COMING UP

Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events

March 2006

Recognition Month for IUSD's
Allied Dental Professionals

We are pleased to announce the names of IU's newest members of OMICRON KAPPA UPSILON and SIGMA PHI ALPHA honor societies. Sixteen students will be inducted during ceremonies scheduled next month.

Congratulations to the 11 fourth-year dental students who will be taken into Theta Theta Chapter of OKU: Suzanne Bolyard, Ryan Brown, Ashlee Cave, Christopher Crane, Diana Kozlowski, Jamie Laughery, Paul Ley, David Pflum, Kellie Schaub, Christopher Spohr, and Michelle Vance. From this group, one student will be chosen to receive OKU's Outstanding Student Award, which will be announced at the banquet on April 5.

Congratulations, also, to the five dental hygiene students to be inducted into Theta Chapter of Sigma Phi Alpha: Colleen Beckner, Kendra Dunlap, Megan Fisher, T.J. Jenell Greiwe, and Lorraine Sack.

In addition, OKU recognizes an exceptional third-year dental student with the William S. Kramer Award. This year's honoree is Allison Bergdoll.

Three faculty members are also being inducted into OKU: Dr. Suteera Hovijitra, associate professor of prosthodontics; and part-time faculty Dr. Norman Stump, clinical assistant professor of operative dentistry; and Dr. Gregory Phillips, clinical assistant professor of periodontics.

Three alumni members of OKU have attained life membership in 2006: Gregory Crawford (DDS'72), Grabill, Ind.; Kenton Susott (DDS'71, M'73 Orthodontics), Zionsville, Ind.; and James Vaught (DDS'61), Maryville, Tenn.

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We also extend our best wishes for both a safe journey and a rewarding experience to the 20 IUSD students and faculty who are volunteering their Spring Break vacation this month to provide oral healthcare and education to populations in need in rural Mexico and Ecuador.

Dental students heading to Mexico are Jeffrey Jones and Nicole Weddell, 2^nd yr.; Lauren Weddell, 3^rd yr.; Kevin Beadle, Brett Grube, and Nathan Williams, 4^th yr.; and pediatric dentistry resident Dr. Joseph Guido. They will be mentored by Dr. Angeles Martinez-Mier, assistant professor of preventive and community dentistry; and Dr. Armando Soto, visiting assistant scientist.

The Ecuador team consists of dental hygiene student Megan Fisher, 2^nd yr.; and dental students Kristin Harpham, Cheryl Hartman, and William Johnson, 3^rd yr.; and Michael Foust, Kenneth Otterstedt, Nikkole Patterson, Jeffrey Riggs, and Lisa Young, 4^th yr. Faculty mentors are Dr. Timothy Carlson, professor of operative dentistry; and Dr. Samuel Campbell Jr., clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Don't forget that you can still support our volunteers' service-learning efforts abroad simply by enjoying the pizza-or-chicken sandwich lunches they sell for $5 on most Thursdays throughout March and April.

While IUSD's students and faculty prepared for this latest service-learning experience, Dr. Karen Yoder, director of Community Dentistry and a national expert in the field of service-learning, has been busy writing about this increasingly important teaching methodology used in dental schools. Read what she has to say in her article appearing in the February 2006 issue of the Journal of Dental Education: A Framework for Service-Learning in Dental Education. 70(2):115-123. http://www.jdentaled.org.

RESEARCH DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, noon in OH 110

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DENTAL PRACTICE ADMINISTRATION annual meeting, Dana Point, Calif.

Support our student volunteers for the Alternative Spring Break trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a 5-BUCK LUNCH (pizza or sandwich with chips, cookie, and drink), available in the basement at 11:30 a.m.

NORTH EAST REGIONAL BOARD, Comprehensive Care Clinics F and G all day

IUPUI CAMPUS DAY, an Enrollment Center program for anyone with an interest in knowing more about educational opportunities on this campus, 1-4 p.m. Learn about degree programs, financial aid and scholarships, housing, admissions, and much more. No pre-registration is required. For more information, check out the Campus Day Web site http://visit.iupui.edu/Campus_Day/index.html.

