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MAGAZINE OF THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY DENTAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION VOL. 11 NO. 1 WINTER 2007
DENTAL MEDICINE
ROGER GALBURT’S
America
PLUS: THE GREATER GOOD ■ ACADEMIC TRANSFORMATION ■ BEYOND BOUNDARIES

CALENDAR 2007
MARCH 3
Spring training with the
Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia
Phillies. Cost: $37 per
person and includes game ticket
and picnic buffet at 11 a.m.
Game start: 1:05 p.m.
E-mail dental-alumni@tufts.edu
or call 617.636.6772
for more information.
City of Palms Park
Fort Myers, Florida
MARCH 13
Student/Alumni Networking
Session, sponsored by the
Dental Alumni Association for
second-, third- and fourth-year
students. Alumni volunteers
are needed. E-mail
dental-alumni@tufts.edu
for more information.
Tufts School of Dental Medicine
One Kneeland Street, 7th floor
Boston, Massachusetts
4:30–7 p.m.
MAY 4–6
“Lucky 7!” Dental Homecoming
and Reunion Weekend 2007
Tufts School of Dental Medicine
and Langham Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
MAY 18–22
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual session of
the American Association of
Orthodontists
Seattle, Washington
MAY 20
Tufts University’s 151st
Commencement
Academic Quad
Medford/Somerville campus
9 a.m.
MAY 24–28
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual session of
the American Academy of
Pediatric Dentistry
San Antonio, Texas
SEPTEMBER 17
Dental Alumni Association’s
25th Annual Wide
Open Tournament
Mount Pleasant Country Club
Boylston, Massachusetts
11 a.m. shotgun start
SEPTEMBER 27–30
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual meeting of the
American Dental Association
San Francisco, California
OCTOBER 10–13
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual meeting of the
American Association of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgeons
Honolulu, Hawaii
OCTOBER 27–30
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual meeting of the
American Academy of
Periodontology
Washington, D.C.
NOVEMBER 3
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual meeting of the
American College of
Prosthodontists
Scottsdale, Arizona
MARCH 28
New York Alumni Chapter spring
meeting, featuring a reception,
dinner and lecture
Penn Club New York City
6 p.m.
APRIL 19–21
Third International Periodontal
Alumni Conference. For
more information, contact
Therese Kohlman, Department
of Periodontology, at
617.636.6531 or
therese.kohlman@tufts.edu.
Catalonian Dental College
Barcelona, Spain
For more information on
these and other events,
contact the Office of
Dental Alumni Relations
at 617.636.6773
or e-mail: dental-alumni@
tufts.edu.
APRIL 25–28
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual session of the
American Association of
Endodontists
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Paul Epstein, D73, holds the
pin at the Wide Open Golf
Tournament. The 2007 tourney
will take place on
Monday, September 17, at
the Mount Pleasant Country
Club in Boylston, Mass.
PHOTO: J.D. SLOAN

CONTENTS
WINTER 2007 I
VOLUME 11, NO. 1
FEATURES
8 The Greater Good
by Julie Flaherty
Catherine Hayes, D87, the new chair of public
health and community service, wants to create
more opportunities for students to discover
active citizenship.
22 Academic Transformation
by Jacqueline Mitchell
How dental medicine—and a few unforeseen
events—found Richard Smith, D73, teasing
the story of human evolution out of the
fragmented fossil record.
39 Great Expectations
The School of Dental Medicine is seeking
to raise $40 million as part of a universitywide
$1.2 billion campaign—the largest
in the history of Tufts.
COVER STORY
12 Eye on America
by Jacqueline Mitchell
Rust-colored canyons, lunar
landscapes and saw-toothed
mountain ranges take on a
National Geographic-like
magnificence through the
lens of Roger Galburt.
On the cover: Antelope Canyon, a sacred place on the Navajo Reservation near Page,
Arizona. “This was taken with long exposures because there is not very much light
there,” photographer Roger Galburt said. “The sandstone is hard to see when you are
there, but it just lights up when you look at the picture.”
8
DEPARTMENTS
2 Letters
3 From the Dean
5 Word of Mouth
27 On Campus
37 University News
39 Beyond Boundaries
43 Alumni News
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LETTERS
A WIN-WIN
The value to the mission of Tufts in teaching,
research and community service as a locus of
access to care of exemplary quality and
breadth of this gift is far reaching. (See
“Nobel Biocare gift will advance implant
dentistry,” page 41.)
What is even more important is that the
school, under Lonnie Norris’ leadership, has
positioned itself to attract a prestigious and
important cadre of health-care benefactors
and partners. With the commitment Tufts
shows toward public health care responsibility
through these types of joint win-win
liaisons, we can only anticipate even more farreaching
interest by others to attach their
name to the Tufts reputation and success.
ronald i. maitland, a60, d64
chappaqua, n.y.
HIGH STANDARDS
I have always been so proud of being a graduate
of Tufts University because the quality
of students and education at Tufts sets standards
that all dental education programs
should strive to meet. Similarly, I’ve done my
best to assure that the Academy of Osseointegration
sets the standard for global excellence
in patient care and research concerning
the miracle that is osseointegration.
I feel quite certain that the new Dr.
Steven Smith, D06, [recipient of the Academy
of Osseointegration’s Outstanding Dental
Student in Implant Dentistry award,
[Tufts Dental Medicine, Summer 2006] will
enter the world of dental care well prepared
by Tufts. The Academy looks forward to
continuing its support of Tufts’ excellence in
education.
EDWARD B. SEVETZ JR., A68, D.M.D.
PRESIDENT, ACADEMY OF
OSSEOINTEGRATION
A STEP AHEAD
I recently took a continuing education course
on dental/medical emergencies, and you
would be amazed how little is known about
medicine in dentistry by dentists from other
schools. Dr. Kanchan Ganda’s courses in this
area have prepared Tufts graduates to be a
step ahead of graduates from other schools.
I just wanted to let you know that your work
has paid off and is appreciated.
CHRISTOPHER WEGLEY, D04,
CANFIELD, 0HIO
LEARNING BY TEACHING
My motivation for accepting a teaching assistant
position included trying to improve the
frustration I felt as a freshman overwhelmed
with learning new terms and understanding
what everyone wanted.
I had not expected much in terms of
receiving myself, but I now realize that I
have learned a lot from teaching. From
explaining a certain process or procedure
and being asked inquisitive questions, I was
able to gain a better understanding of concepts
that I had taken for granted. From this
experience as a teaching assistant, I can say
my skills in communicating ideas have
improved enormously. Being asked questions
brought up perspectives that I had not
considered before and gave me a chance to
also learn new things.
JUSTIN AU, D07
CORRECTIONS
Jordan R. Lissauer, D09, was honored at the
annual Tufts University Dental Alumni Association
luncheon in May 2006 as the secondyear
student with the highest academic
average in the basic sciences. Because of an
editing error, the recipient of the award was
listed incorrectly in the Summer 2006 issue
of Tufts Dental Medicine.
The Office of Alumni Relations and
Development would like to note a correction
to the donor recognition report that was
mailed in the fall. Rene Piedra, D98, should
have been listed as a member of the Dean’s
Inner Circle. Our apologies for the omission.
