Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Morawa Lecture
Saturday, October 7, 2006 Time: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Kensington Court Hotel, 610 Hilton Boulevard, Ann Arbor
Digital Photography in the Dental Office
Speakers: Dr. Philip Richards (morning), Practical Periodontics
Speaker: Scott Pelok, DDS Dr. Jack Gobetti (afternoon), Medical Emergencies in the
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dental Office
Location: School of Dentistry
Homecoming Celebration Dinner
The use of digital images in dental offices has increased Honoring: Dental and Dental Hygiene classes with graduation years
dramatically in recent years. This course will cover tips and ending in 1 and 6.
techniques for achieving quality images with a digital camera, Doors Open/Registration Begins: 6:00 p.m.
including how to choose and use a digital camera. Cocktail Reception: 6:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Kensington Court Hotel, 610 Hilton Boulevard, Ann Arbor
Saturday, October 28
More information about these and other continuing dental
education courses may be obtained by contacting the
Alumni Association Go Blue! Tailgate
University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Office of Continuing
Time: 9:00 am
Dental Education at 1011 N. University Avenue, Room G508, Location: Elbel Field
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078 or by visiting the School of Dentistry
Web site: www.dent.umich.edu. Football Game – University of Michigan vs. Northwestern
Time: Kick-off at 12 noon
On the homepage, put your cursor on “continuing dental Location: The Big House
education” and then click.
DentalUM
Spring & Summer 2006 Volume 22, Number 1
Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Polverini What will the School of Dentistry be like ten years from
Director of External Relations and
Continuing Dental Education . . . . . Richard Fetchiet
now?
Writer & Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Mastey How do we measure up against other dental schools? What
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Jung sets us apart from our peers and makes us unique?
Photography . . . . . . Keary Campbell, Per H. Kjeldsen
What are our strengths? Weaknesses? What are we doing
Member publication of the American about them?
Association of Dental Editors
These are just some of the questions our administrators,
The Regents of the University: faculty, staff, students, and alumni have been thinking about
David A. Brandon, Laurence B. Deitch, Olivia P. Maynard,
Rebecca McGowan, Andrea Fischer Newman, Andrew C.
for some time and are addressing.
Richner, S. Martin Taylor, Katherine E. White, Mary Sue For more than a year, a committee of 21 individuals led by
Coleman, ex officio.
Dr. George Taylor has been reviewing our programs and activities
University of Michigan School of Dentistry and has been asking everyone in the School to help develop a
Alumni Society Board of Governors roadmap for the future.
Terms Expire 2006: Their work, which includes a strategic self-assessment that
Daniel L. Edwards, ‘97, Ann Arbor, MI will lead to the creation of a vision statement, is the cover story
Gerald L. Howe, ‘61, Monroe, MI
Gary R. Hubbard, ‘78, Okemos, MI of this issue of DentalUM. Please take time to read about what
Michel S. Nasif, ‘72, Lansing, MI is now taking place.
Janet Souder Wilson, ‘73 DH, Northville, MI
Whether you are an alumnus or alumnae of the School, a
Terms Expire 2007:
Samuel Bander, ’81, Grand Rapids, MI staff member, member of the faculty, or a student, you will find
Richard L. Pascoe, ’70, Traverse City, MI this effort is important for several reasons.
Susan Pritzel, ’67 DH, Ann Arbor, MI
Terry Timm, ’71, Saline, MI
First and foremost, it is driven from the bottom up, not the
Josephine Weeden, ’96, ’99, Saline, MI top down. I think it’s important that those who are affiliated
Terms Expire 2008:
with the School have a voice in determining our future direction.
William E. Brownscombe, ‘74, St. Clair Shores, MI (chair) The committee is actively soliciting ideas from everyone
John R. McMahon, ‘82, Grand Rapids, MI throughout the School.
George M. Yellich, ‘72, Los Gatos, CA
Harold Zald, ‘79, West Bloomfield, MI This initiative is important for another reason. Given the
Jemma Allor, ‘00, Dental Hygiene, Mt. Clemens, MI financial realities of the times, I think it’s important that we
Student Representative: Casey Tenniswood (D3) consider everything. Consequently, we are starting with a blank
Ex Officio Members: slate.
Peter Polverini, Dean
Janet Souder Wilson, ‘73, DH, Northville, MI If you have any thoughts or ideas, please e-mail them to
Alumni Association Liaison Dr. Taylor at gwt@umich.edu. He will share them with other
Steve C. Grafton , Executive Director, Alumni Assoc.
Richard R. Fetchiet, Director of External Relations and
committee members.
Continuing Dental Education The stories on pages 8 to 14 describe what has been taking
The University of Michigan, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action place. I will keep you posted, in my quarterly e-newsletters and
employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding
nondiscrimination and affirmative action, including Title IX of the future issues of this magazine, about our progress.
Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973. The University of Michigan is committed to a policy of
nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of
race, sex*, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital
Sincerely,
status, sexual orientation, disability, or Vietnam-era veteran status in
employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
Inquiries or complaints may be addressed to the Senior Director for
Institutional Equity and Title IX/Section 504 Coordinator, Office for
Institutional Equity, 2072 Administrative Services Building, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 48109-1432. (734) 763-0235, T.T.Y. (734) 647-1388. For other
University of Michigan information, call (734) 764-1817. Peter J. Polverini, Dean
* Includes discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression.
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38 Enjoying a Sabbatical in Ann Arbor
Although he could have chosen almost any place in the world, Professor
Niklaus “Klaus” Lang returned to U-M for his four-month sabbatical
because, as he put it, “I wanted to come back to my roots.”
40 Faculty Profile — Dr. Lynn Johnson
If you talk to Dr. Lynn Johnson you may be surprised to learn that after
graduating from college she spent five years in Iowa teaching children
with learning and emotional disabilities. What she learned in those early
jobs has helped her as the School’s director of Dental Informatics.
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For the past two years, Dr. Marita Inglehart and colleagues from the
pediatric dental clinic at Mott Children’s Health Center in Flint have
been collecting data from nearly 4,000 students at 35 kindergarten and
elementary schools in Flint and Genesee County. There were some
surprising results.
88 110 Get White Coats at Ceremony
One hundred and ten members of the Class of 2009 were officially
inducted into the dental profession during the School of Dentistry’s
annual White Coat Ceremony.
DEPARTMENTS
33 Faculty News
40
45 Department Update: Biologic and Materials Sciences
49 Development
49 – Nearly $1.5 Million in New Gifts and Pledges
54 – How to Make Your Will More Personal and Effective
56 – Homecoming Weekend 2006
62 – High-Tech Preclinic Excites Alums
63 – 6 Inducted into Hall of Honor
71 Research News
71 – Mistretta New Associate Dean for Research
71 – Dental School Researcher Awarded $100,000 for Cancer Research
73 – Starving Cells that Promote Cancer
75 – Research Day
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77 – NIDCR Executive: “Research Important to Dental Students”
79 Dental Hygiene
79 – 100% Participation by DH Class of 2006
80 – DH Students Help Give Kids a Smile
80 – “Many Doors of Opportunity Open to You” Says ADHA President
83 – THE Dental Hygiene Textbook
84 – Tondrowski Inducted into Hall of Honor
90 Alumni News
92 In Memoriam
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New Orleans Woman
“Overwhelmed at the Kindness
Keary Campbell
“I
The Long Road to Ann Arbor
Marie Cancienne of New The day before the hurricane struck,
Orleans said she will will always remember her as one of the Cancienne left New Orleans for an apartment
always remember the oral
highlights of my clinical experiences at complex in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with her son,
health care provided by
fourth-year dental student the School of Dentistry,” said fourth-year dental Fred Jr., and his wife.
Meredith Wangerin and student Meredith Wangerin as she reflected on In mid-September, she went to Memphis,
others during the time she how she was able to help one of her patients, a Tennessee, to live with another son, Arthur.
was in Ann Arbor. New Orleans woman, who lost her home and In October, Cancienne’s niece, Kathleen,
possessions to Hurricane Katrina. invited her to live in Ann Arbor “as long as
The 79-year-old woman, Marie Cancienne, necessary.”
will also fondly remember Wangerin and the Weary from losing a home, her possessions, her
University of Michigan School of Dentistry. friends and neighbors to the hurricane, Cancienne
Students Enthused
Students said they enjoyed the opportunity
to serve.
