher Wins Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to the School, Profession, and Community at 2015 Alumni Weekend Reception At the Four Seasons Hotel Boston on the night of Friday, September 25, 2015, more than 100 alumni, faculty, students, and guests from the GSDM community came together to reminisce and reconnect during a special GSDM Alumni Weekend Reception, which was just one of many events across the broader BU campus during the 2015 Alumni Weekend—which took place from September 24 to 27.

GSDM Makes Waves at 2016 Yankee Dental Congress From January 28 to 31, 2016, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was abuzz during the 41st annual Yankee Dental Congress (YDC), the largest dental meeting in New England, and the third largest meeting in the United States. The convention drew thousands of dental professionals from around the region, and featured hundreds of dental continuing education courses, lectures, and events. Representatives of GSDM joined the hundreds of exhibitors in the center.

GSDM Hosts Annual Holiday Party More than 300 students, residents, faculty, and staff from GSDM filled Hiebert Lounge on Monday, December 14, 2015, for the Annual GSDM Holiday Party, hosted by Dean and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hutter.

The festivities featured dinner, a dessert bar, live music, a photo booth, a raffle, and a gingerbread house decorating contest.

Gingerbread houses on display at the annual holiday party

Megan Sullivan DMD 18, “The Root of the Problem: Occurrence of Typical and Atypical Periapical Pathologies,” with Dr. Vikki Noonan, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Oral Pathology in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and the Division of Oral Pathology; and Dr. George Gallagher, Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, and Head of the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology.

Sullivan was declared the winner of the predoctoral research poster session, which featured posters from several other students from regional dental schools. She presented her poster again at the 2016 Annual Session of the American Association of Dental Research in March 2016 in Denver.

ACD Student Leadership Award GSDM DMD 16 student Matt Mara received a special award at the 41st annual YDC. Mara received the American College of Dentists New England Section’s Outstanding Student Leader Award. While Mara was not able to attend because he was in Guatemala on a dental service externship, his parents accepted the award from Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter on his behalf.

John Golden Award Dr. Carl McManama received the John Golden Award at the 41st Annual YDC Presidential Awards Ceremony and Reception, which took place at the Plaza Ballroom in the Seaport Hotel. This award is in recognition of Dr. McManama’s extraordinary service to the Yankee Dental Congress organization over the past 15 years, most recently serving as Yankee Dental Congress General Chair.

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HIGHLIGHTS responsibility as graduates of GSDM to make it a better place than when you left it, to give back, however much or little you can,” said Dr. Paul.

New Students Participate in White Coat Ceremony In early summer, a record 850 students and attendees packed into Metcalf Hall in the BU Student Union at 4 p.m. to watch the members of the DMD Class of 2018 and AS Class of 2017 participate in the annual White Coat Ceremony, which marks the midway point of dental students’ education and celebrates their transition from the classroom to the patient treatment center.

GSDM DMD students at the 2016 Goldman Gala

2016 Goldman Gala Tops Attendance Record A record 575 students, residents, faculty, staff, and alumni from GSDM attended the seventh annual Goldman Gala at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel on Friday, April 29, 2016. The 2016 Goldman Gala was called the “Goldman Globes,” as it was themed after “Old Hollywood.”

The 2016 Goldman Gala began with the attendees and their guests strolling down a red carpet to take photos with four celebrity impersonators: Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Rivers, and Jack Nicholson. Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter greeted the many attendees as they made their way from the entrance of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel to the special red carpet. Many were dressed to the theme of “Old Hollywood.”

Best of Luck to the Class of 2016!

GSDM Community Celebrates Class of 2016 at Convocation Ceremony at the Walter Brown Arena On Friday, May 13, 2016, 190 pre-doctoral students and 82 post-doctoral residents received their degrees and Certificates of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) at the GSDM Convocation, held at the Walter Brown Arena.

Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter introduced the valedictorian of the Advanced Standing (AS) DMD Class of 2016, Dr. Neemi Lama Sherpa, and the valedictorian of the DMD Class of 2016, Dr. Lindsey Nowland to deliver their respective Student Speeches.

The Spencer N. Frankl Award for Excellence in Teaching was then presented during the ceremony

by Dean Hutter to two recipients: Dr. Louis Brown and Dr. Barbara M. Schreiber. Dr. Brown serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of General Dentistry at GSDM. Dr. Schreiber serves as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Mina Paul SPH 87, member of the Dean’s Advisory Board and faculty member who is currently the Dental Director at the Greater Roslindale Medical and Dental Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Paul told the graduates that they are “guardians” of the profession of dentistry.

When all the students had their coats on, Dean Hutter led the DMD Class of 2018 and AS Class of 2017 in reciting the Professional Oath.

Keynote speaker Dr. Mina Paul

The three Spencer N. Frankl Scholarships were awarded to Adela Brodek DMD 18; Mira Daljeet DMD 18; and Alicia Tavares DMD 18, while the ADA Foundation Scholarship was awarded to Adela Brodek DMD 18. The Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dr. William S. Kramer Award of Excellence was awarded to Lauren Lieberman DMD 18 by Keynote Speaker and President of the ADA, Dr. Carol Gomez Summerhays and Dean Hutter.

The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Mina Paul, member of the Dean’s Advisory Board and faculty member.

“As guardians do not forget who will be following in your footsteps and that it is your duty and Students participate in the White Coat Ceremony

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At the 2016 GSDM Convocation Ceremony, 190 pre-doctoral and 82 post-doctoral students received their degrees. These students come from diverse backgrounds and form the core of our school. They are now part of a large, international alumni network that consists of graduates who are doing innovative and important work. The GSDM community is excited to hear about all of the current and future accomplishments of our graduates.

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HIGHLIGHTS Students Honored at Senior Awards Brunch On Saturday, May 14, 2016, Faculty, staff, and the families of graduating pre-doctoral students at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine celebrated graduates at GSDM’s annual Senior Awards Brunch, held at the Fuller Building on the Charles River Campus. Dean and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hutter host the event annually to celebrate graduates and recognize those who have excelled in their dental education.

Award Winners: Omicron Kappa Upsilon Awards: Dr. William Andres Alvarez, Dr. Christopher Michael Balaban, Dr. Sanaa N. Bhimji, Dr. Paul Cho, Dr. Arielle Brooke Curtis, Dr. Vincent Paul Hohreiter, Dr. Jessica Finkielsztein, Dr. Harith Fahem Kamil, Dr. Mira Youssef Albert Khouzam, Dr. Jae Kwak, Dr. Sandip Ladani, Dr. Neemi Lama Sherpa, Dr. Luri Lee, Dr. Guanghui Ling, Dr. Matthew David Mara, Dr. Mary Frances McClintock, Dr. Siddhi Dhrienbhai Mehta, Dr. Aaron Zachary Mertz, Dr. Lindsay Anne Nowland, Dr. Vincent Joseph Raucci, Dr. Casey Jeanne Smauder, Angela Wu American College of Dentists Award: Dr. Matthew David Mara Gentle Dental Award for Clinical Excellence and Chairside Manner: Dr. Hilary Samantha Reiter American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry Award: Dr. Courtney Sanders Knapik International College of Dentists Award: Dr. Akram Sannaa American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Award: Dr. Casey Jeanne Smauder

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Brasseler USA/Department of General Dentistry Division of Removable Prosthodontics Award: Dr. Kayla Marie Cuddy Brasseler USA/Department of General Dentistry Division of Fixed Prosthodontics Award: Dr. Courtney Sanders Knapik Department of General Dentistry Excellence in Digital Dentistry Award: Dr. Vincent Joseph Raucci Department of General Dentistry Implantology Award: Dr. Daniella Christina Rizzo Hanau Best of the Best Prosthodontic Award: Dr. Olga Spivak American College of Prosthodontists Award: Dr. Christopher Michael Balaban Department of General Dentistry Division of Fixed/ Removable Prosthodontics Dr. Remo A. Sinibaldi Memorial Award: Dr. Matthew David Mara American Association of Women Dentists Eleanor Bushee Award: Amanda Wai-Kan Yip

(l–r): Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter, Andrea Lam DMD 16, Ms. Kathy Lituri, and Ms. Kathy Held.

American Association of Endodontists Award: Dr. Vincent Joseph Raucci American Equilibration Society Award: Dr. Mohamed S. Bayoumy Department of General Dentistry Excellence in Occlusion Award: Dr. David Simpson Lane American Association of Public Health Dentistry Award: Dr. Ana Keohane DentaQuest Foundation Award: Dr. Andrea Lam International College of Dentists Student Humanitarian Award: Dr. Matthew David Mara

American Academy of Oral Medicine Award: Dr. Mohamed S. Bayoumy American Association of Orthodontists Award: Dr. Kelsey Ann George American Academy of Implant Dentistry Award: Dr. Anna Komnatnaya American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (Dental Implant) Award: Dr. William Andres Alvarez

American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (Dental Student) Award: Dr. Anthony Kofoworola-Kuti

Pierre Fauchard Academy Award: Dr. Jae Kwak Department of General Dentistry Oral Diagnosis Award: Dr. Nicolas Robert Branshaw

American Dental Society of Anesthesiology Horace Wells Senior Student Award: Dr. Jessica Finkielsztein

American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Award: Dr. Helga Idrizi

Academy of Osseointegration Award: Dr. Li Zhong

Department of General Dentistry Joseph P. Speranza Memorial Award: Dr. Kelsey Ann George

International Congress of Oral Implantologists Award: Dr. Amrit Singh Basi Quintessence Award for Research Achievement: Dr. Richa Wahi Predoctoral Research Award: Dr. Mohamed S. Bayoumy Academy of General Dentistry Award: Dr. Lindsay Anne Nowland Academy of Operative Dentistry Award: Dr. Casey Jeanne Smauder Department of General Dentistry Division of Operative Dentistry Award: Dr. Mary Frances McClintock Department of General Dentistry Lloyd B. Chaisson Memorial Award: Dr. Vincent Joseph Raucci Department of General Dentistry William Cummings Award: Dr. Michael Anton Mayr Quintessence Award for Clinical Achievement in Restorative Dentistry: Dr. Neemi Lama Sherpa American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Award: Dr. Ana Keohane Department of General Dentistry Didactic Excellence in Dental Practice Management Award: Dr. Andrea Lam

American Association of Oral Biologists Award: Dr. Minh-Phoung Mong Le American Academy of Periodontology Award: Dr. Jessica Finkielsztein Northeastern Society of Periodontists Student Award: Dr. Mira Youssef Albert Khouzam Quintessence Award for Clinical Achievement in Periodontics: Dr. Sandip Ladani

American Student Dental Association Faculty Award: Dr. John Guarente American Student Dental Association Advocate Award: Mrs. Michele Calabrese American Student Dental Association Award of Excellence: Dr. David Simpson Lane Department of General Dentistry Division of Geriatric Dental Medicine Award of Excellence: Dr. Jennifer Allison Ng, Dr. Michelle Christina Prieto Department of General Dentistry Steven R. Gordon Memorial Award: Dr. Alyssa Michelle Mazzoli Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Richard Forcucci Alumni Award: Dr. Michael Anton Mayr Alpha Omega Award: Dr. Neemi Lama Sherpa, Dr. Lindsay Anne Nowland

Dr. Thomas Anderson Armstrong Memorial Award: Dr. Mitali Hariawala Department of General Dentistry Excellence in the Basic Sciences Award: Dr. Vincent Paul Hohreiter Student Government Certificates of Achievement: Dr. Mohammed Murtuza Ahmed, Reza Alavi, Christopher Michael Balaban, Nicolas Robert Branshaw, Arielle Brooke Curtis, Mira Youssef Albert Khouzam, Jae Kwak, Sandip Ladani, Luri Lee, Matthew David Mara, Akram Sannaa Proctor and Gamble Outstanding Faculty Award: Basic Sciences: Dr. Monica Pessina Proctor and Gamble Outstanding Faculty Award: Clinical Sciences: Dr. Heshem Nouh Staff Recognition Award: Dr. Sylvia C. Ruffin

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HIGHLIGHTS Faculty and Staff Promotions in 2015–2016 Academic Year In the 2015–2016 academic year, the following faculty and staff who exemplify the culture of excellence at GSDM were promoted.

Faculty Promotions: Dr. Louay Abrass was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Endodontics.

Dr. Hussam Batal was promoted from Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. David Briss was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics.

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Dr. Andre Hashem was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

Dr. Arthur Sun was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

Dr. Sheldon Itzkowitz was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Magnolia Venegas was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry.

Dr. Marianne Jurasic was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Hideo Yamamoto was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

Dr. Celeste Kong was appointed as Chair of the Department of General Dentistry.

Emeritus/Emerita Appointments: Dr. Paula Friedman was appointed as Emerita Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Richard D’Innocenzo was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Bing Liu was promoted from Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Stephen Dulong was promoted from Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Eric Mandelbaum was promoted from Clinical Instructor to Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Mark Ferriero was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Gail McCausland was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Periodontology.

Dr. Neal Fleisher was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Pushkar Mehra was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Manuel Garcia was promoted from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

Ms. Catherine Sarkis was promoted from Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research.

Dr. John Guarente was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Mingfang Su was promoted from Clinical Associate Professor to Clinical Professor in the Department of Periodontology.

Dr. Philip Maloney was appointed as Emeritus Professor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Frank Oppenheim was appointed as Emeritus Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology.

Dr. Richard Pober was appointed as Emeritus Research Associate Professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

Administrative Appointments: Dr. Eric Mandelbaum was appointed as Practice Leader for the pre-doctoral Patient Treatment in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. Anthony Mecham was appointed as Director of the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology in the Department of General Dentistry.

Dr. David Russell was appointed as Assistant Dean for Patient Care in the Department of Clinical Affairs.

Faculty Awards & Accomplishments: Dr. Charilaos Asikis was inducted as a Fellow in the International Academy for Dental and Facial Esthetics (FIADFE) on November 23, 2015 in New York.

Staff Promotions: Maria Alves was promoted to Clinical Care Supervisor for the 2nd Floor Post-doctoral Specialty Programs in the Office of Clinical Affairs.

Dr. Pelly Chang and Dr. Sheldon Itzkowitz were inducted into the International College of Dentists (ICD) in November 2015.

Krista Aronson-Joseph was promoted to Clinical Affairs Manager in the Office of Clinical Affairs.

Dr. Marianne Jurasic received the Faculty Appreciation Award at the John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day, May 25, 2016.

