¤ News & Notes The dental clinic at Highland Hospital is now managed by EIOH, and is called Eastman Dental at Highland. Faculty members and residents will continue to serve patients at this site, providing a full range of general dentistry services.
J. Daniel Subtelny, DDS, chair, EIOH Orthodontics has published an autobiography, Hot Seat. Copies are available as a thank you for a donation to the department. Contact Lisa Grasta at Lisa_Grasta@urmc. rochester.edu. Matthew Rogers, DDS (Ortho ’09) is Chief of Orthodontics at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Air Force and recently became a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics.
The American Dental Education Association installed Huw F. Thomas, BDS, MS, PhD (Pedo ’78, MS ’78), as Chair-elect of the ADEA Board Directors. Thomas is Dean of the School of Dental Medicine and Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at Tufts University. “As dental educators, we have a unique opportunity to help shape the future of our profession; we should be passionate and bold and embrace that opportunity,” said Thomas.
Eastman Dental has been selected to take part in a New York State Quality Improvement Initiative. As part of the state’s Early Childhood Learning Collaborative, the project aims to successfully adopt and spread the practices and protocols of disease management for early childhood caries, including risk assessment, risk-based recall, fluoride use, self-managed goal setting, and restorative treatments. Sangeeta Gajendra, DDS, MPH, MS, clinical chief for EIOH’s Community Dentistry and Oral Disease Prevention, is the principal investigator. Pediatric dentists Erin Shope, DDS, and Cynthia Wong, DDS, are co-investigators. Bruce Haskell, DMD, PhD (Ortho ‘75) was named President of the Louisville Dental Society.
(l to r) Cyril Meyerowitz, DDS, brought Kathleen and Patrick Barrett, DDS (MS ’75), of Ireland, and Caro Lawrenson, wife of the late Arthur John Lawrenson, DDS (GenDen ’74) of England, to meet Eli Eliav, DMD, PhD, visit friends and see how Eastman Dental has changed over the last 40 years.
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