Kris Devers, a first-year dental student who
Jerry Mastey
Jerry Mastey
I
Five-year-old Minyoung t was one of those “you had to be
Jung surprised dental student there to see it to believe it” moments.
David Lipton when she began During the annual Give Kids a Smile program
smiling and laughing as he
in early February, one five-year-old girl gave
checked her lymph nodes
during the Give Kids a Smile second-year dental student David Lipton and
program at the School of first-year dental student Julia Chung a moment
Dentistry earlier this year. they will remember for a long time.
“I was performing an extra-oral exam on
the girl, and as I began feeling her lymphnodes, Six-year-old Olleta Vickentertained first-year dental students Kris Devers
she began to smile and laugh,” said Lipton. “It (left) and Phyllis Odoom at the registration desk.
was something that was totally unexpected Jerry Mastey
hose are some of the questions School in detail after the strategic self-assessment is
of Dentistry faculty, staff, students, and completed, is a ‘blue sky’ outline of what the
alumni have been investigating and School could look like.”
discussing for more than a year. During a series of meetings with faculty,
Since March 2005, a 21-member committee staff, and students last fall, Dean Peter Polverini
of faculty, students, and staff has been taking a said, “We’re starting with a blank slate and want
critical look at the School and asking everyone everyone involved in having a say in the School’s
throughout the School for their opinions and future.”
ideas. The committee, the Strategic Assessment
Facilitating Committee, will use the information A Challenge from U-M Administrators
to develop a “roadmap for the future.” Early last year, the School of Dentistry was
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strategic self-assessment
During the annual convocation last fall, Dean Peter Polverini outlined a vision for the School of Dentistry “as an innovative educational institution and a
leader in research and discovery.”
D
ean Peter Polverini outlined a vision as a visionary institution,” Polverini said the
for the School of Dentistry “as an need to look ahead is critical. “If we are to
innovative educational institution and thrive in the future, we will have to make some
a leader in research and discovery.” His remarks tough choices during the coming years, as we
to faculty, students, and staff last fall about what may not be able to sustain every program and
the School could look like were delivered during initiative.” He urged faculty, students, and staff
the second annual Convocation Ceremony at the to continue “to take risks that will dramatically
Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League. change our educational and patient care
Citing a challenge from University of programs, our research enterprise, and, at the
Michigan administrators “to take a clear- most fundamental level, our organizational
eyed look at our intellectual directions and structure.”
priorities, our strengths and weaknesses, and
our comparative advantages over our peer Educational Program Changes
institutions,” Polverini said there is a unique Polverini called for some changes to the
opportunity “to reshape and transform the dental School’s educational programs so students are
school and to discover new opportunities.” “well prepared to meet the oral health needs of
Mentioning its “hard-earned reputation the next generation of consumers.”
T
he Internationally Trained Dentist Pro- What It Is…How It Works
gram (ITDP) is designed to give these ITDP is basically a continuous two-year
dentists the training and information they course of study.
need in an accelerated program of study that Students participate in a rigorous course of
allows them to receive a Doctor of Dental Surgery classroom and clinical instruction that covers 24
degree from U-M. consecutive months instead of the 10 terms over
Afterwards, they have the same career and 44 months that make up the regular predoctoral
practice opportunities as all U-M dental school instruction. They do not take any time off during
graduates. They will be eligible to take state and the summer.
regional licensing examinations, practice The international students pay the same for
dentistry in various settings, and/or their education as do out-of-state students in the
pursue an academic career. current program, approximately $60,000 annually
Dr. Marilyn Lantz, in tuition and fees. No scholarships are awarded.
associate dean for After successfully completing an intensive,
academic affairs, four-month summer term, the international
said she students join third-year dental students to
and other complete the final two years of the predoctoral
administrators curriculum. They spend two additional months
talked to officials at during the summer between their third and
other dental schools with fourth years taking courses and working in
similar programs prior to clinics, including rotations at community
beginning this initiative. outreach sites. They receive their dental degree
“This is an important program for these during spring graduation ceremonies if they
dentists and for us,” she said. “Although they have completed all program requirements.
have earned a dental degree in another country,
they can’t practice in Michigan until they pass Intense Competition
the Northeast Regional Board (NERB) or other With no advertising, other than information
licensing exams and get their dental degree from that was posted on the dental school’s Web site,
a university in this country.” the program attracted applications from 105
Lantz was emphatic about another point. individuals worldwide last year. Twenty-four
“The students admitted to this program do applicants were interviewed.
not, in any way, shape, or form compete with More than twice as many, 214, applied for
our first- and second-year students for space or the second year of the program. Of those, 27
educational or physical resources,” she said. individuals were invited to come to the School of
“The students in the new program,” she Dentistry in January for two days of interviews,
added, “have expressed a strong desire to come tests, and a laboratory bench examination.
here and have demonstrated a commitment to Eight were ultimately selected to participate
bettering themselves and helping others.” in the program that begins in May.
I
t was built by hand…literally, from the
ground up.
No nails or screws were used.
Materials and supplies, including blocks
of granite for the foundation, were carried
1,000 feet up a mountain by workers in Beijing,
China.
Work on Rui-Feng Wang’s pagoda began
April 8, 2005. Six months later, on October
12, he returned to Beijing to help celebrate its
dedication and the realization of a life-long
dream.
How the pagoda was built…and why…is Although nails, bolts, or screws were
something Wang is more than happy to discuss
not used to build the pagoda, workers
with anyone inside or outside the School of
Dentistry. Of course, he’s also delighted to show did use some modern tools to cut wood.
you his pictures.
A research lab specialist in the Department
of Biologic and Materials Sciences, Wang came
to Ann Arbor in 1979 from the Natural Science
there, as a symbol for world peace,” he said. ceremony at the top of the mountain, four times Workers carried everything
He often mentioned his dream to family and the number Wang expected. to the top of the mountain
by hand, including some
friends. Encouraged by their response, Wang Since then thousands have visited the of the granite blocks
returned the money he earned at U-M to Beijing pagoda and enjoyed a view of the Chinese that were used as the
foundation.
to hire an engineer to design the pagoda. “I capital. A map embedded in stone helps visitors
wanted it to be very small, for a couple of people. locate their neighborhood.
But the engineer, architect, and workers were so Wang won’t say what he spent to build the
enthusiastic that it turned out to be much larger pagoda. “It’s not about the money, it’s about
than I planned,” he said with a smile. making people happy,” he insisted. He also
The craftsmanship and the traditional resisted the temptation to name the pagoda
paintings that decorate the pagoda are remarkable. after himself, as one of his colleagues in Beijing
Pictures on these pages show the pagoda during suggested. Instead, he named it, “The View of
various phases of construction. The structure, My Home Village.” The Chinese script for the
nearly 25 feet high and 21 feet wide, was formally name of the structure is at the top of the previous
dedicated on October 12, 2005. page.
This close-up picture
shows some of the
Photo courtesy of Rui-Feng Wang
pagoda’s ornate
woodwork.
Although nails,
bolts, or screws
were not used to
build the pagoda,
workers did use
some modern
tools to cut wood.
A staff member of the School of Dentistry’s Dr. Gerald Cortright, director of dental gross
Office of Academic Affairs was presented with anatomy in the office of medical education at the
one of the University of Michigan’s highest U-M Medical School, said “Meghan’s outstanding
honors during a ceremony in December. characteristics are equanimity and dependability
The staff member, Meghan Genovese, in the face of seemingly overwhelming demands.
received the Candace J. Johnson Staff Award for …She has been the rock I could always count on,
Excellence from a pool of 180 nominations from or perhaps more appropriately, the guiding light
across the Ann Arbor campus. that kept me off the rocky shores of imminent
Genovese was nominated by faculty disaster.”
members from the dental school and the medical Jean Klark, a secretary in the dean’s office
school, by staff members from the dental school, at the School of Dentistry, said that she once
as well as dental students. They cited her knew the late Candy Johnson and “having
professionalism, calm demeanor, ability to work worked closely with Meghan, I can appreciate
with diverse groups, attention to detail, and the similarities of the two individuals.”
strong work ethic.
