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Public
Service | Honors & Recognition
| December
2003 |
| Nominees
for the President's Award for Mentoring Women
and 2003 Women Student
Travel Award Recipient |
Please
take time to congratulate the following Dental Branch employees who
were nominated as outstanding mentors for the President's
Awardees for Mentoring Women and were honored during the
Committee on the Status of Women Annual Awards Banquet on Tuesday
night of this week. A second year dental student, Ms. Victoria Lynn
Leonhart also earned the 2003 Women Student Travel Award.
| Nominees
for the President's Award for Mentoring Women |
2003
Women Student Travel Award Recipient |
Saroj Bahl,
PhD
John R Ludington, DDS
Sena Narendran, DDPH
Roberta Pileggi, DDS
John M Powers PhD |
Ms
Victoria Lynn Leonhart, 2nd year dental student |
Administrative
and Professional Staff
Paula O'Neill, EdD
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Classified
Staff
Ms Dina Montufar-Solis
Ms Laura Warner
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Each
of these individuals represent the Dental Branch, their departments,
and themselves with distinction.
Thank you. Paula O'Neill
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November
20, 2003
Congratulations
to Ms. Mamie Ellis and Mrs. Ronda Lowe, "Employees of the Quarter". |
Ms.
Mamie Ellis of Endodontics and Periodontics, Mrs.
Ronda Lowe of Patient Services both have been chosen for
"Employee of the Quarter". These employees will be honored
on Friday, November 21, 2003 at 12:15 in the lobby on the first floor.
Please come by and congratulate them on their achievement or stop
by their office.
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November
17, 2003
Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Gibson,
recognized by the AAAS
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| Dr.
Kathleen Gibson, professor, Neurology and Anatomy, and the
UT Dental Branch at Houston Department of Orthodontics, has been recognized
by her peers, who have elected her as fellow on the Anthropology Section
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, citing
her “distinguished contributions pertaining to evolution of
the brain and cognition and to the field of developmental neurobiology
in higher primates.” “It
is deeply gratifying to be recognized by the AAAS, which I view
as our nation’s premier scientific society in terms of its
recognition and dissemination of research findings across the breadth
of the entire scientific spectrum,” Gibson said. “It’s
a great honor to be elected an AAAS fellow and well deserved for
Dr. Gibson, who is a very distinguished figure in the field of brain
evolution,” said John H. Byrne, Ph.D., chairman of the Department
of Neurobiology and Anatomy.
Gibson is the
fifth member of the current health science center faculty to be
elected an AAAS fellow. Her research centers on a basic, if complex
and difficult, question: What is the nature of the human mind and
how did it evolve?
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November
12, 2003
Congratulations
to Drs. Valenza and Makins on this well-deserved recognition. |
Dr.
John A. Valenza, Associate Dean for Patient Care and Acting
Chair, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, and Dr. Scott R.
Makins, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Endodontics
and Periodontics, were awarded Fellowship in the American College
of Dentists on October 23, 2003 during their Annual Meeting and Convocation
in San Francisco. The American College of Dentists was founded in
1920 to recognize dentists who have made significant contributions
to the advancement of dentistry. The mission of the American College
of Dentists is to promote excellence, ethics, and professionalism
in dentistry. Fellowship in the College is by invitation and based
on demonstrated leadership and contributions to the dental profession
and society. Approximately 3.5% of dentists are Fellows of the American
College of Dentists.
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October
2003
Congratulations
to fourth year dental student Tyrone Rodriguez. |
Tyrone
Rodriguez, who competed in the ADA/Dentsply Student Clinician
Program at the American Dental Association Meeting in San Francisco,
California last week. Tyrone's Table Clinic "A Case Report of
Sialolithiasis" won third place in the nation. He competed against
25 other students from 25 dental schools across the nation in his
category. Tyrone's mentor was Dr. Antonio Moretti, who also attended
the meeting.
Thank you for representing our school and congratulations Tyrone!
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October
2003
Dental
Branch Student Organization Wins National Service Award |
The
University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston’s student chapter
of the Hispanic Dental Association was honored with the Orgullo
Award at a recent ceremony in Washington, D.C. The award, created
by the Procter & Gamble Company, honors student chapter projects
that serve the community’s dental needs and help recruit new
students into the dental professions.