NATIONAL DENTAL ASSISTANTS RECOGNITION WEEK for 2006

IUPUI FACULTY COUNCIL, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the University Library auditorium

Book Club meets at noon today in DS S119 to discuss the first half of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: THE TRUE STORY OF A REAL FAKE, an autobiography by Frank Abagnale, written with Stan Redding. This month's book selection was chosen by Elizabeth Hatcher, director of Staff Development and Support. Everyone welcome.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH, and AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION annual sessions, Orlando, Fla. While you're in Orlando: On Wednesday night from 7 to 8:30, join Dean Lawrence Goldblatt and Dr. Domenick Zero, associate dean for Research and director of the Oral Health Research Institute, at a reception for IU School of Dentistry friends, alumni, and associates; Asia 3 room of the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel.

Support our student volunteers for the ASB trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a 5-BUCK LUNCH, beginning 11:30 a.m.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's March 24^th meeting

IUSD SPRING RECESS. No classes or special clinic assignments. Clinics are open Monday-Wednesday only. During the break, the library is closed on the weekends (11/12, 18/19), and it closes early, at 5 p.m., on the weekdays.

PURIM (classes and clinics as usual)

A Bow to America's Other Beloved ‘Lucy.' Attention women dentists and women dental students: Your pioneer was born on this day 173 years ago, in 1833. The country's first female dentist, Dr. Lucy Hobbs, graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1866. (She later married, and is known today as Lucy Hobbs Taylor.) It would be a long, long time after Dr. Hobbs was handed her diploma â€" and indeed, after her death in 1910, before women began gaining entrance in significant numbers into American dental schools.

Our own Indiana Dental College, which opened in 1879, declared in its first mission statement that the goal of the college was to teach students to be "competent and gentlemanly practitioners of dentistry." Just one year later, though, the college formally invited "lady" students into the institution, albeit with a gentlemanly promise that special arrangements would be made for their anatomy and physiology classes.

Whatever those special arrangements were, they gathered dust for another decade. The college's first female graduates, both in the DDS Class of 1891, were Dr. Hattie Scott, of Galveston, Texas, and Dr. Lucinia McCollum, originally of Minnesota and later of Warren, Ind. Our hats are off to their male contemporaries, who quickly recognized the outstanding leadership qualities of female dentists. Only three years after Dr. McCollum's graduation, she was elected president of the Indiana Dental College alumni association.

Numbers of women in dentistry in this nation didn't begin to jump significantly until the 1970s. Between 1879 and 1974, more than 5,000 men â€" but only 56 womenâ€" earned dental degrees from the IU School of Dentistry and its predecessor. By the 1989-1990 school year, however, about one-third of the dental school population was female. And today, the school's four dental classes are roughly 42 percent female.

Reference: 1990. Women dentists have pull. Indiana Alumni 53(2):36-40.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS S421

Indiana Section of the AADR presents ROOT RESORPTION ASSOCIATED WITH ORTHODONTIC FORCE: THE MOUSE MODEL, by IU PhD student Dr. Shaza Abass; noon-1 p.m. in DS S117. Everyone welcome.

STUDENT LOAN EXIT PROGRAM, 2-5:30 p.m. in DS S117. Led by Paul Koch, IUPUI assistant director of Student Financial Aid. This is a mandatory program for all graduating DDS and master's degree students who have borrowed federal student loans while attending IUSD. Students should arrive by 1:45 p.m. to pick up their individual loan record and repayment folders. Representatives from Sallie Mae and Suntrust Bank will be participating. Please contact Paul Koch for more details, or if you have a school/personal conflict (pdkoch@iupui.edu).

Lunch Box Discussion Series THE CLINICIAN'S ROLE IN HELPING PATIENTS STOP SMOKING, by Dr. Laura Romito-Cera, visiting associate professor of oral biology; noon-1 p.m. in DS S421. Everyone welcome. No registration required.

Book Club meets at noon today in DS S119 to finish its treatment of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Everyone welcome.

Hub's a Hall of Famer. Congratulations to IU School of Dentistry graduate and pediatric dentist Hubbard "Hub" Hougland (DDS'63), of Muncie, Ind., who is among the former basketball stars being taken into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame during ceremonies held this evening at the Primo Banquet Hall in Indianapolis. Dr. Hougland was a varsity member of the Scottsburg, Ind., Warriors from 1951 to 1955. He is being honored as the first Scottsburg player to score more than 1,000 points in a career. His record of 1,323 points stood until 1969, and a half century after he scored them, his point count is still the fourth highest in the school's history. Hub and his teammates won sectional titles for three years running (1953-55). After he graduated, Hub was also a standout basketball player at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he enrolled on a scholarship. He set a single season field goal accuracy record during his junior year.

