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Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events

September 2005

Recognition Month for IUSD's
Patient Services Staff

Log off the laptops, re-shelve the books, empty the beakers, and discard the clinic gowns: It's party time! Ninth annual STUDENT APPRECIATION PICNIC gets under way at 12:30 this afternoon at Riverside Park, Shelter #5. Let the games â€" and the food-line â€" begin!

Here's another opportunity to beat the dog days of summer: See you at the Staff Council's ICE CREAM SALE, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

LAST DAY TO REGISTER for IUSD Staff Conference

AMERCAN STUDENT DENTAL ASSOCIATION annual session, Houston

Applications for the fall 2005 STAFF SCHOLARSHIP AWARD are due today in the office of Elizabeth Hatcher, director of Staff Development and Support, DS280A.

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY (school closed)

Today is the deadline to submit your nominations for IUPUI's 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 IUSD. The nomination form is online: www.jaguars.iupui.edu/frames/home/irwinform.html.

Book Club winds down its discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri's THE NAMESAKE, noon-1 p.m. in DS S119. Everyone welcome.

IUPUI FACULTY COUNCIL, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in IH100

Indiana Section of the American Association for Dental Research presents DESIGNING AN ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD TO FACILITATE CLINICAL RESEARCH AND TO FUNCTION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR DAILY CARIES RISK ASSESSMENT, by Dr. Mark Wolff, professor, Departments of General Dentistry and of Oral Biology and Pathology, Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, New York; noon-1 p.m. in DS S116. All students, staff, and faculty invited.

NO STAFF COUNCIL MEETING today (the meeting will be held during next week's Staff Conference)

HOMELESS SHELTER SEALANT CLINIC, to be conducted this evening by IUSD volunteers. For more information, contact Dr. Karen Yoder, kmyoder@iupui.edu.

IUPUI FIRST CALL brings first-year dental, law, and medical students together for free food and drinks, and a unique opportunity to strike up a lot of new friendships; 7-9 p.m. at Howl at the Moon, 20 E. Georgia St. Free if you register by Sept. 5, and $12 per person at the door. Guests who are not first-year dental, law, or medical students also pay $12. Register at http://www.alumni.indiana.edu/forms/firstcall. For more details, contact Danny Kibble, 274-8828.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's Sept. 23 meeting

RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS S421

LAST DAY TO REGISTER AND SUBMIT SURVEY for IUSD Faculty Conference (see Sept. 15, 16)

Tune in to the IU School of Medicine's SOUND MEDICINE radio program to hear Dr. Michael Kowolik, professor of periodontics, discuss research he is conducting on the possible relationship between dental plaque and coronary heart disease. The interview will air on public radio stations throughout central Indiana at various times today; in Indianapolis, set your dial for WFYI 90.1 FM at 4 p.m. (Air times for other cities range from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and are posted at www.soundmedicine.iu.edu.) You can also visit this Web site's archives to listen to the interview after it airs. For more information about Dr. Kowolik's research, see "People, Places, and Things" at the end of this calendar.

STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL/DEAN'S STUDENT TOWN HALL, noon in DS115

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 both conferences this year is electronic (go to the IUSD Intranet). When faculty register, they will be given a user ID, password, and a link with instructions to complete a survey that keynote speaker Dr. Robert Taylor, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Louisville, will use in conjunction with his presentation, "Great Leaders Are Also Effective Followers."

At noon today in DS S119, the Book Club begins a discussion of its latest selection, an intriguing international best seller chosen by Kim Fields, academic administrative specialist in Academic Affairs. Written by Carlos Ruiz ZafÛn, the novel is titled THE SHADOW OF THE WINDS. You can find many good reviews of this book as well as excerpts on the Web â€" just search by the book title. Everyone welcome to join the Book Club's chat, or just to listen in.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEONS annual meeting, Boston

IUSD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS meeting and dinner, 6 p.m. at University Place Hotel

