COMING UP

Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events

September 2003

Recognition Month for IUSD's
Patient Services Staff

LABOR DAY (school closed, including library)

All faculty and staff are invited to a RECEPTION TO MEET THE NEW IUPUI CHANCELLOR AND HIS WIFE. Chancellor Charles Bantz and IUPUI Professor Sandra Petronio will be greeting members of the IUPUI community during a "cookies and lemonade" reception from 1:30 to 3 p.m. under the tent in the University College Courtyard.

Today is the deadline to submit your nominations for the Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., M.D. Experience Excellence AwardS. These awards recognize full-time faculty and staff employed at least a year for service "above and beyond the call of duty" (i.e., not specifically job related) to the university as a whole or to any of its units, including the School of Dentistry. The nomination form is online -- go to www.jaguars.iupui.edu/frames/home/irwinform.html .

The American Student Dental Association (ASDA) is hosting a BARBEQUE DURING LUNCHTIME on the lawn east of the dental school today. For more details, contact 4^th year dental student Junaid Farooqui.

IUPUI FACULTY COUNCIL, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at IH 100

APPLICATIONS FOR THE IUSD STAFF COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP are due today. Materials go to Elizabeth Hatcher by e-mail or campus mail, DS280A.

8th annual MENTOR DINNER for dentists and lst year dental students, sponsored by the Indiana Dental Association; 6 p.m. at the NCAA Hall of Champions, White River State Park. Guest speaker is former IU basketball star and NBA player Kent Benson, who helped the Hoosiers pull off the NCAA championship (against the University of Michigan) in 1976. By invitation, and free to lst year dental students. RSVPs were due in the Office of Student Affairs on Aug. 27.

CE course RADIOLOGY LECTURE FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL, by Gail Williamson, professor of dental diagnostic sciences. Call 278-9000.

CE course CPR FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, by Kathy Thompson, IUSD CPR teaching coordinator. Call 278-9000.

44^th annual DELTA SIGMA DELTA DENTAL FRATERNITY LUAU. Details are posted in the basement. For more information, contact 4^th year dental student Justin Clemens.

Newly established DEAN'S SOCIETY DINNER recognizes donors who have given gifts of $1,000 or more in the past fiscal year through their membership in the Dean's Associates Platinum Society, Gold Society, or Bronze Society. The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Montage, 8580 Allison Pointe Blvd. By invitation.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEONS annual meeting, Toronto, Canada

Special program: ADA SUCCESS SEMINAR for 3^rd and 4^th year dental students, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in DS S117. Attendance is required.

Annual FACULTY AND STAFF CONFERENCES, with faculty meeting at the Canyon Inn, McCormick's Creek State Park, Spencer, and staff meeting at the school. IUSD classes and clinics are canceled. Registration for the staff and Canyon Inn room reservations for the faculty were due in August.

Please note that the school's LIBRARY HOURS ARE LIMITED from 5 to 10 p.m. on the 11^th, and the LIBRARY IS CLOSED all day on the 12^th.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's Sept. 26^th meeting

CE course FULL MOUTH DISINFECTION: Periodontal Therapy for the New Millennium; and TOOTH WHITENING: Chairside to Chewing Gum, Part I of the Dental Hygiene Series. Presenter is Kristy Menage Bernie, columnist, Contemporary Oral Hygiene, and president, California Dental Hygienists' Association. Call 278-9000.

CE course THE DENTIST AS THE ARTIST: HANDS-ON AESTHETIC CONTINUUM (Part I), led by Dr. Larry Rosenthal of Aesthetic Advantage Midwest. Call 278-9000.

CE course RADIOLOGY LABORATORY FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL, by Prof. Gail Williamson. Call 278-9000.

Volunteers are conducting TOURS OF THE DENTAL SCHOOL from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today as part of the campus' annual EXPLORE IUPUI. Tours begin at the IUPUI Lecture Hall building next to Cavanaugh Hall. Explore IUPUI offers a spectacular -- and free -- opportunity for families with youngsters and teenagers (as well as anyone else) to get acquainted with the IUPUI campus and its wide-ranging portfolio of college courses, programs, and degrees. To learn all the details, go to www.explore.iupui.edu.

STAFF COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 12:30-1:30 p.m. (room to be announced)

IUSD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD meeting, 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency downtown

61^st FALL DENTAL ALUMNI CONFERENCE, Indianapolis. For the first time in a dozen years, the School of Dentistry's annual reunion celebration for its graduates will take place here in town instead of in Bloomington. The Hyatt Regency is serving as conference headquarters.

The IUPUI Office of Alumni Relations and the IUSD Alumni Association have created a special three-day event with all the trimmings, including the annual Huckelberry Memorial Golf Scramble at the Coffin Golf Club, bicycling at Eagle Creek, a tennis tournament at the Indianapolis Tennis Center on campus, and tours of the President Benjamin Harrison Home and the James Whitcomb Riley Historic Home. All proceeds from the golf outing will benefit our students' spring 2004 service-learning programs in Haiti and Mexico.

