COMING UP
Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events
February 2005
National Children's Dental Health Month
Recognition Month for IUSD's
Administrative Staff
Ah, February at the IU Dental School:
Time to Stop and Smell the Roses, the Carnations â€" and the
Pizza!
This month you have two wonderful opportunities to help support Dentistry's
hard-working Staff Council and the students who will be volunteering their
services to treat underserved persons in Mexico and Ecuador during Alternative
Spring Break.
To help the staff, you must fill your life with beautiful flowers.
To help the students, you must fill your tum-tum with pizza.
How hard can this be?
Look for details below about the Staff Council's time-honored Valentine's Day
Flower Sale on Feb. 11 and the Alternative Spring Break pizza fundraisers on
each Thursday this month.
1 (Tues.)
FACULTY ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORTS are due today. Submit one copy of the FASR and
your current C.V. to your department chair and two copies of each of these
documents to the Office of Academic Affairs.
IUPUI FACULTY COUNCIL, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in IH 100
2 (Wed.)
STAFF TOWN HALL, 12:15-12:45 p.m. in DS114
3 (Thurs.)
Support the Alternative Spring Break trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a
PIZZA LUNCH for $5 in the cafeteria, beginning 11:30 a.m. A fiver gets you not
one but TWO pizza slices as well as a drink and a "treat." Please do whatever
you can to help support this important service-learning program, which relies on
grants and donations for funding. Not keen on pizza? You can still help our
student volunteers by writing a check made payable to the IU Foundation.
Donations are tax-deductible. (Indiana gives a tax credit.) On the memo line
write "Service Learning Account 38-D008-54-6." Checks go to Pamela Lovejoy
in the Office of Development, DS110.
4 (Fri.)
Third annual GIVE KIDS A SMILE program brings community dentists to the
dental school today to join our students and faculty in providing dental
treatment to low-income children. Sponsored by the American Dental Association
and locally by the Indiana Dental Association, this program is taking place in
dental offices, dental schools, and community clinics throughout the nation. Our
dental school is serving as one of Indiana's key sites, with patients being seen
in the first-floor clinic areas and the pediatric dentistry clinic on floor two.
Last year, free treatment was provided to an estimated one million children in
need nationwide, including about 85 underserved Hoosier children at IUSD. For
more details about this year's program, contact Dr. Judith Chin,
assistant professor of preventive and community dentistry; Melinda Meadows,
visiting clinical lecturer in dental hygiene; or Dr. George Willis,
associate dean for clinical affairs.
5 (Sat.)
CE course RADIOLOGY FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL (lecture), by Gail Williamson,
professor of dental diagnostic sciences. Call 278-9000 for details.
10 (Thurs.)
Support the Alternative Spring Break trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a
PIZZA LUNCH for $5 in the cafeteria, beginning 11:30 a.m.
11 (Fri.)
You may not be able to tiptoe through the tulips today, but the IUSD Staff
Council has made it easy and convenient for you to shower yourself and others
with glorious carnations and roses. The ever-popular VALENTINE'S DAY FLOWER SALE
will tempt you with carnations at $1 apiece and roses at $3. And if you run out
of lapels to decorate, bud vases are going for $2. A dozen red, white, and pink
carnations would look swell on a coffee table, nightstand, or kitchen counter â€"
and one exquisite rose would remind your extra special someone that no one's
love means more to you. Michelle Fatheree is accepting pre-orders prior
to today's general sale (mfathere@iupui.edu).
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's Feb. 25th
meeting
Seminar, Indiana Section of the American Association for Dental Research:
ANALYSIS OF COST-EFFECTIVENESS IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, by Steve Downs,
M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Children's Health
Services Research Program at Riley hospital; noon-1 p.m. in DS S116. Everyone
welcome.
Today is the FINAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR RESEARCH DAY table clinic and
poster abstracts. Registration materials are located at the INAADR link (Indiana
Section of the American Association for Dental Research) on the Intranet's
Explorer Launchpad. To register, send three items to Susan Crum: 1) an
electronic copy of your abstract (prepared as a Microsoft Word document), sent
either as an e-mail attachment (the preferred method) or on a CD; 2) a hard copy
of your research abstract, which has been carefully proofread by you (watch out
for symbol conversion problems); and 3) the registration form. Registration
forms from staff and students must bear the signature of their faculty mentor.
Susan's campus mail address is Publications DS B32, and her e-mail is
smcrum@iupui.edu.
We're Puttin' on the Ritz, Charles. IUSD's Student Affairs Council and
students remind us that we're invited to meet them at the downtown intersection
of Washington and Illinois tonight â€" not to go dancing in the streets but rather
above them, in the lovely and romantic setting of the Indianapolis Artsgarden.
