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April 17, 2008 | Archive
  

Topics at a glance: UTDB shines at Star of the South Table Clinic Competition    … Dental student to present at Toronto IADR Exhibition  … DB Faculty, Staff & Students Speak: Nearly 70 comments on building project  … Doctor’s Day at UTDB  … Houston AADR chapter elects new officers … DH students contribute to ‘A Night to Remember’ … SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

UTDB shines at Star of the South Table Clinic Competition

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Periodontics Clinical Assistant Professor Raouf Hanna, D.D.S. (far right), took top honors at the Star of the South Dental Meeting sponsored by the Greater Houston Dental Society. Also pictured are Lea Murphree of Johnson & Johnson, sponsor of the Star of the South Table Clinics, and Dr. E. Todd Scheyer, Table Clinics co-chair.

The UT Dental Branch at Houston dominated the table clinic competition at the Star of the South Dental Meeting, sponsored by the Greater Houston Dental Society at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

For the second consecutive year, Raouf Hanna, D.D.S., clinical assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics, won the first place in the Specialist category, taking home the Cooksey Award, which honors the top-placing table clinic in the overall competition.

Second place in the Specialist category went to Donald Belles, D.D.S, associate professor in the UTDB Department of Prosthodontics, for “Occlusal Disease.” Visit our photo page for a list of other winners and pictures of the first-place winners. Photos of the dance competition held Friday evening are included as well.

Dental student to present
at IADR Exhibition

Third-year dental student Brandon Carroll has been selected to receive a $1,000 grant from the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) for travel funds to the 86th International Association for Dental Research General Session and Exhibition in Toronto, Canada. His abstract on “Statin Use and Periodontal Inflammation” was selected for oral presentation. Carroll’s faculty sponsor at UTDB is James A. Katancik. D.D.S., Ph.D., associate professor and chairman of the Department of Periodontics. Also cited as authors were Katancik, A.J. Moretti and M. Madjid.

The AADR's Bloc Travel Grants are for dental students and NIDCR-supported trainees. This grant was awarded to the AADR by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR).
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DB Faculty, Staff & Students Speak: Nearly 70 comments on building project

At a series of open houses in March, the UT Dental Branch asked its faculty, staff and students for feedback about the new building project, and the results are in – with comments as varied as the people who work here.

“Will the students have mailboxes in the new building?” … “Bus routes for those of us who take the park-and-ride buses?”… “Janitorial closets needed on each floor.” …“Shredding room.” … “There are not enough restrooms on each floor” … and so on. To read the full list of comments, CLICK HERE.

The comments were among topics covered at the April 10 meeting of the Oversight Task Force – one of five task forces working on plans for the Dental Branch Replacement Building. As currently drawn, it will be a six-floor complex in the new UT Research Park now under construction on the south campus of the Texas Medical Center. The new dental school should be complete in 2011.

“I think the comments were very helpful, and we’ve shared them with the architects,” said Executive Associate Dean John A. Valenza, D.D.S., chair of the Oversight Task Force.

The next phase of building design is critical, he noted. “This is where we take the block designs in my office to the next level … this next phase will be in excruciating detail – placing the plugs on the wall, the lights and data ports, etc.”

Later this month, higher-level UT executives will review the plans, with input about landscaping and other details. After that, the designs will be solid enough for the first official pricing estimate from the architects. Those numbers will be used as the basis for a presentation to the UT Board of Regents in May.

Final reports from the Academics, Patient Care, Preclinical/Simulation, Research and Technology Task Forces are posted on Blackboard for Dental Branch personnel to review.

C.D. Johnson and Sheila Koh

Doctor’s Day at UTDB

Urgent Care Clinic Director and Associate Professor C.D. Johnson, D.D.S., and Associate Professor Sheila Koh, D.D.S., enjoy cake and punch at the Doctor’s Day Reception April 9 in the Cooley Conference Room. Traditionally, Doctor’s Day is March 30 but so many faculty members were out of town for conferences that the event was rescheduled. AT RIGHT: Assistant Professor Betty Shynett, D.D.S., gets a slice of cake from Senior Executive Assistant Sandra Miller.

Dr. Shynett at Dr.'s Day celebration
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Houston AADR chapter elects new officers

Congratulations to the new officers of the Houston Chapter of the American Association for Dental Research:

  • President –
    • Joe Ontiveros, D.D.S.
    • assistant professor
    • Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials
  • President-Elect –
    • Sudarat Kiat-amnuay, D.D.S.
    • assistant professor
    • Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials.
  • Secretary-Treasurer –
    • James Katancik, D.D.S., Ph.D.
    • associate professor and chairman
    • Department of Periodontics.
  • Counselor –
    • Jerry Bouquot, D.D.S.
    • Professor and chairman
    • Department of Diagnostic Sciences.

Membership is open to all faculty, staff, advanced education students and dental students. The new officers promise a year with some excellent activities. Please consider joining and supporting AADR student research fellowships with an extra few dollars.

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 Dental Hygiene students with donated prom dresses Pictured are dental hygiene students Jairener Reyes, Chriszelda Rojas, Kimberly Birdsong, Morgan Harris, Kathryn Lyon, Amanda Ayrhart (coordinator), Tina Nadolski and Leah Russell.

DH students contribute to ‘A Night to Remember’

First-year dental hygiene students at the UT Dental Branch collected more than 50 prom dresses to donate to People’s Trust Foundation’s Fourth Annual “A Night to Remember.” The event is more than a prom-dress giveaway. Young men and women get information on financial literacy, higher education, etiquette, beauty, health and career development at an event that unites students, educators, corporate sponsors and volunteers to celebrate the accomplishments of the students and provide tools for their future success. Donors are asked to contribute new or gently worn formal wear, shoes and handbags, or to donate cosmetics, dining or hair salon gift certificates.

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Scholarship winner Anthony Gonzalez and Dr. Flaitz Patrick Waters receives his scholarship from Philip Nauert as Dr. Flaitz looks on

Anthony Gonzalez, seen here with UTDB Dean Catherine M. Flaitz, D.D.S., is this year’s recipient of the American Dental Association Minority Student Scholarship.

Third-year dental student Patrick Waters receives the Pierre Fauchard Scholarship, presented by Philip Nauert, D.D.S. Dean Catherine M. Flaitz, D.D.S., attended the presentation.
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