The UT Dental Branch chapter projects
included distributing educational and consumer products to 6,000 participants
in the Texas Children’s Hospital Kids’ Fun Run and 7,500
people at the Houston Hispanic Forum’s 17th Annual Career and
Education Day. Students distributed dental supplies, as well as performing
pediatric oral screenings and patient referrals at the Houston Children’s
Festival’s “Crest Healthy Smiles 2010 Zone.” They
also advised students at Robert E. Lee High School’s Educational
Fair about dental careers.
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Service
to State, Local, and National Organizations |
- Dr. Martin
Hobdell, Honorary Secretary-Treasurer, The International Dental
Federation; Leader, International Dental Federation/World Health
Organization Work Project on Global Oral Health Goals for 2020
- Dr.
Rena D'Souza, Councilor of IADR Pulp
Biology Group; Director of IADR Craniofacial Biology Group; AADR
Nominating Committee
- Dr. Peter
Triolo, President of AADR Dental Materials Group
- Dr. John
Powers, Councilor of IADR Dental Materials Group
- Dr. Arthur
Jeske, Expert Committee, Dentistry, United States Pharmacopeia,
Drug Information Reference
- Dr. Arthur
Jeske, Chairman, American Dental Association's Council on
Scientific Affairs
- Dr.
Sheila H. Koh, associate professor of restorative dentistry
and biomaterials at The University
of Texas Dental Branch at Houston, has been selected as the 2003-04
John O. Butler Company Harry W. Bruce Jr. Legislative Fellow.
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| Service
on Editorial Boards and Scientific Review Groups |
- Dr. Gissela
B. Anderson--Reviewer, American Journal of Orthodontics
and Dentofacial Orthopedics; Editorial Board, Journal of
the Spanish Periodontal Society; Reviewer, "Revista Universitas
Ondontologica" - Pontifica Universidad Javeriana.
- Dr.
William T. Butler-Editorial Board,
Journal of Dental Research; International Advisory Board,
Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism; Advisory Board,
Archives of Oral Biology; Editorial Board, Current Molecular
Medicine
- Dr. Jarvis
Chan-Contributing Editor, Journal of Greater Houston Dental
Society
- Dr. Rena
D'Souza-Editorial Advisory Board, Critical Reviews in Oral
Biology and Medicine; Editorial Board, Journal of Dental
Research
- Dr.
Catherine Flaitz-Editorial
Board, Pediatric Dentistry; Editorial Board, Journal
of Dentistry for Children; Editorial Board, American Journal
of Dentistry
- Dr. Martin
Hobdell-Editor, Commonwealth Dental Association Bulletin
- Dr. Arthur
Jeske-Editorial Review Board, Mosby's Dental Drug Reference;
Editorial Review Panel, Mosby's GenRx, Section
Editor, Pharmacology, for "Cranio", The Journal
of Craniomandibular Practice.
- Dr.
John Klein-Associate Editor, Journal
of Immunology
- Dr. Paula
O'Neill-Editorial Review Board, Journal of Dental Education;
Chair, NIH Risk and Prevention and Behavioral IRG Special
Emphasis Panel
- Dr. Scott
Makins-Scientific Advisory Panel, Journal of Endodontics;
Editorial Board, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology,
Oral Radiology and Endontontics; Editorial Advisory Board,
Texas Dental Journal
- Dr. John
Powers-Editorial Board, Journal of Adhesive Dentistry;
Editorial Board-Journal of Oral Rehabilitation; Editorial
Board-Dental Materials; Editorial Board-American Journal
of Dentistry; Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical Dentistry;
Editorial Advisory Board-American Journal of Orthodontics;
Editor, The Dental Advisor
- Dr. Karen
Storthz, Tumor Biology Review Group, Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation; Molecular Genetics and Oncogenes Review Group,
American Cancer Society
- Dr. Edgar
Starcke, Dental Instrumentation Section Editor, Journal
of Prosthodontics
- Dr. Peter
Triolo, Editorial Board, Operative
Dentistry
Honors
Archive - 2003,
2004, 2005
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