The annual VALENTINE'S DAY FORMAL will be in full swing from 7 to 11 this
evening, with the Ritz Charles serving as caterer and a DJ on hand to make sure
you, too, are in full swing on the dance floor. Tickets are $20 per person and
will be on sale outside the cafeteria during lunch hours the week of Jan.
31-Feb. 4. If you didn't already get a reservation form, you can pick one up in
Dr. Margot Van Dis's office, DS130. Pull your best semi-formal ensemble
together (or you could even buy a new outfit on your way to the "ball" since the
Circle Centre Mall and Artsgarden are connected) and join our students for a
special pre-Valentine's Day celebration.
12 (Sat.)
CE course RADIOLOGY FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL (laboratory), by Prof. Gail
Williamson. Call 278-9000 for details.
CE course CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSITATION, by CPR coordinator Kathy Thompson.
Call 278-9000 for details.
13-20 (Sun.-Sun.)
Wish You Were Here? IU School of Dentistry Alumni Association's REUNION
IN THE CARIBBEAN. IUSD grads and guests are at sea this week, enjoying an
eastern-Caribbean luxury cruise aboard the Millennium. While we're scraping our
windshields here in Indy they'll be lathering on the sunscreen oil for visits to
Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Charlotte Amalie, St.
Thomas; and Nassau, Bahamas.
14 (Mon.)
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15 (Tues.)
Lunch Box Discussion Series "TAKE 2 ASPIRINS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING":
ANALGESIC THERAPY IN DENTISTRY, by Dr. Darlene West, clinical assistant
professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery; noon-1 p.m. in DS S421. Everyone
welcome. No registration required.
16 (Wed.)
Today is Dental Illustrations' DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING MATERIALS FOR POSTERS
to be presented at the upcoming International Association for Dental
Research/AADR meeting in Baltimore, Md. The division's services and supplies are
free to those presenting posters at this meeting, but today's deadline must be
observed. All materials must be in their final format and ready for mounting.
Submit presentation titles as Word documents to
mdirlam@iupui.edu. For more
information about Dental Illustrations' poster services, contact Mark Dirlam,
division supervisor.
16-18 (Wed.-Fri.)
First annual meeting of the COMMUNITY-ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP FOR HEALTH
COLLABORATIVE, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, Nashville, Tenn. The IU
School of Dentistry and nine other health professions schools around the nation
have received funding collectively from the U.S. Department of Education to work
on developing methods for recognizing and rewarding community engagement as
central to the role of faculty members at their own institutions and nationally.
In January, the national organization Community-Campus Partnerships for
Health (CCPH) announced the three-year, $563,842 grant, which was awarded by the
Education department's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
Participating in the Collaborative from this campus are Dean Lawrence
Goldblatt; Dr. E. Brady Hancock, chair of the Department of
Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs; Dr. Robert Bringle of the IUPUI
Center for Service and Learning; Dr. Karen Yoder, director of Community
Dentistry; and two of Dentistry's partners from the community, Dawne Lyon
and Becky Markley of Goodwill Industries.
"We were invited to participate through the CCPH, which is the lead
organization promoting civic engagement in the health professions schools," says
Dr. Yoder. "The grant is intended to bring together representatives of health
professions schools to lay the groundwork for increasing the rewards for
community engaged scholarship in the promotion and tenure process."
One other dental school, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
is participating. Other members of the Collaborative include schools of
pharmacy, nursing, medicine, public health, and allied health sciences.
17 (Thurs.)
Support the Alternative Spring Break trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a
PIZZA LUNCH for $5 in the cafeteria, beginning 11:30 a.m.
18 (Fri.)
RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in DS245
19 (Sat.)
CE course RADIOLOGY FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL (laboratory), by Prof. Gail
Williamson. Call 278-9000 for details.
23 (Wed.)
STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL and DEAN'S STUDENT TOWN HALL, noon in DS114
23, 24 (Wed., Thurs.)
AMERICAN EQUILIBRATION SOCIETY annual meeting, Chicago, Ill.
23-25 (Wed.-Fri.)
ACADEMY OF OPERATIVE DENTISTRY annual meeting, Chicago
24 (Thurs.)
AMERICAN PROSTHODONTIC SOCIETY annual meeting, Chicago
IUPUI Compliance Training, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Walker Plaza. Mandatory
for staff with supervisory responsibilities and highly recommended for faculty
with administrative duties. Presented by David Bouton and Dan Griffith
of the campus's Human Resources division. Topics are FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT,
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, and SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
Register by sending an email to Elizabeth Hatcher, director of Staff
Development and Support, ehatcher@iupui.edu.