TALK TO US Tufts Dental Medicine welcomes letters, concerns and suggestions from all its
readers. Address your correspondence, which may be edited for space, to Karen Bailey, Editor,
Tufts Dental Medicine, Tufts University Office of Publications, 200 Boston Ave., Suite 4600,
Medford, MA 02155. You can also fax us at 617.627.3549 or e-mail karen.bailey@tufts.edu
DENTAL MEDICINE
volume 11, no. 1 winter 2007
Executive Editor
Dr. Lonnie H. Norris, Dean
School of Dental Medicine
Editor
Karen Bailey
Alumni Editor
Dr. Vangel R. Zissi, D62, DG67
Art Director
Margot Grisar
Designers
Paul DiMattia, Betsy Hayes
Contributing Writers
Julie Flaherty, Marjorie Howard,
Jacqueline Mitchell, Helene Ragovin
Editorial Advisors
Maria Tringale, Director
Dental Development and Alumni Relations
Karen Cirrito, Associate Director
Dental Alumni Relations
Mark Gonthier, Associate Dean
Admissions and Student Affairs
Mary-Ellen Marks, Faculty Secretary
Dental Alumni Association
President
Dr. Lisa Vouras, D89
Vice President
Dr. Nicholas T. Papapetros II, D91
Secretary
Dr. Norman H. Diamond, D57, DG64
Assistant Secretary
Dr. John Ficarelli, D73
Treasurer
Dr. Janis B. Moriarty, D94
Directors
Drs. Cherie Cahillane Bishop, D94; Peter A. Delli
Colli, A69, D73; Mostafa H. El-Sherif, DI95;
Joseph P. Giordano, D79, DG84; John J. Millette, D91;
Tofigh Raayai, DG77, DI82
Ex-Officio
Past Presidents: Drs. Robert B. Amato, D80, DG83;
Noshir R. Mehta, DG73, DI77; Janis B. Moriarty, D94
Dental M Club Chair
Dr. John Ficarelli, D73
Historian
Dr. Charles B. Millstein, D62
University Liaison
Dr. Thomas F. Winkler III, A62, D66
Chapter Presidents
Dr. Mary Ellen Sullivan Chalmers, D80, California
Dr. Debbie Lee, D94, New York
Dr. William N. Pantazes, D90, Florida
Dr. John A. Vrotsos, DG82, Greece
Tufts Dental Medicine is published twice annually by Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine, the Tufts University
Dental Alumni Association and the Tufts University
Office of Publications. The magazine is a publication
member of the American Association of Dental Editors.
Send correspondence to: Editor, Tufts Dental Medicine,
Tufts University Office of Publications, 200 Boston Ave.,
Suite 4600, Medford, MA 02155.
Telephone: 617.627.2126; Fax: 617.627.3549
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FROM THE DEAN
Advancing beyond boundaries
TUFTS UNIVERSITY HAS EMBARKED ON A COMPREHENSIVE FUND-RAISING
campaign to raise $1.2 billion over the next five years. Beyond Boundaries:
The Campaign for Tufts will address key priorities, including financial aid,
endowed professorships, new facilities and initiatives in citizenship and
public service. The School of Dental Medicine’s goal for the campaign is $40
million, and we will use those funds to make our school stronger, expanding
our boundaries, if you will.
As a private dental school that does not
receive direct state allocations to offset educational
expenses, we recognize that our
competition is strong and that our tuition is
high. To continue to attract the very best students
who will leave One Kneeland Street as
exceptional dentists and dental researchers,
the school must continue to respond to the
many changes facing dental medicine and
higher education, offer added educational
value and be able to increase financial support
for our students.
Our dental school has been a leader in
the number of applicants to our D.M.D.
program over the past 15 years, nationally
ranking first, second or third in the number
of applications received during that time.
Over the past three years, applications to the
D.M.D. program have increased by 70 percent.
For the class that matriculated in
August 2006, the school received 3,744
applications for the 160 available slots.
Those statistics say something incredibly
powerful about the education we offer.
However, on par with the national average
for student indebtedness upon graduation
from private dental schools, our average student
indebtedness is in the $160,000 range.
Dental medicine is a rewarding career that
offers a multitude of opportunities in the
job market compared to many other professions.
Rarely do our students default on their
loans. But scholarships are a priority for us in
this campaign so that we can maintain quality
and diversity in our student body.
In recently released data from the American
Dental Education Association (ADEA),
374 full-time and 43 part-time faculty positions
remain vacant in the nation’s 56 dental
schools. Thirty-six percent of dentists who
left academia to enter private practice did so
because their salaries were not competitive,
according to ADEA.
Even in this climate, our dental school has
successfully recruited top-notch faculty,
including experienced faculty for leadership
positions. In the past year, we have filled
three department chair positions. Dr. Stanley
Alexander, D75A, recruited from SUNY at
Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, was
appointed professor and chair of pediatric
dentistry; Dr. Michael Kahn, an internal candidate,
was named professor and chair of
oral and maxillofacial pathology; and Dr.
Catherine Hayes, D87, recruited from Harvard
University School of Dental Medicine,
joined us as the Delta Dental of Massachusetts
Professor and chair of the Department
of Public Health and Community Service. In
addition, a senior National Institutes of
Health-funded researcher, Dr. Pamela Yelick,
G89, from the Forsyth Institute, joined our
faculty as director of the Division of Craniofacial
and Molecular Genetics.
Still, recruitment, development and
retention of faculty remain major challenges
at our school and in dental education, challenges
that the Beyond Boundaries campaign
will help us address.
The campaign’s “quiet phase” began in
July 2002. By the time of the public launch
on November 3, generous philanthropy had
helped raise $615 million university-wide—
or more than 50 percent of the campaign’s
total goal.
The dental school has benefited from
some significant support during the quiet
phase through major corporate gifts that
are supporting our academic priorities. A $5
million endowment from Delta Dental of
Massachusetts created the professorship now
held by Catherine Hayes as well as funding
to improve care and access to care for the
underserved, including patients with special
needs. This kind of community outreach
is—and will remain—a core value of our
school. A $4 million gift from Nobel Biocare
AB of Sweden, the world’s largest manufacturer
of dental implants, will promote clinical
training in implantology, support the
renovation and expansion of operating facilities
for implantology and raise the standard
of care for patients served by Tufts dentists.
A significant portion of the dental
school’s campaign is targeted at improving
our facilities at One Kneeland Street. Because
facilities at many of the nation’s dental
schools were built in the early 1970s, upgrading
physical plant is a priority at most
schools, including some of those with which
we compete for students and faculty. In
recent years, three new dental schools have
opened, and at least 10 other institutions
are considering opening dental schools. To
remain competitive, our school must maintain
attractive, functional and modern
patient clinics, classrooms, laboratories and
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FROM THE DEAN
The dental school is seeking resources
to add four floors to One Kneeland Street,
which opened more than 30 years ago.
other spaces for students and faculty.
Over the years, support from our alumni
has provided the resources for us to offer
state-of-the-art dental education and patient
care, including the simulation clinic to train
our students as well as paperless electronic
records, digital radiography and cone beam
CT scans to better serve our patients.
Yet the lack of space has limited our ability
to achieve even more. When we moved
into One Kneeland Street in 1973, the building
had eight finished floors, two stories of
unfinished space and a foundation capable of
supporting additional floors. In 2000, the
unfinished space was renovated into the
ninth and tenth floors. A recent engineering
study has confirmed that the building can
support four additional floors.
Through this new campaign, we plan to
extend our boundaries in a very concrete
way—by constructing an additional 100,000
square feet of new space through a vertical
expansion. The current plan is to add to our
clinical space so that we can provide care for
more underserved populations and grow
our community outreach programs; expand
the simulation clinic; provide new, larger
facilities for the continuing education program
and create new teaching space.
We have set an ambitious agenda for this
campaign. Excellent students, highly qualified
and motivated faculty and the best possible
facilities equipped with modern
technology are the foundation of our continued
leadership in dental education. It is
our mission to prepare our students to
accept the responsibility of active citizenship
and of advancing the profession toward a
bright and dynamic future.
I applaud your support and hope you
join us in this campaign for our future. With
your continued dedication and loyalty, our
school’s reach can exceed its grasp. Together,
we can go beyond boundaries.
LONNIE H. NORRIS, D.M.D., M.P.H.
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PHOTO: RICHARD HOWARD

A SCAN OF PEOPLE & EVENTS
WORD OF MOUTH
by Julie Flaherty
Techno dentistry
DR. DAVID DODELL, D82, CAN’T FATHOM WHY ANYONE WOULD WANT TO
bother with paper. Since 2001, his Scottsdale, Ariz., practice has kept all
its radiographs, photographs and records on the computer. When a
patient recently found himself on a business trip with an aching molar,
Dodell quickly e-mailed him his entire dental file. The patient had only
to walk into the office of a local dentist, pop open his laptop, and, ironically,
watch the dentist’s jaw drop.
A self-proclaimed nerd, Dodell is one of the most wired dentists
around. If teeth are his profession, technology is his passion, and over the
years he has tried to bring the two together for his
own practice and the dental community at large.
