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Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events

September 2006

Recognition Month for IUSD's
Patient Services Staff

AMERCAN STUDENT DENTAL ASSOCIATION annual session, Baltimore

35th annual TEACHING CONFERENCE for faculty, Part I, 9 a.m. in DS S117 (preceded by a continental breakfast at 8:30.) Morning session on accreditation preparation and strategic directions planning is followed by a lunch hour with boxed meals provided. Afternoon speaker is Natasha Flowers, PhD, director of the IUPUI Office of Multicultural Professional Development. She discusses "Implications of Teaching in a Multicultural Environment." An informal gathering of the IUSD Faculty Council commences at 3:15 p.m.

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY (school closed)

IUSD FACULTY ENRICHMENT, this morning in DS114. Dean Lawrence Goldblatt conducts an All Faculty Inservice from 9 to 10, and the remainder of the morning is devoted to departmental activities as determined by individual department chairs. No morning classes or clinics.

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

A FIDELITY COUNSELOR is available by appointment in the dental school this morning. To schedule a 45-minute retirement-account consultation, call Sharon Byrd at 1 (800) 550-4067.

IUSD FACULTY COUNCIL, noon-1 p.m. in DS114

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's Sept. 22 meeting

INDIANA DENTAL ASSOCIATION'S 11th annual MENTOR DINNER for IDA members and IU's DDS Class of 2010, 7:15 p.m. at The Rathskeller, 401 E. Michigan St. Dinner is preceded by a cocktail reception at 6, and followed by entertainment by Jennie DeVoe. By invitation.

IUSD RE-ACCREDITATION WEEK (Site visit from representatives of the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation is Tues.-Thurs.)

RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS S421

Beginning of fall course for Continuing Education's EXPANDED FUNCTIONS FOR DENTAL ASSISTANTS, DS S315

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PERIODONTOLOGY annual meeting, San Diego

STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in DS B29

FDI WORLD DENTAL CONGRESS, Shenzhen, China

ROSH HASHANAH

NORTHEAST REGIONAL BOARD (manikin exam for prosthodontics and endodontics), held at IUSD

IUSD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS meeting, 6 p.m. in the Georgian Room at the Indiana Memorial Union, IU Bloomington campus; followed by reception and dinner, 7:30 p.m. at the IMU's Tudor Room

IUPUI CHANCELLOR'S 2006 EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION CONVOCATION, 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the University Place Conference Center. Preceded by a reception in the center's lobby at 2:30. By invitation. This annual event recognizes IUPUI staff who are celebrating employment milestones (every 5th year), beginning with the 15th year of service. Congratulations to the 15 IUSD staff members who are among those being recognized on campus today:

30 YEARS
Cindy Corbin
Senior Administrative Secretary
Restorative Dentistry

25 YEARS
Judy Doyle
Assistant to the Chair
Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs

Megeen Higgins
Financial Manager
Financial Affairs

Rhonda Lee
Student Credentials Analyst
Student Affairs

Janice Warrick-Polakoff
Director
Bioresearch Facility
Oral Health Research Institute/Preventive and Community Dentistry

Terry Washington
Purchasing/Inventory Control Coordinator
Service and Supply Center

Judith Wilkinson
Financial Administrator and Industry Liaison
OHRI/Preventive and Community Dentistry

20 YEARS
Margie Beiswanger
Curriculum and Assessment Specialist
Dental Education

Jamie Fields
Dental Assistant
Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs

Barbara Lerner
Student Services Coordinator
Student Affairs

Vickie Mattox
Dental Patient Accounts Supervisor
Cash Operations

Mary Ann Stone
Administrative Accounts Clerk
Oral Pathology, Medicine, and Radiology
Regenstrief

15 YEARS
Vernell Ashby
Central Services Technician
Central Sterilization and Services

Yvonne Baynham
Dental Hygiene Clinic Coordinator
Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs

Donna Bumgardner
Pediatric Dentistry Office Coordinator
Oral Facial Development
Riley Hospital

Q.: Will you still need me, when I'm 64? A.: You are 64 (and better than ever!) The IU dental school's FALL DENTAL ALUMNI CONFERENCE turns 64 in September, and after almost six-and-a-half decades this reunion continues to be one of the university's most successful and well-attended alumni events.

This year's dental and dental hygiene grads are gathering in Bloomington for a kaleidoscope of activities: the time-honored Huckelberry Memorial Golf Scramble, the Celebration Luncheon, the All-Alumni Banquet, individual class reunion dinners and parties, and an opportunity to cheer from the bleachers as the Hoosiers tackle Wisconsin at Saturday's football game. Alums will also make time for bike rides in the hills north of town, tours of the Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection and Dillman Farms, a two-mile stroll through the heart of campus, and breakfast in the Indiana Memorial Union's historic Alumni Hall.

Continuing Education speaker, Dr. Alyce Fly of IU's Department of Applied Health Science, will discuss "Good Nutrition for You and Your Patients."