Dr. Marilyn Lantz, associate dean for “Surprised and Honored”
academic affairs, cited the crucial role Genovese Genovese said she was surprised and
played in the success of the School’s Integrated honored to be recognized.
Medical Sciences curriculum. “I came to Ann Arbor about three years ago
Meghan Genovese (right)
received one of U-M’s highest Launched in 2003-2004 academic year, IMS from central Illinois where I had been working
awards, the Candace J. Johnson helps first- and second-year dental students see as a project manager for a Web development
Staff Award for Excellence last interrelationships between dentistry and various company,” she said. “Since I have been at the
year. Nominated by Dr. Marilyn medical disciplines. The program, according School of Dentistry, my work has been primarily
Lantz(left), Genovese was to Lantz, was established “to help our dental related to new curriculum initiatives.”
chosen from a group of 180from
students better understand how physicians Genovese said that although she received
across the Ann Arbor campus.
think as well as show the connections between a formal education in fine art, “most of my
oral and systemic health.” Graduate and post- professional life has been centered around
graduate students from the U-M Medical School education.” Previously, she was a resident
participate in the program. [DentalUM, Fall counselor at the Illinois Mathematics and Science
2004, pages 60-61.] Academy, implemented Illinois State Board
of Education-funded scientific literacy grant
“Extraordinary Work” projects, a recruiter for MacMurray College in
As the IMS program was being reviewed and Jacksonville, Illinois, and directed international
upgraded two years ago, Lantz praised Genovese admissions at Bradley University in Peoria.
for “her extraordinary work with faculty, The Candace J. Johnson Staff Award for
students, and staff during the development and Excellence was established in 2004 to recognize
implementation of the IMS course series.” She an outstanding staff member from the University
added that Genovese “demonstrated enormous of Michigan.
creativity and flexibility in finding solutions to
individual and group concerns.”
“P ass it on.”
That phrase comes to mind after
listening to Dr. Harry McIntosh (DDS
1956), his daughter, and son talk about the dental
profession.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree from
U-M, he traveled to southern California to study
filmmaking. But after deciding he wanted “a
more secure career,” he returned to Ann Arbor
and earned his DDS from the U-M School of
Harry’s love of the profession so captivated Dentistry in 1992.
his daughter Rebecca when she was in high Both agreed that neither felt any pressure to
school that she began working for her father follow in their father’s footsteps.
as a dental assistant. She later followed in his Growing up in South Lyon, Harry said his
footsteps. family’s dentist, Dr. Bert Roberts (DDS 1932),
“I knew dad enjoyed dentistry by the way inspired him to become a dentist. Roberts may
he talked to his patients and by the way he took have also inspired Harry’s brother, George, who
care of them,” she said. “It seemed he always earned his dental degree from Michigan in 1959.
spoke highly of the profession, what it offered, “Dr. Roberts was a fine person and I liked
and how it could help people.” him a lot, especially the way he treated me and
Harry, however, was quick to add, “But I also other members of my family who went to him,”
talked about some of the negatives too.” Harry said.
Prior to earning her dental degree from U-M
in 1990, Rebecca asked her brother, Timothy, to Drs. Held and Ramfjord
be her patient for her board exams. Recalling his days as a dental student at
Timothy, on the other hand, didn’t plan, at Michigan, Harry said his studies were sometimes
least initially, to pursue a dental career. He had interrupted due to a bleeding ulcer that hospitalized
other ideas. him for one or two weeks at a time.
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Did practicing with a sibling pose any
problems?
“I have to give my “We get along well,” Tim said. “We share
responsibilities, whether it’s dealing with
sister some credit vendors, personnel issues, or other matters that
for my career path arise.”
Rebecca agreed, saying, “We both have
because she passed strengths in different areas which, I think, makes
along her love of for an even stronger family practice.”
The elder Dr. McIntosh concurred, adding,
the profession to “The patient retention rate is very high, but
me, just like dad I think a lot of that is due to the fact that
did to her.” the bond with the patients is more than a
dentist/patient relationship. It’s also a family
environment where those who come here receive
Dr. Timothy McIntosh great treatment and can talk about just about
anything that might be going on in their lives
or the lives of others in their family.”
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Presidential Dentist Visits U-M
Captain Donald Worm Recalls Experiences
The personal dentist to the President of the Recalling his first meeting with the nation’s Jerry Mastey
United States packed them in at the School of chief executive, Worm said he and several others
Donald Worm (DDS1988),
Dentistry earlier this year. were in the dental office in the basement of the was the personal dentist
Capt. Donald Worm, who earned his DDS White House waiting for a call that the president to President Bush from
from U-M in 1988, talked to more than 150 was on his way. “Instead, he just walked in and November 2001to early
students in January about his career as a Navy started talking to us,” Worm said. “It was quite 2004.
dentist, as well as the dentist to President George an experience.”
W. Bush. His appearance was the latest in Of Bush, Worm said, “He’s an interesting
The Lunch & Learn Program sponsored by the person to talk to. During the time I was assigned
School’s Board of Governors. [DentalUM, Fall to him, we never talked politics. But we did talk
2005, pages 55-56.] about fishing, country music, different parts of
Another
After joining the Navy as a third-year dental the world we have been to, and other topics,” he Michigan
student, Worm said he was assigned to the dental said. Presidential
clinic at the Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, In addition to treating the president, Worm Dentist
California following graduation. said he and his wife had opportunities to meet
The career of the Manistee, Michigan native the president and first lady Laura Bush when
At least one other
has also included practicing dentistry on the they were invited to holiday gatherings.
aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise; directing graduate of the U-M
the AEGD program for two years at Camp Lejune, Career Benefits Cited School of Dentistry has
North Carolina; being in the Personnel Exchange During his visit to Michigan, Worm served as a presidential
Program with the Royal Navy in Britain from encouraged students to consider a dental career dentist. Dr. James
1998-2000, and serving as associate professor in the Navy. Citing the scholarships that are Enoch, who earned
at the Naval Postgraduate Dental School for the available to help them with their education as
a master’s degree in
Comprehensive Dentistry Residency Program in well as career opportunities, pay, travel, and
other benefits, he said that practicing dentistry
operative dentistry from
Bethesda, Maryland.
in the Navy “is an excellent opportunity for you U-M in 1963, was the
“He Just Walked In” to develop your skills ‘stress free’ right out of White House dentist
Worm was the president’s personal dentist dental school through experience, training, and for President Lyndon
for about two-and-a-half years, beginning in interaction with specialists.” Johnson from 1963 to
November 2001. Now working with the U.S. Surgeon General 1968. [DentalUM, Fall
Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Worm as a career planner with the Navy Dental Corps,
1999, p. 15.]
said he couldn’t provide any specific details, Worm said he was glad he returned to Ann Arbor
except to say the president “takes good care of to speak to dental students.
himself and didn’t require a lot of care.” “But I couldn’t resist the opportunity to
Worm told the dental students that in walk down the halls of the dental school and
addition to an operatory in the basement of revisit the preclinical laboratory and see how
the White House, there is a dental clinic at the technology is being used in the Dr. Roy Roberts
presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. Preclinical Laboratory,” he said. “It was quite
The president and members of his family can an experience.”
receive oral health care at either facility.
patients traveled five or six hours to see a dentist, Marquette and Muskegon gave him valuable
and you treated them, even if it was at the end of experience that helped him to develop some
the day,” he said. creative solutions to problems he faced in Iraq.
Most of Mangum’s patients were servicemen “We had to be problem solvers and think
and women. Although he and members of the outside the box on occasion because there were
mobile dental team did not treat local residents, times in Iraq when situations weren’t ideal and
“we did treat others including translators, truck materials that were needed weren’t always
drivers, and food services people, some of whom available,” he said.
were from Jordan and Turkey,” he said. “But He recalled one case of an individual who lost
we also treated other patients from other parts a fixed bridge on his anterior teeth. Since he didn’t
of the Mideast as well as contractors from the have any acrylic, Mangum said he made a false
Philippines, Sudan, and India.” tooth out of composite resin. Because he didn’t
He also had no-shows, typically due to a last- have fixed prosthodontic capabilities, Mangum
minute mission. “So you had to be flexible and often used complex amalgam restorations to
adapt,” he said. restore broken posterior teeth.
But there were moments of humor too.
