COMING UP
Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events
May
2008
Congratulations to IU Dental Student Priya Patel,
an Indy 500 Festival Princesss
May Is Recognition Month for IUSD’s Computer Technicians
This Issue Dedicated to 1st Graduates
of IU’s Dental Hygiene Program, Class of 1952:
Mary Dreher, Charlotte (Havens) Verbarg,
Margaret (Hiatt) Johnson, Gloria (Horn) Huxoll,
Nina (Jarrell) Phillips, Barbara Mann, and Pauline Revers
It’s Off to the Races – and Many Other Places – for Priya Patel. IU dental
student Priya Patel has a whirlwind May lined up – while she’s busy hitting
the textbooks and then sitting for her finals as a member of the DDS Class of 2011,
she’ll also be playing a high-profile role in the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
Patel, of Indianapolis, is one of the 33 Hoosier women who have been chosen as 2008’s
Indy 500 Festival Princesses. As such, she’ll serve as an ambassador for the 92nd
running of the Indianapolis 500 and all of the festivities that surround the race.
The 33 women earned their place in the court through their communication skills,
poise, academic performance, and community and volunteer involvement. They were
chosen from a pool of 263 applicants. Princesses must be single Indiana residents
between the ages of 19 and 23 and enrolled as full-time students in an accredited
Indiana college or university.
There’s a lot more to being an Indy 500 princess than wearing ball gowns and riding
in convertibles. While the princesses are best known for their appearances in the
Indy 500 parade and at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway pre-race ceremony, Victory
Circle celebration, and post-race awards banquet, they also participate in many
other events and volunteer programs throughout the month of May and perform statewide
community outreach programs of their choosing.
"These events and volunteer programs offer me a chance to interact with people
of various ages and backgrounds, and I’m thoroughly enjoying each opportunity,"
says Patel, who has already participated in a few events in April." I am especially
looking forward to the Chase 500 Festival Kids' Day, since I used to go every year
when I was little. I think it will be a great chance to give back to the community."
The time-honored Kids’ Day will be held on Monument Circle from noon to 4 p.m. on
May 18. It’s free and open to the public (http://www.500festival.com/events/KidsDay.asp).
Outreach programs are designed by each princess. "Because this year’s 500 Festival
princesses represent 12 Indiana colleges and universities and 20 cities and towns,
we are able to reach out to a lot of people across Indiana," says Patel, who
has chosen as one of her outreach opportunities to volunteer at Riley Children’s
Hospital on the IU Medical Center.
"I will interact with the kids and read them storybooks about the Indy 500,
pass out Indy 500 posters and trading cards, and play with them," says Patel.
"The reason I chose Riley Hospital is because I think every child, irrespective
of their health status, should have the chance to love and embrace all that life
has to offer. Besides that, what little boy or girl doesn't like playing with toy
racecars?!"
Patel isn’t the first member of her family to serve as a 500 Festival princess.
Her sister, Shreya Patel, who is currently in her 4th year of
dental school at IU, was a princess in 2005.
"I am very excited about May approaching so soon and all the events it will
showcase," says Priya Patel. "So, ladies and gentlemen: Start your engines
– and get excited!"
April 30 (Wed.)
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 8 a.m.-noon at Walker Plaza
201A; led by Kathy Thompson, CPR program coordinator. Register at 274-8841;
kthomps@iupui.edu.
Final call for FACULTY COUNCIL COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS for the following positions:
DENTAL ADMISSIONS – At-Large
EXECUTIVE:
SECRETARY
PARLIAMENTARIAN
FACULTY AFFAIRS – At-Large
REVIEW & ENHANCEMENT – At-Large (Completes Term June ‘09)
TEACHING COMMITTEE – At-Large (Completes Term June ’09)
PART-TIME FACULTY Representatives on Faculty Council
More information on committee descriptions and position requirements can be found
on Plato (under Councils/Faculty). Send self or colleague nominations by today to
Dr. Laura Romito at lromitoc@iupui.edu.
1-3 (Thurs.-Sat.)
AMERICAN DENTAL SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGY annual session, Puerto Rico
2 (Fri.)
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 8 a.m.-noon OR 1-5 p.m. at
Walker Plaza 201A; led by Kathy Thompson. Register at 274-8841;
kthomps@iupui.edu.
IUSD AWARDS BANQUET for Classes of 2008, noon-2 p.m. at University Place Hotel Ballroom.
By invitation.
FINAL DAY OF SECOND SEMESTER ASSESSMENT WEEK for 4th year dental students
and FINAL DAY OF EXAMS WEEK for dental hygiene, dental assisting, and graduate students
SECOND SEMESTER ENDS for dental assisting and dental hygiene classes.
HINE LEGACY SOCIETY DINNER, 6:30 p.m. at the Montage in Castleton. Named in honor
and in memory of Dr. Maynard K. Hine, longtime dean of dentistry at IU and
first chancellor of IUPUI. The society is composed of donors who have included IUSD
in their estate plans. In 2008, the society honor roll welcomes Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen
Lehman, Zionsville, Ind.; Mr. Steven Levinson, Studio City, Calif.;
and Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Platt, Indianapolis. By invitation.