Dr. Eric Mandelbaum was elected as a Fellow in the International College of Dentists (ICD). He will be inducted in the Fall of 2016.

Dr. Carl McManama received the John Golden Award from the Massachusetts Dental Society for contributions to the Yankee Dental Congress (presented January 27, 2016 at YDC).

Dr. Hesham Nouh received the following awards in 2015–2016: • Procter & Gamble Outstanding Faculty Award: Clinical Sciences. Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Voted by DMD Class of 2016, May 14, 2016.

• Procter & Gamble Outstanding Faculty Award: Clinical Sciences. Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Voted by Advanced Standing Class of 2016, May 14, 2016.

• Best Faculty Abstract, “Ahead of the curve: Restoring implants using CEREC at the pre-doctoral level.” John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day, May 25, 2016.

Dr. Mayumi Onoe-Miyamoto was inducted into Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU), Lambda Mu Chapter, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, May 2016.

Andrew Butler was promoted to Post-doctoral Admissions Manager in the Admissions Office.

Courtney Diamond was promoted to Project Director in the Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research.

Alicia Muzzi was promoted to Research Compliance Manager, in the Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research.

Markendy Pierre was promoted to Clinical Care Supervisor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Aeisha Pringle was promoted to Clinical Care & Patient Intake Supervisor for the 1st Floor Patient Treatment Center in the Office of Clinical Affairs.

Jessica Santos was promoted to Administrative Coordinator in the Office of Clinical Affairs.

Roslyn George was promoted to Clinical Assistant Supervisor for the 7th Floor BU Dental Health Center.

Megan Shea was promoted to Operations Supervisor of the BU Dental Health Center at 930 Commonwealth Avenue.

Mark Kaplan was promoted to Certified Dental Technician in the Department of General Dentistry.

Joshua Swanson was promoted to Predoctoral Admissions Manager in the Admissions Office.

Nebiat Kashay was promoted to Senior Assistant Coordinator of the BU Dental Health Center at 930 Commonwealth Avenue.

James Taillefer was promoted to Assistant Director of Facilities & Operations.

Fabian Lako was promoted to Purchasing & Projects Manager in the Molecular & Cell Biology Department.

Janine Lipsky was promoted to Operations Manager in the Office of Continuing Education.

Nikki Longe was promoted to Associate Registrar in the Registrar’s Office.

Kelly Marcinkewich was promoted to Associate Director of the BU Dental Health Center at 930 Commonwealth Avenue.

Lindsay McHugh was promoted to Director of Events and Meeting Planning.

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STUDENTS

We know that our students accomplish great things, and we are always working tirelessly to ensure that they have the resources they need to continue to change the world.

Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) boasts some of the most promising pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students/ residents in the world. All of our students in our many programs (DMD, Advanced Standing DMD, and post-doctoral) come from different backgrounds, but they all have one thing in common: they are extremely bright, and dedicated with a real passion for dentistry.

In the 2015–2016 academic year, our students presented at conferences across the world; traveled internationally to provide dental care to people in need; served their local community through GSDM’s oral health promotion efforts; and maintained a high standard of excellence in the classroom, the clinic, and the laboratory.

We are very proud to have graduated 190 predoctoral and 82 post-doctoral students in 2016.

We fully expect these graduates to follow paths similar to our many alumni and accomplish amazing things.

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Who Are Our Students?

Simply put, they are the best. In the 2015–2016 school year, GSDM received 6,596 applications for just 282 spots at the school—in the DMD, Advanced Standing DMD, and post-doctorate programs. These students, who started at GSDM in the fall of 2015, are part of an incredibly high-achieving student body that continues to serve as a formidable backbone for all of GSDM’s success.

The new DMD Class of 2020 is truly made up of people who are passionate about dentistry. An impressive 65 percent of the DMD Class of 2020 do not have any relatives in the field of dentistry.

This means that the majority of our DMD students will be the first dentists in their families. Our students, as exemplified in the incoming class of 2020, entered the field of dentistry for the love of it.

GSDM also prides itself on having a diverse student body. Our incoming DMD, Advanced Standing DMD, and post-doctoral students are multi-racial and come from a variety of backgrounds and more than 20 countries.

What Did Our Students Accomplish During the 2015–2016 Academic Year?

In the 2015–2016 academic year, GSDM students presented at conferences around the world, won awards and scholarships for their research and academic accomplishments, volunteered hundreds of hours in the Boston area, traveled on many community service trips to eight different countries, participated in an international externship exchange program, completed 10-week externship rotations, organized cultural events, lobbied their state government, mentored predental students, and participated in many other activities that are representative of the culture of innovation and excellence encouraged at GSDM. The 2015–2016 academic year was another incredibly productive year for our students.

You can read about their accomplishments in the pages that follow.

How Have We Improved the Student Experience in the 2015–2016 School Year?

GSDM is always working to ensure that its students have all the resources they need to be highly successful and, most importantly, to have career options upon graduation. To that end, GSDM created several new student-centered programs and initiatives during the 2015–2016 academic year.

Driven to learn GSDM’s students are selected from a large applicant pool. Each and every student who enrolls in our various programs is an incredibly high achiever who does not stand for anything less than perfection. Every year, our students win scholarships, present at conferences, mentor pre-dental students, and participate in many more meritorious activities, all while upholding the unusually high standard of excellence at GSDM. A school is only as strong as its students.

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STUDENTS 1. The school launched the first-ever mobile application, via Guidebook, for the new student orientation program. This new mobile application allows incoming students to have a more direct understanding of all the orientation events and activities during the two weeks of orientation.

2. GSDM also implemented its first-ever Day of Service during the orientation program, allowing incoming dental students to serve the community that they will be living in for the next two to four years.

3. In May of 2016, GSDM was incredibly proud to launch a brand-new Dental Career Network. This new and highly improved dental career network will serve as an incredibly valuable resource to connect students with jobs in dentistry upon graduation.

What our students accomplished

Several new student-centered programs and initiatives were created in 2016.

Four DMD 16 Students Deliver Grand Rounds Four DMD 16 students at GSDM presented during the 2015–2016 Grand Rounds presentations.

The presenters were Dr. Jae Kwak, Dr. Christopher Balaban, Dr. Jonathan Solomon, and Dr. Michael Coppola.

Pre-doctoral Grand Rounds presentations are about a treatment plan students devise for an extraordinary patient during their 10-week externship rotation, which all fourth-year dental students are required to complete.

All DMD 16 students presented their treatment plans to faculty in the Department of General Dentistry. The four presentations were selected to be the Grand Rounds Presentation by Professor in the Department of General Dentistry, Dr. Carl McManama, who also moderated the Grand Rounds presentation.

All of the pre-doctoral Grand Rounds presentations were well received and included a thoughtful question-and-answer session after the presentation.

New students at the 2016 ice-cream social pose for a photo with Rhett

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(l-r) Dr. Carl McManama with Dr. Christopher Balaban and Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter

GSDM Students Lobby to Make a Difference GSDM students traveled to Beacon Hill twice during the 2015–2016 academic year to lobby for bills that would improve dental education and dentistry in Massachusetts and beyond.

The first trip to Beacon Hill took place on October 19, 2015, during the second annual Bay State Student Lobby Day, which is organized each year by the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine American Student Dental Association (GSDM ASDA). The Bay State Student Lobby Day was founded in 2014 by GSDM ASDA students in an attempt to offer more events for dental students who are interested in political advocacy. Before last year’s inaugural Bay State Student Lobby Day, the only dental lobbying event in Massachusetts was the Massachusetts Dental Society’s Beacon Hill Lobby Day. A total of 15 students from GSDM attended the 2015 Bay State Student Lobby Day. The students met directly with legislators and/or the aides of legislators to lobby for support of two bills related to the dental licensure process: House Bill 263 and House Bill 2058.

The second trip to Beacon Hill took place on March 30, 2016, during Beacon Hill Day 2016, which is an annual event coordinated by the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) in which dental professionals come together to learn more about issues of concern to the dental community and to lobby their state legislators to take action on those issues.

The attendees met with legislators and legislative staffers to discuss the five bills important to dentistry in Massachusetts. In total, the attendees

with limited resources, and recognized the obstacles that arise in such areas. Moving forward, the lessons learned on this trip will provide invaluable insight for developing future preventive health efforts in similar areas.”

Members of the GSDM community participated in a fashion show at the Multicultural Night

GSDM Students Tien Do DMD 18 and Jeremy Nguyen DMD 18 in Vietnam

participated in 49 meetings. Six GSDM students took part in the events of the day.

to participate in the Applied Professional Experience (APEX) program.

GSDM Students Organize Cultural Events Throughout the Year Throughout the 2015–2016 academic year, GSDM students helped coordinate dozens of cultural events taking place on and off Boston University Medical Campus.

Fourth year students frequently travel abroad for Global & Population Health-sponsored service trips. While GSDM currently has five exchange program partners internationally, students have always completed the APEX program domestically.

These cultural events included a multicultural night and fashion show, a Persian new year celebration, Eid and Iftar dinners during Ramadan, a Black History Month dinner, a brunch focused on women in dentistry, and many other events.

These cultural events seek to ensure that GSDM’s culture of inclusion and diversity continues to thrive.

DMD Students Become First GSDM Students to Travel Abroad for APEX GSDM students Tien Do DMD 18 and Jeremy Nguyen DMD 18 traveled around Vietnam during early Summer 2015, in an effort to distribute much-needed oral health supplies and to educate local health professionals working at schools in the country about oral health education. The trip was the first time that GSDM students traveled abroad

Do and Nguyen, who were both born in Vietnam, but have spent most of their lives in the United States, came up with the idea to travel to their country of birth for the APEX program and proposed their idea to Director of Global Initiatives and Assistant Professor in the Department of General Dentistry Dr. Kathleen Held, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research and Associate Dean for Global & Population Health Dr. Michelle Henshaw.

Michael Whitcomb DMD 17 Wins Pierre Fauchard Academy’s 2016 Foundation Dental Student Scholarship Award In April 2016, Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter, Dr. Joseph Calabrese, and Dr. Cataldo Leone presented GSDM DMD 17 student Michael Whitcomb with the Pierre Fauchard Academy’s 2016 Foundation Dental Student Scholarship Award.

Every year, the Pierre Fauchard Academy awards the scholarship to a dental student who has demonstrated the greatest potential for development into an outstanding leader in the dental profession due to his or her participation in the university, dental school, and community.

Whitcomb, who says he aspires to enter into an oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program upon graduation in May 2017, has been incredibly active both inside and outside of the classroom at GSDM.

(l-r) Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter, Michael Whitcomb DMD 17, Dr. Cataldo Leone, and Dr. Joseph Calabrese

Do and Nguyen presented lectures to the health professionals that outlined simple lessons about oral health education. These lectures included an open dialogue at the end in which the health professionals and the two GSDM students could learn from one another.

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STUDENTS GSDM Student Research Group Receives Award at AADR Annual Meeting for Most New Members GSDM was named the recipient of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) National Student Research Group (NSRG) award for the “most new AADR student members in 2015–2016.”

In the 2015–2016 academic year, 51 GSDM students joined the NSRG. This is an impressive number that speaks to GSDM’s long-standing commitment to support pre-doctoral student research.

Jayesh Patel Presents at the 21st Annual Hinman Student Research Symposium Jayesh Patel DMD 18 represented the GSDM at the 21st Annual Hinman Student Research Symposium in Memphis, Tennessee, which took place from October 30 to November 1, 2015.

Patel presented his poster, “Kava Treatment Reduced Porphyromonas gingivalis-Induced Alveolar Bone Loss,” on Saturday, October 31.

He was mentored in his research by Dr. Salomon Amar, Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and the Department of Periodontology.

The paper’s other co-authors were Abdulsalam Alshammari MSD/PERIO 2017, and Jacob Al-Hashemi DScD/ENDO 2019.

GSDM DSc Student Presents at 2015 American Academy of Periodontology Annual Meeting On Sunday, November 15, 2015, Dr. Lena Elbadawi, a current DSc student in GSDM’s Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials, presented a poster of her project titled, “Factors affecting regeneration of bone defects: an animal study,” at the 2015 American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Annual Meeting.

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chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) in coordination with GSDM’s Office of Student Affairs.

Dr. Elbadawi was one of 100 students, researchers, and faculty members from around the world presenting at the 2015 AAP meeting’s research forum poster session and competition, which took place in the main exhibit hall.

“Bone grafting in periodontology is a common surgical procedure. I was very pleased to have many periodontists and attendees of the meeting stop by my poster and show much interest in my research, especially since it is something they encounter on a daily basis in clinical practice,” said Dr. Elbadawi.

GSDM Collects 592 Food Items for BMC Food Pantry During GSDM’s annual February Food Drive, the GSDM community donated more than 592 food items, which were all donated to the Boston Medical Center (BMC) Preventive Food Pantry.

On average, the BMC Preventive Food Pantry collects approximately 48,000 pounds of food every month and provides meals to 7,000 people— or 2,000 households—every month.

On average, the BMC Preventive Food Pantry provides meals to 7,000 people every month.

GSDM’s February Food Drive has been taking place annually since 2013. It is sponsored by GSDM’s

GSDM Students Create New Dental School Curriculums at Second Annual Hack-a-Thon A group of five students from GSDM collaborated with students from three other area dental schools on Saturday, February 20, 2016, to design innovative dental school curriculums. The students were participating in the second annual American Dental Education Association (ADEA) New England Curriculum Hack-a-Thon.

The ADEA New England Curriculum Hack-a-Thon allows students from area dental schools to come together and compete to develop the best curriculum for a fictitious dental school. The students, who play the roles of deans and faculty members, are broken up into teams of six.

The teams are then given three hours to create a full pre-doctoral dental school curriculum focused on public health, research, pre-clinical exposure, and didactic sciences. They then present their respective curriculum to the Hack-a-Thon’s judges—deans and faculty members from the participating schools. The top two teams are awarded prizes.

Ms. Amy Nelson, Dr. Joseph Calabrese, Megan McDougall DMD 17, Scott Jegard DMD 18, Jayesh Patel DMD 18, Ms. Erica Manczuk, and Mr. Latchman Hiralall

The 2016 ADEA New England Curriculum Hack-aThon featured a total of 38 students from GSDM, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, and the University of New England College of Dental Medicine.

