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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Prosthodontics. In 1974 he was awarded a Louise C. Ball Fellowship to attend the Ohio State University where he studied Prosthodontics under Dr. Carl O Boucher, one of the world’s most eminent Prosthodontists. After earning his Certificate of Specialty in Prosthodontics and a Master’s Degree from the Ohio State University, he returned to the Howard University College of Dentistry to rejoin the faculty in the Department of Removable Prosthodontics where he served for forty years until his retirement in 2013. During his tenure as a member of the dental faculty, he rose to the academic rank of full Professor and has served both as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, the position that he held at his retirement.
Mu Lambda Chapter Brother Ryle Bell and Brother Reginald Salter both participated as expert panelist as apart of the Surgeon General Initiative Health Series on Dental Hygiene featuring the Fraternity’s Surgeon General, Brother Dr. Jeffrey E. Sterling, and a host of other expert panelists. Please check it out on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/SphinxTV1906.
Brother Ryle A. Bell, DDS, MS, FACD Brother Dr. Ryle A. Bell is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Dentistry at Howard University. He was born in Barbados, West Indies, emigrating to the United States in 1964, where he attended New York City Community College majoring in Dental Laboratory Technology graduating Magna Cum Laud in 1966. He was a student-athlete, lettering in track and fencing and serving as captain of the fencing team during his tenure. On graduation, he was awarded the 1966 Otto Klitgord Award presented to the student-athlete for outstanding athletic performance while maintaining the highest GPA. In 1969 he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University and continued his studies at the Howard University College of Dentistry where he received his DDS degree in 1973. He was the first recipient of the Barbados National Development Scholarship in Dentistry and was elected into the prestigious Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor society as an outstanding student. On graduating he was appointed to the dental faculty as an Instructor in the Department of Removable
Brother Bell has presented many lectures nationally and internationally, particularly in the Caribbean, and has published many articles in the dental literature. He has also been selected by his peers in the College of Dentistry at Howard University to receive the Distinguished Teacher Award as well as the Distinguished Alumni Award and has been chosen on many occasions by the students as an outstanding clinician and lecturer. In 1982 he was elected into Sigma Xi, the National Science Research Society, and selected as a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. He has also been a significant resource person to Caribbean dental education. He had served two terms as an external examiner to the University of the West Indies’ Dental School located in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago, and has served as an evaluator on-site visit teams for Dentistry on behalf of the Caribbean Accreditation for Medicine and other Health Professionals. In addition, he was appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Accreditation for Medicine and other Health Professions for the Caribbean, (CAAM-HP) and participates in evaluation site visits for dental schools in the Caribbean. Brother Bell was elected the first Chairman of the Board of the DC division of the March of Dimes, a position that he held for four years, where he has worked to help decrease the premature birthrate in the Washington, DC area and continues to participate annually in the Washington, DC, March for Babies through the Omicron Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity seated in southwest Washington, DC. Brother Bell was duly initiated into the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, April 1, 1977, through the Omicron Lambda Alpha chapter in Washington, DC. He has been its Historian and Dean of Intake as well as serving in several other capacities. In 1985, he became a Brother Reginald Salter continued on the next page
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