His most recent project is Dentalcast (www.dentalcast.net),
an Internet radio (and sometimes
video) show about all things dental. Dentists can
download the episodes, or podcasts, to their computers
or MP3 players and listen at their convenience
to a discussion of bisphosphonates and osteonecrosis of the jaw, or
an interview with the curator of the National Museum of Dentistry.
Dentalcast already has a following, with 6,000 downloads in November
alone. “I’m still amazed that anyone listens to them,” said Dodell, who
has been a reluctant podcaster, in a way. When he began the project more
than a year ago, he had hoped to share the responsibility of hosting the
podcasts with other dentists, but ended up bringing his New York accent
to the microphone most of the time. “I did
not envision myself being the host of a radio
show,” he said. “I was more interested in
how the software was going to work, how the
hardware would work. I like to see changing
technology and see how it can be applied to
the dental field.”
Dodell’s interest in electronics goes back
to his childhood, when he was an active
ham radio operator. Later, in high school, he
spent his free time writing programs for his
school’s room-sized computer, a fairly unheard-of
hobby for a kid in the early ’70s.
If teeth are his profession,
technology is his passion.
David Dodell, D82
So why didn’t he become a programmer
As a computer science major at Arizona
State University, he got straight A’s, but
hated every minute of it. “I liked computers
when I did it on my own,” he said. “When I
used to do a lot of programming, it was
artistic in a sense. Sometimes you get
inspired, and you just can’t stop. But I was
lousy when a professor said an assignment
was due Friday at 5 p.m.”
He switched majors and graduated with
a degree in bioagricultural sciences, but
didn’t see that as a profession, either. Then a
family friend suggested that dentistry would
let him work with his hands. After his first
week at Tufts, Dodell had found his calling.
Not that he would lose his fascination
with new-fangled communication technologies.
When the Internet was just a glimmer
in the eye of programmers, Dodell was
an active member of the then-undeveloped
online community.
“I was one of the first 10 computers on
the Internet in Phoenix,” Dodell explains on
his website, www.drdodell.com. “At that
time, everything was done by dial-up
modem, and e-mail could take days to reach
its final destination.”
Even with their limitations, Dodell saw
that computer networks could be a tool for
the medical community. He started a newsletter,
called MEDNEWS, which was centered
on the Centers for Disease Control’s
PHOTO: JASON MILLSTEIN
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WORD OF MOUTH
A SCAN OF PEOPLE & EVENTS
TECHNO, continued from page 5
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. At
its peak, it had close to 35,000 subscribers.
Later, he co-founded the sci.med.dentistry
newsgroup, which allowed dentists
around the world to discuss the latest
advances and common complaints. Eventually,
the newsgroup morphed into a subscription
service, the Internet Dental Forum
(www.internetdentalforum.org), for dental
professionals only. Today, dentists from as far
away as Asia and Africa subscribe to the
service. Topics range from clinical issues
and patient problems to practice management
and new equipment.
Dodell points out that because most dentists
are, like him, solo practitioners, they
may not have a chance to connect with
other dentists. The Internet Dental Forum
“is a way to get almost immediate feedback
when they want to get info from a colleague,”
Dodell said. “People post photographs
and X-rays, and within minutes, they
will get another opinion on things.”
An added benefit has been the relationships
that have developed. Every year, about
150 forum members and their families leave
cyberspace and gather for some face time.
This summer, Dodell, his wife, Amy, and
their children, Daniel, 14, Rachel, 11, and
Mitchell, 8, will take a cruise to Europe with
friends from the forum.
Dentalcast episodes are available free of
charge. All previous episodes are available
for download, including ones on hypnosis in
dentistry, dental insurance (“A view from
both sides of the claim forms”) and oral
conscious sedation with Dr. Morton Rosenberg,
D74, head of anesthesia and pain control
at Tufts School of Dental Medicine.
Over the years, Dodell has lectured at
dental conferences about the joys of having
a wired office. For example, whenever his
colleague, a periodontist, works on one of
Dodell’s patients, he e-mails Dodell with
the results. “Fifteen minutes after the surgery,
I have all the notes, all the radiographs
in my office,” Dodell said. “It can’t be any
faster than that, and it doesn’t cost him any
money to send it.”
“There’s no reason everyone can’t do
that,” he said. “Technology is not that hard.”
Banishing band bugs
WHEN THE MEDFORD, MASS., HIGH SCHOOL BAND TEACHER ASKED DR. LORENZO
Lepore, A74, D77, how to sterilize musical instruments that are shared by students,
Lepore, a clarinetist, was surprised to find there was nothing out there.
When instruments are wiped down and stored for the summer, they can be teeming
with bacteria by the time student-musicians return to school in the fall.“It doesn’t
mean you’ll get sick if you use them, but it’s like picking up a water bottle off a
park bench. You just wouldn’t do it,” Lepore told the Boston Globe. In random tests
of musical instruments, including some pulled from store shelves, Lepore found live,
disease-causing bacteria, including staph, growing in them.
In an effort to address a potential public health issue, he founded Encore Etc. Inc.,
a company that sterilizes wind instruments with a process similar to one used to sterilize
medical and dental instruments.
Because wind instruments are constructed of rubber, wood, cork and other material
that cannot withstand heat-based sterilization, Lepore developed MaestroMD,
which blasts the instruments, still in their cases, with ethylene oxide gas.
A survey Encore conducted in 2006 found that public schools across the country
own three million instruments that they loan to students. Hundreds of thousands
more are distributed through school music dealers. “Parents have never considered
that the rental instrument provided by their school could make their child sick,” Lepore
said. “In fact, infectious microbes can live for extended periods of time in the
dark, moist environments provided by wind instruments and their cases.”
Medford High, where Lepore played saxophone and clarinet and was president
of the school band, was the first Massachusetts school to sign up for the service.
6 tufts dental medicine winter 2007 ILLUSTRATION: HARRY CAMPBELL

Tooth Day at Fenway
THOUSANDS OF BOSTON RED SOX FANS HAD
brighter smiles following the July 18, 2006,
game at Fenway Park—and not just because
the Red Sox defeated the Kansas City
Royals, 1–0.
Students from the Alpha Omega dental
fraternity at the School of Dental Medicine
handed out samples of toothbrushes and
toothpaste and educational pamphlets on
good oral hygiene before the game. Tooth
Day at Fenway marked the first of three
educational events done in conjunction with
the Sox to underscore the importance of oral
hygiene and dental health.
Working with Dr. Charles Steinberg,
executive vice president of public affairs for
the Red Sox, who is also a dentist and a
second-generation Alpha Omega member,
Heidi Birnbaum, D08, president of the Tufts
chapter of Alpha Omega, and outreach cochairs
Lindsey McElligott, D08, and Amanda
Kopacz, D08, developed the program to
bring oral health and oral cancer
recognition to the baseball fans of
Boston.
“There are so many times during
a Red Sox game that you see
players chewing a wad of tobacco,”
said Birnbaum. “I wanted to speak
out about the dangers of chewing
tobacco and oral cancer.”
Tooth Day kicked off with Tufts
students handing out toothpaste
and toothbrushes, courtesy of the
dental school, along with oral cancer
brochures and information on
Tufts’ Baby Dental Clinic. Prior to
the game, a video of Red Sox third
baseman Mike Lowell promoting oral hygiene
was shown on the Jumbotron.
The second of the three-part program took
place in November, and involved a day of
education and dental screenings for the 100
Red Sox Scholars, a franchise charity that
provides college scholarships to academically
talented but economically disadvantaged
Boston public school students.
The program will conclude during the
2007 baseball season with an oral cancer
screening at Fenway Park.
Other Tufts dental students who participated
were Jonathan Albaugh, Eric Appelin,
Daniel Callahan, Joey Chang, Melissa
Dennison, Fields Farrior, Brian Green, Kevin
Huang, Jennifer Kang, Jenny Liang, Nick
Miller, Wendy Musicer, Brad Pinkos, Young
Stebbins Han and Sarah Stipho, all D08; Joe
Carey, Kevin Chung and Antoinette Ramdath,
all D09, and their advisor, Dr. Charles Rankin
III, D79, DG86, professor of endodontics.