GSDM Student Adela Brodek Selected for ADA Foundation Dental Student Scholarship Award In March 2016, Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter and Assistant Dean of Students Dr. Joseph Calabrese met with second-year DMD student Adela Brodek to formally congratulate her on receiving the 2016 American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation Dental Student Scholarship Award.

The ADA Foundation awards 26 education scholarships annually to dental students across the country in the category of outstanding academic achievement. To be eligible for consideration, students must attend an accredited dental school full-time and be in the second year of study while maintaining at least a 3.5 grade point average.

GSDM Students Explore Career Options at Sixth Annual Career Fair Approximately 150 students and residents from GSDM attended the sixth annual GSDM Career Fair in Hiebert Lounge on the evening of Thursday, March 3, 2016. The annual career fair is organized

by Student Affairs and the Career Resources Center. The 2016 GSDM Career Fair was the largest one to date with 27 organizations in attendance.

The Impressions Day participants with the GSDM student volunteers

presentations are short presentations dedicated to the improvement of public health and the science and art of dentistry.

Dr. Rudani discussed his research in his poster presentation, “The Photodynamic Therapy (PDT): A New Face of Periodontal Treatment.” Photodynamic therapy is a light-induced, non-thermal technique that can be used in combination with mechanical therapy to treat periodontitis.

While the Career Fair is well attended by fourthyear DMD students and second-year Advanced Standing students looking for a professional position after graduation, all pre- and post-doctoral students and residents are invited to attend.

GSDM Student Recognized with Table Clinician Award at Hinman Dental Meeting Dr. Jignesh Rudani AS 17 was awarded the 2016 Table Clinician Award at the 2016 Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting, which was held on March 17–19, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia. Table clinic

GSDM students talking with a representative from Great Expressions Dental Centers

“I had a great experience at the Hinman Dental Meeting,” said Dr. Rudani DMD 17. “I had the chance to meet so many GSDM alumni, from 1979 to 2012 graduates. They all stopped by my presentation, and we had great conversations. I’m grateful for having had the opportunity to attend this event.”

Fourth-Annual SNDA Impressions Day a Great Success On Saturday, March 19, 2016, more than 80 pre-dental students from 23 New England colleges and universities and 10 high school students from two area high schools joined 32 GSDM student volunteers for the Fourth Annual Impressions Day at GSDM. This daylong event, which is planned by the GSDM chapter of the Student National Dental Association (SNDA), is designed to expose pre-dental students to the dental school application process, give them details on how to become a stronger applicant, and show them what a career in dentistry would be like.

This year marked the first time that high school students participated in Impressions Day at GSDM. Contributions were also made by the GSDM chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA).

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GSDM continues to solidify its strong commitment to improving the oral and overall health of the communities that it is privileged to serve.

GSDM is committed to bettering the community that we are privileged to belong to as well as all communities in need across the world. In the 2015–2016 academic year, we reinforced this genuine commitment by continuing to advance our many impactful community-based programs.

GSDM’s students, residents, faculty, and staff volunteered their time locally, regionally, and internationally, bringing important oral health promotion and services to people in need.

GSDM’s Dedication to the Local and International Communities GSDM’s Office of Global and Population Health continued to coordinate several local and international programs in the 2015–2016 academic year.

These included the following: 1. School-Based Oral Health Programs: GSDM students participated in five citywide schoolbased oral health programs in 62 schools and 21 preschools in Boston, Chelsea, Framingham, Natick, and Lawrence. These programs provided oral health promotion to 16,374 children. A total of 5,799 children received fluoride treatment, and 1,486 children received dental sealants.

2. Community Outreach and Partnerships: 69 percent of GSDM’s pre-doctoral students participated in school-sponsored service activities, including community outreach activities. Of the 415 students who participated in one or more of GSDM’s service activities, 305 students participated as volunteers and 110 participated as part of their ongoing curriculum. Additionally, 15 post-doctoral students and 107 faculty and staff volunteered to serve in one or more community outreach activities.

3. Community-Based Oral Health Promotion Programs: GSDM was involved in 117, including 37 new, oral health promotion programs, initiatives, school field trips, and other community-based outreach activities. These programs and events reached individuals of very diverse backgrounds and educational levels, including populations that have difficulties accessing oral health services.

GSDM’s Office of Global and Population Health continued to coordinate several international programs in the 2015–2016 academic year.

1. International Elective Externship Program: GSDM students participated in 16 international service mission trips in Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. GSDM students also participated in two exchange programs.

2. International Elective Exchange Program: Four GSDM students and one faculty member visited Peking University School of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiatong University College of Stomatology, and the Fourth Military Medical Universtiy Xi’an. Another group of four GSDM students and one faculty member visited Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan and Chulongakorn University Faculty of Dentistry in Thailand.

3. Global Applied Professional Experience (APEX) Program: Three GSDM students participated in the Global APEX rotation internationally, which provides the opportunity to integrate and apply classroom learning in a real-world setting. This marks the first time that GSDM students participated in the program.

Driven to serve In the 2015–2016 school year, a total of 415 pre-doctoral students at GSDM participated in school-sponsored community service activities. These activities provide GSDM students with hands-on experience working with people in need of care while providing necessary services to the local communities and beyond. GSDM maintains partnerships with dozens of area non-profits and other organizations to ensure that its students will continue to have the ability to serve during their time at GSDM.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE How we served the community in the 2015–2016 school year GSDM Students Volunteer in Greater Boston GSDM prides itself on offering an incredible amount of volunteer opportunities for its students.

With the help of GSDM faculty and staff, especially Oral Health Promotion Director Ms. Kathy Lituri, GSDM students volunteered at various events in the Greater Boston area in the 2015–2016 academic year, logging many hours of community service.

GSDM’s Dedication to Community-Based Research In the 2015–2016 school year, faculty members in GSDM’s Office of Global and Population Health were awarded $4,648,304 in research funding for projects related to global and population health.

• Drs. Belinda Borrelli and Michelle Henshaw, Integrating Interactive Parent Text Messaging and Oral Health Guidelines into Pediatric Community Health Centers to Reduce Early Childhood Caries among Urban Children. September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2020.

GSDM works with many local nonprofits and community event organizers to plan volunteer events for GSDM students. At the events, students provide oral health screenings and offer a wide variety of age-appropriate activities. Organizations that GSDM works with include the Greater Boston Food Bank, Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, Rosie’s Place, Al Huda Society, Cradles to Crayons, and many more.

GSDM students provide oral health screenings and offer a wide variety of age-appropriate activities.

Dr. Olga Spivak DMD 16 volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club during GSDM’s 2016 Global Days of Service event

• Dr. Michelle Henshaw, Community-Based Dental Partnership Program. July 1, 2013– June 30, 2018.

• Drs. Raul Garcia and Michelle Henshaw, Northeast Center for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities. June 1, 2015– May 31, 2017.

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GSDM volunteers dressed for the occasion at the 2015 Christmas in the City event, an annual event that has been providing mothers and children from homeless shelters in the Boston area a place to celebrate Christmas together and for the children to all receive presents from their wish list

GSDM volunteers lending a hand at 2016 Father’s Family Fun Day, an event sponsored by the Boston Public Health Commission and the Family Nurturing Center

GSDM volunteers at the 2016 Tet in Boston event, an annual Vietnamese New Year festival organized by the VietnameseAmerican Community of Massachusetts and New England Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association

GSDM volunteers at the Countdown to Kindergarten, an annual information session and celebration designed for families with children who will soon be entering kindergarten in the Boston Public School system

GSDM’s International Externship Exchange Program Expands to Japan and Thailand In 2015, GSDM’s Externship Exchange Program grew from partnerships with three schools of stomatology in China to include partnerships with dental schools in Tokyo, Japan, and Bangkok, Thailand. The five schools GSDM partners with in this beneficial program are Shanghai Jiaotong University College of Stomatology (SJUSS) in Shanghai, China; Fourth Military Medical University School of Stomatology (FMMUSS) in Xi’an, China; Peking University School of Stomatology (PKUSS) in Beijing, China; Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in Tokyo, Japan; and Faculty of Dentistry Chulalongkorn University (FDCU) in Bangkok, Thailand.

The 2015–2016 school year marked the first time that dental students from GSDM traveled to all five of the schools. One group of four students, supervised by Dr. Laisheng Chou, traveled to the three schools in China during a three-week visit to the country from September 1–21, 2015. A second group, supervised by Dr. Michelle Henshaw, traveled to Japan and Thailand from September 1–16, 2016.

The International Externship Exchange Program at GSDM, which has been in place since 2013, allows fourth-year DMD students to travel to international dental schools for two to three weeks and, correspondingly, for dental students from the international schools to visit GSDM. The exchange program provides the GSDM students and the international students with firsthand knowledge of the ways in which dental schools in different countries operate, along with their respective cultures.

The GSDM students who participated in the 2015–2016 International Externship Exchange Program with Dr. Laisheng Chou, Dr. Michelle Henshaw, and Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter

International Elective Externship and Global APEX Programs During the 2015–2016 school year, 41 DMD students from GSDM traveled to eight countries for about a week at a time to deliver dental care to people in need. The students were participating in GSDM’s International Elective Externship Program.

The International Elective Externship Program provides fourth year dental students with an opportunity to go to developing countries to use their knowledge and the clinical skills that they have learned at GSDM. The Office of Global and Population Health (GPH) works closely with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to ensure quality and educational experiences in global service.

The program has been in place for 10 years at GSDM, and the number of student volunteers

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COMMUNITY SERVICE during the 2015–2016 school year—40—is the highest number to date. Also during the 2015–2016 school year, five GSDM faculty members, one GSDM staff member, and 10 GSDM alumni also participated in GSDM’s International Elective Externship. The flights to and from the service locations are generously paid for by the GSDM DMD Alumni Fund.

What Is the Student Experience in the International Elective Externship Program?

For five days in October 2015, DMD 16 students Jennifer Ng and William Nguyen were in San Marcos, a town in rural Honduras, with a team of dental and medical professionals, providing oral health care to members of the local population as part of the International Elective Externship Program.

Ng and Nguyen were in Honduras with a 17-person team from Cape CARES, which is a Massachusetts-based non-profit that provides medical and dental care to Hondurans who lack access to care.

GSDM students have partnered with Cape CARES in Honduras several times before. The team, which consisted of dental and medical professionals, worked in San Marcos from October 17 to 24.

It took two days to travel from Boston to San Marcos. The volunteers flew from Boston to the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, and then drove to a midpoint where they spent a night and, finally, drove to San Marcos.

The isolated one-story cement and brick building that served as the volunteers’ home base for the five days had two porches, a front and a back; each about eight feet by 50 feet. The medical volunteers worked on the back porch and the dental volunteers on the front. They all slept inside.

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Jennifer Ng DMD 16 providing dental care to a patient in Honduras

During the five days of work, the front porch was filled with dental supplies organized next to several makeshift exam chairs. Electricity was provided by a gas-fueled generator sitting in the bed of a pickup truck a few feet from the porch. Tarps guarded the generator when it rained.

Honduran patients lined up to be seen by Ng, Nguyen, or the other Cape CARES volunteers.

The two GSDM students saw a much higher number of patients each day, but with limited resources. Still, Ng and Nguyen adapted and provided the best care they could.

“I learned a lot of technical skills in oral surgery, especially extracting root tips, severely decayed teeth, and suturing,” said Nguyen. “Because we had no x-rays, I learned how to clinically diagnose and treat the patient with only information from what I saw clinically and what the patient told me about the history of the tooth.”

Jennifer Ng DMD 16 and William Nguyen DMD 16 with the Cape CARES team at their makeshift dental clinic

The Hondurans receiving care from the Cape CARES team would frequently travel miles on foot for treatment. When they arrived each day, they would wait—sometimes for hours—for their turn.

“People are lined up all day just to get a chance to be seen,” said Nguyen. “We saw hundreds of patients a day. People dress up nice, just to come to the clinic; they kind of make it an event for the community.”

The Cape CARES volunteers would work from about 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. The volunteers used headlamps to see into the mouths of their patients, who were reclined in the makeshift exam chairs that sat atop the concrete porch.

At the end of the five days, Nguyen and Ng had each seen about 40 patients, and they each performed more than 100 extractions and completed several cleanings and even a few restorations.

Matthew Mara DMD 16 with a dentist and two dental assistants in Wainwright, Alaska

“I think the best part of the externship was the people that I met,” said Ng. “The medical and dental team that we traveled with was a group of selfless, compassionate, and motivated individuals that inspired me both professionally and personally.”

DMD 16 Student Travels to Northernmost Point in America to Provide Dental Care For nearly two weeks in the middle of August 2015, DMD 16 student Matt Mara was in 30degree weather in two isolated towns surrounded by tundra at the tip of Alaska. Mara was in Alaska participating in the Indian Health Service’s (IHS) Dental Externship Program, which allows fourthyear dental students from across the country to gain valuable clinical skills by providing oral health care to vulnerable indigenous populations at one of 29 sites in the United States.

Mara served at the IHS Dental Externship Program site located in Barrow, Alaska, a town of about 4,000 people that borders the Arctic Ocean.

Barrow is the northernmost point in the United States. It is closer to the North Pole than it is to Seattle, WA. The highest temperature ever recorded in Barrow is 79 degrees Fahrenheit, while the lowest is negative 56 degrees Fahrenheit.

While Barrow is isolated, the opportunity to participate in the IHS Dental Externship Program in Barrow is highly sought after by dental students; only 10 dental students from various schools across the country are picked from a large pool of applicants each year. These 10 students all participate in separate, two-week stints in Barrow. Mara served in the Dental Externship Program in Barrow from August 16 to 29, 2015.

Jennifer Ng DMD 16 with dental supplies

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COMMUNITY SERVICE “It was nice to see how a Community Health Center works in a rural setting,” said Mara about his time in Alaska. “Regardless of where they were, they were still trying to provide as much care as possible.”

GSDM Celebrates Five Years of Monthly Volunteering at Rosie’s Place In March of 2016, GSDM celebrated five years of its Women to Women program, which coordinates monthly GSDM volunteers at Rosie’s Place, a Boston-based sanctuary for homeless women. The GSDM volunteers have been traveling to Rosie’s Place every month since the program began in 2011. They provide oral health promotion services in the wellness center at Rosie’s Place.

The GSDM volunteers have performed a total of 588 oral health screenings, or about 10 screenings a month, since the program began.