Friday afternoon's CE program, "Is Osteoporosis Affecting You?," is presented by Dr. Joseph Bidwell, associate professor of anatomy and cell biology; and Friday night is reserved, as usual, for the alumni reception, banquet, and individual class parties at the Hyatt. On Saturday, alums will be heading to the dental school for a tour of the building and to attend a CE course, "Contract Negotiations and Practice Transitions," presented by Jason Smith, a financial planner with the Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. After that, a dental fans bus will transport the conference crowd to Bloomington for IU's football game with the University of Kentucky.

Since the conference is in Indy , we are likely to have many graduates stopping by in their spare time on either Thursday or Friday to have a look around the dental school and to say hello to some of their favorite profs and staff. Should you encounter any of our alums on these days, please do whatever you can to make them feel comfortable and to welcome them back to their alma mater. I can tell you, from having participated in the fall conference for the past 17 years, that the IU School of Dentistry has the greatest group of alumni on the planet, hands down. Let's show them how much we appreciate them and their support of IUSD.--Sue Crum, ed.

FDI WORLD DENTAL CONGRESS, Sydney, Australia

CE course CONSERVATIVE ESTHETIC DENTISTRY: PROVEN SOLUTIONS VS. OPINION AND HYPE, by Dr. Harald Heymann, University of North Carolina. Call 278-9000.

RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in OHRI 110

CE course RADIOLOGY LABORATORY FOR DENTAL PERSONNEL, by Prof. Gail Williamson. Call 278-9000.

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PERIODONTOLOGY annual session, San Francisco, Calif.

STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL/DEAN'S STUDENT TOWNHALL, noon in DS114

The Office of Dental Education's TUTOR TRAINING WORKSHOP, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Deadline to register is Sept. 12. For more information or to register contact Brenda Fitzgerald by e-mail or phone, 274-8597.

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

ROSH HASHANAH (begins at sundown on Friday)

CE course ORTHODONTIC IMPLANTS: Multidisciplinary Treatment of Complex Malocclusions, by IU faculty members Drs. Eugene Roberts, William Hohlt, David Brown, M. Thomas Barco, Steven Blanchard, and Joseph Heidelman; IUSD alumni Drs. Lawrence Falendar, Ammar Louly, and Frank Hsieh; IUSD graduate student Dr. Gary Yip; and guest faculty Drs. Bernard Gantes and Frank Celenza. Call 278-9000.

SAVE THIS DATE IN OCTOBER. On Saturday, Oct. 4, Theta Chapter of Sigma Phi Alpha national dental hygiene honor society will present a CE course titled PERIODONTAL CHEMOTHERAPY: WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T, taught by Dr. Steven Blanchard, assistant professor of periodontics and director of graduate periodontics; 9 a.m.-noon at Walker Plaza. Preceded by a continental breakfast at 8 a.m. Dr. Blanchard will discuss the use of mouth rinses, irrigation devices and agents, localized drug delivery, and enzyme suppression therapy in the treatment of periodontal disease. The course is designed to give participants a better understanding of the rational use of these various agents and to better prepare them to ask questions of sales representatives and answer patients' questions about the products. Course is open to the society's members as well as nonmembers. Registration fee of $50 helps fund scholarships for dental hygiene students on the Indianapolis campus. Registrants will earn 3 CEUs. For more information or to register, call 274-5102, 274-2611, or 274-7801.

LECTURE CIRCUIT. Dr. Donald Arens, professor of endodontics, was one of the featured speakers at the Dentsply/Tulsa Dental Opinion Leaders meeting held at Grand Lake, Okla., in August. The lecturers discussed the various anesthetic techniques that are useful in addressing the difficult to anesthetize "hot tooth." For those of us who have not yet had any endo courses, Dr. Arens explains that a "hot tooth" refers to any tooth having an inflamed pulp that is difficult to anesthetize. The Opinion Leaders meeting attracted more than 250 participants from dozens of countries.

A LEADER IN CRANIOFACIAL BIOLOGY. Congratulations to Dr. James Hartsfield Jr., who has been elected vice president of the International Association for Dental Research Craniofacial Biology Group for 2003-2004. The election results were announced at the IADR meeting in Göteborg, Sweden, in June. Dr. Hartsfield is professor of oral facial genetics, orthodontics, and medical and molecular genetics. After serving as vice president, he will spend a year as president-elect and as such will chair the Craniofacial Biology portion of the 2005 IADR/American Association for Dental Research meeting in Baltimore, Md. Then, as president in 2005-2006, he will preside over the group's 2006 AADR meeting in Orlando, Fla., and the 2006 IADR meeting in Brisbane, Australia.

End September 2003 Calendar

Send items for October calendar by Sept. 25: 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