COMING UP

Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events

June 2007

Congratulations to Newly Promoted Faculty:
Andréa Ferreira Zandoná
Richard Jackson
Angeles Martínez-Mier

Promoted, with Tenure, to
Associate Professors of Preventive and Community Dentistry

Thru May 27 (Sun.)

Final days of the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY annual session, San Antonio, Texas

May 28 (Mon.)
MEMORIAL DAY

With a special word of remembrance for Dr. Howard A. McCurdy, a member of IU's DDS Class of 1929 and a Fort Wayne practitioner who is believed to be the first IUSD alumnus to lose his life in World War II. Dr. McCurdy began active service as a dentist with the rank of Captain in the Army Air Force at Fort Lewis, Washington. He was killed in action on Jan. 16, 1942, while serving with General Douglas MacArthur's forces in the Philippine Islands.

The School of Dentistry is closed today, and the library is also closed May 26 and 27.

ASSESSMENT WEEK for the DDS Classes of 2009 and 2010 (second semester ends on Friday for these students). The Class of 2009 returns on Monday, July 16, and the Class of 2010 on Monday, July 9.

Faculty and faculty-designated staff have a choice of 3 dates to attend an ONCOURSE CL TRAINING session. All sessions are 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the IUSD Library's computer lab, which can accommodate 14 participants at each session. Register by email with Nadine Florek, director of Technology Services, nflorek@iupui.edu.

LIBRARY'S SUMMER SCHEDULE begins today: Closed on weekends and open Mondays-Fridays 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular Library hours resume on July 9.

1-3 (Fri.-Sun.)
WELCOME BACK, GRADUATES!

Please give a warm welcome to IU's prosthodontic grads and others who are gathering in Indy for the JOHN F. JOHNSTON SOCIETY'S REFRESHER COURSE at the IU dental school. This 3-day event is jam packed with presentations by many of IU's alumni as well as our current faculty and grad students. Featured on the program are Charles Goodacre (M'74), dean of dentistry at Loma Linda University in California; Gerry Cleary (M'92) of Dublin, Ireland; Guillermo Bernal (M'91) of Bogotá, Colombia; Stephen Rosenstiel (M'77) of Columbus, Ohio; Assad Mora (M'78, DDS'79) of Santa Barbara, Calif.; H. Winslow Rogers (Cert'99) of Rocky Mount, N.C.; Martin Land (M'78) of Alton, Ill.; Ned VanRoekel (DDS'65, M'67) of Pebble Beach, Calif.; Carlos Munoz (M'81, DDS'82) of Buffalo, N.Y.; Steve Lehman (DDS'73, Cert'76) of Carmel, Ind.; Richard Jones (DDS'75, M'78) of Schererville, Ind.; Ricardo Schwedhelm (M'83) of Edmonds, Wash.; and Robert Abraham (M'81) of Wallington, Surrey, England.

The course also includes presentations by IU faculty members Drs. Steven Blanchard, Susan Zunt, Eugene Roberts, Domenick Zero, David Brown, Jerry Andres, and Donald Schmitt (Drs. Andres and Schmitt also trained in IU's pros program); and current IU prosthodontic graduate students Drs. Michael Drone, Eva-Marie Powers, Monica Fernandez, and Nawaf Labban.

Non-members of the John F. Johnston Society are welcome to register. For the fees, presentation titles, and program schedule visit the Society's Website at www.jfjsociety.org.

PODCAST INFORMATION SESSION presented by Ryan Williams, the IUSD Technology Center's digital multimedia specialist; noon-1 p.m. in DS115. Everyone welcome.

Submit MODULE GRADES to the IUSD Gradebook for the DDS Classes of 2009 and 2010 by noon today.

Submit COURSE GRADES to the IUSD Gradebook for the DDS Classes of 2009 and 2010 by 5 p.m. today.

ASSESSMENT WEEK for the DDS Class of 2008 (second semester ends on Friday for these students)

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's June 29th meeting

Application deadline for full-time, tenured faculty for the IUPUI Office for Professional Development's position as SENIOR FACULTY FELLOW FOR ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT

FATHER'S DAY

Submit MODULE GRADES to the IUSD Gradebook for the DDS Class of 2008 by noon today.

STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL/DEAN'S STUDENT TOWN HALL, noon in DS114

AMERICAN DENTAL HYGIENISTS' ASSOCIATION annual session, New Orleans

Indiana University is well represented in Chicago at the BRIDGES TO LATINO HEALTH: WE CAN DO IT! conference, an academic and community-oriented gathering to explore the healthcare challenges confronting the Latino community in the U.S. Among the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry faculty participating in the program are Dr. Karen Yoder, director of Community Dentistry, and three teachers who are presenting abstracts: Dr. Armando Soto, assistant professor: Comparison of Responses of Latino and Non-Latino Parents to Phone Calls on the Follow-Up of Children Reported with Severe Dental Caries by the SEAL INDIANA Program; Dr. Gerardo Maupomé, professor: Tooth Loss, Complete Toothlessness, and Dental Services' Coverage Phenomena Described in National Surveys in Mexico (2002-2003): Factors Conditioning the Oral Health Status and Needs in the Latino Immigrant; and Dr. Angeles Martinez-Mier, associate professor: Increased Prevalence of Dental Fluorosis in Mexican American Children. The conference is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago's Public Health Action Project, Graduate School, and Stritch School of Medicine.

RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS S421

Submit COURSE GRADES to the IUSD Gradebook for the DDS Class of 2008 by 5 p.m. today.

Journalists with Hoosier Ties Among Those Honored by New Memorial. A war memorial for fallen journalists from around the globe was recently inaugurated in the French town of Bayeux, in Normandy. At least two reporters with connections to Indiana are among the 1,876 men and women whose names are listed on the Journalists Memorial, a collaborative effort of Bayeux and Reporters Without Borders that pays tribute to journalists from 1944 to the present who were killed while doing their jobs.

One of them is Daniel Pearl. After a run at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the movie "A MIGHTY HEART" will be released to U.S. theaters today. The film tells the story of the life and death of Pearl, The Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered overseas while investigating a story in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. After graduating from Stanford University, Pearl completed his newspaper internship as a Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star in the summer of 1985.

Another is Ernie Pyle, Indiana's most famous journalist and one of the nation's best known and beloved wartime columnists. After studying journalism at IU and serving as editor of the Indiana Daily Student, Pyle took his first newspaper job in the early 1920s as a reporter at the LaPorte Herald Argus in northern Indiana. IU awarded Pyle its first-ever honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 1944, a year before he was killed while reporting alongside the American armed forces in the Pacific during World War II. Tour guides for the National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu, where Pyle is buried, say that Pyle's grave is the one visitors most frequently ask to see. For more about Pyle, including a touching photo of him, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iu/journalism/2006-2007/pyle.shtml.

ACADEMY OF GENERAL DENTISTRY annual meeting, San Diego

STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in DS S421

People, Places, and Things

SALUTING THE "MAN FROM MUSKOGEE": AN HONORARY DEGREE FOR DR. GARNER. IUPUI bestowed four honorary degrees during the 2007 Commencement program, including a Doctor of Science degree upon our own Dr. LaForrest "Woody" Garner, professor emeritus of orthodontics and former longtime administrator at IUSD.

Dr. Garner accepted a full-time appointment on the dental faculty after earning IU degrees in dentistry (1957) and pediatric dentistry (1959) and an orthodontic certificate in 1961. During a distinguished career at the dental school that spanned nearly four decades, he served in the early years as chair of the Department of Orthodontics (17 years) and for the last 11 years as the school's first associate dean for Minority Student Services. In that role, he worked tirelessly to secure funds from federal and local agencies to use for scholarships and apprenticeships for minority students. He also provided expert pioneering leadership in orthodontic services as the orthodontic coordinator on the Riley Hospital Craniofacial Anomalies Team.

In 1998, Dr. Garner and his wife, Alfreida Garner, established the Garner Minority Student Scholarship for IU's dental students. "It's difficult enough for students to negotiate the academic program without also worrying about money," Dr. Garner said in 1998. He is a man who has always empathized with students, and who has never forgotten his own early experience of juggling part-time jobs with his educational goals â€" first, in his hometown of Muskogee, Okla., and then as an undergraduate student on the IU Bloomington campus.