Distinguished Alumni honors will be bestowed on two grads this year. Norman Becker (DDS'46), Marblehead, Mass., is one of the best-known dental editors in the country. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society for 25 years. Dr. Becker is also an expert in the interrelation of the dentition and musical instrument mouthpieces. He has served as dentist to many jazz artists during his career, including Louis Armstrong.

Also being honored is Pamela Steed (ASDH'73, BSDH'74, DDS'83, M'90 Dent Diag Sci), whose Indianapolis-based dental practice focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibular disorders. She is a diplomate of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain and currently secretary of the academy's board.

Jan Hagedorn of Fort Wayne has been named the IUSD Alumni Association's Honorary Alumna for 2006. She served as national president of the Alliance of the American Dental Association in 2004-2005. Her spouse, Dr. Lloyd Hagedorn, is a member of the DDS Class of 1966 and MSD Periodontics Class of 1968.

People, Places, and Things

NIH AWARDS 5-YEAR GRANT TO DR. ZANDONÁ. When does carious activity first begin its destructive work on a tooth? Are diagnostic clues available early enough to prevent a tooth from developing a visible lesion, and are those clues reliable? Can early-detection criteria be standardized to aid researchers, educators, and practitioners around the globe?

During the next five years, Dr. Andréa Ferreira Zandoná, assistant professor of preventive and community dentistry, will work with a team of researchers to help provide answers to these questions. They will chronicle the natural history of the progression of early dental caries as well as provide validation of early caries detection methods.

The R01 grant, titled "Clinical Validation of Combined ICDAS/QLF Exam for Early Caries Detection," was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research. It becomes active on Sept. 1. The project has received first-year funding of $767,730, and it is anticipated that it will receive a total of about $3.4 million in funding over the next five years.

The project, says Dr. Domenick Zero, associate dean for Research and director of the Oral Health Research Institute, has the potential to become a landmark study in the field of early dental caries. It is also a significant accomplishment for Dr. Zandoná, who joined the OHRI faculty in 1997 after completing IU's PhD degree in dental science. "This is one of the largest awards that the dental school has received and definitely the largest award a faculty member at the assistant professor rank has ever received," says Dr. Zero.

In the study, Dr. Zandoná and her colleagues will follow the dental caries histories of a group of children who are at high-risk for the disease using a combination of three caries-detection methods: the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS), Quantitative Light-Induced Fluorescence (QLF), and Infrared Fluorescence (DIAGNOdent).

ICDAS is a system of visual criteria that proposes a new international standard in early caries detection. This system was created a couple of years ago by a small group of international academics, including researchers at Indiana and Copenhagen (Denmark) universities, and the universities of Dundee (Scotland) and Michigan. QLF is a method that captures fluorescent images of teeth, while the DIAGNOdent that will be used is a new development of the currently marketed system for detection of approximal caries.

The goal in part is to determine the feasibility of substituting diagnostic measures traditionally used in late stages of caries development with techniques that can be used at much earlier stages (while the surface of the tooth still appears to be caries-free clinically). Combining imaging technology with ICDAS, if successful, could potentially make it possible for caries researchers to conduct smaller and shorter clinical trials in the future, and it could provide a reliable early detection tool for dentists in both the academic and practicing communities.

Members of the Zandoná team include OHRI researchers Masatoshi Ando, Hafsteinn Eggertsson, Margherita Fontana, Domenick Zero, and Melissa Mau; Barry Katz and George Eckert from the IU School of Medicine; and Evaristo Delgado and Pedro Hernandez from the University of Puerto Rico. Adrian Lussi of the University of Bern, Switzerland, will serve as the study consultant.

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT: Restorative Dentistry for Patients That Are Long in the Tooth (and, Sometimes, the Tusk). IUSD's many student, staff, and faculty volunteers routinely travel to schools, Head Start centers, family shelters, health fairs, and other events throughout the city and the state to aid special-needs populations and to boost public awareness of oral health. But one of our longest-serving volunteers travels a much different path: He answers the "call of the wild" by serving as the Indianapolis Zoo's dentist. Dr. George Willis, associate dean for Clinical Affairs, has devoted more than 25 years to his volunteer work at the zoo. He's performed root canals on tigers and bears, crowned an elephant's tusk, and come to the dental rescue of sea lions. In a segment titled "Cultural Institutions," Dr. Willis's efforts were recently featured on Communities Building Community, a WFYI television program hosted by Indiana's former first lady, Judy O'Bannon. If you'd like to see what an elephant's crown looks like â€" and an example of how Dr. Willis has carved a unique niche for himself as an invaluable volunteer for one of our city's greatest assets â€" the TV program is available online (the first 4 minutes of the segment concern volunteers that help the zoo's dolphin population): http://www.wfyi.org/communitiesVidPlayer.asp?clip=cbc.305.2.

End September 2006 Calendar

Send items for October calendar by Sept. 26: 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