SDDS Foundation Congratulations to
2020 Recipient, Marie Tran, RDA! profit, community service organization whose activities in the greater Sacramento area often caught the attention of Dr. Kodama and in 2016 she joined many in the community to celebrate the opening of the FADE Institute, a dedicated facility for the advancement of clinical chairside professionals.
Congratulations to Ms. Marie Tran, RDA, the first recipient of the Dr. Beverly Koda ma /Delta Denta l Foundation Scholarship for Allied Dental Education. Marie is pictured with her employer, Dr. Kim Sunahara, as well as SDDS Immediate Past-President Dr. Bryan Judd, SDDF President Dr. Viren Patel, and current SDDS President Dr. Carl Hillendahl while attending the FADE Institute RDAEF New Student Orientation Day. Established in 2011, the Foundation for Allied Dental Education (FADE) is a non-
Dr. Kodama always believed in the power of education for women in allied dental professions and the essence of the team being the heartbeat of a successful dental practice. Amongst her many community service activities, she served on the Delta Dental Board of Directors. In her honor, and now her memory, the Delta Dental Foundation endowed the Sacramento District Dental Foundation (SDDF) with a generous donation to establish the Kodama/Delta Foundation Scholarship. SDDF serves as the administrator of the scholarship in partnership with the FADE Foundation where additional financial support for the recipient’s tuition and educational expenses is realized.
By Carl Hillendahl, DDS 2020 SDDS President
Today, we honor the passion and drive of a most beloved SDDS/SDDF member, Dr. Beverly Kodama, through our commitment to ensuring her passion for the advancement of clinical chairside education. We wish Marie Tran all our best during her educational journey! Read more about Marie Tran in the May 2020 Nugget on page 31.
$75,000 (grant began in 2019) The Dr. Beverly Kodama/Delta Dental Foundation Scholarship for Allied Education Dr. Kodama (who served on the Delta Board of Directors) partnered with Delta Dental Foundation to establish a scholarship to help defray the educational costs for dental assistants and other allied team members. Dr. Kodama always felt that allied team members were the heart of a dentist’s practice and wanted to give back to that cause so that other
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dentists will benefit from wonderfully trained staff. Geared specifically toward the dental assistant and also the EF curriculum, the SDDS Foundation is in partnership with FADE (the Foundation for Allied Dental Education) to help defray costs for those applicants who qualify. Applications became available in June 2019.