As a teenager in Muskogee, Woody cleaned offices for several local dentists, who urged him to study dentistry â€" and pointed him in the direction of Indiana to do so. Woody turned down scholarship offers from Princeton and Drake universities to come to IU, where he helped make ends meet by washing windows for then IU President Herman Wells, serving as a dining hall attendant, and setting up a barber "shop" in the halls of his dormitory. Having learned barbering from his dad, Woody perfected the haircuts popular in the 1950s: "buzz" cuts for the athletes and "duck tails" for the hipsters.

After retiring from IUSD in 1998, he remained on campus part time to assist students as IUPUI ombudsman for University College.

In the IUPUI Commencement brochure, Dean Lawrence Goldblatt said that Dr. Garner's life and work have had a far-reaching impact on the promotion of the lives and careers of many young professionals. "Through this and his deep commitment to diversity and access to both education and healthcare and concern for the public good, he has established himself as a personal and professional role model par excellence."

The other 2007 honorary degree recipients are IUPUI Chancellor Emeritus Gerald Bepko; Howard University's communication studies pioneer Orlando Taylor, who holds a master's degree from IU; and philanthropist Audrey Stone Geisel, who is the widow of internationally acclaimed children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, and a graduate of the IU School of Nursing.

INSTEAD OF LAYING DOWN THE LAW, TERRY WILSON IS PICKING IT UP. For a change of pace, IUSD photographer Terry Wilson was posing for pictures instead of shooting them when he briefly stopped by the School of Dentistry's Post-Commencement ceremony at the Indiana Convention Center's 500 Ballroom on May 13. Dressed in cap and gown, Terry was heading upstairs to his own post-commencement program with the IU School of Law (Indianapolis), which bestowed upon him a 2007 Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. After years of balancing a full-time job with us and his law studies, Terry can't say goodbye to the books just yet: He will spend the next few months pondering matters of law for his bar exam, which is scheduled for July.

SEATING PARTIALS, UNSEATING MAYORS. In May's primary, dentist Rob Thoman, a 1980s dental graduate of IUSD, defeated four-term Southport mayor Nannette Tunget. According to the Indianapolis Star, Dr. Thoman, who is current president of the Greater Southport Business Alliance, plans to continue practicing during his term in office.

AN AWARD FOR APRIL IN MAY. April Allgood, a staff member in the Department of Oral Surgery and Hospital Dentistry at University Hospital, received the May "Pass It On" award that recognizes outstanding dental assistants on a monthly basis. "April is currently a patient accounts representative at University Hospital, but she went to University as a dental assistant and with her skills and knowledge base she was able to do both areas," says Patricia Huff, IUSD's dental assistant administrator. "She has a great work ethic and recently was chosen to be a back-up for dental assistants in the oral surgery department here at the school. She took on the job with a great attitude and has done the job very well." Pat Huff says that April is one of "75 great assistants" in the IUSD system. "With our ‘Pass It On' award, I hope we can let all of our assistants know how much we appreciate them."

TRUSTEES TEACHING AWARDS. A note of congratulations goes to the 2007 dental school recipients of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Awards, which were presented at the Faculty Council meeting in May:

Steven Blanchard, assistant professor of periodontics
Judith Chin, associate professor of pediatric dentistry
Margherita Fontana, associate professor of preventive and community dentistry
Joyce Hudson, clinical assistant professor of dental hygiene
Joseph Legan, clinical associate professor of endodontics
Melinda Meadows, assistant professor of oral facial development

LET THE SUNSHINE IN. According to a news release appearing in the May 18 edition of Inside INdiana Business, IUSD dental graduate J. Thomas Christie (DDS'88) of Connersville, Ind., has recently opened the state's first solar-powered dental office. To read the story, go to http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=23422.

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End June 2007 Calendar

Send items for July calendar by June 22: Indiana University School of Dentistry, Room DS B32, 1121 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis IN 46202-5186. Fax: (317) 274-7188. E-mail: smcrum@iupui.edu