Valuable School & Outreach Experiences He recalled one patient who came to him for
Two days after receiving his dental degree in emergency care after fracturing four teeth.
Ann Arbor, Mangum was off to Officer Training “He told me that he got so wrapped up in
Now five years old, Noelle is seen
School in Newport, Rhode Island. He then spent playing a video game that he tripped over the here being held in her father’s left
a year in an advanced education in graduate wire that connected his hand-held control unit to arm. Also pictured are Mangum’s
dentistry program in San Diego, was transferred the video box and fell on his Kevlar helmet and wife, Nicole, and their one-year-
fractured the teeth,” Mangum said. old daughter, Camille.
to Yuma, Arizona, and then went to Iraq.
Mangum said being involved in the School’s Since he practiced from inside fortified bases,
outreach program at community clinics in Mangum said he never experienced close combat.
“However, insurgents often launched rockets and
Photo courtesy of Lt. J. Brett Mangum mortars at us. Fortunately, their aim wasn’t very
good. The closest one came to us was one morning
when a rocket landed about forty yards away
from my dental assistant’s tent.”
Looking back, Mangum said he has “enormous
respect and admiration for the men and women
in uniform. They’re the greatest warriors in the
world and I admire their courage and sacrifices,”
he said.
Mangum is now practicing dentistry in
Prescott, Arizona, with his father, Richard, who
earned his dental degree from U-M in 1972.
F
our U-M School of Dentistry alumni teamed serve and to learn.
up on Martin Luther King Day in January “I wanted to watch how Dr. Sturtz approached
to provide free oral health care services to oral surgery and learn more about some of the
the uninsured and underserved. things he did. But sometimes he was working
Led by Dr. James Lee (DDS 1990), Drs. David so quickly that it was hard to keep up,” Cooks
Sturtz (DDS 1981), Mark Cooks (DDS 1991), and said with a laugh.
Mitchell Kaplan (DDS 1989), helped 64 patients Cooks, who said he has partnered with Lee
that day. The value of their services surpassed on four or five occasions in the past, said he keeps
$20,000 according to Lee. returning “because of the wonderful feeling of
Lee and Cooks are general dentists. Sturtz is accomplishment I get. It’s a big thrill to see the
an oral surgeon. Kaplan is a periodontist. Their results of your work and even more gratifying to
expertise and the skill of three dental hygienists, see how much those who may be underinsured
“allowed us to provide a broad range of services or have no insurance at all appreciate what you
to those who came to my office here in Ann have done for them.”
Arbor,” Lee said. Although it was the first time he helped,
“I began doing this in 1999, the year after Kaplan said he plans to do so again next year.
I established my own practice,” he said. “This “It was a nice way to honor Dr. King’s memory,”
was our biggest year yet, in terms of the number he said, “and I felt good about helping others.”
of patients we helped.” Lee said eight patients have already asked
Recalling his days as a dental student, Lee to come back for follow-up visits and treatments
said he attended several programs and lectures next January.
on the U-M campus during Martin Luther King
Day. “I decided that when I had my own practice,
that this is something I would do to honor his
legacy.
Dr. Bill Piskorowski is the School’s here, such as Bill Gregory, Don Heys, “I’ve been here only a few
new Director of Outreach and Phil Richards, and Wally McMinn, to months, but I feel like I’ve been here
Community Affairs. He was named name a few,” he said. longer because of the warmth and
to the position in early February by About two years ago, hospitality I have received from
Dean Peter Polverini. Piskorowski worked in Mancelona, everyone throughout the dental
An adjunct professor for the last Michigan, for about five months school,” said Dr. Stephen Bayne as
five years, Piskorowski earned his with Traverse City-based Dental he talked about his move to the
dental degree from Loyola University Clinics North. “That really made School of Dentistry to become the
in 1979. He was in private practice me realize just how much of a need new chair of the Department of
for 27 years specializing in cosmetic there is for services such as those Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and
and implant dentistry. our students provide,” he said. Endodontics.
In his new role, he will continue Saying he wants to make the Bayne, who headed biomaterials
teaching as a clinical instructor in School’s outreach and community in the Department of Operative
the 2 Blue Clinic two days a week, dentistry programs “even better,” Dentistry at the University of North
instead of five, and will be involved Piskorowski said, “there’s a great Carolina in Chapel Hill, succeeded
with outreach the remaining three tradition here with the work that Dr. Brian Clarkson who chaired
days a week. was done by Jed Jacobson, Tom CRSE for more than 14 years. The
Piskorowski will work with Dr. Veryser, and Steve Stefanac. I want department is the School’s largest
Stephen Stefanac, associate dean for to do everything I can to build upon with approximately 180 full-time
patient services, in supervising the their efforts and their successes.” faculty, supplemental faculty,
operations of the School’s external research fellows, and staff.
educational programs. He will also Bayne earned a bachelor’s
oversee the School’s partnerships degree from Carleton College in
with outreach sites across the state Northfield, Minnesota, in 1968;
a master’s degree in biological the School, I’m excited about our Kirk wood Wins
materials from Northwestern potential and looking forward to Tarrson Award
University in 1974; and a PhD, meeting others throughout the Keary Campbell
Keary Campbell
provost.
A new facility for School of Dentistry emeritus faculty
members opened earlier this year.
Bradley Appointed The lounge in room B311 includes workstations, desk
to Study Group chairs, file cabinets, a conference table, a couch, telephones,
and a television set.
During their semi-annual luncheon last fall the emeritus
Dr. Robert Bradley, professor
faculty members heard about plans for the lounge from
of dentistr y, will ser ve as a
facilities manager Dorothy Smith-Fesl.
member of the Somatosensory
Later, they also heard Dr. Marilyn Lantz, associate dean for
and Chemosensory Systems Study
academic affairs, talk about the Integrated Medical Sciences
Section of the Center for Scientific
courses. The new program, which has been incorporated
Review. He was appointed last fall
into the first and second years of the predoctoral curriculum,
to a term that ends in June 2009.
is designed to help dental students see the links between
Members of the group review
dentistry and various medical disciplines. [DentalUM, Fall 2004,
grant applications submitted to the
pages 60-61.]
National Institutes of Health, make
recommendations, and survey the
status of research in their fields of
study.
in Ann Arbor
Professor Niklaus time later, he became an assistant professor of
“Klaus” Lang enjoyed dentistry and taught at the School.
his four-month Since 1980, Lang has been a professor at
sabbatical at the U-M the School of Dental Medicine at the University
School of Dentistry. of Bern, Switzerland. He has chaired the
His “academic Department of Periodontology and Fixed
vacation” was any- Prosthodontics since 1992.
thing but, however. Lang briefly returned in early January 2005
From early Sep- as guest speaker for the annual Delta Dental
tember through Dr. Kenneth J. Ryan Memorial Seminar. At the
D e c e m b e r, L a n g ’ s program he joked that the University of Michigan
activities included had such a major influence on his life that, in
some teaching, talking Switzerland, he created a department logo whose
to graduate students colors are maize and blue.
Prof. Niklaus Lang and faculty, visiting
friends, and even traveling to Brazil to attend Then and Now
a conference and then spending a few days on When Lang returned to Ann Arbor for
the Amazon River. his sabbatical late last year, he cited a big
When jokingly asked what he did during difference between being a student and being
his free time, Lang said, “I’ve never been one on sabbatical.
to distinguish between work and vacation or As a graduate student, Lang said he
free time. What I do, I do out of conviction. “frequently worked 80 or more hours a week.”
For me, work doesn’t have to have a negative However, this time, he continued, “I wanted to
connotation. If you enjoy what you’re doing, experience what it was like to be here for an
work is pleasure while free time can be spent extended period of time as a faculty member
working hard.” and take time to enjoy what the University and
Although he could have probably chosen Ann Arbor has to offer.” That included attending
almost any place in the world to take his cultural programs and events, being at the
sabbatical, Lang said he returned to Michigan dental school, and having an opportunity to see
because “I wanted to come back to my roots.” and talk to colleagues and students.
He also returned to Ann Arbor, he said, “because Reflecting on his four months in Ann Arbor,
I wanted to learn more about the philosophy of Lang said one of the biggest changes he observed
Michigan’s graduate periodontics program.” was in the School’s periodontics department.