At Fenway, Lindsey McElligott,
Charles Rankin and Heidi
Birnbaum
PRESIDENTIAL
TOOTH WOES
“I must again resort
to you for assistance.
The teeth herewith
enclosed have by
degrees worked loose
and, at length, two or
three of them have
given way altogether.
I send them to you to
be repaired, if they are
susceptible of it; if
not, then for the
purpose of substituting
others. I would
thank you for returning
them as soon as
possible for although
I now make use of
another sett, they are
both uneasy in my
mouth and bulge my
lips out in such a
manner as to make
them appear considerably
swelled.”
President George Washington in a January
20, 1797, letter to his favorite dentist,
John Greenwood of New York. Known as
the Father of American Dentistry, Greenwood
made Washington’s dentures out of
hippopotamus ivory—not wood—that he
carved to fit the president’s gums.
TRUSTWORTHY
MORE AMERICANS TRUST THE ADVICE THEY GET FROM THEIR DENTISTS than that from nearly all other professionals, according to a 2006 Harris
Poll. More than 2,300 U.S. adults ranked 10 professions in terms of the stock they place in the advice those professionals give:
50% 47% 46%
28%
18% 16% 12% 9% 7% 6%
Physicians Dentists Nurses Accountants Lawyers Bankers and
Financial
Advisors
Mechanics
Insurance
Agents
Real Estate
Brokers
Stockbrokers
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Catherine Hayes, D87,
outside the dental school in Chinatown

good
The greater
For Catherine Hayes, the new chair of public health,
the community is the patient
OF ALL THE CHALLENGES THAT DR. CATHERINE HAYES, D87, FACES
as the school’s first chair of the Department of Public Health and
Community Service, motivating students isn’t one of them. When
she recently took a group of volunteers to Chinatown’s Josiah
Quincy Elementary School to care for at-risk second- and thirdgraders,
she was the one inspired—by the dental students’ willingness
to give their time and skills. ■ “I’ve met so many of them who
have a real, solid commitment to community service,” she said.“It’s
heartwarming to see how much they enjoy it and see how much a
part of their career it has become.” ■ The bigger goal for this dentist,
teacher, epidemiologist and public health advocate will be creating
more opportunities, both in and out of the curriculum, for
students to discover active citizenship. ■ “It’s important for all of
us to give back to our community,” she said, and in her case,“community”
is not an unfamiliar land where the less fortunate live. She
grew up in South Boston’s Old Harbor projects, the first public
BY JULIE FLAHERTY I PHOTO BY JOHN SOARES
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housing development in New England. Her
father clerked for the telephone company
while her mother raised her and her six
brothers and sisters. When she finished high
school in the late 1970s, she decided (inexplicably,
since she didn’t know anyone in the
dental field) that she wanted to be a dental
hygienist. She enrolled at the Forsyth School
of Dental Hygiene, little knowing she was
starting a 15-year education that would lead
her to five academic degrees.
At Forsyth, she fell in love with the public
health aspects of dentistry. She was chosen to
join a dental team on a charitable trip to
Ecuador, where she taught the local teachers,
mothers and children about dental care, as
well as nutrition and oral
re-hydration. Her colleagues
on the trip suggested that
becoming a dentist would
help her in her public health
goals. So she fast-tracked
her way through a bachelor’s
degree at Boston College
and landed at Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine.
She worked as a hygienist in the evenings
and on weekends to pay for books, took out
loans to cover tuition and volunteered in
South America in the summers. Then, while
completing her general practice residency at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she learned
of a National Institutes of Health-funded initiative
at Harvard University to train dentists
in public health research. By 1993, she had
both a master’s and a doctorate in epidemiology,
making her one of a much-needed group
of dentists who could study the health and illness
of populations.
“They were finding that the research in oral
health was just methodologically not up to par
with that of medicine,” Hayes said. “[Dentists]
didn’t have the training, and the medical
researchers weren’t as interested in oral health.
It was kind of this lost area where no one was
really looking at it adequately. We needed to
train people in research methodology and
epidemiology to conduct well-controlled studies
and more large-scale population studies.”
Much of her research has focused on facial
anomalies, including the relationship
between cleft lip and palate and the mother’s
intake of folic acid during pregnancy. (There
is a link, but not as strong as the one between
folic acid and neural tube defects.) She is currently
studying hemifacial microsomia, a
condition in which the lower half of one
side of the face does not grow normally. She
has found that it is more common in twins,
in children whose mothers took fertility
drugs and in children whose mothers took
decongestants during pregnancy.
For another project at the Northeast Center
for Research to Evaluate and Eliminate
Dental Disparities, she is evaluating the consequences
of severe early childhood caries on
the growth of 2- to 6-year-olds. That study
will be completed in 2008.
Teaching has always been an integral part
of her career. She joined Tufts as a full-time
faculty member in 1993. But after five years,
she felt a little isolated as the school’s only
public health faculty, and returned to Harvard’s
schools of Public Health and Dental
Medicine. Tufts’ expanding commitment to
active citizenship, encouraged by Dean Lonnie
H. Norris, DG80, and the creation of an
endowed chair in public health and community
service have lured her back. Delta Dental
of Massachusetts has awarded the school
a $5 million endowment, and part of that gift
funds the Delta Dental of Massachusetts
Professorship in Public Health and Community
Service, to which Hayes was appointed
last October.
“Someone who is practicing in Newton is
not going to see how the kids in Holyoke
are struggling to get access.”
Alex Moheban, A04, D08, examines a young boy at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School in Boston’s Chinatown.
Supervising the work is Dr. Gulsun Gul, assistant professor of public health and community service.
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As part of the dental school’s mission to educate
underserved populations about the importance
of oral health, Tufts Dental students and faculty
brought their mobile dental care facility to students
at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School.
“It’s a great way to give back to the community,”
says Alex Moheban, A04, D08.
Among the opportunities she would like
to create for students are a rotation beyond
the mandatory five-week externship program
and a selective in community service.
She has also spoken with several students
about helping her with her research. Compared
to community service, a career in
dental research is the harder sell among
students, mainly because private practice is
so lucrative. “The way to do it is to encourage
part-time combinations,” Hayes said.
“I’ve seen it work well for people who have a
private practice and also make tremendous
contributions to academia and to research
and to teaching.”
As if her other roles weren’t enough,
Hayes has the unique job of serving as remediation
monitor in a federal lawsuit with
statewide repercussions. The case charged
that Massachusetts state officials were in
violation of federal law because they had
failed to ensure access to dental care for
children served by MassHealth, a state insurance
plan that utilizes Medicaid dollars. In
July 2005, a judge ruled there is indeed a
problem, particularly for the state’s 500,000
children who receive Medicaid, and asked
both sides to develop a plan to fix the system.
Hayes was asked to work with both
plaintiffs and defendants to restructure the
MassHealth dental program for children.
She says that the system is changing—raising
reimbursement rates, streamlining paperwork,
letting dentists decide how many
Medicaid patients they will treat—but it
will take time. Part of her job, she says, is
convincing dentists to once again work with
MassHealth.
“You’ve got to get beyond the history,”
she tells them, at the same time educating
them about continuing disparities.“Someone
who is practicing in Newton is not going to
see how the kids in Holyoke are struggling to
get access.”
If Hayes is successful, the next generation
of Tufts dentists will need less convincing and
will graduate with a better understanding of
public health.
“As public health dentists, we see the
community as our patient,” she said.“Instead
of looking at one patient and saying, ‘You
need six fillings,’ we look at a community and
say, ‘Looks like they need a program in the
schools for the kids to get sealants.’ We look
at the whole body of the population, focusing
on those with limited or no access to care,
and treat them.” TDM
Julie Flaherty is a senior health sciences
writer in Tufts’ Office of Publications. She
can be reached at julie.flaherty@tufts.edu.
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Eye on
AMERICA
About four miles downstream
from Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam,
the Colorado River flows around
Horseshoe Bend. Roger Galburt
and his son, Eric, visited the
region in March 2006.