The Wellness Center at Rosie’s Place is staffed five days a week by nursing students from Regis College and local charitable organizations. The Wellness Center offers a wide range of services, including preventive immunizations; blood pressure and blood sugar screenings; assessment of common health problems; assistance with scheduling health care appointments; and finding primary care providers. An HIV counselor is available for testing and counseling twice a month, and a dermatologist is on-site once a month.

The Women to Women Program began in 2011 after the president of GSDM AAWS at the time, Dr. Josephine Verde DMD 13, brainstormed ways to get involved with women of the local community with Ms. Kathy Lituri, GSDM Oral Health Promotion Director. Dr. Verde was a DMD student at the time.

GSDM volunteers have performed a total of 588 oral health screenings, or about 10 screenings a month, since the program began. The volunteers also hand out 144 toothbrushes to the women at Rosie’s Place each month.

Located in the South End a few blocks from GSDM, Rosie’s Place describes itself as a sanctuary for women in need of care and support. It was founded in 1974 with a mission to “provide a safe and nurturing environment that helps poor and homeless women maintain their dignity, seek opportunity, and find security in their lives.”

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However, prior to the creation of GSDM’s Women to Women Program, there was no oral health component at The Wellness Center.

“The Women to Women Program is truly remarkable in that it has been providing ongoing coverage to the many women who utilize the services offered

by Rosie’s Place for five years,” said Ms. Lituri.

“What is particularly special about this program is that the dental students get to work alongside nursing students from Regis College, nurse practitioners, and a physician assistant.”

Orchard Gardens students learn about oral health in the Simulation Learning Center

GSDM Teaches the Next Generation at Elementary School Field Trips During the 2015–2016 school year, GSDM continued its tradition of opening its doors to elementary school students from local schools in order to help the students understand best practices in oral health. Two groups of elementary school students took “field trips” to GSDM in June.

Each field trip was jam-packed with oral health activities beginning in the morning and ending in the early afternoon.

Coordinated by GSDM’s chapter of the Student National Dental Association (SNDA) and the Office of Global and Population Health—and staffed by dozens of faculty, student, and staff volunteers— the GSDM field trips enable students to learn about

oral health education through interactive games and activities and hands-on learning in GSDM’s Simulation Learning Center (SLC).

“The field trips to GSDM went very well,” said Ms. Kathy Lituri, Oral Health Promotion Director.

“I really would like to thank all of the volunteers— staff, faculty, and students—who helped make these events such a success once again.”

Boston University’s Global Days of Service is a one-month-long annual event that allows alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends from all areas of the Boston University network to give back to their local, national, and international communities.

GSDM topped its 2015 Global Days of Service total in 2016 with 1,011 hours!

“I am so proud to be Dean of an institution comprised of so many students, faculty, and staff members who are engaged in and committed to our community,” said Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter.

“I would like to thank all who volunteered with a special thank you to Ms. Lituri, Ms. McNamee, and Ms. Norquist for their tireless dedication to making sure all these events were successful.”

GSDM Volunteers Contribute 1,011 Hours During 2016 Global Days of Service!

During 2016’s Global Days of Service, 251 students, faculty, and staff from GSDM volunteered a total of 1,011 hours at 40 different community service locations throughout Boston. The 1,011 volunteer hours signify a more than 100 percent increase from the 2015 total of volunteer hours.

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FACULTY & STAFF

Our faculty and staff work tirelessly to promote GSDM and ensure that our students and residents are getting the best possible experience during their dental education.

The faculty and staff at GSDM accomplished many things in the 2015–2016 academic year and made great strides in improving already highly regarded curriculums for all of our students in our various programs. In the pages that follow, you will learn more about our many faculty, staff, and curriculum accomplishments.

GSDM’s Group Practice Model in Full Swing In the 2015–2016 academic year, GSDM’s Group Practice Model concluded its first complete cycle, meaning that the graduating classes of DMD 16 and Advanced Standing DMD 16 were the first to complete their patient-based education under the full implementation of the Group Practice Model.

The Group Practice Model has been incredibly successful in retaining patients, with a 15 percent increase for the 2015–2016 academic year in patients who select GSDM for care. The Group Practice Model also has had a positive impact on student satisfaction at GSDM. The Office of Academic Affairs documented a more than sixfold increase in student satisfaction with chair scheduling over the four-year period from academic year 2013 through academic year 2016, and a more than three-fold increase in student satisfaction with patient assignment over the

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same time period. Additionally, there was a nearly two-fold increase in student satisfaction with clinical support services. GSDM’s efforts in developing the Group Practice Model is having an immediate, measurable, and significant positive impact on our students’ education.

MD degree concurrent with the GSDM CAGS in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. The program is six years long, including a structured three-year accelerated medical school program integrated with the existing four-year traditional OMFS program.

Another benefit of the Group Practice Model has been the ability for faculty members to more easily determine the appropriate mix of patient experiences to the student’s needs by the close management of the student’s progress. As a result, the Group Practice Model has been very conducive to assigning the right patient to the right student.

Applied Strategic Plan Marks End to First Five Years GSDM’s Applied Strategic Plan marked an end to the first five years of the plan, and a beginning to the next chapter. To culminate the first phase, the Office of Business Development, along with the Goal Champions, conducted a detailed audit of the plan to document the achievements since the conception of the plan. The Goal Champions presented their findings during a meeting held in August 2015. Progress, changes, and recommendations were discussed, thus marking an end to the first five years of the implementation of the plan.

New Combined MD CAGS in OMFS Created in 2015–2016 Academic Year A significant milestone was reached in the 2015– 2016 academic year with the approval of President Robert A. Brown for a concurrent MD degree and Certificate in Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS). This innovative new program is the culmination of many hours of work by several faculty and staff at both GSDM and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). The program will provide one to two qualified individuals per year in the OMFS residency program the opportunity to achieve the

Driven to teach GSDM’s Group Practice Model supports Vertically Integrated Teams within Group Practices. The individual practices have designated spaces, staff, faculty, and pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral residents.

The Group Practice Model creates continuity of care for our patients within a patient-centered clinical education construct for faculty-guided, student-provided, high-quality oral health care. The 2015–2016 academic year saw impressive success in many different aspects of the Group Practice Model.

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FACULTY & STAFF Faculty, Staff, and Curriculum Accomplishments Dr. Claire Chang Accepts Group Practice Leader Position for Practice Six In June 2016, Dr. David Russell, Director of the Group Practice Experience and Team Leadership, announced that Dr. Claire Chang accepted the position of Group Practice Leader (GPL) of Practice Six. “We wish Dr. Chang heartfelt good wishes as she starts her new role in the GPL Suite,” said Dr. Russell. “We look forward to welcoming her to what I am sure will be a magnificent term as a Group Practice Leader.”

Dr. Chang formally started in her role as Group Practice Leader on August 15, 2016. She has provided supervision to GSDM students since 2010 in the Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) Patient Treatment Center, and since 2012 has served as a Clinical Associate Professor at GSDM. Dr. Chang received her DMD from GSDM in 2007.

In 2010, she received her Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) in Prosthodontics from GSDM, and in 2011 she received her MSD in Prosthodontics from GSDM. Three OMFS Faculty Appointed to MSOMS Executive Leadership Positions Three faculty members of the GSDM Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery were elected to volunteer administrative positions in the Massachusetts Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (MSOMS).

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and Dr. An-Louise Johnson was elected to the position of treasurer.

The MSOMS aims to promote and advance the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery to its members in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The MSOMS also hosts two continuing education meetings each year: one in the fall and one during the annual Yankee Dental Congress.

Dr. Margaret Errante Completes Master of Arts in Dental Education On May 14, 2016, Dr. Margaret Errante completed her Master of Arts in Dental Education from the Gladys L. Benerd School of Education at the University of the Pacific. Dr. Errante is Assistant Dean for Business Development at GSDM. The University of the Pacific has partnered with the Academy for Academic Leadership (AAL) to present the master’s degree program created specifically for health profession educators. This master’s program is designed to be completed in approximately one year and culminates in a research project.

Dr. Errante says she is excited to bring all the knowledge she has gained from the program to her many responsibilities at GSDM. GSDM Faculty Participate in Faculty Development Program GSDM faculty members participated in two daylong Faculty Development Programs on Monday, December 21 and Tuesday, December 22, 2015.

The theme for these two programs was “Critical Thinking Strategies for Health Professional Education.”

While both programs had the same general theme, the program on Monday, December 21, was specifically designed for all faculty, while the program on Tuesday, December 22, was specifically designed for course directors and program directors.

GSDM faculty members were joined on both days by faculty members from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Sargent College.

Both programs consisted of four sessions from Dr. Gerald Nosich, a noted authority on critical thinking and a former faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. The sessions were designed to build and refine the faculty members’ critical thinking abilities, while teaching them skills to encourage critical thinking in the classroom.

Dr. Stephen Dulong Elected Chair of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Dentistry In December 2015, Dr. Stephen Dulong, Associate Professor in the Department of General Dentistry, was elected Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Dentistry (BORID). Dr. Dulong has served on the BORID since being appointed by former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in May 2012. He assumed the position of Chair on January 1, 2016.

The BORID is responsible for licensing dentists and dental hygienists for practice in Massachusetts; establishing rules, regulations, and policies governing the practice of dentistry, dental hygiene and dental assisting; and investigating complaints against licensed dental professionals.

The BORID was established in 1915, by state law, and is currently made up of 13 volunteers—six dentists, two dental hygienists, one dental assistant, two public voting members, and two non-voting dental assistant advisors. The volunteers are appointed by the governor to five-year terms, and they meet as a Board 12 to 14 times each year.

In his role as Chair, Dr. Dulong will be moderating the monthly meetings of the Board, speaking on behalf of the Board at state and national meetings, and participating in various sub-committee meetings. Chairs of the BORID are elected annually.

Dr. Mina Paul, Dean’s Advisory Board Member, served as Chair of BORID from 2009 to 2012.

Dr. David Samuels held the position of Chair from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015.

alumni, and others from around the world come together to engage in presentations and other activities focused on dental medicine.

The 2015 symposium celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of YUCD’s founding and the history of modern dentistry in South Korea. Two interactive photo albums about the history of YUCD were made available for free, online. They are, “10 most significant people during 100 years of dentistry in Yonsei,” and “100 years of dentistry at Yonsei University (1915–2015).”

The symposium took place over the course of three days in November. Dr. Sohn presented two lectures—on the second and third day of the symposium—entitled “Role of psychosocial factors in caries disparities” and “Preventive dentistry in the 21st Century.”

Dr. Woosung Sohn Presents at Yonsei Dentistry Centennial Memorial Symposium GSDM faculty member Dr. Woosung Sohn was on the campus of Yonsei University College of Dentistry (YUCD) in Seoul, South Korea—his alma mater—in November, 2015, presenting two lectures during the Yonsei Dentistry Centennial Dr. Woosung Sohn Memorial Symposium.

Dr. Sohn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research and Director of the Advanced Specialty Education Program in Dental Public Health.

Dr. Sohn received three degrees from YUCD: his DDS in 1987, MS in 1992, and PhD in 1995. He has been back to YUCD to present on two separate occasions, in 2005 and 2007.

This is the fifteenth year that YUCD has coordinated an international dental symposium. At this annual symposium, dental professionals, YUCD

Ms. Lituri, who is also Immediate Past Chair of the APHA Oral Health Section, addressed the entire assembly of more than 5,500 public health

GSDM Faculty Member Presents at APHA Annual Meeting In October 2015, GSDM faculty member Ms. Kathy Lituri spoke about the benefits of community water fluoridation at the Opening General Session of the 2015 American Public Health Association (AHPA) Annual Meeting and Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Lituri’s speech carried particular significance, because 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the implementation of the first community water fluoridation program, which took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

professionals during her speech about the benefits of community water fluoridation. Ms. Lituri’s speech marked the first time that a Chair from an APHA Section spoke during the Opening General Session of an APHA Annual Session and Exposition.

GSDM Faculty Member Inducted into International Academy for Dental Facial Esthetics In November 2015, GSDM faculty member Dr. Charilaos Asikis was inducted as a Fellow into the International Academy for Dental Facial Esthetics (IADFE) at a ceremony that took place at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan, New York.

Dr. Asikis is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of General Dentistry and Group Practice Leader in the Pre-doctoral Patient Treatment Center.

The IADFE, which has nearly 1,000 Fellows, is an honorary service organization that seeks to foster interdisciplinary education in the area of facial esthetics. IADFE members come from many associated professions, and all have a desire to create new bridges whereby esthetic patients can be better and more knowledgeably served.

IADFE Fellows at the Induction Ceremony. (l to r) Dr. George Freedman, Dr. David Hoexter, Dr. Charilaos Asikis, and Dr. David Lynch

Dr. Paul Farsai Elected to ACD Board Associate Professor in the Department of General Dentistry Dr. Paul Farsai was elected in 2015 to the Board of Directors for Regency 1 of the American College of Dentists (ACD). Dr. Farsai has served as a Fellow of the ACD since 2006.

The ACD was founded in Boston in 1920 to evaluate the standards of dentistry, encourage graduate study, and grant Fellowship to those who have done meritorious work. Since its founding, ACD has grown into a multinational organization with more than 7,400 Fellows—active and retired.

Dr. Paul Farsai

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FACULTY & STAFF Dr. Mehra is shown on camera several times during the WCVB story. At one point, he is shown giving viewers a quick lesson with a model jaw and explaining the process of replacing a Temporomandibular joint (TMJ), the procedure that Beck needed.

Dental professionals must be nominated and then elected to become Fellows. In 2006, Dr. Farsai became a Fellow and, in September 2015, he was elected to the organization’s Board of Directors for Regency 1.

The ACD is split up into eight Regencies. Dr. Farsai is now serving as one of eight Board Members for Regency 1, which includes seven states and the entire Canadian Eastern Seaboard. The Board meets several times a year.

“This is Pearl’s jaw,” said Dr. Mehra while holding the model. “And the problems are in the joint, in the lower jaw that’s growing back and the teeth that are not touching together.”

Throughout the WCVB story, video shots of Boston Medical Center and the OMFS facilities at GSDM are shown.

Dr. Pushkar Mehra Featured on WCVB for World-Class Surgical Repair On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, local news channel WCVB featured a story about a surgical repair performed by Chair of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at GSDM Dr. Pushkar Mehra. The story is about French teenager Pearl Beck, who desperately needed help repairing damage to her jaw after a less than successful surgery in France.

