Bulletin of Dental Education

Dental students and faculty from the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Dentistry recently joined together to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge in support of juvenile diabetes research.

Mr. Sultan Mohammed, a Class of 2013 D.M.D. student at the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM), was recently honored at the Hinman Symposium in Memphis Tennessee. Mr. Mohammed won the Most Outstanding Presentation in Clinical Research award for his poster “Upregulation of Cthrc1 N-glycoprotein Marks OSCC Tumor Spread.”

Students and faculty from the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry participated in San Francisco's Project Homeless Connect (PHC) event on October 5, 2011. Throughout the day, students worked to provide free dental screenings and basic care to homeless individuals.

Loma Linda University (LLU) School of Dentistry will hold an open house and ribbon cutting on November 28, 2011, in Palm Desert, California. At the event, LLU and School of Dentistry officials will announce the launch of a new dental hygiene associate of science degree program in the Coachella Valley municipality.

One of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s longest running national programs, the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP), will offer support to dental scholars starting with its 2012 application period. For more than 25 years,  AMFDP has fostered diversity among U.S. medical school faculty, and that well-known program will now work to do the same among dental school faculty.

Wichita State University (WSU) recently opened its new Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) building in Wichita, Kansas. Several university, state, and community officials attended the building’s grand opening at the end of October.

Since 1999, more than 200 fellows from predoctoral, allied, and advanced dental education have participated in the ADEA Leadership Institute. Institute fellows hold positions ranging from department chairs to program directors to deans of dental schools. Throughout the year-long program, participants explore leadership styles, emotional intelligence, organizational theory, team building, stress management, work-life balance, strategies for leading change, and giving and receiving feedback.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration, announces a call for submissions for instructional resources to support an oral health in medicine model curriculum, disseminated through MedEdPORTAL, the association’s publication repository for peer-reviewed open-access educational resources.

The esteemed Editor of the Journal of Dental Education (JDE), L. Jackson Brown, D.D.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., has announced he will retire from his position in March 2012. Dr. Brown has served the JDE admirably since 2009. Under his direction, the manuscript submission process for the JDE was significantly streamlined.

Clifton O. Dummett, D.D.S., a pioneer in academic dentistry, former dental dean, and humanitarian, passed away on September 12, 2011. Dr. Dummett was Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry. His teaching career in periodontics began at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, where he ultimately became Professor of Periodontics. He became Dean and Director of Dental Education at age 28 in 1949, establishing a record as the youngest dental dean in the United States.