IT ALL STARTED WITH A KODAK BROWNIE.
A smart, Brooklyn-born kid who liked to tinker, Roger
Galburt was 10 when he got his first camera, the simple
Brownie that took black-and-white photographs. Brooklyn’s
bridges and buildings were his earliest subjects. By
high school, he was a yearbook photographer, a role he
would reprise in college.
BY JACQUELINE MITCHELL I PHOTOS BY ROGER GALBURT

Under his uncle’s tutelage, Galburt, a clinical professor of prosthodontics
and operative dentistry at Tufts, learned his way around a darkroom.
By junior high school, he converted the family bathroom into a
makeshift darkroom, placing a two-by-four strategically across the
bathtub.
“I liked the science of it,” he says of his affinity for the lens. “That
right-brain/left-brain aspect. I like using both sides.”
Galburt chose to go into dental medicine, in part because he liked
working with his hands. After attending Brooklyn College, he trained
at New York University’s College of Dentistry. His prosthodontic residency
at Harvard brought him to Boston in 1975. Now in his 30th year
as a faculty member at Tufts School of Dental Medicine, Galburt also
maintains a private prosthodontic practice in South Easton, Mass.
Despite his busy schedule, Galburt never put down his camera,
even applying his photographer’s eye and artistry to dental science. He
uses photo editing software to add splashes of bright color to digital
dental X-rays. “It gives it a new look. The X-ray is no longer clinical, but
basically an abstract art form,” he says.
The majority of Galburt’s work, however, is American landscapes—
the rust-colored canyons of Arizona, the lunar landscapes of Alaska,
the rugged greenery of the Grand Tetons. “I like landscapes and glaciers
and natural things,” he says.
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A sandstone formation in Antelope
Canyon on the Navajo Reservation near
Page, Arizona
A snowy mountain range near Glacier
Bay, Alaska, August, 2006
Roger Galburt’s son, Eric, shot this
portrait of his father on their trip to Grand
Teton National Park in Wyoming in 2005.
For the last four years, Galburt and his son, Eric, 31, a physicist on
a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
in California, have taken photography vacations to U.S. national parks.
Just as he caught the shutter bug from his uncle, Galburt has
passed on his love of photography to his son, and the two plan to travel
together every year “until I have to carry an oxygen tank,” he quips.
Last summer, father and son visited Alaska, where Galburt captured
images of saw-toothed mountain ranges reaching for stormy skies, optimistic
flowers eking out a brief existence and primary-colored trains
snaking across the wilderness.
“I like to capture things that you don’t see everyday,” says Galburt,
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Yellow flowers in Alaska,
August 2006
A rock formation at the
Navajo Reservation in Arizona,
March 2006
PHOTO: MELODY KO

Twilight at the Alaska Range,
August 2006
noting his photographic style is somewhat “eclectic.”
One of his favorite photographs dates back to the early 1960s
during the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which links
Brooklyn to Staten Island. When the bridge opened in 1964, it was the
world’s longest suspension bridge. Galburt made his photograph when
the bridge was about halfway completed, and he talks about it like an
old friend.
He keeps most of his pictures in his home and his office, but he
occasionally gives them away to admirers. “I love to look at all my photos,”
he says.
Galburt works exclusively with digital cameras now—a long way
from his Brownie days. He says he regrets that his uncle did not live
to see the digital age. “It’s become relatively easy for anybody to take
a technically proper picture. You can try as many times as you want,
and it doesn’t cost anything. Now the trick is composition,” he says.
Though he’s no Luddite, Galburt maintains a collection of antique
cameras that he displays in cases in his den. Starting at yard sales
and moving onto eBay, he now has about 100 cameras. Some of them
are fairly rare, including an ostrich leather-covered Kodak valued at
nearly $1,000. As someone who likes gadgets, Galburt appreciates
the cameras’ intricate mechanisms and brass trim. But he likes them
for more than their aesthetic appeal.
“When I first started collecting, I realized that modern technology
developed in the 1800s and basically hasn’t changed,” he says.
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“Electronics changed, but the mechanisms are the same.”
Galburt’s boyhood distraction has blossomed into a mature avocation.
For the last three years, he has maintained his images on the web
at osprey.smugmug.com. At the top of his site is a Navajo chant that
Galburt says best expresses his photographic muse:
“Feeling the light within, I walk.
With lively feelings, I walk.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.”
Jacqueline Mitchell is a senior health sciences writer in Tufts’ Office
of Publications. She can be reached at jacqueline.mitchell@tufts.edu.
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This insect may look like
it lives in the tropics, but
Galburt photographed the
brilliant bug in his own
backyard in Sudbury, Mass.
Light filtering through
the spray off Yosemite Falls
creates a rainbow through
the tree. Galburt used a
low-tech solution to keep
his camera dry. “A Ziploc
bag is my favorite umbrella,”
he says.
Early morning light on
Mount Moran in Grand Teton
National Park, 2005
Galburt visited the Bay of
Fundy’s Hopewell Rocks at
Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick—also
known as the
Flowerpot Rocks—with his
wife in 2003. The dark line
across the stone, the high
tide mark, illustrates the dramatic
40- to 50-foot tides for
which the bay is famous.
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Using a special vibration-reducing
lens, Galburt took this photograph
from a small plane. These peaks
are among the foothills of Mount
McKinley in Alaska, which Galburt
and his son visited last August.

ACADEMIC
Transformation
How orthodontics—and a few unforeseen events—launched
Richard Smith’s career in physical anthropology
BY JACQUELINE MITCHELL I PHOTOS BY SCOTT FERGUSON
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HEN RICHARD SMITH’S PARENTS ASKED
their 10-year-old son what he wanted to be
when he grew up, his answer was simple: a
foremost authority. It’s not really an anecdote he
wants documented in his alumni magazine—he shies away from publicity
in general—but it speaks to his lifelong affair with academia. Smith, D73,
who, in addition to his dental degree, holds an M.S. in anatomy from Tufts
and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale, has fulfilled that childhood ambition.
wounds and burial sites that shed light on the
nature of hominid society. Clues coded in the
helices of modern human DNA.
The class is rapt, interrupting the professor
to ask questions that show the depth of
their attention to his lecture. After class, students
wait in line, not to ask Smith about
assignments or deadlines, but to ask him to
elaborate on today’s topic. He promises them
he’ll address their questions in future lectures,
and then makes his way across campus
to his office.
A longtime professor of orthodontics at
the University of Maryland at Baltimore and
Washington University in St. Louis, Smith
was named dean of Wash U’s dental school
in 1989. Then he was charged with the task
of shutting it down. Now, as the Ralph E.
Morrow Distinguished University Professor
and chair of the Department of Anthropology
at Washington University,
Smith attempts to
tease the story of human
evolution out of the fragmented
fossil record. He
also uses statistical theory
and methods to question
some of the assumptions
fossil hunters—often with
scant evidence—make about that story.
Born curious, Smith loves research—he
was among the first Tufts dental students to
complete an M.S. during his four years of
dental school—and also happens to be a natural
in the classroom. It’s made for a very successful,
if unusual, career in academia.
FROM WHENCE WE CAME
It’s a Friday afternoon in November, and the
first storm of the season has left St. Louis
under a sheet of ice. More than 300 rosycheeked
undergraduates blow into Brown
Hall for Smith’s “Intro to Human Evolution”
class. As the students wriggle out of heavy
jackets, buzz about weekend plans and fire up
their laptops, Smith sketches a schematic on
the chalkboard, writing “Europe,” “Africa,”
“Asia” across the bottom and the names of
recent human ancestors along the side.
“Today we’re going to talk about one of
the most public and controversial topics in
anthropology,” Smith begins, turning to face
his class. “The origins of modern humans.”
About three hundred thousand years ago,
only one kind of hominid walked the Earth,
Smith explains. This descendant of Homo
erectus ranged from Western Europe to
Indonesia to South Africa. By 30,000 years
ago, however, we modern humans had the
planet to ourselves. This much the fossil
record makes clear. What happened in those
intervening years remains hotly debated.