Support the Alternative Spring Break trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a
PIZZA LUNCH for $5 in the cafeteria, beginning 11:30 a.m.
HEALTH POLICY DAY for 4th year dental students. In a first-time
program co-hosted by the IDA, the DDS Class of 2005 will be visiting the Indiana
State House, where they will be given an opportunity to learn about the health
policy process, issues facing dentistry, and current health policy activities on
the state and national levels. State representatives and senators have been
informed of this visit so that perhaps some students will have a chance to chat
with their hometown legislators. The program also includes talks by nationally
renowned pediatric dentist Dr. Burton Edelstein, founder of the
Children's Dental Health Project; and John Holtzee, a public policy
expert at the ADA. Health Policy Day is a required component of 4th
year rotations and the public health competency.
24-27 (Thurs.-Sun.)
CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY'S MIDWINTER MEETING, Chicago
25 (Fri.)
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FIXED PROSTHODONTICS annual scientific session, Chicago
STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in DS B31
APPRAISAL FORMS FOR SUPERVISORS are due today â€" submit an original and one
copy to Elizabeth Hatcher, DS280A.
IUSD ALUMNI RECEPTION co-sponsored by Dean Lawrence Goldblatt, the IU
School of Dentistry, and the IUSD Alumni Association, 5-6:30 p.m. in room E262
of McCormick Place Complex, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Held in
conjunction with the Midwinter Meeting. Everyone welcome. RSVP to Karen Deery,
274-8959.
Learning to Get More than Just Your Kicks on Route 66. When the
distinguished EDWARD C. MOORE SYMPOSIUM ON TEACHING EXCELLENCE gets under way on
campus today, our own John Gosney, director of Technology Services, will
be among those with a high profile â€" and with good reason.
With another of his books coming out this summer and an IUPUI course of his
own creation under development for next fall, John has plenty to share with the
university community at this annual conference, IUPUI's oldest public event.
Following the conference's theme of "Putting Student Learning First" and
drawing upon his expertise in computer technology, John is giving a presentation
titled "Alternative Reality Gaming (ARG): Utilizing Collaborative Play for
Collective Learning." ARG is a genre of gaming that was developed by an
ultra-sophisticated group of Web surfers after the turn of the century. The goal
of the game is to work with a wide network of other Web users to solve an
enormously complex puzzle or riddle, the type of problem that typically can't be
solved alone.
Educators have become interested in ARG because, as John describes in his
symposium abstract, "the methods of collaborative play and massively scaled
social interaction that are required for ARG (and made possible via the Web) are
strikingly similar to the pedagogical processes involved with problem-based
learning (PBL)." John and others are exploring the role that collaborative
gaming might play in helping students facilitate real-world problem solving.
He will be describing an interdisciplinary course he is developing for the
American Studies Program, to be offered by the IUPUI Institute for American
Thought next fall. "The course focuses on the literary movement, predominantly
of the 1950s, known as the ‘Beats' â€" featuring writers such as Jack Kerouac
and William Burroughs," John explains. Students in John's class will use
a combination of Web-based and traditional resources and work collaboratively to
solve an alternative reality game. The game will consist of a virtual trip
across America on Route 66, the legendary, pre-interstate cross-county highway
that countless films, songs, and books turned into an American icon long ago. By
the time they come to the end of the road, and thus solved the game, students
will have mastered the content of the course.
John's upcoming book on the subject, "Beyond Reality: a Guide to Alternative
Reality Gaming," will be published by Course Technology Press this summer.
Two of Dentistry's faculty members are also among the symposium speakers
today. Dr. Angeles Martinez-Mier, assistant professor of preventive and
community dentistry, and Dr. Suzanne De†Ball, associate professor of
pediatric dentistry, join eight other educators in a group presentation titled
"Multidisciplinary Examples of Implementing Principles of Undergraduate Learning
(PUL) 5, Society and Culture, for Introductory and Intermediate Level Students."
Both talks are scheduled at 11 a.m. at the University Library, John's in room
0130 and the group's in room 0110. The deadline to pre-register for the Moore
Symposium is Feb. 21. Register at http://ecmoore.iupui.edu.
26, 27 (Sat., Sun.)
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY annual meeting, Chicago
People, Places & Things
DID YOU KNOW? Prominent Indiana political figure Steve Buyer has
been appointed head of the U.S. House of Representatives' Veterans' Affairs
Committee. He is the brother of IUSD alumna Diane Buyer (DDS'82), of
Indianapolis.
QUINCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN SCOTLAND INCLUDES A PROFESSORSHIP FOR MICHAEL
KOWOLIK. An IU professor of periodontics who earned his specialty degree
from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Scotland, will return to his
alma mater this year to accept a prestigious King James IV Professorship.
Dr. Michael Kowolik is the only dentist who, along with four surgeons,
will be honored by the college in 2005 for making "a significant contribution to
the clinical and/or scientific basis of surgery." Competition for the
professorship, which was created five years ago to mark the new millennium, is
open to all dental and surgical fellows and members of the college. Dr. Kowolik,
who is a fellow, received his BDS in 1973 and PhD in 1984 from the University of
Edinburgh. His training in periodontology and preventive dentistry was
accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1977.
The professorship honor is especially noteworthy in 2005 because it coincides
with the Royal College of Surgeons' quincentenary, or its 500th anniversary.
The college's charter was signed on July 1, 1505, and awarded the seal of
approval a year later by King James IV of Scotland. According to the
university's Website, the King enjoyed keeping abreast of science and was
especially proud of his abilities as a dental surgeon. He had a unique approach
to practice management in that he didn't accept payment from his patients â€" he
paid them instead.
Each of the new King James IV professors will present a lecture this year, and
they are also required to submit a manuscript to the Journal of the Royal
College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. A date has not yet been set for Dr.
Kowolik's address, which is titled "Inflammatory Studies: a Path from Old
Surgeons' Hall to the New World." For the duration of 2005 he will hold the
courtesy title of King James IV Professor â€" a title that Queen Elizabeth II
has given the Royal College of Surgeons permission to use.
YIP YIP HOORAY: THIS DIVA'S A NATIONAL PRIZE WINNER. She's not yet 10
months old, but Ridgecrest Kharizmatic Diva already knows what it feels
like to bask in the spotlight of a national winner's circle. This elaborately
named American Cocker Spaniel, who is known simply as "Mattie" at home and in
the show ring and is owned by Patsy Dunn-Jena, won lst place in her class
last month at the American Spaniel Club's limited breed show in King of Prussia,
Pa.
Patsy, a research analyst in the Department of Oral Facial Development, has
been showing and breeding cocker spaniels for more than 20 years. She currently
has 10 dogs that have either been shown or are being groomed for competition,
including a male and his grandmother who are both American Kennel Club (AKC)
champions.
"Bay Forest" is Patsy's kennel name, which identifies her as the breeder. Dog
shows, or "conformation events" as they are known in the business, are what the
AKC describes as "signature events" in which dogs are judged against recognized
breed standards in terms of ideal size, color, proportion, structure, movement,
and temperament.
Patsy drew upon Mattie's family to create the three-part name the dog is
officially registered under. Ridgecrest is the kennel name of Mattie's breeder,
a friend of Patsy's. The unique spelling of charismatic was chosen partly to
address Mattie's self-assured presence and partly to give her a name equal to
the magic of her father's, Alakazam. And "Diva" adds an element of sass
while also paying tribute to the other diva in the family, Mattie's mother.
As a buff-colored spaniel just under 9 months at the time of the Pennsylvania
event, Mattie competed with the 6-9 month-olds in the ASCOB variety (Any Solid
Color Other than Black). Patsy thinks that the judges probably were drawn to
Mattie because of her pretty head that she correctly carries on her neck and
shoulders, a good depth of chest, and a strong rear angulation well-suited to a
spaniel's drive. "Some people don't realize the cocker spaniel is a hunting dog
bred to go into the brush to find, flush out, and then retrieve fowl for the
hunter," says Patsy. "The instinct is still there."
The only down side to Mattie's Pennsylvania victory was that Patsy wasn't
there to witness it. "It's hard for me to attend this annual show since it is
right after Christmas break," Patsy says. Mattie was shown by dog handler
Stacy Dobmeier instead.
Although Mattie's a national winner, she isn't yet a champion in the eyes of
the American Kennel Club. To become a bona fide, certificate-holding AKC champ,
dogs must earn a total of 15 points from a variety of competitions including two
major ones. But with 4 points constituting one "major" that she already has,
young Mattie seems to be using her finely tuned tracking instincts to bird-dog
success in the show ring.
If you'd like to see Mattie compete, Patsy has entered her in shows on Friday
and Sunday (Feb. 11 and 13) at the Indy Winter Classic, which is scheduled at
the Indiana State Fair Grounds. For the details contact Patsy at
padunnje@iupui.edu.
End February 2005 Calendar
Send items for March calendar by Feb. 22: Indiana University School of
Dentistry, Room B32, 1121 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis IN 46202-5186. Fax:
(317) 274-7188. E-mail: smcrum@iupui.edu