5 (Mon.)
D4 MODULE GRADES due to course directors
6 (Tues.)
IUPUI FACULTY COUNCIL, 3-5 p.m. in IH 100
D4 COURSE GRADES due today in the Student Office
6, 7 (Tues., Wed.)
PICK UP GRADUATION APPAREL at the IUPUI Campus Center, Room 405. The distribution
site closes at 11 a.m. on Thursday. Dental assisting graduates should make arrangements
for their caps and gowns with Professor Pamela Ford, program director.
9 (Fri.)
Get your $5 donation to Vickie Newkirk in the Student Affairs Office by the
9th so that you can participate in today’s JEANS FOR GENES DAY, a fundraiser for
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Besides wearing your blue jeans to the school today,
you can also join IUSD’s Brayden’s Rangers in the Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides
Walk on Saturday, May 17. Dentistry’s sister team this year is the IUSD Pre-Dental
Club. You participate in the walk by asking friends or family to sponsor you. Check
out the Website for more details (www.cff.org/great_strides/whywestride)
and contact Vickie Newkirk (DS105; 274-5459; vnewkirk@iupui.edu).
IUSD FACULTY COUNCIL, noon in DS S116
SECOND SEMESTER ENDS for 4th year dental and graduate students.
9, 10 (Fri.-Sat.)
CE course ORAL SURGERY WORKSHOP FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, by New York oral surgeon
Dr. Robert Edwab, executive director of the Greater New York Dental Meeting.
Lecture at Walker Plaza and laboratory in DS SB05. Call 278-9000.
10 (Sat.)
IU SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY PRE-COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY for all IUSD graduates, 500 Ballroom
of the Indiana Convention Center. This year’s Pre-Commencement speaker is Indiana
State Senator Patricia L. Miller. Miller, a graduate of the Methodist Hospital
School for Nursing, chairs the senate’s Standing Committee for Health and Provider
Services.
Graduates line up for the processional at 9 a.m. The program, approximately two
hours long, begins promptly at 9:30.
11 (Sun.)
MOTHER’S DAY
IUPUI COMMENCEMENT, 10 a.m. at the Indiana Convention Center. (Due to special space
limitations at the IUPUI Commencement venue this year, the graduating classes of
all the professional schools, including Dentistry, will hold their own separate
ceremonies.) See May 10 for Dentistry’s event.
14 (Wed.)
2008 STAFF CONFERENCE PLANNING meeting, 10-11 a.m. in DS S421. All staff welcome
to participate. This year’s conference is October 2 and 3.
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 1-5 p.m. at Walker Plaza
201A. Register at 274-8841; kthomps@iupui.edu.
15 (Thurs.)
Staff Dental Assistant Lunch and Learn Series presents SEAL INDIANA, by Dr. Karen
Yoder, Preventive and Community Dentistry; noon-1 p.m. in DS S116.
Indiana Section of the American Association for Dental Research presents THE LYSOSOMAL
PATHWAY OF APOPTOSIS IN ORAL CANCER, by Wolfgang Zacharias, PhD, professor,
Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Louisville; noon-1 p.m. in DS S117. Everyone welcome.
15-19 (Thurs.-Mon.)
CE course MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHETIC SURGERY, by David Trainer, Naples, Fla.
Held in DS SB05. Call 278-9000.
16 (Fri.)
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's May 30th meeting
RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS245
16-20 (Fri.-Tues.)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS annual session, Denver. The IU Orthodontic
Alumni Association's reception is on the 17th from 7 to 9 p.m. in room 109 of the
Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street.
17 (Sat.)
Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides Walk, 9 a.m. in Military Park, Indianapolis (see May
9)
22 (Thur.)
STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL/DEAN'S STUDENT TOWN HALL, noon in DS114
22-26 (Thurs.-Mon.)
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY annual session, Washington, D.C. The IU
Pediatric Dentistry Alumni Association’s alumni suite, located at the Marriott Wardman
Park hotel, 2660 Woodley Rd., NW, is open Thursday through Sunday evenings from
4 p.m. to about midnight.
25 (Sun.)
Fire Up Your Engines: 92nd running of the INDIANAPOLIS 500, Indianapolis
Motor Speedway
26 (Mon.)
Fire Up Your Grills: MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY observed (school closed)
May 27-30 (Tues.-Fri.)
SECOND SEMESTER ASSESSMENT WEEK for dental classes of 2010 and 2011
May 30 (Fri.)
STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in OH 110
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 8 a.m.-noon at Walker Plaza
201A. Register at 274-8841; kthomps@iupui.edu.
SECOND SEMESTER ENDS for dental classes of 2010 and 2011.
People, Places, and Things
A GRANT THAT’S MEASURED IN DOSES INSTEAD OF DOLLARS BOOSTS PREVENTIVE CARE IN IUSD’S
OUTREACH PROGRAMS. Dr. Judith Chin, Pediatric Dentistry, has learned
that a grant she applied for through the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation
(NCOHF) has been approved, and will go a long way in the coming year to promote
preventive dentistry among participants of the IU dental school’s ever-growing Community
Dentistry program.