After hearing clicking and feeling pain in her jaw for some time, Beck decided to undergo surgery at a French hospital. While this surgery required Beck to have her jaw wired shut for eight weeks, it left the teenager with some complicated oral problems.

Luz Lebron Wins 2015 Henry M. Goldman Award for Distinguished Service In December 2015, Ms. Luz Lebron, Senior Administrative Secretary in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials, was awarded the Henry M. Goldman Award for Distinguished Service at the 2015 GSDM Winter Faculty and Staff Meeting.

Dr. Pushkar Mehra

Ms. Lebron started her career at GSDM in February of 2005, as a receptionist in the Department of Oral Diagnosis. In March of 2007, Ms. Lebron took

on a new role at GSDM. That position, which she still holds today, is Senior Administrative Secretary in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

Her responsibilities include acting as a primary liaison between the department and GSDM’s many offices and departments, answering telephone inquiries, maintaining records, coordinating meetings and events, assisting the program director in monitoring the clinical accomplishments of faculty and residents, as well as many other crucial tasks that work toward ensuring the department runs with the utmost efficiency.

Wilemsky Jameau Wins 2016 Kristen Donovan Award for Excellence in Service At the 2016 GSDM Summer Faculty and Staff Meeting on June 14, 2016, Wilemsky Jameau was awarded the 2016 Kristen Donovan Award for Excellence in Service.

“Slowly, over the next few months, her jaw started to grow back into her airway,” Dr. Mehra is heard explaining during the WCVB news story.

After the surgery in France, Beck and her family were looking to GSDM, and Dr. Mehra, to provide her with the world’s best oral surgery. They wanted Beck to simply have a healthy jaw again, and they turned to Dr. Mehra to make that happen.

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Mr. Wilemsky Jameau with Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter after winning the 2016 Kristen Donovan Award for Excellence in Service

The award honors the memory of Senior Patient Coordinator Kristen Donovan, who sadly passed away on Thursday, May 29, 2012. The award is given to an exceptional staff member who has been at GSDM for less than five years.

Dean Hutter read several excerpts from the recommendations that Mr. Jameau received for the award to the audience at the Faculty and Staff Meeting. Mr. Jameau then took a photo on stage with Dean Hutter as well as Kristen Donovan’s father, mother, and sister.

Departmental updates GSDM has nine educational departments: the Department of Endodontics, the Department of General Dentistry, the Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research, the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, the Department of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics, the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, the Department of Periodontology, and the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials.

295 compared to 39 in 2013, before GSDM received 55 CEREC acquisition units in the Simulation Learning Center and the Group Practices. This was more than a 700 percent increase. In the first six months of 2016, GSDM produced 176 CEREC restorations.

• In the spring semester of 2016, Dr. Hesham Nouh ran a short pilot course on digital implant restoration, which has led to the development of a new pre-clinical course for the next academic year. This new course was developed in discussion with Drs. Hesham Nouh, Neal Fleisher, and Ronni Schnell. It will

Each of GSDM’s departments accomplished great things in the 2015–2016 academic year. Here are a few highlights:

Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics The main role of the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics is to educate orthodontists who are proficient at treating the broad scope of occlusal and dentofacial malocclusions. Special emphasis is placed on diagnosis and treatment planning, growth and development, biomechanics, and occlusion, using research to help develop critical thinking and writing skills while making a significant contribution to the scientific literature.

• In February, the department held its first every Young Alumni reception. Alumni from the past five years, faculty, and third-year residents (alumni-to-be) attended.

Department of General Dentistry The Department of General Dentistry is the largest department in the School with 115 faculty (35 full time; 18 Practice Leaders plus 1 Director of Practice Leaders; 54 part-time; and 7 volunteers) and 10 staff. The department is largely responsible for pre-doctoral education, with 74 courses (67 percent) and 171 credit hours, representing 73 percent of the pre-doctoral curriculum. The department’s faculty taught 44 CE courses and published 12 articles, book chapters, and abstracts in the 2015–2016 academic year.

• In the 2015–2016 academic year, the number of CEREC restorations completed was

cover the use of Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) to virtually treatment plan and place implants, and perform the surgery for placement of implants in models especially designed for the course. The department will partner with Nobel Biocare for the course.

• In March, the department sent five third-year residents to the American Association of Dental Research (AADR) meeting in Los Angeles. Three students had oral presentations, which is an all-time high for the program. Seven other poster presentations were also delivered.

Dr. Martha Neely DMD 16 showing her award for the best Oral presentation for her group at the GSDM Science Day

• The department’s graduating residents have all prepared manuscripts as of June 2016, and one manuscript has already been submitted for publication. Their goal is to have each resident publish their research.

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FACULTY & STAFF ment has been a leader in Education, Clinical Care, Research, Administration, and Community Service.

• The department’s residents were heavily invested in clinical research and presented seven scientific oral abstracts/posters at local, regional, and national meetings.

During the 2015–2016 Academic Year: • The department treated more than 32,000 patients among the major treatment centers at BMC, GSDM, and Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC).

Third-year residents and faculty gather for lunch at the AADR meeting: Drs. Gus Al-Turki, Berokh Bavar, Carmen Doumit, Melih Motro (faculty), Najla Al Rejaye, David Briss (faculty), Jonathan Werbitt, Martha Neely, and Leslie Will (faculty)

• Throughout the year, the department’s faculty have published research articles and books.

Dr. Melih Motro coauthored a book Alveolar Distraction Osteogenesis, which was published

by Springer. Dr. Motro also had three research articles published. Dr. Leslie Will coauthored a book entitled Tooth Movement, which was published by Karger. Dr. Will also coauthored a research publication with fellow faculty members Matt Miner and Paul Rigali.

• The department welcomed two new faculty members during the 2015–2016 academic year: Dr. Joseph Bouserhal and Dr. James Thacker.

Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery The Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at GSDM consists of two distinct divisions: the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. As one of the oldest, structured departments of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, it has a long and historical tradition of excellence. Since its inception in the early 1900s at Boston City Hospital, the depart34 GSDM 2016 Annual Report

• Dr. Bradford Towne was appointed Director of Ambulatory Operations. In this role, he oversees the daily operations with BMC managerial staff and reports directly to the Chair of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at GSDM. • A new seven-room state-of-the-art facility for clinical care was opened in the Moakley Building.

• The first-ever Boston Medical Center, GSDM, Tufts, Alumni Reunion was held in June 2015 and attended by more than 200 alumni and friends.

• The department’s clinicians treated approximately 2,500 patients at no cost to the patients.

• The department spent considerable time and resources toward finalizing and implementing the plans to embark on the two specific projects related to developing regional “Centers of Excellence” at GSDM: the Center for Oral Diseases and the Center for Facial Rejuvenation.

• The department’s surgical volume and scope of surgery for resident training increased significantly in the last year, with roughly a 10 percent volume increase in major operating room cases.

The department’s clinicians treated approximately 2,500 patients at no cost to the patients.

Department of Molecular & Cell Biology The mission of the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology is to meet the demands of the postgenomic era as it relates to oral medicine by gaining further insights into human biology with particular emphasis in dental and craniofacial development, physiology, and pathology. The department has wide-ranging research expertise that, in addition to oral and craniofacial biology, includes the study of cancer mechanisms, exocrine disorders, protozoan parasites, autoimmune disorders, and signal transduction pathways.

• Nearly all the department’s faculty members are currently funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and continue to obtain new research funding from NIH and other sources for their research in many different areas.

• In the 2015–2016 academic year, faculty members, students, and post-doctoral Fellows gave plenary lectures, seminars, and presentations at local, national, and international scientific symposia, conferences, and meetings.

• The department’s Distinguished Lecturer Series continued to hold formal seminars on a semi-monthly basis on Thursdays. The aim of the series is to expose faculty and students to cutting-edge science in diverse areas of biomedicine, and includes scientists from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and NIH, as well as experts from around the country.

• The department held six Faculty Candidate Seminars as well as a monthly post-doc, student, and research assistant seminar series.

• The department’s “Friday afternoon clinic” has been revamped to become a temporary comprehensive Pediatric Dental Patient Treatment Center.

• The department’s faculty were published in several journals and other prestigious publications.

• The department developed the Pediatric Oral Health Core Curriculum that is aimed at healthcare professionals with no prior knowledge of oral health.

Department of Pediatric Dentistry The Department of Pediatric Dentistry is dedicated to the prevention of dental diseases in childhood, the promotion of oral health throughout the lifespan, and high-quality, compassionate care for those in need. The department is responsible for administering two major educational programs: the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Pediatric Dentistry, a two-year clinical program that admits dentists and trains them in all aspects of pediatric dentistry; and the Doctoral of Science in Pediatric Dentistry, a research-intensive educational program that trains the future leaders of academic dentistry globally.

• During the 2015–2016 academic year, the department was awarded a $2.8 million federal grant to create an inter-professional teambased pediatric dental delivery model where multiple specialties join forces in the Pediatric Clinic to serve children better.

The $2.8 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) award has become the catalyst for multiple changes, including a new Pediatric Oral Healthcare Center at GSDM. The new Center is appropriately designed and equipped to provide care to Boston’s children, including the under-served and those with disabilities.

The opening of the Center took place at the end of September 2016.

• The department recently received support from GSDM and Sargent College to teach a new course on pediatric oral health. The course was taught to registered dieticians.

• The department has embarked on a research collaboration with Columbia University to improve the oral health of children in the rural Tigray region of Ethiopia. In March 2016, three first-year residents traveled to the rural Tigray region of Ethiopia where they collaborated in the Millennium Villages Oral Health and Hygiene Project.

• The department recruited three new faculty members: Dr. Dolrudee Jumlongras, Dr. Avani Khera, and Dr. Jayapriyaa Shanmugham.

• The department developed three new courses, to be added to the graduate studies CAGS curriculum in the fall of 2016. They are: o Special Needs Dentistry o Growth & Development Seminars o Leadership Training

• In the 2015–2016 academic year, many of the department’s faculty published peer-reviewed articles, wrote book chapters, and presented posters and lectures at conferences and symposia across the world, while also delivering many Continuing Education lectures at dental conferences and other events, including the Yankee Dental Congress.

• Faculty members in the department continued to supervise student research, serving as first and second readers, mentors, advisors, and in other support roles.

• Faculty members continued to serve as members and in leadership positions of many Boston University and GSDM committees and boards, including; the Dean’s Advisory Board, the Digital Dentistry Oversight Committee, the Patient Treatment Center Committee, a Subcommittee of the Compliance Committee, and many others.

• Faculty members continued to serve as members and in leadership positions for many committees and boards outside of Boston University and GSDM, including; the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Dentistry, the ADEX Clinical Periodontal Examination Committee, the American College of Dentists, the ADEA Journal of Dental Education Editorial Board, and the American Board of Dental Public Health.

• The department implemented more than eight new research projects, with topics varying from airway assessment and sleep disturbances in children to understanding reasons for operating room re-admissions and Zika virus effects in the oral cavity of infected infants.

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FACULTY & STAFF Department of Periodontology The Department of Periodontology focuses primarily on the didactic and clinical education of periodontology residents. Its goal is to educate residents to perform proficiently in the specialty of periodontics, be critical thinkers, and stay lifelong learners. The department’s objectives are to provide residents participating in the Advanced Specialty Education Program in Periodontics with an understanding of the theoretical basis for, and the basic sciences involved in, the maintenance of health and/or the treatment of diseases of the periodontium as well as providing them with the most up-to-date clinical training in all aspects of periodontology and surgical implant dentistry.

• In the 2015–2016 academic year, the department incorporated simulation lab training to its teaching of IV sedation for the periodontics residents. This training creates, in a controlled environment and under the supervision of the ER medicine staff, real-life emergency scenarios that can happen during a procedure to prepare residents for a quick and appropriate response to avoid a major catastrophe. The department is coordinating this effort with Dr. Ron Medzon from Boston Medical Center in his Emergency Simulation Lab. • The department has established the Dr. Oreste Zanni Scholarship (approximately $45,000 a year) to be given to a periodontology resident selected by the Zanni Scholarship committee.

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• The department created a very successful Implant Fellowship program (one-year and two-year durations) for residents from all specialties who want to study and practice implant dentistry.

• In October 2015, the department hosted the second Boston University Periodontology Symposium. It drew 160 participants.

Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research The Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research was founded in September 1996 to develop a multifaceted program of research, teaching, population-based care, and community service focused on evidence-based practice.

The department’s organizing principle is that research must inform health policy, health promotion, and clinical care, with the aim of improving oral health outcomes. A key organizing theme, which also serves as a working hypothesis, is that “oral health matters.” Oral conditions are important determinants of general health and well-being; the goal of improving oral health must be an integral component of the mission of our health care system.

• Three faculty members at GSDM were recently awarded two grants from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for two projects aimed at eliminating inequities in the access to care and improving the oral health of children. The projects were two of just nine projects funded by the NIDCR that are all part of

a new consortium with more than $7 million in first-year funding that has been established with the goal of reducing disparities in access to, and quality of, oral and dental care in minority and low-income children.

• In 2015, two faculty members in the department—Dr. Woosung Sohn, and Dr. Astha Singhal—were elected to prominent leadership positions within the International Association of Dental Research’s (IADR) Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network (GOHIRN).

• Faculty members’ work was published 42 times in the 2015–2016 academic year in various scholarly journals and publications.

• In the 2015–2016 academic year, a study led by Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research faculty member Dr. Belinda Borrelli, which was published in Addiction, has found that parents who smoke are more likely to quit smoking if they witness a “Teachable Moment” (TM), an event that raises awareness of the risks of smoking.

Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials The Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials at GSDM is at the forefront of developing materials for computerized fabrication of restorations. The department’s faculty has developed new concepts and techniques for analyzing the interaction between biomaterials and cells at the molecular and genetic levels.

The department’s primary functions are to conduct basic science and applied research, to train pre-doctoral students in research

methodology and biomaterials, and to educate dental students with respect to novel materials and procedures that may improve patient care.

Department of Endodontics The Department of Endodontics at GSDM provides the residents participating in the Advanced Specialty Education Program in Endodontics with intensive and comprehensive training in clinical endodontics including non-surgical and surgical endodontics and correlated basic and medical sciences. It also trains students and residents in other dental subjects that are related to endodontic practice.