“It’s more biologically oriented than ever,”
Long-Term U-M Connection he said. “It’s still top-notch in the world, as
Lang’s affiliation with the U-M School of far as I’m concerned, with people like Will
Dentistry goes back more than thirty years. Giannobile, Laurie McCauley, Russ Taichman,
He began his teaching career in Ann Arbor Renny Franceschi, and Keith Kirkwood who are
after graduating with both a master’s degree and a part of it.”
a certificate in periodontics in the 1970s. A short Lang described his visits and work at
Although he could have probably chosen almost any place in the world to
take his sabbatical, Lang said he returned to Michigan because “I wanted
to come back to my roots.”
practitioners want to make money using the open spaces, and above all, the spirit of this
implants instead of practicing periodontology,” University that is so very special. There’s no
he said. “If that trend continues, I’m afraid that place in Europe like this, where people’s lives are
we will lose our expertise in treating periodontal tied to a university in the way they are here.”
infections and tooth maintenance, which is what Lang said he would also miss the graduate
the role of the periodontist has been.” students.
From his perspective, Lang said this “I encouraged them to be proud of the
development is part of a larger trend where oral profession and all it has to offer. I told them I
health care professionals many times “think hope that the professional satisfaction they get
too much in terms of what pays best” which, in treating patients outweighs the remuneration
turn, can affect what is taught. He pointed to they receive.”
Dr. Lynn
Johnson
Change Agent
Keary Campbell
Dr. Lynn Johnson is proud, and rightly so, of the School’s
Since arriving at the School of Dentistry four of Dentistry’s new partnership with Apple Computer
years ago, Dr. Lynn Johnson has enhanced and what it could mean for dental education and the
University of Michigan. [DentalUM, Fall 2005, pages 6-7.]
communication throughout the School,
opened lines of communication with other Launched last September, the project has been mentioned in major
newspapers including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the
U-M schools and colleges, and is playing a Chicago Tribune; trade publications such as The Chronicle of Higher
major role in helping the University launch a Education; technology Web sites, such as CNet.com; international
campus-wide application of what the School newspapers, including Japan’s leading national business newspaper,
Nihon Keizai Shimbun; and even MTV.com.
is doing with iPods in dental education.
“This wouldn’t have been possible elsewhere,” she said. “This
was a project where all the right pieces came together at exactly the
right moment – the University of Michigan’s name, its reputation for
innovation and technology, the fact that this was a student-driven
project, the superb efforts of a great team in our department who
worked together for a common goal, and, ultimately, the collaboration
with Apple Computer.”
Johnson is the School’s director of Dental Informatics and
Information Technology.
But if you talk to Johnson for any length of time, you may be
surprised to learn that she spent eight years teaching children with
learning and emotional disabilities at schools in Iowa.
career at the University of Iowa. “In technology, we have more visibility not just
She began her career there in 1983 as a
research assistant in the University’s computing across the University, but also in the field of dental
center and was also a research and development education. The University is now launching a
director for a nonprofit technology company in
campus-wide application of what we are doing
Colorado. When she left for Michigan, Johnson
was an associate professor of dentistry and with the iPods in dental education. They’re seeking
director of educational methodology and our feedback and ideas, which was something that
instructional technology.
didn’t happen earlier. It’s also gratifying to know
In addition to teaching at Iowa, Johnson
earned a PhD in instructional design and the University intends to share the campus-wide
technology in 1993. In 1979, she earned a iPod application with over 45 other colleges and
master’s degree in special education. Four
years earlier, she graduated with a bachelor’s
universities across the country.”
degree (English major, mathematics minor) from
Morningside College in Sioux City. “I also learned the importance of sequencing
As she discussed her career, Johnson said so that they could move from Point A to B to C,”
teaching children with learning and emotional she continued. “When you stop to think about it,
disabilities at a middle school and high schools that’s exactly what happens when you manage
“gave me insights that, in retrospect, helped me people and persuade them to move from an idea
enormously over the years.” to a goal. It’s also what you do when you use
information technology.”
The Big Picture, The Pieces, Sequencing Like many of us, Johnson’s first encounters
Asked what the common thread was, she with technology were not auspicious.
didn’t hesitate answering. Talking about a computer programming
“I quickly learned that to connect with course she took for her mathematics minor,
these children I not only had to know the Johnson recalled spending hours punching cards
big picture, I also had to be able to convey to write a computer program. “I took the cards
information about the big picture in small with me, but then dropped them in the snow. It
pieces so that they could easily understand was a nightmare,” she said.
what was going on.” Her problems continued.
Greater Visibility
Without these steps, she said, “our project
with Apple Computer never would have Just as the School of Dentistry was acclaimed
happened.” for its television facilities to produce dentistry
Johnson said the School’s collaboration videos in the 1970s, Johnson says she’s gratified
with Apple has opened many doors. “In to know that “the technology spotlight is on us
technology, we have more visibility not just once again, this time in the era of the Internet
across the University, but also in the field of and World Wide Web.”
dental education,” she said. “The University Looking back on at the last four years,
is now launching a campus-wide application Johnson said that addressing the technical
of what we are doing with the iPods in dental challenges “has been easy. The difficult part is
education. They’re seeking our feedback and getting people to buy-in to change because, after
ideas, which was something that didn’t happen a while, most of us get comfortable doing things
earlier,” she continued. “It’s also gratifying a certain way. But if oral health care education
to know the University intends to share the and patient care are to advance, you have to
campus-wide iPod application with over 45 other welcome change. I’m confident we will.”
colleges and universities across the country.”
Some might say “it’s déjà vu all over
again.”
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44 DentalUM Spring & Summer 2006
DEPARTMENT UPDATE
Biologic and Materials Sciences
T
Keary Campbell
T
he School of Dentistry continues to make progress in its efforts to reach its
$35 million goal as part of the University’s “Michigan Difference” fundraising
campaign. As of early May, the School has raised more than $29 million, or
83 percent of its goal. In late January, the University reported raising 80 percent, or
nearly $2 billion of its $2.5 billion fundraising goal. The public phase of the campaign
began in May 2004 and is scheduled to end in December 2008.
Several leadership commitments have been confirmed this fiscal year (2005-2006).
Last fiscal year, the School received $2.6 million in new gifts and pledges.
The largest new gift is a $1 million estate commitment from Dr. Norman Schuen. Other major
gifts received include $300,000 from the estate of Dr. Titus Van Haitsma and a $100,000 estate
commitment from Dr. Dick and Mrs. Rose Marie Shick.
Other gifts include $50,000 from Dr. Billy and Mrs. Virginia Smith for the Dr. Major Ash Collegiate
Professorship; a gift from Dr. Jeffrey Ash toward his father’s collegiate professorship; and a gift from
Dr. Jon Cabot in honor of his father, Dr. Joseph Cabot, to support the School’s Pediatric Dentistry
Fund for Excellence.
More information about the gifts is on the pages that follow.
The School of Dentistry is the beneficiary of He said he included the gift in his estate plan
a $300,000 gift from the estate of Dr. Titus Van because “I’d like to do something a bit more
Haitsma (DDS 1935). Dr. Van Haitsma, who died significant and make a difference.” Van Haitsma
in August 2004 at the age of 93, directed his gift had made several previous gifts to the School.
be used for student scholarships. “After looking back on what I went through
In an interview that appeared in the Spring as a student,” he said, “I thought the best way to
& Summer 2003 issue of DentalUM, Van Haitsma do that was with a gift that would help a student
said he almost didn’t complete dental school become a dentist.”
Dr. Titus Van Haitsma because of the Great Depression. He said he was He also recalled the “the kindness that my
fortunate an uncle sold some stock and loaned professors and Dean Bill Kotowicz have shown me”
him the proceeds that allowed him to continue and was grateful for the opportunities to hunt and
his education. fish with Kotowicz several years earlier.
Talking about his years on the U-M campus “Ti was a dedicated supporter of the
as a dental student, Van Haitsma said he was University and our School,” Kotowicz said. “He
“very fond of the dental school and thought it was an esteemed colleague, a true gentleman,
was about time I gave even more back to it.” and a friend.”