Noting that the real story of human evolution
probably lies somewhere in the middle,
Smith offers his class two hypotheses to
consider: the multi-regional hypothesis and
the single-origin hypothesis. According to
the former, modern humans evolved independently
from Homo erectus populations
in Europe and Asia and Africa. The singleorigin
hypothesis says that modern humans
evolved in Africa before moving to other
continents.
“What is the evidence for either hypothesis
I’m going to give you bits of information,
and later, we’re going to tie them all together,”
Smith tells his class.
It’s the secret to his success as a teacher.
Like the forensic scientists in the popular
TV series “CSI,” Smith doles clues out one by
one to his students. Skulls markedly different
in size and shape scattered across Europe
and the Middle East. Stone tool kits, healed
A NATURAL
“If I am good at this, it is because I remember
what I once didn’t know,” Smith says of his
teaching. “Rather than giving students information,
I try to explain how I’ve figured it
out. If they follow along with me, they will
get to the endpoint. I’m very sequential.”
It’s an approach that also serves him in his
“Rather than giving students information, I try
to explain how I’ve figured it out. If they follow
along with me, they will get to the endpoint.”
research, for which Smith’s talent first reared
its head in a junior high school writing
assignment, a comparative literature paper
examining character and plot development in
Dickens, Eliot and Thackeray.
“I remember thinking, ‘I like this process.
I enjoy the process of producing a document.’
I was prouder of that paper than of
hitting a home run.”
The summer after his first year at Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine, Smith
worked on his first research project in Jack
Frommer’s anatomy lab. “I loved it. It came
very naturally to me. I was like a fish in
water,” recalls Smith, whose summer research
project results were published in the Journal
of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry during
his sophomore year at the dental school.
With encouragement from Frommer, now
professor emeritus in the Department of
Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Tufts School
of Medicine, Smith completed his master’s in
anatomy while still in dental school, squeezing
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in research whenever patients failed to show
up for their appointments.
“Tufts gave me an incredible opportunity
to do research. It was really marvelous
how open-minded they were and how much
support I got.”
By the time he finished dental school,
Smith knew he wanted a career in academic
dentistry, a decision he credits, in part, to
Frommer. “He was the perfect advisor for me
at that time. I was shy and naïve, and he was
supportive and patient,” says Smith. “I was
struggling to figure out what I was going to
do for a career, and my experience in his lab
really helped me.”
DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Smith considered pursuing a Ph.D. in anatomy,
but he decided that “it made more sense to
build on dentistry than to disregard it.” So he
spent the next three years doing a residency in
orthodontics at the University of Connecticut.
That’s where he met Dr. Howard Bailit, D62,
now professor emeritus of community medicine
and health care at UConn. Bailit, who
earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard
after finishing dental school, was doing
research on population genetics with dental
casts he’d just obtained from fieldwork in
Papua New Guinea.
“For people who are interested in academic
dentistry, when you look at growth
and development on the population level
rather than the individual level, then it
becomes anthropology,” says Bailit.
Looking for a thesis, Smith walked into
Bailit’s office and asked to work with him.
Bailit gave Smith a stack of books to get
him up to speed in anthropology, which
Smith plowed through in just a few weeks.
“He really served as a role model for me,”
Smith says.
Over the next three years, Smith used
Bailit’s casts from Papua New Guinea to
study human variation in dental occlusion
and the role of genetics and environment, a
theme he’d return to later in his career.
Along the way, he’d deeply impressed Bailit
with his industry, smarts and social skills.
“He was a pleasure to work with. As much as
he learned from me, I learned just as much
from him,” Bailit says.
By now, Smith had completed four years of
“If I am good at this, it is
because I remember what I
once didn’t know,” Richard
Smith says of teaching.
college, four more of dental school and three
years of residency. His wife, who had taught
elementary school during their years in Boston
and had obtained her Ph.D. in educational
psychology at UConn, was looking forward to
the end of her husband’s student days.
“But I thought, ‘I gotta go get that Ph.D. I
won’t be fulfilled without it,’ ” Smith says. He
was accepted to Yale’s Ph.D. program in
anthropology and worked with David Pilbeam,
now the Henry Ford II Professor of the
Social Sciences at Harvard, who was interested
in fossilized faces and teeth. “He was a
pleasure to have,” recalls Pilbeam. “He was
very much a self-starter, the kind of graduate
student you love to have. He did a lot of
extremely thoughtful work.”
Smith’s unusual background served him
well. “My dental education gave me a huge
advantage beginning an anthropology
research program,” he says. “I understood
more about the growth and the developwinter
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ment of the face than most professional
anthropologists writing about it at the time.”
By the time he completed his Ph.D., Smith
was marketable in both anthropology and
orthodontics. He accepted a position teaching
orthodontics at the dental school at the
University of Maryland in 1979, and, with his
impressive body of published research, Smith
was soon awarded tenure and appointed
director of the graduate program in orthodontics.
Though he continued to publish in
both orthodontic and anthropology journals,
Smith felt the time to choose between
the fields had come.
The fossilized upper jaw
of a child dating back
some 800,000 years
REACHING CLOSURE
“Somewhere I decided I was doing each of
these halfway,” he says.“I thought it had to be
one or the other.”
Opting to focus on academic orthodontics,
Smith became professor and chair of
orthodontics at Washington University’s dental
school in 1984. Smith and the school
were a good fit; he loved the camaraderie
among the faculty and students and enjoyed
ushering young dentists into a satisfying and
lucrative career. A respected and popular figure
on campus, Smith was selected to be the
next dean of the dental school in 1989.
But soon after he accepted the job, Smith
learned that Washington University planned to
close its dental school. He spent the next several
years dismantling the school he had hoped
to lead into the next millennium. Working
closely with the administration, Smith was
involved in every single decision. The closure
was a three-year, multi-million dollar endeavor
that left him “teary with exhaustion.”
“I think we closed elegantly,” says Smith,
who worked long hours to place students
and tenured professors at other schools.
Smith also worked with Washington University
administrators for funding to keep
faculty on board for the last two years of the
dental school’s existence.
When William H. Danforth, Wash U’s
chancellor at the time, offered him a position
elsewhere in the university, Smith chose the
Department of Anthropology. It was a homecoming
of sorts—even though he had seven
years of catching up to do.
“There were huge changes in theory. I was
way out of date in genetics, and the fossil
record had changed a great deal. There were
books written I’d never even seen,” he says.
Smith focuses on the processes that anthropolgists
use to conclude whether newfound fossils are
different enought to comprise new species.
After a year of reading and sitting in on
classes, Smith was teaching again. By 1993, he
was chair of the department. Today, his “Introduction
to Human Evolution” is one of the
most popular courses on campus, earning
rave reviews on websites like ratemyprofessor.com,
where college students around the
country post evaluations about professors
and their courses. Under his mentorship, four
students have completed their Ph.D.s; his fifth
doctoral student started last fall. “It’s been
very exciting,” he says. “This is a wonderful
place to be a liberal arts professor.”
Smith continues to pursue his research.
Today, he is “primarily a methodologist,” using
rigorous statistical analyses to interpret what
fossils can and cannot tell us about the past.
In the last decade or so, anthropologists
have ramped up the search for hominid fossils.
Their efforts have paid off, but many fossils
are a party of one. Fossilization almost
never happens on wet, warm planet Earth.
Only very rarely do circumstances promote
preservation over decay. Smith likes puzzling
over the statistical implications of a sample
size of one.
“Suppose all I have is a lower jaw,” he says.
“Basically all we do is ask, ‘Is it different’ But
what if I have Eddie
Arcaro’s jaw [the diminutive,
great jockey] and
[basketball legend] Wilt
Chamberlain’s jaw They
belong to the same
species, but what would
we think if we were finding
evidence just based on
them How different is different enough”
So Smith focuses on the processes that
anthropologists use to conclude whether newfound
fossils are different enough to comprise
new species. “I look at our conventions
regarding the strength of our evidence,” he
says. “I ask how certain can we be about the
statements we’re making.”
Smith is careful to emphasize that he’s not
criticizing his colleagues.“Scientific progress is
a debate,” he says. “We challenge each other.