• The department acquired and installed the XG-3D CBCT machine from Sirona Dental within the Postdoctoral Endodontic Patient Treatment Center. It boasts one of the highest resolutions and smallest FOV (field of view) in the market, allowing clinicians to see with greater detail the areas of interest for endodontics, including root resorption, missed canal anatomy, fractures, trauma, and disarticulated instruments.

• On July 1, 2016, Dr. Tun-Yi (Edward) Hsu was appointed Clinic Director of the post-doctoral Endodontic Patient Treatment Center. Dr. Hsu replaces Dr. Louay Abrass, who stepped down as Clinical Director of the post-doctoral Endodontic Patient Treatment Center.

• The department’s beloved part-time faculty member Dr. Seymour Melnick ENDO 65 received the 2015 Lifetime part-time faculty award by the American Association of Endodontists (AAE) at the 2015 AAE Annual Session.

• Dr Chogle, along with 13 residents, attended the annual session of the AAE in San Francisco in April 2016. Two previous residents, Drs. Ashraf Abd-Elmeguid ENDO 14 and Yarah Beddawi ENDO 13 presented their research “Obturation of the Accessory Root Canals: A Clinical Descriptive Analysis” at the meeting. Dr. Yousef Alnowailaty ENDO 17 did an oral presentation, “Influence of Surface Coatings on Cutting Efficiency of Nickel-Titanium rotary Endodontic Files in Artificial Canals.”

• Students enrolled in the three-year MSD degree or five-year DScD degree conducted or are conducting research involving bone physiology, microbiology, immunology, dental pulp stem cells, dental materials, and clinical research. One resident in the DScD program was awarded a research grant from the American Association of Endodontists for his research on “DSP in Pulp Cells.”

• Drs. Mark Desrosiers, Laila Kafi, Mohamed Kayali, Michael Pauk, and Hongsheng Liu received their Diplomate pins at the AAE annual meeting for the completion of their American Board of Endodontics Certification.

• Dr. Mohmed Jamal Ahmed ENDO 16 was selected as one of the winners of the AAE/ Dentsply Resident Presentation Award for his oral presentation, “Directed Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Endothelial and Neural Crest-Like Cells.”

• The department’s dental assistant, Ms. Karen Anderson, was awarded the Staff Recognition Award by the Student Affairs Office as voted by the post-doctoral residents.

• All faculty members were involved in mentoring the second-year residents with their CAGS research projects. Dr. Chogle served on the committees for DScD and MSD research projects.

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PATIENTS

GSDM cared for thousands of patients during the 2016 fiscal year, applying the same standard of excellence to every patient and every case.

The 2016 fiscal year (FY16) has been wonderfully successful for all of GSDM’s clinical activities.

GSDM’s Patient Treatment Centers saw an increase of more than 10 percent in clinical revenue, and a larger number of patients choosing GSDM as their place for care.

Banner Year for Group Practice Model Much of the success of GSDM’s clinical activities is due to the fact that GSDM’s Group Practice Model has been in place for a full two years. The graduating classes of DMD 16 and Advanced Standing DMD 16 were the first to complete their patientbased education under the full implementation of the Group Practice Model.

The Group Practice Model provides a patientcentered clinical education construct for faculty-guided, student-provided, high-quality care of patients in nine group practices having designated spaces, staff, faculty, auxiliary professionals, and students. To that end, the Group Practice Model has made GSDM more successful in retaining patients, with a 15 percent increase from FY15 in patients who select GSDM for care.

In fact, GSDM cared for over 19,000 patients during FY15–16, with over 100,000 appointments.

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Infection Prevention Initiatives The Infection Prevention and Environmental Health and Safety Committee continued its ongoing efforts in recruiting new members, remaining consistent in performing dental compliance rounds, conducting ongoing infection prevention and environment health and safety trainings, improving percutaneous incidents and exposure communications, and updating GSDM Needle Stick/Sharp Exposure protocol. A new GSDM Protocol for Blood Borne Pathogen Reports was also implemented.

New members of the committee included practice managers and dental assistant coordinators. Their involvement had a very positive impact on the infection prevention committee’s goals to improve compliance in the various Patient Treatment Centers of GSDM and ultimately reduced the number of incidents throughout the year.

Dental Health Center In FY16, the Dental Health Center (DHC) at 930 Commonwealth Avenue continued to strive toward improving both its business and clinical operations under the direction of Dr. Margaret Errante, Assistant Dean of Business Development and Director of the Dental Health Center, and Kelly Marcinkewich, Associate Director.

In FY16, the Dental Health Center provided 46,300 dental appointments to members of the Boston University community, which is an increase of 3,900 appointments from the 42,400 appointments provided in FY15. This represented a 9.2 percent increase.

The Dental Health Center cared for 14,130 patients, of which the majority represented members of the Boston University community. Of the current active patient base, 73 percent have insurance and 27 percent are uninsured.

The DHC is a multi-specialty practice, where its patients are conveniently treated in one location.

Many of the Center’s doctors have post-doctoral training and, along with state-of-the-art equipment, are able to provide excellent care to their patients.

In FY16, the Dental Health Center continued to put a large emphasis on the training of digital dentistry. A GALILEOS CBCT (cone beam computed tomography) technology machine was added to the Center. The integration of CBCT and CEREC CAD/CAM technologies allows the Center to incorporate surgically-guided implant placement.

Driven to care Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine offers state-of-the-art oral healthcare to the patients it is privileged to care for. Emphasizing preventive and restorative dentistry, our experienced dentists, hygienists, and students provide a wide range of patient services at our Patient Treatment Centers.

GSDM’s commitment to scientific excellence is matched by its dedication to world-class service and patient care.

As a nationally recognized leader in dental research, GSDM continually strives to improve the oral health of our global community.

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RESEARCH

GSDM is committed to funding research that makes a positive impact on the world around us and that changes the way we look at dentistry, oral health, and overall health.

In the 2015–2016 academic year, GSDM’s Office of the Associate Dean for Research (Research) continued to promote and support the various research initiatives conducted by GSDM students, faculty, and research scientists while also working to expand opportunities and improve existing programs. GSDM’s commitment to promoting innovative research is an integral reason for its rank as one of the most respected dental schools in the country and the world.

GSDM Has Landmark Year in Research Funding In the 2015–2016 school year, 53 research proposals were submitted requesting almost $63 million. In the same period, a total of 44 awards were received by GSDM researchers, totaling more than $10 million. This is a 21 percent increase from the 2014–2015 academic year.

Also in the 2015 federal financial year, GSDM ranked ninth in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) dollars awarded to dental schools. Our success in acquiring funds during the 2015–2016 academic year will help GSDM to continue to conduct important research in the years to come.

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Our Research Initiatives The research initiatives led by our faculty span a broad spectrum of biomedical and public health topics. The 2015–2016 school year also saw the development of several important new research initiatives as well as the continuation of GSDM’s many existing programs. Our faculty members’ work was published in many highly acclaimed publications and prestigious peer-reviewed journals.

Three notable research highlights from the past year: 1. GSDM researcher projects comprised two of just nine projects funded nationally by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) with the goal of reducing disparities in access to, and quality of, oral and dental care in minority and low-income children.

2. A proposal for a Greater Boston Head and Neck Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) was submitted to the National Cancer Institute in May 2016. Led

by Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska, GSDM Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, and Dr. Robert Haddad, Disease Center Leader in Head and Neck

Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the SPORE brings together exceptional scientific expertise, resources, and clinical care in head and neck cancer at six major Boston-area institutions. The long-term goal of the SPORE is to apply this outstanding expertise and cutting-edge technologies toward the discovery of new treatments for improved head and neck cancer care.

3. GSDM and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute co-hosted the second Head and Neck Cancer Symposium on September 21, 2015. This event, titled “From Pathways to Therapies,” brought together experts from across the country to present on current research, developments, challenges, and therapies in head and neck cancer. Well over 100 faculty, clinicians, researchers, residents, and students attended the symposium.

Our Partnerships Continue to Grow Research continued to coordinate partnerships with various centers and institutes while expanding the depth and breadth of research at GSDM. Research continues to work with the Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTSI), an NIHCTSA-funded program whose overall mission is to promote and guide clinical research at Boston University.

Driven to discover The scope of research at GSDM is broad, spanning areas of basic, clinical, public health, and translational sciences.

Research teams are diverse and comprise faculty, undergraduate and graduate dental students and residents, medical and engineering PhD students, as well as post-doctoral Fellows and senior research scientists.

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RESEARCH Research Highlights During the 2015–2016 Academic Year

The Center for Clinical Research at GSDM also provided students and faculty with clinical research opportunities and collaborative interactions.

Pre-doctoral Research Impressive in 2015–2016 Academic Year The highly successful pre-doctoral Research Program continued to provide research opportunities and enhance access to cutting-edge investigation for pre-doctoral students. Students showcased their accomplishments at GSDM’s 2016 Science Day, the 2016 Boston University Graduate Research Symposium, and conferences around the country. In 2015–2016, 24 students attended local and national scientific meetings to present their research.

In 2015–2016, 24 students attended local and national scientific meetings to present their research.

GSDM Professors Awarded Two of Nine NIH Grants Three faculty members at GSDM were awarded two grants from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for two projects aimed at eliminating inequities in access to care and improving the oral health of children.

The GSDM Principal Investigators of the two projects are Dr. Belinda Borrelli; Dr. Michelle Henshaw; and Dr. Raul Garcia. Dr. Brenda Heaton is Co-Investigator for Dr. Garcia’s project.

The projects were two of just nine projects funded by the NIDCR that are all part of a new consortium with more than $7 million in first-year funding that has been established with the goal of reducing disparities in access to, and quality of, oral and dental care in minority and low-income children. In March 2015, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that Hispanic/Latino children and black children are about twice as likely as white children to have untreated tooth decay in primary teeth.

Dr. Borrelli and Dr. Henshaw’s project, “Integrating Interactive Parent Text Messaging and Oral Health Guidelines into Pediatric Community Health Centers to Reduce Early Childhood Caries,” is a randomized clinical trial that will measure the effects of a parent-targeted text message intervention on the oral health of children less than six years old visiting Community Health Centers (CHC) for pediatric wellness visits.

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If the project is successful, Dr. Borrelli and Dr. Henshaw believe the research has strong potential to be an evidence-based program that could easily be adopted at low cost and with low provider burden in the 1,128 CHCs in the United States that treat almost 4.5 million high risk children less than six years old.

Dr. Garcia’s project, “Using Social Networks to Improve Oral Health,” seeks to fight the oral health disparities evident in one- to five-year-old children who reside in public housing developments (PHD).

The project will use Network Science methods, similar to those used in earlier work by CREEDD, to design and implement a network intervention, guided by diffusion of innovations theory.

Dr. Garcia and Dr. Heaton will work together to evaluate their central hypothesis that “controlled dissemination of information targeting changes in health behaviors through social networks will accelerate the uptake of knowledge, support the adoption of positive behavior change, and improve the oral health status of caregivers and their young children.”

Similar approaches based in Network Science have been shown to increase the sustainability of behavioral change over and above that of individualized efforts. However, this is the first application of Network Science to address oral health problems.

Greater Boston Head and Neck Cancer SPORE The proposal for a Greater Boston Head and Neck Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) was submitted to the National Cancer Institute in May 2016. Led by Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska, Associate Dean for Research at GSDM, and Dr. Robert Haddad, Disease Center Leader in Head and Neck Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the SPORE brings together exceptional scientific expertise, resources, and clinical care in head and neck cancer at six major Boston-area institutions, with the long-term goal of mobilizing and enhancing the research workforce dedicated to the treatment of head and neck cancer. The participating institutions are Boston University, DanaFarber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brown University, and the Forsyth Institute.

The SPORE Program promotes collaborative, interdisciplinary, translational cancer research.

Successful SPOREs include both basic and applied science working together to support projects that will explore novel approaches to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of human cancers. Each SPORE is focused on a specific organ or group of highly related cancers, or a common theme or pathway that ties together the cancers under study. SPOREs are required to reach a human end-point within the five-year funding period.

Currently, there are 52 funded SPOREs across the nation.

The proposed Greater Boston Head and Neck Cancer SPORE is composed of four scientific projects, three shared resource cores, a Career Enhancement Program, and a Developmental

Research Program. The four proposed scientific projects are: Project 1: PI3K Antagonism in High-Risk HNSCC, led by Dr. Peter Hammerman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Dr. Ann Marie Egloff, Boston University; and Dr. Jochen Lorch, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Project 2: Targeting β-catenin/CBP Signaling in HNSCC and Immune Resistance, led by Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska; Dr. Bob Varelas, Boston University; Dr. Sara Pai, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Dr. Lori Wirth, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Project 3: Epigenetic Immune Biomarkers of Survival in HNSCC Epidemiology, led by Dr. Karl Kelsey, Brown University, and Dr. Robert Haddad.

Project 4: Interventions That Target Oral Microbiome-Host Signature Pathways in OSCC, led by Dr. Philip Stashenko, Forsyth Institute; Dr. David Sherr, Boston University; Dr. Scharukh Jalisi, Boston University; and Dr. Nicole Chau, Dana-Farber University.

The three proposed cores include an Administrative Core; a Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Data Management Core; and a Pathology and Biospecimens Core. The Career Enhancement Program is intended to prepare new investigators for successful careers in head and neck cancer translational research. The Developmental Research Program aims to attract and explore promising translational studies and innovative high-risk/high-impact projects focused on head and neck cancer.

The SPORE proposal will be reviewed in September/October 2016 with Advisory Council review in January 2017 and a potential start date of May 2017.

GSDM Science Day keynote speaker Dr. Charles Serhan with Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska and Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter

Research Celebrated During Science Day 2016 On March 24, 2016, members of the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) gathered for Science Day, an annual event that highlights the exceptional research being conducted at GSDM. The day started with a poster research session, followed by lunch, and a keynote presentation by Dr. Charles N. Serhan Ph.D., titled “Structural Elucidation of Novel Mediators in Resolution of Infections, Inflammation, and Tissue Regeneration.”

The day concluded with a series of oral research presentations. An accompanying vendor fair was held at 100 East Newton Street.

Science Day 2016 Poster Presentation Winners: Dental Students (DMD/AS) First Place: Safeer Jiwa, Elise Vincelette, Melih Motro, and Leslie Will. Department of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics: “Assessment of Mirror Image Facial Asymmetries in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins.”