$100,000 Gift from Dr. Richard and Mrs. Rose Marie Shick
for the Ash Collegiate Professorship
“I hope that
my colleagues “A tremendous role model who was always there for us.”
will remember When you listen to Dr. Dick Shick talk about of Dentistry to help endow the Dr. Major Ash
the great one of his former instructors, Dr. Major Ash, you Collegiate Professorship.
contributions hear nothing but superlatives. Recalling his days as a student, Shick
Dr. Ash made “He was a tremendous role model.” described what was then a two-year program,
“He was always there for us.” as one “that was very intense under the tutelage
to us personally
“His mind, his memory, and his analytical of Don Kerr and Sig Ramfjord. Both were
and to our capabilities were, and still are, absolutely brilliant, intelligent men who were also strong
profession and superb.” taskmasters and did everything they could to
generously make Those were just a few of the phrases Shick instill knowledge and professionalism in us.”
their own gifts (DDS 1954, MS 1960) mentioned as he talked
about his world-renowned instructor. Research and Thesis Help
to establish the Because the program was so demanding,
Shick also said those were some of the
professorship in reasons he and his wife, Rose Marie, are gifting Shick said he often asked Ash for advice. “You
his honor.” $100,000 through their estate plan to the School could talk to him about anything,” Shick said.
The School of Dentistry is the beneficiary The U-M School of Dentistry’s proud and
of a $50,000 gift from the late Dr. Billy Smith, preeminent place among America’s great
and his wife, Virginia, for the Ash Collegiate dental schools is in no small measure the result
Professorship. of its superb faculty. The School is strongly
committed to ensuring this tradition and has
Details of the gift were finalized shortly
identified the need for an endowed collegiate
before Dr. Smith’s death last November. [See
professorship in graduate periodontics as
story, page 92]. central to this mission.
Dr. Billy Smith
Smith’s admiration for Ash was well known To attract and retain faculty who are in the
to colleagues and students during the years he forefront of graduate periodontics education,
taught at the School of Dentistry. In an interview one of the world’s most distinguished specialty
that was published in the School’s alumni programs, and to acknowledge the contributions
magazine in the summer of 1990, Smith spoke of one of the world’s greatest professors in the
highly of both Ash and Dr. Sigurd Ramfjord. field, the School has created The Dr. Major
Like Ramfjord, Smith said of Ash, “I regard McKinley Ash Collegiate Professorship in
him as a giant in the field of periodontics. …His Periodontics.
Dr. Ash’s illustrious career was profiled in
work in the field of occlusion is regarded highly
the Spring & Summer 2002 issue of DentalUM
throughout the world. He is my friend and
(pages 28-36).
mentor.”
Per Kjeldsen
Gift from Dr. Jeffrey Ash for Dr. Jon Cabot Makes Gift in
Collegiate Professorship Father’s Name
One of Ash’s sons, Dr. Jeffrey Ash (DDS 1979, Dr. Jon Cabot recently did something for a
MS 1982), has given a gift to help fund the very special person in his life – his father.
professorship bearing his father’s name. Late last year, Cabot, who earned his dental
“I think it’s great that the School of Dentistry degree in 1982 and a master’s degree in pediatric
has decided to honor my father in this manner, dentistry in 1984, made a generous gift to the
and I wanted my gift to show that there was U-M School of Dentistry in the name of his
a commitment from our family,” Jeffrey Ash father, Dr. Joseph Cabot (DDS 1945; MS, pediatric
Dr. Jeffrey Ash
said. “When I reflect on the career my father dentistry 1947). The gift from Dr. Jon Cabot will
has had and what he has done for dentistry, it support the School’s Pediatric Dentistry Fund for
was something that I wanted to do as a way of Excellence.
showing my admiration and respect for him.” “I was shocked and deeply touched when I
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Amy Reyes
Office of Alumni Relations
University of Michigan
School of Dentistry
1011 N. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078
Dr. Jerry B. Booth earned his dental degree from U-M in 1961, completed the oral and
maxillofacial training program at the U-M hospital three years later, and received his master’s
BALLOT degree in 1964. After practicing briefly in Detroit, he resides in Jackson, Michigan where he
is still active in a full-service oral and maxillofacial practice.
Vote for 4 dentists: Dr. Charles Caldwell has a private practice in orthodontics in Grand Rapids, Michigan and
a satellite office in Hastings, Michigan. A 1977 graduate of the U-M School of Dentistry, he
Dr. Jerry B. Booth earned a master’s degree in orthodontics two years later from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Caldwell has been a multiyear board member and past president of the West Michigan
Dr. Charles Caldwell
District Dental Society, the Downtown Grand Rapids Rotary Club (400 members), and Indian
Dr. Daniel Edwards* Trails Camp for those with physical and mental disabilities. He has served as a trustee of the
Michigan Association of Orthodontists and as an examiner for the State of Michigan specialty
Dr. Gerald Howe* license exam in orthodontics.
Dr. Gary Hubbard* Dr. Daniel Edwards *, a 1997 graduate of the U-M School of Dentistry, is currently a member
of the School’s Alumni Society Board of Governors and chairs the Student/Alumni Relations
Dr. Metodi C. Pogoncheff Committee. An active member of the ADA, MDA, and Washtenaw District Dental Society, he
serves as a member of the MDA’s Membership Committee. He practices in Ann Arbor and
Canton and is an adjunct clinical instructor at the School of Dentistry.
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Dr. Gerald Howe *, a member of the School’s Alumni Society Board of Governors, practiced
Janet Souder Wilson*
orthodontics for 39 years in Monroe, Michigan. A 1961 graduate of the U-M School of Dentistry,
* Incumbent he was a clinical instructor for one year and served in the U.S. Army Dental Corps for two
years. Dr. Howe earned his master’s degree in orthodontics from Northwestern University in
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1011 N. University is a member and past president of the Vedder Society and CDDS. He currently chairs the Peer
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general dentistry practice in Lansing, Michigan. A member of the ADA, MDA, and Central
District Dental Society, he is also a member of the Kingery Prosthodontic Study Club and a
charter member of the Academy of Sports Dentistry. His goal is continued development of the
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As they entered the Dr. Roy Roberts Preclinical Laboratory, Dr. Merle Jaarda greeted
them and asked, “Do you want to sit down and do some work?”
Without missing a beat, someone replied, “We stood up when we worked.”
After the laughter subsided following the reply, Jaarda demonstrated how he and
other preclinical instructors are using technology to teach today’s first- and second-year
dental students.
Stephanie Benton-Langejans, a second-year dental student who was in the preclinic,
answered questions from alumni and described some of the new technology at her
workstation.
“Some of them commented about the instruments they used as students, but most
seemed impressed with how we are using the mannequin head to practice different
procedures,” she said.
“They also wanted to know how many of today’s dental students were women,”
she added. By comparison, the only woman who graduated from the Class of 1955 with
Dr. Franziska Schoenfeld, the only woman to earn a a dental degree was Franziska Schoenfeld.
dental degree in 1955 from U-M, talked to second-
year dental student Stephanie Benton-Langejans Dr. Richard Boff (DDS 1966), whose wife Dorothy attended as a dental hygiene
at her workstation in the Dr. Roy Roberts Preclinical graduate of the Class of 1955, was amazed at what he saw. “This is such a far cry from
Laboratory. Today, approximately half of the
students receiving dental degrees from the the benches and slate top we had in Dr. Moyers’ lab,” he said. “This is just fantastic.
School of Dentistry are women. It’s unbelievable.”
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Jerry Mastey
A School of Dentistry researcher Medicine, received the one-year award a tendency to invade and survive
h a s b e e n a w a rd e d $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 from the Prostate Cancer Foundation, in bone. Once the tumor spreads to
to investigate factors that cause the world’s largest philanthropic source distant tissues, survival drastically
prostate cancer to spread to the bone, a of support for prostate cancer research. declines. Taichman hopes his research
hallmark of advanced prostate cancer. The Foundation places seed money will provide significant information
The researcher, Dr. Russell Taichman, into novel areas and/or high risk, about the specific mechanisms that
said his investigations into the bone high impact projects in the hopes that prompt the migration of cancer cells
debilitating disease might some day sufficient preliminary data will allow to bone tissue and, ultimately, improve
help prostate cancer patients. “They investigators to obtain subsequent researcher’s understanding of how
might also even help dentists restore funding from other organizations. damaged bone, including those in the
damaged bone structures in a patient’s orofacial region, can be repaired in any
mouth,” he said. Background disease setting.