Statistics is a jigsaw puzzle. My work is trying
to define how we can do it better.” TDM
Jacqueline Mitchell is a senior health sciences
writer in Tufts’ Office of Publications. She can
be reached at jacqueline.mitchell@tufts.edu.
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DENTAL SCHOOL NEWS
ON CAMPUS
by Jacqueline Mitchell
The journey begins
WHEN THE 161 MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF
2010 arrived on campus on August 29,
they didn’t come alone. Parents, partners
and children packed Merritt Auditorium
for the annual Family Welcome Day.
“You are now members of a wonderful
and loyal group,” Tufts President Lawrence
S. Bacow said. “Where ever you go in the
world, you will encounter fellow Jumbos.
And if history is any guide, you are certain
to make lifelong friends in this class. Some
of you may meet your life partner, so look
around—you might see your future
mother- or father-in-law.” Bacow also gave
the class some advice about life as a graduate
student.“Maintain balance in your life,”
he said. “Continue to read broadly; sample
from what the entire university has to offer; get to know Boston; set aside
time for exercise and contemplation. Continue to be the interesting people
you were when you arrived.”
In his first remarks to the Class of 2010, Dean Lonnie H. Norris
acknowledged the students’ outstanding credentials. The 85 men and 76
women were selected from more than 3,700 applicants. As undergraduates,
they achieved an average GPA of 3.41, and seven students already hold
advanced degrees.
“Many of you had choices,” said Norris. “We’re very pleased you chose
Tufts. If you put in the dedication, you are in the environment to succeed.
Our entire staff and faculty are here to support you as you fulfill your
dream.”
Clockwise from top, D09 students ready Tufts
Dental T-shirts for the incoming class; Prof.
Jonathan Garlick talks with parents about dental
research opportunities; John Ficarelli, D73, and
Victoria Danberg with their son, Andrew Danberg-
Ficarelli, D10; and Elizabeth Jones, D10, Thomas
F. Winkler III, A62, D66; Paul Talmo, A52, D56,
J87P; Mary C. Talmo, D10, and Mary Talmo,
J87P, D10P.
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ON CAMPUS
DENTAL SCHOOL NEWS
JOURNEY, continued from page 27
Second-generation Tufts Dental graduate
Lisa Vouras, D89, president of the Tufts Dental
Alumni Association (and daughter of
Peter Vouras Jr., D55) welcomed the D2010s
as future members of the alumni association,
which is now 7,000 members strong.
Dr. Jonathan Garlick, professor of oral
and maxillofacial pathology and director of
the Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue
Engineering, encouraged students to consider
pursuing independent research during
their dental education. “Research will
teach you how to create, critique and apply
new information. It trains you for lifelong
learning. It’s the journey, not the destination,”
he said, quoting the caption on the Harley
Davidson poster that hangs in his lab.
Winna Goldman, D08, who has worked
in Garlick’s lab since the summer after her
first year, assured the new class that “it’s definitely
possible” for students to conduct
research. “The skills you learn
in the lab enhance everything
you do,” she said.
Second-year class President
Matthew R. Wimmer,
D09, gave the new first-years
a taste of what to expect:
“Look around at the 160
sharply dressed men and
women. You’re all about to be
best friends. Before you know
it, it will snow; the snow will
melt; it will be warm again,
and you won’t believe what
you’ve accomplished.”
Following the introductory remarks,
members of the Class of D09 led families on
tours of One Kneeland Street and the Hirsh
Health Sciences Library. The day ended at
One Kneeland Street, where parents from as
far as Texas and as near as Cape Cod shared
a back-to-school lunch.
Paul and Marilyn Smith drove out from
Jonathan Garlick, director of the Division of
Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, chats
with parents during Family Welcome Day.
Utah to see their son, Bradley, start dental
school. They found the morning’s presentations
reassuring, they said, but it wasn’t their
first rodeo. Their older son, Andrew, graduated
from the dental school in 2002. By
lunchtime, however, Bradley Smith had
already learned one important lesson about
his next four years in Boston: “I don’t ever
want to drive my car in this city,” he said.
Noteworthy
Winna Goldman, D08, won a third-place
research award at the ADA/Dentsply
Student Clinician Program during the
annual meeting of the American Dental
Association. Her research, “Stromal Crosstalk
Influences Malignant Progression of
E-cadherin-deficient Carcinoma,” could one
day help in treating oral cancer patients.
The work earned her a top award at the
dental school’s 2006 Bates-Andrews
Research Day. Her mentor is Jonathan
Garlick, director of the Division of Cancer
Biology and Tissue Engineering.
Alex Moheban, A04, D08, was awarded
the AAFP-AADR National Student Research
Group Award in Fixed Prosthodontics and
will be presenting his research poster
at the annual session of the American
Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics in
Chicago February 23–24. He received a
$1,000 cash award to offset the cost of
expenses and travel to the annual session.
Happy customers
TUFTS DENTAL STUDENTS ARE INCREASINGLY
satisfied with the education they are receiving,
according to a survey of the classes of
D06 and DI06. Ninety-nine percent of those
who graduated last May report being “very
satisfied” or “satisfied” with their education,
compared to 86 percent for the Class of D03.
Repositioning the externship program so
that it occurs earlier in the curriculum as well
as establishing new externship sites appear to
have led to an increase in satisfaction with
the externship rotation, from 78 percent for
the Class of D03 to 84 percent for the Class
of D06, according to Mark Gonthier, associate
dean for admissions and student affairs.
One of the most dramatic increases
occurred in the area of mentoring. For the
classes of D06 and DI06, 91 percent reported
a positive mentor relationship compared to
69 percent for those who graduated in 2003.
“Graduates increasingly reported mentoring
relationships with staff and faculty, which
is an encouraging trend toward meeting citizenship
goals for the school,” Gonthier said.
In specific areas of the curriculum, 89
percent of the classes of D06 and DI06 felt
“prepared” or “well-prepared” for pediatric
dentistry compared to 51 percent for D03.
Practice management showed similar gains,
with 79 percent of D06 and DI06 feeling
“prepared” or “well-prepared” compared to
48 percent of the Class of D03. This can be
attributed to the integration of practice management
throughout all four years of the curriculum
and many electives, Gonthier said.
Other enhancements that have improved
the level of satisfaction are the introduction of
the Curriculum-Integrated Format version
of the NERB in 2004, the implementation of
the Axium electronic patient information system
in 2004 and the rearrangement of the
group practices from 10 groups with one
practice coordinator per group to eight groups
with two practice coordinators in 2003.
“The school will continue to use strategic
planning and assessment of outcomes to
identify ways to enhance the educational
experience for students,” Gonthier said.
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A CELEBRATION OF SERVICE
The School of Dental Medicine hosted its seventh annual Faculty
Recognition and Service Awards Luncheon for nearly 200 guests
on August 4, 2006, at the Boston Harbor Hotel. The event was
established to express appreciation to the entire faculty for their
contributions to the school and to specifically recognize faculty
with awards for years of service at five-year intervals.
Provost and Senior Vice President Jamshed Bharucha and Dean
Lonnie H. Norris gave the welcoming remarks. Dr. Thomas F.
Winkler III, A62, D66, a Tufts University trustee and chair of the
Board of Overseers to the dental school, gave the faculty toast,
and Associate Dean Nancy Arbree, G96, served as emcee.
Special recognition was given to Dr. Alfred Peters, D48, assistant
clinical professor of general dentistry, and Dr. Catherine
Squires, professor of microbiology, on the their retirements from
the university. Christine Robertson arranged the event.