FALL DENTAL ALUMNI CONFERENCE, University Place Hotel and Conference Center. IUSD Alumni Association President Dr. Norm Novak, Chesterton, Ind., and his board of directors welcome grads and their families to the 63^rd annual conference, which includes the time-honored celebration luncheon, 50-Year Class reception, alumni banquet, and reunion parties as well as a new trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a bike ride around Eagle Creek Park, a brisk two-mile stroll down the scenic Canal Walk, and a chance to prove victorious at the Huckelberry Memorial Golf Scramble. Both of the conference's CE programs are held at the School of Dentistry in S116, so please do whatever you can to welcome our former students and help make their visit to their alma mater a special one. Friday afternoon's course, presented from 2 to 4 by Dr. Michael Kowolik, director of IUSD's Host Defense Laboratory, is titled "From the Mouth to the Stomach, the Heart â€" What Next?"; and Saturday morning's course, "Life Threatening Emergencies in the Dental Office," is presented from 9 to 11 by Dr. Charles Kates, a 1965 IU dental graduate who is an associate professor of surgery and anesthesia at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in DS B31

NORTHEAST REGIONAL BOARD (manikin exam), held at IUSD

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PERIODONTOLOGY annual meeting, Denver

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF GOLD FOIL OPERATORS annual meeting, West Virginia University School of Dentistry, Morgantown

CE course ETHICS FOR THE DENTAL PROFESSIONAL, by Dr. Harvey Weingarten, a 1979 IU dental graduate from South Bend and a current member of the Indiana State Board of Dentistry; 7-9 p.m. at IUSD. Course fulfills the ethics requirement for Indiana licensing. Call 278-9000.

2005-2006 Dental Hygiene C.E. Series, Part I: A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF FLUORIDE, CARIES RISK ASSESSMENT, AND PRODUCTS FOR HOME AND OFFICE, by Dr. Karen Yoder, director of Community Dentistry; Prof. Nancy Young, director of Dental Hygiene; and Dr. Margherita Fontana, director of the Microbial Caries Facility; 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Hyatt hotel, One South Capitol Avenue. Call 278-9000.

INDIANA STATE DENTAL AND DENTAL HYGIENE BOARD EXAMS, held at IUSD

People, Places, and Things

AFGHAN YOUNGSTER'S UPCOMING HEART SURGERY AT IU MEDICAL CENTER PRECEDED BY DENTAL TREATMENT. Before 6-year-old Basira Jan of Afghanistan can have her congenital heart defect corrected by IU physicians, IU dentists are making sure her mouth is in a healthy state.

With assistance from the Indiana and Florida National Guard units and the Central Indiana Rotary Club's Gift of Life program, Basira arrived in Indianapolis a few days ago with her father and an interpreter so that her heart condition can be treated at Riley Hospital for Children. On Wednesday, Aug. 24, a dental team led by Dr. Jeffrey Dean, chair of Oral Facial Development, restored or extracted a total of 17 of the youngster's badly decayed deciduous teeth in preparation for the heart surgery.

In post-treatment interviews that Dr. Dean conducted with television reporters from WTHR and WRTV for news segments airing Wednesday evening, he explained that treatment on Basira's infected mouth prior to surgery was essential in order to prevent the development of bacterial endocarditis, a potentially life-threatening inflammatory condition affecting the heart's lining and connective tissues.

Riley cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Mark Turrentine will perform Basira's heart surgery, which is tentatively planned for next week.

WEB SITES TO FEATURE IUSD RESEARCH. Although they aren't posted quite yet, stories about two IUSD researchers are scheduled as features on IU's Research and Life Sciences Web sites in September. At the Life Sciences site (www.lifesciences.iu.edu), watch for a report on Dr. Margherita Fontana, associate professor of preventive and community dentistry, who will discuss her study of the role that the sugar substitute xylitol may play in preventing mothers from transmitting to their infants Streptococcus mutans and other common cariogenic bacteria. The one-year study is funded by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation.

At the Web site for the Office of the Vice President for Research (www.research.iu.edu), Dr. Michael Kowolik will provide an update on his study of dental plaque as a possible risk factor for heart disease. He is nearing the halfway point in a two-year project funded with a grant from the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. To read the original IU news release that announced this study in 2004, go to www.newscenter.iupui.edu/newsreleases/teeth_heart_study_04.htm.

End September 2005 Calendar

Send items for October calendar by Sept. 23: 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