This grant is unusual in that it is tied not to dollars, but to doses of protective
fluoride varnish that will be donated by the 3M company. The IU School of Dentistry
was eligible for the donation as an affiliate of the NCOHF.
Sandra Boucher-Bessent, the NCOHF’s national program director, informed Chin
that her proposal was approved in its entirety, which means that in the next year
IUSD will receive 11,650 doses of fluoride varnish to protect the teeth of an estimated
5,850 children throughout Indiana and in four other nations. The donation is the
equivalent of an in-kind contribution from the NCOHF of $26,795.
The grant will make it possible for children to receive one to three varnish applications,
depending on which outreach program they are part of. The varnish program is directed
at children from poor families, children living under special circumstances, and
children with disabilities – all of whom are seen as patients in service-learning
programs by IUSD students, staff, and faculty.
The donation will cover youngsters who participate in a wide variety of IUSD outreach
initiatives, including the school’s involvement in Head Start programs in Indianapolis
and South Bend; SEAL INDIANA; Trinity Free Dental Clinic; international service-learning
trips to Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico; Give Kids a Smile; Riley Children’s
Hospital medical and dental mobile van; school field trips; Special Olympics; and
shelters for homeless persons and victims of domestic violence.
In many cases, the fluoride varnish program will represent a collaborative venture
between IUSD and other healthcare providers that the school has established ties
with. For example, the service-learning trip to Colombo, Paraná, Brazil: After IU’s
students apply the first applications of varnish during their visit in June 2008,
students at the dental school at Brazil’s UnicenP (Centro Universitário Positivo)
will do the follow-up care and apply two more doses of varnish in subsequent months.
An estimated 400 children will be involved with this project.
The National Children’s Oral Health Foundation’s sole concern is to identify and
support innovative pediatric treatment services and education programs through community-based
centers that deliver critical oral health services to underserved children and their
families. In all, the foundation expects to issue 300,000 donated fluoride varnish
doses to its affiliates.
SWENSON SCHOLARSHIPS. Congratulations to the two periodontic graduate students
who have received the 2008 Henry M. Swenson Periodontic Scholarships: Dr. Ranjitha
Krishna and Dr. Kwangwon Lee. Both are in their third year of the
graduate program. The awards were presented at a reception in April.
IUSD DENTAL HYGIENE PROGRAM IS 58. The names of the seven women listed at
the top of the May calendar represent the first graduates of Indiana University’s
Dental Hygiene program, which was launched in 1950 under the directorship of A. Rebekah
Fisk, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and past president of
the American Dental Hygienists’ Association. Fisk served in this pioneering position
until her retirement in 1970. She died in 1982.
When dental hygiene education at IU expanded beyond 1121 West Michigan – first,
to the Fort Wayne campus, one of the graduates of IUSD’s first class, Gloria Huxoll,
was named to supervise Fort Wayne’s program (which in the early years was under
the directorship of Dr. Ralph Schimmele). Huxoll served with excellence from
1964 until her retirement from the full-time faculty in 1987.
Both Fisk and Huxoll were popular longtime columnists for the IUSD Alumni Bulletin.
Huxoll used her column to communicate with hundreds of her graduates from all over
the country and other parts of the world.
Programs in dental hygiene were also started on the South Bend and Gary campuses,
in 1968 and 1975, respectively. (There is just one other dental hygiene program
in the Hoosier state, at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville.)
Originally, students earned certificates in dental hygiene instead of degrees. IU
created the Associate of Science Degree in Dental Hygiene in 1968, and the first
ASDH degrees were awarded a year later.
BATESVILLE HISPANIC WELLNESS FAIR DRAWS IUSD VOLUNTEERS. Batesville, Ind.,
held its first Hispanic Wellness Fair in April, an event that benefited from the
input of IU School of Dentistry volunteers.
Batesville is a community in the southeast part of the state, not far from the Ohio
border. The fair was held at the St. Louis School Cafeteria on Saturday, April 26.
Batesville’s Margaret Mary Community Hospital provided free blood pressure assessments,
blood tests for diabetes, information about arthritis and healthy eating, and tips
for patients on communicating with their doctors. The town’s Community Mental Health
Center conducted screenings for depression, alcoholism, and gambling addiction.
More than 15 bilingual interpreters came from Indianapolis and surrounding areas
to volunteer for the event.
When Dr. Armando Soto, Preventive and Community Dentistry, learned of the
fair through the IUSD Dean’s Office, he coordinated a group of volunteers with the
help of Dr. Odette Zero, Oral Biology; and Sharon Gwinn and B.J. Hoge,
both of Preventive and Community Dentistry.
Volunteering on the day of the event were 4th year dental students Nicole
Weddell, Bradley Broughton, and Rodney Cost. "This excellent
team of dental students screened 28 children, of whom 57 percent had dental caries,"
says Dr. Soto. The children received fluoride treatments, oral hygiene instruction,
toothpaste, and toothbrushes. Participating families were also given a chance to
learn more about the services and research activities of the Oral Health Research
Institute and the Binational/Cross-Cultural Health Enhancement Center, which is
part of the IUPUI Signature Center Initiative involving dental school researchers.
End May 2008 Calendar
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