Taichman, a professor in the Cancers of the prostate gland, and For several years, Taichman’s lab
Department of Periodontics and Oral those in many other tissues, display has been studying the mechanisms
Keary Campbell
Dr. Bruce Baum talked about why research is important to dental students during the School’s convocation Dr. Walter Loesche
ceremony last fall.
Research is a crucial part of every have occurred in the past twenty “I have always had one or more
dental student’s education. That was or thirty years, Baum said that grants during my career at Michigan,
the message Dr. Bruce Baum delivered these discoveries in laboratories but was surprised to learn that,
during the School of Dentistry’s second “are changing all of medicine, relative to all of NIH, that I am in the
annual convocation ceremony last including dental medicine. Research top five percent of grant awardees,
fall. is the intellectual foundation of our even though I have been retired for five
Baum, who heads the Gene profession and the link to other health years,” said Dr. Walter Loesche, School
Therapy and Therapeutics Branch of professions.” of Dentistry professor emeritus.
the Gene Transfer Section at NIDCR, Baum said change will continue Loesche, who retired in December
said, research matters to dental and dental students today will need 2000 following an illustrious 30-year
students “because it helps one to to be prepared for tomorrow because career, was advised of the achievement
develop the critical thinking skills “thirty or forty years from now, by NIH earlier this year.
that are vital not just in a laboratory, dentistry won’t be what it is today,” The information was brought to his
but that can also be transferred to a he said. attention when Loesche was advised
clinical environment.” These critical He advised students to prepare that a team of health economists is
thinking skills, he added, “are just themselves by developing the critical conducting research about the positive
as important to dentists as are their thinking skills that are central to influence prominent researchers have
manual skills.” research, including reading and on the research productivity of their
Citing some of the advances that discussing various research topics. colleagues.
A first-year
periodontics
re s i d e n t w o n a
Tarrson Award last
fall during the
American Academy
of Periodontology
Foundation’s annual
meeting.
The resident, Jill
Bashutski, was the
first recipient of the
Tarrson Regeneration Scholarship and the first from Three graduates from the U-M School of Dentistry
the School of Dentistry to win the award. participated in the GPR program in Marquette County last
Bashutski, who graduated from the University summer, courtesy of a grant awarded to that county’s health
of Western Ontario (Canada) dental school last June, department by the Michigan Dental Foundation.
will receive $37,000 annually for the next three Pictured with Dr. James Hayward (DDS 1973), director of the
years to encourage her research in periodontal Marquette County Health Department Dental Clinics, is one of
tissue regeneration. The award is also designed to the GPR residents, Dr. Adam Fineman (DDS 2005). With Hayward
encourage talented periodontists to pursue a career are two staff dentists with his department, Drs. Diana Jan-Ellis
as periodontal educators. In return, scholarship (left), and Mary Clifford (DDS 1992). Not pictured are the two
recipients must commit to spending one year of full- other GPR residents, Drs. Dahlia Hadad and Seema Varghese.
time teaching in a U.S. periodontal training program They saw nearly 100 children and young adults and
for each year they have received the funds. provided more than 240 services to the patients in 19 days.
Working with Drs. Laurie McCauley, William Each resident also participated in treating two young children
Giannobile, and Robert Eber, Bashutski is investigating with extensive early childhood caries in the operating room in
if parathyroid hormones can promote periodontal one or both of the county’s two hospitals.
regeneration. The research is being conducted at “Experiences like these are always a triple-win for everyone
the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research. involved,” Hayward said. “More needy patients receive dental
The scholarship is awarded every three years. care, residents develop their pediatric behavior management
skills, and staff have an opportunity to teach.”
Established in 1998, the Michigan Dental Foundation is the
philanthropic arm of the Michigan Dental Association. The MDF
seeks to build a permanent legacy of support for individuals
and programs by identifying, developing, and coordinating
resources to ensure the best oral health care for those unable
to receive it in Michigan.
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Jerry Mastey
Mattana, an associate professor of dental Also included are critical thinking exercises
hygiene and director of continuing education at that are based on brief case studies (writing
the University of Detroit Mercy dental school, said care plans, role playing, and patient interaction)
she became involved because of her knowledge and exercises encouraging students to look
of fluorides and water fluoridation. beyond the textbook for information. The
“Charlotte knew of my interest and teaching workbook also includes suggestions on building
these subjects,” Mattana said. “When she a learning portfolio that demonstrates achieving
explained some of the information she wanted competence in basic skills, educational methods
to include in the new edition and asked me to of documenting individual learning activities,
help, I agreed.” and measuring progress in achieving dental
hygiene competencies.
Other Rewards Work has been underway for several months
Mattana said she was involved for other on the second workbook and 10th edition of the
reasons. textbook. Both may be published in 2008.
“I thought it would be an honor to work Innovation continues to be a part of the
with Esther, the original author of the textbook workbook. One new item will include a feature, Esther Wilkins (right), authored
that was my dental hygiene bible when I was Questions Patients Ask, which offers students the first edition of the textbookin
a student at Michigan,” she said. “But I also hints about ways to respond. 1959. Wilkins, who still actively
oversees the publication of new
saw this an opportunity for me to help others “I’ve spent a lot of time revising the chapter editions, including the latest, the
in dental hygiene programs here in this country about fluorides,” Mattana, said, “but I don’t mind 10th, is seen here with Charlotte
and internationally. I couldn’t pass that up.” because I know that I will be making an impact (Lawrence) Wyche who taught
Wyche developed a workbook, Student clinical radiology to both dental
on future dental hygienists not just here in this
and dental hygiene students at
Workbook for the Clinical Practice of the Dental country but around the world, and that’s pretty U-M from 1992 to 1994.
Hygienist, which accompanied the 9th edition exciting to think about.”
of the textbook. Wyche, who is writing two chapters
She said that Wilkins asked her if she would focusing on care planning and co-authoring a
be interested in spearheading the development chapter with Wilkins on homebound patients,
of a workbook. “Little did I know what I was said she too enjoys the reward of knowing her
getting into, so I said ‘yes’,” Wyche said with a work is making a difference.
laugh. She also praises her mentor for her vote of
The workbook follows a learning process that confidence and her continued involvement.
takes a student from knowledge to competency “Esther is very involved in reviewing
to discovery learning. It features various virtually every word in every chapter of every
exercises, including fill in the blanks, crossword edition. The book is much better because of her
puzzles, and labeling to help students retain hands-on approach,” Wyche said. “I’ve never
information. known anyone like her. She’s amazing.”
to talk to them and catch up on what For the second time in as many years, a
was going on in their lives,” said Prof. School of Dentistry dental hygiene student
Wendy Kerschbaum, director of the has been awarded a scholarship from the
dental hygiene program. “I’m looking U-M Center for the Education of Women.
forward to meeting many other former Third-year dental hygiene student
students during homecoming activities Chamessia Rhine received a $5,000
this fall.” scholarship, the Lucile Conger Alumnae
Scholarship, from the U-M CEW last fall. In
2004, dental hygiene students Terri Johnson
and Lisa Clark received a scholarship from
2006 Homecoming the CEW.
Activities Rhine also received a $500 scholarship
from the Wolverine Dental Hygiene
Society.
This fall’s Homecoming Although she wasn’t sure of her plans,
We e k e n d a c t i v i t i e s a r e Rhine said she would like to work for the
scheduled to take place Indian Health Services after she graduates.
October 26-28. Another option, she said, would be starting
her dental hygiene career in Maryland
All graduates of the dental or North Carolina, perhaps in a general
hygiene program are invited to practice or a periodontics practice.
attend, especially those who Per Kjeldsen
McGowan Invited to
International Conference
Fourth-year dental hygiene students won top Mary Layher has been appointed to a one-
honors for their research at this year’s Research year term on the ADHA Council on Research.
Day program. The winners, titles of their As a member of the four-person council,
projects, and faculty advisors are listed below. Layher will help the group update the ADHA’s
national dental hygiene research agenda. The
• 1st place - Tara Miller and Lisa Clark:
group helps to guide research, enhance patient-
Oral Piercings: The Effects on Gingival
Tissue and Enamel. centered care, and fosters other professional
Advisor: Carla Harrel efforts.