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RESEARCH Masters MSD/First-Year PhD/DScD First Place: Chin-Hua Yang, Ghassan Darwish, Na Tian, Guoxian Wei, and Eva J. Helmerhorst. Department of Molecular & Cell Biology: “Determine Optimal Culture and Dosage Conditions for Rothia Bacteria Degrading Gluten in the TIM-1 Human Digestion Model.”

Post-doctoral Students First Place: Ahmed Alamoudi, Sundharamani Venkitapathi, Dongliang Xu, Hak Hotta, and Yoshiyuki Mochida.

Department of Molecular & Cell Biology: “Loss of Fam20a Leads to Dwarfism Due to Proliferation and Maturation Defects in Dhondrocytes.”

Post-doctoral Fellows First Place: Gokhan Ozdener and Philip Trackman. Department of Molecular & Cell Biology: “Vacuolar/Cytoplasmic pH Gradient by Inhibitors of ATP and Ionophores Increase Cell Uptake and Endosomal Escape of the Tumor Suppressor Lysyl Oxidase Propeptide (rLOX-PP).”

Science Day 2016 Oral Presentation Winners: Dental Students (DMD/AS) First Place: Jayesh Patel, Abdulsalam Al-Shammari, Jacob Al-Hashemi, and Salomon Amar. Department of Molecular & Cell Biology: “Kava Treatment Reduced Porphyromonas Gingivalis-induced Alveolar Bone Loss.”

Masters MSD/First Year PhD/DScD First Place: Martha Neely, Raffi Miller, Sharron Rich, Leslie Will, Wanda Wright, and Judith Jones. Department of Orthodontics & Orthofacial Orthopedics: “Oral Health Quality of Life in Adult Orthodontic Patients.”

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Post-doctoral Students First Place: Mohamed Ahmed and Darrell Kotton. Center for Regenerative Medicine: “Directed Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Endothelial and Neural Crest-like Cells.”

ADA/Dentsply Award: Tamanna Gandhi, Khikmet Sadykov, Khalid Alamoud, and Maria Kukuruzinska. Department of Molecular & Cell Biology: “Inhibition of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma with beta-catenin Antagonist ICG-001.”

Pre-doctoral Research Awards In the 2015–2016 academic year, several pre-doctoral students won awards for their research.

• Lauren Aber DMD 19: 2016 NIDCR Summer Dental Student Award • Dr. Minh Phuong Le DMD 16: Oral Biology Award, Senior Brunch 2016 • Dr. Mohamed Bayoumy DMD 16: Pre-doctoral Research Award, Senior Brunch 2016

BU GSDM Center for Clinical Research Goes Virtual; Tops 1,400 Participants in 2016 The Mission of the GSDM Center for Clinical Research (CCR) is to promote collaboration between basic and clinical scientists to translate research findings from the bench to chair side and to foster critical thinking and lifelong learning.

• Dr. Richi Wahi AS DMD 16: Quintessence Award, Senior Brunch 2016

The Center for Clinical Research went virtual in 2016. The changes have not impaired the goals of the CCR: to help students, residents and faculty to conduct clinical research and connect with people who can answer their clinical research questions.

The CCR guides faculty, students, and residents in the processes of study design, IRB submission, data collection, forms development and management, planning and conducting analyses, understanding their data, and reporting their results.

• Jignesh Rudani AS 17: The Hinman 2016 Table Clinician Award

The number of clinical research protocols per year has steadily increased since 2011 to, on average, 40 per year. The number of participants in clinical research protocols in the 2015–2016 academic year was 570, bringing the cumulative total to 1,410 participants.

• Min Zhu AS DMD 17: 2016-2017 Student Research Fellowship • Jayesh Patel DMD 18 (first candidate) and Safeer Jiwa DMD 17 (second candidate): 2017 AADR Student Research Day Award

• Safeer Jiwa DMD 17: Pre-doctoral Poster Presentation, Science Day 2016 • Jayesh Patel DMD 18: Pre-doctoral Student Oral Presentation, Science Day 2016 • Tamanna Gandhi DMD 18: ADA/Dentsply Award, Science Day 2016 • Megan Sullivan DMD 18: Yankee Dental Congress 2016 First Place Undergraduate In addition, six GSDM students presented their research at the prestigious American Association for Dental Research (AADR) meeting in Los Angeles in March 2016. They are: Dr. Ramy Allam AS DMD 16; Jaegak Kim DMD 17; Saeed Yazdianpur DMD 17; Dr. Richi Wahi DMD AS DMD 16; Megan Sullivan DMD 18; and Matthew Jones DMD 18.

Dr. Borrelli Publishes Study: Teachable Moments Motivate Parents of Kids with Asthma to Quit Smoking A study led by GSDM faculty member Dr. Belinda Borrelli, which has been published in the May 2016 edition of Addiction, has found that parents who smoke are more likely to quit smoking if they witness a “Teachable Moment” (TM), an event that raises awareness of the risks of smoking.

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Dr. Michelle Henshaw and Dr. Raul Garcia Speak at NIH about CREEDD Dr. Michelle Henshaw and Dr. Raul Garcia were invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on May 24, 2016, at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research’s (NIDCR) meeting of the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council.

At the meeting, Dr. Henshaw and Dr. Garcia spoke during a special session on health disparities research. The two faculty members spoke about their work with Boston University’s Center for Research to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities (CREEDD).

The CREEDD was established in 2001, and has received more than $27 million in research grant support from the NIDCR during that time. The Center’s mission is to improve oral, dental, and craniofacial health through research, research training, and the dissemination of health information, with a focus on the elimination of oral health disparities.

Dr. Garcia and Dr. Henshaw serve as Co-Directors of the Center.

Specifically, Dr. Borrelli found that parents of children with asthma who experienced a TM (child’s asthma exacerbation) and received motivational smoking cessation counseling + biomarker feedback were more than twice as likely to quit smoking as parents of healthy children who received identical counseling and biomarker feedback.

The study, “Motivating parents of kids with asthma to quit smoking: the effect of the teachable moment and increasing intervention intensity using a longitudinal randomized trial design,” also found that in-home counseling visits, including biomarker feedback on their child’s second-hand smoke exposure (SHSe) and motivational interviewing counseling phone calls improved the likelihood of smoking cessation and decreased the amount of SHSe. Despite a reduction in overall smoking prevalence, parental smoking and pediatric SHSe remain high, particularly among minority and low-income families with children with asthma. More than 40 percent of all children are exposed to SHSe, which increases the risk for asthma.

The study also found that, among parents of children with asthma, those who received longterm phone-based motivational interviewing counseling for smoking cessation plus repeated

biomarker feedback were more than twice as likely to quit smoking versus parents who received short-term counseling with no repeated biomarker feedback. These parents also had children with an 81 percent lower risk of being hospitalized for asthma and were about half as likely to miss school due to asthma or have asthma symptoms.

Parents of children with asthma who received long-term phone-based Motivational Interviewing counseling for smoking cessation plus repeated biomarker feedback were more than twice as likely to quit smoking versus parents who received short-term counseling with no repeated biomarker feedback.

More than 40 percent of all children are exposed to SHSe, which increases the risk for asthma.

Dr. Borrelli believes that these results underscore the need to develop novel interventions to motivate cessation and to augment risk perception among parents of healthy children, who had lower quit rates in the study.

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Eszter Hegyi Wins Grant Award from the National Pancreas Foundation The National Pancreas Foundation (NPF) announced its 2016 research grant recipients, and Dr. Eszter Hegyi, a Post-Doctoral Associate in the

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RESEARCH Center for Exocrine Disorders of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, received a one-year award for $50,000 to study the role of genomic rearrangements affecting chymotrypsin genes in chronic pancreatitis.

Small RNAs Are Big in Biology: BU Researchers Discover Unique Mechanism GSDM researchers contributed to a groundbreaking paper published in Molecular Cell on January 28, 2016, identifying a unique mechanism of guide RNA biogenesis. The paper, “Antisense Transcripts Delimit Exonucleolytic Activity of the Mitochondrial 3’ Processome to Generate Guide RNAs,” details a fundamentally novel molecular mechanism of making guide RNAs (gRNAs).

This paper was authored by a team of researchers led by Dr. Ruslan Afasizhev. The BU contributors were Dr. Takuma Suematsu; Dr. Liye Zhang; Dr. Stefano Monti; Dr. Inna Afasizheva; Dr. Qi Wang; and Dr. Catherine E. Costello. Dr. Lan Huang, from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the University of California, Irvine, also contributed to the paper.

Before the discovery of microRNA, RNA editing was described in mitochondria of unicellular human parasite Trypanosoma brucei. The protein-encoding messenger RNA molecules undergo massive sequence changes during the editing process, caused by insertion and deletion of uridine nucleotides. It was hypothesized that the RNA editing patterns were dictated by small RNAs, termed “guide RNAs,” which were discovered in the 1990s.

The small RNA revolution originated in 1993 from work on roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which uncovered the regulatory role of microRNAs in gene expression. From this work, small RNAs emerged as

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the major drivers of virtually all cellular processes.

However, how guide RNAs are produced in the Trypanosoma brucei parasite remained a mystery for 25 years until the collaborative work of researchers from GSDM and the School of Medicine unraveled a unique mechanism of gRNA biogenesis.

The group is made up of a number of investigators who work collaboratively on multidisciplinary projects with the overarching goal of deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying oral cancer development and progression to metastasis, and identifying novel druggable targets for effective and lasting oral cancer therapies. The ARC is led

by Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology at GSDM; Dr. Avrum Spira, Director of the Boston University Cancer Center; and Dr. Maria Trojanowska, Professor of Medicine. ARC members include a number of faculty from GSDM, the School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, and the College of Engineering, as well as from the Forsyth Institute.

The Boston University and University of California, Irvine, researchers’ paper establishes sense and antisense transcription patterns that generate short double-stranded regions and define the guide RNA length by inhibiting a specialized degradation enzyme. Along the way, the authors discovered a macromolecular protein complex containing two enzymes unique to trypanosomes.

Because the entire pathway is absent in humans, therapeutic targeting of enzymes involved in guide RNA biogenesis is a promising approach to finding cures against African sleeping sickness and other neglected tropical diseases.

Paper Published by BUMC Faculty, Staff, and Students Selected as AACR Editors’ Pick The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) selected an article written by members of the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) community as one of the AACR Journals Editors’ Picks for 2015. The article, “A YAP/TAZ-Regulated Molecular Signature Is Associated with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” was published in Molecular Cancer Research in June 2015.

Etiology and Pathogenesis of Oral Cancer ARC Funded for a Third Year The Etiology and Pathogenesis of Oral Cancer (EPOC) Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC) was successful in 2016 in its application for a third year of funding. The EPOC ARC is co-funded by

AACR is a nonprofit dedicated to preventing and curing cancer through research, education, communication, and collaboration.

The paper is the product of a collaboration between investigators at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and GSDM as part of the Etiology and Pathogenesis of Oral Cancer (EPOC) Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC), co-funded by the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and GSDM.

CTSI Pilot Grants Awarded to Three GSDM Researchers Three GSDM researchers have been awarded $20,000 each in Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) pilot funding.

The GSDM researchers are Research Associate Professor Dr. Manish Bais, Research Associate Professor Dr. Ann Marie Egloff, and Professor Dr. John C. Samuelson. All three researchers are in GSDM’s Department of Molecular & Cell Biology.

The pilot grant competition, led by the Boston University CTSI and financially supported by GSDM, funds innovative translational research intended to obtain preliminary data for federal funding applications. Many outstanding proposals were submitted, and a panel of faculty members reviewed the proposals to decide which to select for funding.

Dr. Bais received funding for his project, “Lysine specific demethylase 1 inhibitor for improved personalized oral cancer therapy.” Dr. Egloff received funding for her project, “Improving upon EGFR targeting for head and neck cancer using relevant models.” Dr. Samuelson received funding for his project, “Use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers to kill oocysts of cryptosporidium and toxoplasma.”

GSDM Hosts Symposium on the Etiology and Pathogenesis of Oral Cancer On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, faculty, researchers, and students gathered in Room 714 of the Evans Biomedical Research Center at 650 Albany Street (X-building) for a symposium hosted by the Etiology and Pathogenesis of Oral Cancer (EPOC) Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC). This Symposium offered an opportunity to discuss some of the projects the ARC has been working on over the past

year, and to discuss areas for future growth.

There was a special emphasis at the meeting on presentations by trainees or junior faculty.

Over the course of the afternoon, five researchers presented on their oral cancer projects. The projects and presenters were: • Khalid Alamoud DScD 19, “Oncogenic Roles of N-glycosylation in Oral Cancer.”

• Vinay Kartha, PhD Candidate, “Mining for markers of tumor initiation and progression in oral squamous cell carcinoma.”

• Dr. Gokhan Baris Ozdener, “Determination of cell uptake pathways for tumor inhibitor lysyl oxidase propeptide.”

• Dr. Jennifer Snyder-Cappione, “Immune Cell Exhaustion in Oral Cancer.”

• Dr. Manish Bais, “Orthotopic mouse models to study in vivo function of LSD1 and other key regulators of OSCC.” Dr. Woosung Sohn and Dr. Athanasios Zavras Awarded $3 Million HRSA Grant In 2015, GSDM faculty members Dr. Woosung Sohn and Dr. Athanasios Zavras were awarded a $2.8 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant entitled, “Transformative, Team-based Dental Care for Vulnerable Children: Integrated Training and Practice,” where Dr. Sohn is Program Director/Principal Investigator and Dr. Zavras is Co-Program Director/Co-Principal Investigator.

This new grant will allow the two faculty members to put into action the educational framework for a new, integrated, multidisciplinary clinical care

Dr. Woosung Sohn and Dr. Athanasios Zavras

model for vulnerable children in which several healthcare professionals across the campus— including those in the Department of Pediatrics, the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, the School of Social Work, and Sargent College— will participate in patient care and resident training.

Over the course of five years—starting in 2015 and ending in 2020—this program will create and evaluate a transformative, multidisciplinary, teambased pediatric dental care model that will address the needs of underserved children and children with special health care needs. Clinical and didactic curricula will be designed to support the vulnerable populations served and to foster a team-based practice. New educational modules that address oral health disparities and population health, as well as cultural competency, will be developed to integrate into existing pediatric dentistry and dental public health curricula.

A transformative, multidisciplinary, team-based pediatric dental care model will address the needs of underserved children and children with special health care needs.