Support our student volunteers for the ASB trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a 5-BUCK LUNCH, beginning 11:30 a.m.

STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in OH 110

CE program RADIOLOGY FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL (lecture), by Gail Williamson, professor of dental diagnostic sciences. For details, call 278-9000.

DENTAL HYGIENE CANDIDATE ORIENTATION for applicants for the 2006-2007 school year; 9 a.m.-noon both days in DS S116. By invitation. Program includes an in-depth information session, tour of the building, and panel discussion about the "real world" of dental hygiene school led by dental hygiene student volunteers. For more information, contact Sally Phillips, clinical lecturer in dental hygiene, siphilli@iupui.edu.

Indiana Section of the AADR presents THE EFFECTS OF CYTOKINES ON PULP FIBROBLASTS MEDIATED COLLAGEN DEGRADATION, by IU PhD candidate Dr. Kessiri Wisithphrom; noon-1 p.m. in DS S116. Everyone invited.

NATIONAL DENTAL BOARD EXAMINATION and Part II retakes

NATIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE BOARD EXAMINATION

Indiana Section of the AADR presents PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS AFFECTS THE COLLAGEN DEGRADING ABILITY OF GINGIVAL FIBROBLASTS, by IU PhD candidate Dr. Jing Zhou; noon-1 p.m. in DS S117. Everyone welcome.

Today is Dental Illustrations' DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING MATERIALS FOR POSTERS to be presented at the school's Research Day in April. The division's services and supplies are free to those presenting posters at this event, 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 contact Mark Dirlam, division supervisor.

Support our student volunteers for the ASB trips to Mexico and Ecuador by buying a 5-BUCK LUNCH, beginning 11:30 a.m.

IUSD FACULTY COUNCIL, noon-1 p.m. in DS S117

CE course PERIODONTAL SURGERY FOR THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER, by Dr. Donald Weissman, Chicago, and Dr. Steven Blanchard, assistant professor of periodontics; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m at the dental school. Call 278-9000 for details.

SMILES DELIVERED. Thanks to the notable efforts of student, staff, and faculty volunteers in collaboration with dental professionals from the community, the IU School of Dentistry treatment site for February's Give Kids a Smile Day provided free dental examinations and treatment to 56 youngsters in need. Another 30 children were screened by Dr. Judith Chin, assistant professor of preventive and community dentistry, prior to the event. As usual, IUSD's student volunteers put their own special stamp of excellence on the program by conducting educational clinics in the Pediatric Dentistry reception area, escorting patients and families from the first-floor screening clinic to Pediatric Dentistry, serving chairside, and fostering communication as interpreters. Dr. Joan Kowolik, assistant professor of pediatric dentistry, reports that the student volunteer pool included 13 dental assisting students, nine dental hygiene students, and 27 dental students.

SWENSON SCHOLARS. Congratulations to third-year periodontic graduate students Drs. Burton Largura and Jules Mascarenhas, who are the 2006 recipients of Henry M. Swenson Periodontic Scholarships. Presented in February in Chicago, the scholarships honor IU Professor Emeritus Swenson, a part-time professor of periodontics and an IUSD faculty member since 1943.

CONFERENCE PRESENTER. Last month Dr. Michael Kowolik, professor of periodontics, presented a paper at an international conference, "Making People Better," hosted by the University of Otago Bioethics Centre in New Zealand. Titled "Ethical Challenges in Conducting Clinical Research Within Mayan Communities of Central America," the paper represented a collaborative effort between Dr. Kowolik and Dr. Eric Meslin, director of IU's Center for Bioethics. Also during the conference, Dr. Kowolik participated in a multinational panel on research in indigenous populations. He has been an affiliate faculty member of the IU Center for Bioethics since 2004.

TIME TO PULL OUT YOUR MOST COMFY SNEAKERS. Plan to join Team IUSD in the annual KOMEN INDIANAPOLIS RACE FOR THE CURE, to be held April 22. IUPUI team co-captains for Dentistry are once again Karla Newman, assistant to the chair, Department of Oral Facial Development; and Beth Wyeth, dental hygienist at the Cottage Corner Dental Clinic. Karla and Beth do a remarkable job of assembling a first-rate team to represent our school each year. If you can't participate in the event, don't forget that donations are highly appreciated and a helpful boost to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's ongoing fight against this disease. You can register online at http://race.komenindy.org, or pick up a print form from Karla (DS249) or Beth.

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Send items for April calendar by March 27: 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