A registered dental hygienist and senior
• 2nd place - Kristen Deacons, Anna Desmecht, research lab specialist, Layher manages and
and Jennifer Pixley: coordinates clinical research trials within the
Drug Abuse and Your Patient. Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine.
Advisors: Drs. Jack Gobetti and Preetha
She has also been involved in clinical trials
Kanjirath
focusing on implants, periodontal medications,
• 3rd place – Farah Anwarullah, Lena periodontal therapies, and oral hygiene devices
Iskander, and Christina Vidican: in the School’s graduate periodontal clinic and at
Periodontal Disease and Pre-term Low the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research.
Birthweight. Katie Dawson, ADHA president, announced
Advisor: Dr. Russell Taichman the appointment last fall.
Keary Campbell
Lisa Clark and Tara Miller won first prize among dental hygiene students Mary Layher
for their poster presentation at this year’s Research Day program.
Susan E. Hinman (DDS 2004), a Lieutenant with the U.S. Wayne Olsen (DDS 1981) of Traverse City, Michigan, has
Navy, has successfully completed and received an advanced been selected to be an examiner for the State of Michigan’s
degree in general dentistry at the Marine Recruit Station at Specialty Certification Exam for Oral and Maxillofacial
Parris Island, South Carolina. She will serve the next two Surgery. Currently a staff member at Munson Medical
years on the USS Abraham Lincoln who will be part of a Center and consultant for Cadillac Mercy Hospital, Olsen is
five-person dental team serving 2,000 aviators and 3,000 also on the Executive Committee for Oral and Maxillofacial
sailors on the aircraft carrier. Surgery.
Paul Musherure (DDS 1996; MS, pediatric dentistry, 1998) Michael Cangemi (DDS 1979) of Auburn, Maine, recently
of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, is serving on the Board of retired after more than 20 years with the U.S. Public Health
Trustees at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. A practicing Service. Now with a large group practice in that state, he
pediatric dentist with the not-for-profit HealthPartners in said he “would like to hear from my friends in the Class of
St. Paul, his four-year term expires in 2008. 1979.” He can be reached by e-mail at: Michael_Cangemi@
hotmail.com.
Mark Nearing (DDS 1996; endodontics certificate, 1998)
of Gaylord, Michigan, was recently named a diplomate of George A. Smith (DDS 1977) of Portsmouth,
the American Board of Endodontics. In 2005, he was also Virginia, was recently inducted into the
asked to serve on the Board of Directors of the Michigan U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer Candidate
Association of Endodontists. School Hall of Fame. Of the school’s
approximately 47,500 graduates, only 987
Nicole Fields (DDS 1993) of Detroit is the new president have been inducted into the Hall. Currently
of the Wolverine District Dental Society. The 70-member the Chief Dentist for the Virginia Department of Corrections,
organization will host the National Dental Convention in Smith oversees the department’s dental program, budgeting,
2008. planning, training, and the clinical supervision of dentists.
He served in Vietnam as an Army captain, aerial observer,
William Hoffman (DDS 1981) of battalion intelligence officer, and battery commander. After
Minnetonka, Minnesota received recognition earning his dental degree, he returned to active duty as a
for his volunteer efforts last year from dental officer in the Commissioned Officer’s Corps of the
both the Minnesota Dental Association U.S. Public Health Service. He retired from USPHS in 1998
and Minneapolis radio station WCCO. The with the rank of Captain.
statewide dental group presented him with
its 2005 Humanitarian Service Award for providing free Helene Bednarsh (DH certificate 1974)
oral health care to children at clinics at several locations received the Alfred Fones Award late last
throughout the state, including the Give Kids a Smile year from the American Dental Hygienists’
program. The second honor, the Good Neighbor Award, Association. The award recognizes
is presented annually by the Minneapolis radio station outstanding achievement and dedication to
to individuals who are respectful, trustworthy, and who the dental hygiene profession.
perform good deeds in their community.
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Burton P. Weisberg (DDS 1966) of Asheville, A fascinating story about George Venk (DDS 1951) and
North Carolina, may have retired as a how he is using his dental skills to restore and examine
practicing dentist in 1995, but he has the remains of dinosaurs that roamed the earth more
found a new way to help others. He is than 100 million years ago appeared in the Summer 2005
now working part time for Pre-Paid Legal issue of Sooner Magazine, published by the University of
Services, Inc., a company that helps more Oklahoma dental school.
than 1.5 million families across the U.S. and Canada. “My
role is different now than when I was practicing dentistry Richard Hagerman (DDS 1951), of Wendell,
by myself,” he said. “In my new role, I’m helping individuals Idaho, has become somewhat of a media
and families by making sure they can get access to the legal celebrity in recent months. Last summer,
system if and when they need it.” a picture of him appeared on the cover
Also, Weisberg said the organization helps those who have of the August 2005 subscriber’s issue of
been victims of one of the country’s fastest growing crimes, Smithsonian Magazine. The picture was
identity theft, restore their good names and credit. “I’m part of a major story about VJ Day that included a letter
enjoying myself, despite two knee replacement surgeries,” he he wrote from Germany that day, August 15, 1945, to his
said with a chuckle. One surgery was in November, the other, fiancée, Dorothy, now his wife of 58 years. “She kept all
last April. of my letters, so it was easy to locate and describe what
I was doing,” said Hagerman who served with a medical
Harry Huffaker (DDS 1966), now retired detachment of the 1123rd Combat Engineers attached to
and living near Sun Valley, Idaho, reports George Patton’s Third Army. Also on the cover, in the lower
he was recently inducted into the Hawaii left hand corner, was a smaller picture of his wife and his
mother, Bess Hagerman Edwards.
Swimming Hall of Fame. Among his
In the letter, Hagerman describes how he spent V-J Day.
achievements, he wrote, includes “eight
“First, it rained all day,” he wrote. “Second, we are all so
successful swims across all major channels
interested in what will happen to our outfit that the news
between Hawaiian islands, the only person to swim the
didn’t cheer us much. Third, two of our men are being
Alenuihaha Channel (31 miles) between Hawaii and Maui,
punished and have walked around the athletic field all
and the only person to swim the Molokai Channel (26 miles) day carrying full field packs and rifles in the rain. Fourth,
in both directions.” I worked all day with the medical officer. I looked into 200
mouths and throats, checking for tonsillitis, etc.”
Mirdza Neiders (DDS 1958) of Buffalo, New Three of his former classmates – Drs. Robert Morrison,
York, was awarded an honorary degree, Don Hallas, and Don McKinnon – saw the picture, read the
Doctor Honoris Causa, from Riga Stradins story, and contacted Hagerman. Since the pictures and
University’s dental school in Riga, Latvia. article were published, Hagerman has been featured in the
Since 1990, she has been helping the dental local newspaper and may soon appear on a local public
school there become more familiar with television station.
dentistry in the U.S. Neiders’ mother, Erika, was a 1930
graduate of the school and celebrated her 100th birthday
last year.
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In Memoriam
Morawa Lecture
Saturday, October 7, 2006 Time: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Kensington Court Hotel, 610 Hilton Boulevard, Ann Arbor
Digital Photography in the Dental Office
Speakers: Dr. Philip Richards (morning), Practical Periodontics
Speaker: Scott Pelok, DDS Dr. Jack Gobetti (afternoon), Medical Emergencies in the
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dental Office
Location: School of Dentistry
Homecoming Celebration Dinner
The use of digital images in dental offices has increased Honoring: Dental and Dental Hygiene classes with graduation years
dramatically in recent years. This course will cover tips and ending in 1 and 6.
techniques for achieving quality images with a digital camera, Doors Open/Registration Begins: 6:00 p.m.
including how to choose and use a digital camera. Cocktail Reception: 6:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Kensington Court Hotel, 610 Hilton Boulevard, Ann Arbor
Saturday, October 28
More information about these and other continuing dental
education courses may be obtained by contacting the
Alumni Association Go Blue! Tailgate
University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Office of Continuing
Time: 9:00 am
Dental Education at 1011 N. University Avenue, Room G508, Location: Elbel Field
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078 or by visiting the School of Dentistry
Web site: www.dent.umich.edu. Football Game – University of Michigan vs. Northwestern
Time: Kick-off at 12 noon
On the homepage, put your cursor on “continuing dental Location: The Big House
education” and then click.