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RESEARCH The grant will also support training of nine residents in a combined specialty training program.

The first two years of the combined training program will entail patient-care-focused pediatric dentistry training, with a third year of population-focused dental public health training. Besides the nine primary trainees, a total number of about 70 residents (50 PD and 20 DPH) will be educated by the program. The combined training program will be enriched by the unique team-based healthcare delivery model as well as coherent community-based public health experiences with continuity to address the inherent weaknesses of current dental specialty training. The primary focus of the combined program will be training of dentists from underrepresented minorities or disadvantaged backgrounds.

experts from across the country to present on current research, developments, challenges, and therapies in head and neck cancer. Well over 100 faculty, clinicians, researchers, residents, and students attended the symposium.

The symposium consisted of four sessions with presentations and interactive panel discussions: “Targeting Pathways and Epidemiology”; “New Technologies and Patient Care Delivery”; Current and Future Therapies”; and “Clinical Problems and Challenges.” Dr. Lewis C. Cantley, Director of the Cancer Center and Professor of Cancer Biology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, gave a stimulating keynote address on Targeting PI 3Kinase for Cancer Therapy.

Oral Cancer Research Initiative Hosts Lunch & Learn GSDM’s Oral Cancer Research Initiative (OCRI) hosted a “Lunch & Learn” in July 2015 to mark World Head and Neck Cancer Day to help raise awareness about head and neck cancer among members of the Boston University community.

Students, residents, clinicians, and researchers were invited to attend the Lunch & Learn event to learn about the latest developments and best practices in head and neck cancer research and therapy.

The event took place at the BU School of Medicine.

Second Head and Neck Cancer Symposium Takes Place On September 21, 2015, GSDM and the DanaFarber Cancer Institute co-hosted the second Head and Neck Cancer Symposium. This event, titled “From Pathways to Therapies,” brought together APEX students gather during their presentations

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APEX Students Present on Research Projects On August 17, 2015, DMD 18 students presented their research to GSDM faculty and fellow students.

These presentations were part of the APEX (Applied Professional Experience) rotation, and addressed a variety of topics. The students presenting showcased a wide range of research, including literature reviews and basic science experiments, offering an insightful, nuanced look at many topics related to dental medicine.

The APEX Program is a unique learning opportunity offered by GSDM that integrates classroom learning and hands-on experience, giving dental students the opportunity to engage with practicing dentists and principal investigators in a professional setting. After completing their research training, APEX students present their findings.

The students presenting showcased a wide range of research, including literature reviews and basic science experiments.

What Does Your Saliva Say About Your Health?

Ask Dr. Bing Liu Since October 2015, GSDM faculty member Dr. Bing Liu has been traveling to the Living Laboratory© section of the Museum of Science in Boston for three hours every Friday with a rotating three-person team of students from GSDM to get as many museum visitors as they can to donate saliva by spitting into a 50-milliliter test tube.

The Living Laboratory is a section of the museum where museum visitors can learn about and participate in studies currently being conducted by local scientists.

Dr. Liu and the DMD and Advanced Standing (AS) DMD students are working on a project that is seeking to identify biomarkers in human saliva for three conditions: diabetes, heart problems, and high blood pressure. They need 2,000 five-milliliter samples from people aged 12–70 to begin analyzing the data. These samples can come from people with or without any of the conditions being studied.

Currently, saliva cannot diagnose as many diseases as blood. Researchers, like Dr. Liu, interested in improving salivary diagnostics are hoping to change this for a simple reason: salivary diagnostic tests are easier to perform than blood diagnostic tests and, therefore, more likely to be conducted by physicians and other healthcare providers, and requested by patients.

“For the past 20 years, salivary diagnostics have been at the forefront of dental research,” said Dr. Liu. “Researchers have been able to identify many biomarkers in saliva and use these biomarkers as indicators to monitor or to diagnose systemic health.”

Kendrick Smaellie, Administrative Assistant in GSDM’s Center for Clinical Research, and Olga Spivak AS DMD 16, collect saliva samples from visitors to the Museum of Science

Dr. Liu’s project seeks to identify biomarkers in human saliva for diabetes, heart problems, and high blood pressure.

GSDM students in the Museum of Science’s Living Laboratory

To collect the 2,000 five-milliliter samples, Dr. Liu and his team are participating in the Living Laboratory program at the Museum of Science. The museum has two of these “Living Laboratories” where scientists from universities and hospitals can interact with museum-goers and allow them to participate in their studies on an ongoing basis.

“I think the project is mutually beneficial to both GSDM and the Museum of Science,” said Dr. Liu. “By having researchers in the Living Laboratory, the Museum of Science will be able to educate the public with the resources that are available from the institutions in the Boston area.”

On Fridays, visitors to the Museum of Science can find the GSDM team stationed at the Living Laboratory providing museum-goers with an overview of the project and information about the importance of improving salivary diagnostics.

Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter donating saliva with Dr. Olga Spivak AS DMD 16

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ALUMNI

Our alumni continue to fuel growth and innovation at GSDM. GSDM is Number-One Class Gift Program at Boston University GSDM has set the model at Boston University in building a culture of philanthropy and engagement with our students.

GSDM has had the highest participation rate in class gifts among the 17 schools at the University for the last three years.

On the very first day of the 2015–2016 student orientation, the GSDM Alumni Association leadership and the GSDM Office of Development & Alumni Relations staff personally welcomed new DMD and Advanced Standing DMD students.

A short presentation was included during orientation, and the GSDM Alumni Association sponsored several events during the week. The Alumni Association President and other board members, along with the Office of Development & Alumni Relations staff, met with every new student at the six Dean’s receptions held at Dean and Mrs. Hutter’s residence. These newest GSDM “alumni in training” were also personally welcomed by Dean and Mrs. Hutter, and by the end of the first week, they felt part of the GSDM family. What is unique about our model is that it includes alumni from the very first day.

During the school year, the Alumni Association leadership and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, working closely with the Office of Student Affairs, met regularly with students; hosted events; marked academic milestones; gave away GSDM hats, school mugs, and popular GSDM

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This supportive four-year relationship between the students and the Alumni Association is one reason why the GSDM Class Gift Program has been so successful, and sets the record at Boston University. Graduating students understand the impact of alumni giving and involvement, and are now ready to stay engaged as young alumni.

Driven to support At GSDM, it is a fundamental part of our mission to engage the entire community in our philanthropic efforts — students, staff, faculty, as well as alumni and friends. This philosophy, and the incredible generosity and remarkable nature of our GSDM community, resulted in several important successes for FY16.

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ALUMNI GSDM Ranks Near the Top in BU’s Third Annual Giving Day Results On April 6, 2016, GSDM participated in Boston University’s third annual Giving Day. Giving Day is a one-day fundraising drive that aims to generate as many donors as possible to give to Boston University in a single 24-hour period. The focus is not on large campaign gifts, but is rather on participation and the number of donors, as well as encouraging each school to promote their community through social media. At GSDM, this was a chance for faculty and staff to get involved along with alumni and students. Out of the 16 schools at the University, GSDM placed fourth overall in the number of donors outperforming larger schools such as LAW, ENG, and MED. GSDM raised approximately $60,000 from 324 donors in one day. This year’s Giving Day was the most successful ever raising over $1.5 million in total across the University from over 11,000 donors.

GSDM raised approximately $60,000 from 324 donors in one day.

GSDM Annual Fund Supports a Record 43 International Externship Trips Contributions to the GSDM Annual Fund again helped support dental education and GSDM students in many ways. However, one of the most transformational experiences a student can have, as a DMD or an AS, is on an elective international externship. Each year, monies from the GSDM Annual Fund help fund travel for these externships, providing students with an opportunity to make a positive impact on the oral health of the global community and to enrich and diversify their dental education.

Externship locations included remote areas in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Though the students described days involving sacrifice—challenging working conditions, long hours, and being faced with difficult treatment

choices—the most common description of the trips was “rewarding.” One recent student participant said, “Going on a mission trip was one of the most rewarding experiences of my time in dental school.

I would advise any student to go on one and to not be hesitant due to the time away from school and the uncertainty of going to another country.

All of that is insignificant compared to the unforgettable experience you will have. The experience changed me as a person and shaped me as a dental provider.”

GSDM Endodontic Alumni Raise $52,000 for Sirona XG 3D CBCT Imaging Machine for Clinic A total of 60 endodontic alumni donated approximately $52,000 to fund the purchase of a Sirona ORTHOPHOS XG 3D CBCT imaging machine for the Postdoctoral Endodontic Patient Treatment Center. While the current 3D imaging machines at GSDM are top tier, especially after the historic GSDM students Carol Patel, Charlotte Bigg, Shivani Patel, and Faraz Tartibi volunteered with Project Stretch in Mexico from February 27 to March 5, 2016

Dr. Ronni Schnell and Dr. Bing Liu during Giving Day 2016 52 GSDM 2016 Annual Report

Dr. Uday Reebye Pledges $100,000 to GSDM Campaign Dr. Uday Reebye DMD 98, GSDM Dean’s Advisory Board Member, pledged $100,000 to the GSDM Campaign in support of efforts for a new clinical facility.

Dr. Sami Chogle with the Sirona ORTHOPHOS XG 3D CBCT imaging machine

transition to seamless digital dentistry, the ORTHOPHOS XG 3D CBCT machine can produce a resolution up to 100 µm with a field of view of 5 by 5.5 centimeters while also reducing the radiation dose per scan required; properties beneficial for endodontic imaging.

“We want to train the next generation of endodontists for their future practice. With the level of resolution and detail obtained from smaller areas of the jaw alongside a Metal Artifact Reduction Software (MARS), the ORTHOPHOS XG 3D is precisely tailored to the demands of the Endodontic practice,” said Dr. Sami Chogle, Associate Professor in the Department of Endodontics and Director of the Advanced Specialty Education Program in Endodontics.

Fundraising efforts were led by Dr. Peter Morgan ENDO 75 and Dr. John West ENDO 75, who recognized the importance of the new Sirona machine and the benefit it would have on training the GSDM residents. Dr. Morgan and Dr. West reached out to alumni in order to encourage them to donate.

Fundraising efforts were led by Dr. Peter Morgan ENDO 75 and Dr. John West ENDO 75.

After receiving a DMD from GSDM in 1998, Dr. Reebye went on to complete a medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His surgical training includes an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery internship at Boston Medical Center, General Surgery Training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Dr. Reebye has an extensive and comprehensive list of appointments and memberships in professional organizations. He is an attending surgeon at Durham Regional Hospital, an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, and a member of the American Medical Association, the American Dental Dr. Uday Reebye Association, the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the International Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons.

at Triangle Implant Center also sponsor a series of continuing education courses. He has also authored numerous publications pertaining to his clinical interests, which include CBCT-guided implant surgery and distraction osteogenesis.

GSDM Campaign Results and Looking to the Future Fiscal year 2016 (FY16) Results brought the GSDM Campaign total to $16 million raised out of $25 million reaching 65 percent of the campaign goal.

In FY16, cash and new pledges totaled $1.2 million.

One of the major legacies of the GSDM campaign so far has been the creation of a graduate scholarship, in honor of the late Associate Professor and Clinical Director in the Department of Periodontology, Dr. Oreste Zanni GSDM 74. This scholarship will be awarded to a resident in the Advanced Specialty Education Program in Periodontics. In addition to new clinical space, scholarships are a priority of the campaign, and Dr. Zanni’s remarkable $3 million bequest last year is a testament to his 40-year affiliation with the school.

GSDM continued to work with the University on planning for a new clinical facility. We expect to be in touch with our alumni about plans to launch a fundraising campaign around specific new spaces within a new clinical facility in the very near future.

We look forward to working closely with alumni and supporters to help build this most important and lasting legacy of the campaign.

Dr. Reebye understands and embraces the importance of continuing education courses in the dental profession, and is a frequent lecturer and specialist on CBCT-guided implant dentistry. He and his staff

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FINANCIAL SUMMARY

Fiscal Year 2015 Operating Revenue and Expense July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 Other $111,824 0.1%

Revenue Operating Funds Tuition & Fees Dental Health Centers Pre- & Post-doctoral Clinics F&A Cost Recoveries Other

$61,948,103 67.2% 9,830,416 10.7% 9,255,974 10.0% 3,021,543 3.3% 111,824 0.1%

Total Revenue – Operating Funds

84,167,860

F&A Cost Recoveries $3,021,543 3.3%

Designated/Discretionary $6,673,847 7.2% Gifts $380,238 0.4%

Endowments Interest $914,019 1.0%

91.4%

Restricted Funds Designated/Discretionary Gifts Endowments Interest

6,673,847 7.2% 380,238 0.4% 914,019 1.0%

Total Revenue – Restricted Funds

7,968,104

8.6%

$92,135,964

100.0%

Total Revenue

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Pre- & Post-doctoral Clinics $9,255,974 10.0%

Dental Health Centers $9,830,416 10.7%

Tuition & Fees $61,948,103 67.2%

Capital Improvements $354,731 0.4%

Research ‘Startup’ Funding $545,888 0.6%

Expense

Other $289,524 0.3%

Endowments $586,448 0.7%

Operating Funds Instruction & Research

$ 32,418,133

37.1%

13,644,052

15.6%

Shared Campus Costs

10,990,111

12.6%

Dental Health Centers

8,481,066

9.7%

Administrative Services

6,794,359

7.8%

Scholarships

3,035,951

3.5%

Academic Services

3,076,252

3.5%

545,888

0.6%

Capital Improvements

354,731

0.4%

Other

289,524

0.3%

79,630,067

91.0%

Clinical Instruction

Research ‘Startup’ Funding

Total Expense – Operating Funds

Discretionary/Designated $6,906,115 7.9%

Academic Services $3,076,252 3.5%

Gifts $375,365 0.4% Instruction & Research $32,418,133 37.1%

Scholarships $3,035,951 3.5%

Administrative Services $6,794,359 7.8%

Dental Health Centers $8,481,066 9.7%

Restricted Funds Discretionary/Designated

6,906,115

7.9%

Endowments

586,448

0.7%

Gifts

375,365

0.4%

7,867,928

9.0%

Total Expense

87,497,995

100.0%

Net Profit

$4,637,969

Total Expense – Restricted Funds

Shared Campus Costs $10,990,111 12.6%

Clinical Instruction $13,644,052 15.6%

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