Those honored at the luncheon
included:
5 YEARS
Gift: silver-plated business card holder
engraved with Tufts seal and years of
service
Charles Badaoui, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Lagina Bickham, D92, General
Dentistry
Karen Y. Chang, General Dentistry
Frank Chow, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Thomas M. Cleary, D74, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Malek Esrawi, DI97, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Olympia Karacosta, DG99, General
Dentistry
Joan LaSalvia, DG00, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Yonit Levine, Endodontics
Robert Mandell, General Dentistry
Vincent Mariano, D82, DG84, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Dominic Mazzocco, D82, DG84,
Orthodontics
John McFarland, General Dentistry
Roland Nentwich, Orthodontics
Aruna Ramesh, DI04, General Dentistry
Naomi Rosenberg, Oral Pathology
Kevin Ryan, D74, General Dentistry
Yun Saksena, DI00, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Roya Zandparsa, DI04,
Prosthodontics/Operative Dentistry
Bonnie Zimble, General Dentistry
10 YEARS
Gift: silver-plated Revere bowl engraved
with Tufts seal, school name and years
of service
Daniel Cohen, General Dentistry
Donna Finocchiaro, D93, DG95, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Daniel Green, Endodontics
Julian Osorio, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Charles Rankin, D79, DG86,
Endodontics
Louis Rissin, Oral Surgery
Jeffrey Rosow, General Dentistry
Samuel Shames, D75, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Frank Shin, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Steven Speroni, A78, General Dentistry
15 YEARS
Gift: brass-finish carriage clock
engraved with the Tufts seal, name
and years of service
Myron Allukian, A60, General Dentistry
Roland Bryan, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Steven Corliss, D88, DG90,
Endodontics
William DelGizzo, D85, General
Dentistry
Louis Farrugia, D66, General Dentistry
Jitka Janicek, DG89, DI92, Endodontics
Jan Rozen, Endodontics
Howard Smith, General Dentistry
Raina Trilokekar, DG88, DI91,
Endodontics
20 YEARS
Gift: lead crystal vase etched with the
Tufts seal, name and years of service
William Chan, D75A, DG82, DI0P,
Pediatric Dentistry
Kanchan Ganda, General Dentistry
Gerard Kugel, D85, L93, Prosthodontics/Operative
Dentistry
Maria Papageorge, D82, DG86, DG89,
Oral Surgery
Karen Wallach, D85, General Dentistry
25 YEARS
Gift: Tufts rocker or captain’s chair
engraved with Tufts seal, name and
years of service
Nancy Arbree, G96, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
Paul Cammarata, D79, DG81,
Prosthodontics/Operative Dentistry
David Fang, D79, DG80, General
Dentistry
30 YEARS
Gift: letter box with color print of the
school’s front entrance, name and
years of service
Joel Pearlman, D74, General Dentistry
Alfred Rich, Pediatric Dentistry
James Schmidt, A64, General Dentistry
35 YEARS
Gift: mirror with color print of the
school’s front entrance, name and
years of service
Paul Marino, A55, Oral Surgery
Hilde Tillman, D49, General Dentistry
Robert Urbon, D70, Prosthodontics/
Operative Dentistry
40 YEARS
Gift: mirror with color print of the
school’s front entrance, name and
years of service
The honorees at the 2006 Faculty Recognition Luncheon
Esther Wilkins, D49, DG66,
Periodontology
PHOTO: J.D. SLOAN
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ON CAMPUS COMMENCEMENT
From left, Dean Lonnie H. Norris
awards a diploma to Lisa
Nielsen, D06; Boris Bacanurschi,
D06, and his daughter, Maria;
and Maria Ferriol, D03, DG06;
Norman Lee, D02, DG06; and
Ancy Verdier, A96, D03, DG06
And now they
are doctors
“THIS IS A GREAT DAY, THE DAY YOU MOVE FROM BEING A STUDENT
to being a doctor,” Dean Lonnie H. Norris told the 173 members of
the Class of 2006 who received their D.M.D.s on May 21. “This is
the beginning of a great career,” he said. “Remember that each day
is an opportunity to learn.”
Norris acknowledged class officers, D2006 president Matthew S.
Feeley, DI2006 president Neela Gandhi, vice president Jonathan L.
Hoffman, treasurer Cary D. Wagner and secretary Lisa E. Nielsen,
for their leadership and their open communication with the administration.
He also commended the entire class for their optimism
and their dedication to excellence, noting that their accomplishments
“bring honor not only to yourselves, but also to the school.”
Mark Gonthier, associate dean for admissions and student affairs,
expressed his hope that some of the class might one day return to
Tufts as faculty. He invited the graduates to commit to two values:“Be
generous,” he said. “And be respectful of your intellectual potential.
You are uniquely poised to ask why and to formulate answers.”
In a nostalgic address, Feeley, the class president, spoke about the
graduates’ most memorable experiences, both in the classroom and
beyond. “I’ve seen friendships formed, relationships kindled and
families started,” he said. “I hope you will all be able to maintain
your modesty and humor. I’m happy to have been your president,
but I am happier to be your colleague.”
Feeley singled out the faculty and staff in the Office of Student
Affairs for their efforts in shepherding the class through their dental
training. “This extraordinary network of people willing to help
is what identifies Tufts as an extraordinary school,” he said.
Gandhi, president of the class of foreign-trained dentists, who
complete an accelerated version of the D.M.D. program to practice
in the United States, celebrated the cultural diversity at Tufts, calling
the school “a place admired around the world, the place where
the dreams of generations become reality.”
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PHOTOS: ZARA TZANEV

2006 POSTGRADS
In addition to the students studying for their D.M.D. degrees,
another 80-plus students are enrolled in the school’s seven
postgraduate certificate programs to prepare them for specialty
practice. This year’s certificate program graduates are:
Though the Class of DI06 included graduates from Asia, Africa
and the Middle East who speak more than eight languages, who eat
different foods, wear different clothes and worship different gods,
they will be “united by lifelong bonds of friendship,” said Gandhi.
“It is from such diversity that responses to new challenges arise.”
She also thanked the Class of D06 for embracing their differences.
In addition to the new D.M.D.s, eight students were awarded
M.S. degrees, and 48 received fellowships and postgraduate certificates
that prepare them for specialty practice.
Dr. Yun Saksena, DI00, assistant clinical professor of prosthodontics
and operative dentistry, and Dr. Aaron Sheinfeld, DG02,
assistant professor of prosthodontics and operative dentistry,
received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, and
Dr. Joanne Falzone, D80, associate clinical professor of prosthodontics
and operative dentistry, and Dr. Charles H. Rankin, D79,
DG86, professor of endodontics, were awarded the Dean’s Award
for Excellence in Pre-clinical Teaching.
Rankin, who has won this distinction every year since 2001, had
three pieces of advice for the class: “Enjoy your life. Keep your mom
and dad as proud of you as they are today. And cherish the freedoms
we have in this country. This is a great country.”
“Each of our faculty members is essential,” Norris said. “I really
do appreciate all of our faculty for all that they do.”
Norris then saluted Senior Associate Dean Frank R. Susi, a member
of the faculty for 40 years who retired in the spring. The ceremony
ended with Dr. David A. Russell, D87, MPH02, associate dean
for clinical affairs, leading the school’s newest alumni as they recited
the Oath for the Dental Graduate.
CRANIOMANDIBULAR
DISORDERS AND
OROFACIAL PAIN
Dr. Sofia Mavroudi
ENDODONTICS
Dr. Paula G. Elmi
Dr. Ian B. Glick
Dr. Michael Joseph, D03
Dr. Michael P. Lowery
Dr. Crista E. Massaro
Dr. Joshua A. Ries, A99, D04
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL
SURGERY
Dr. Nino D. Pollaccia
ORTHODONTICS
AND DENTOFACIAL
ORTHOPEDICS
Dr. Eduardo A. Avila, D02
Dr. Kenneth Cohen-Sasson
Dr. Aaron A. DeMaio
Dr. Victor J.R. Grazina
Dr. James F. Kane III, D04
Dr. Regina N. Retoma, D04
Dr. Neil V. Vadecha
Dr. Robert W. Wilson
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
Dr. Joseph Anwah
Dr. Yu-Shan Chang
Dr. Eeman Dajani
Dr. Carey L. Fister
Dr. Shahram Ghafghazi
Dr. Nour F. Gowharji
Dr. Anna Kalmanovich, DI02
PERIODONTOLOGY
Dr. Pablo González Balzar
Dr. Frederick J. Bonacci, D00
Dr. Il Cho
Dr. Daniel Engler-Hamm
Dr. Maria Cristina Ferriol Lang,D03
Dr. Norman E. Lee, D02
Dr. Hye Yang Park Mo
Dr. Ancy Verdier, A96, D03
PROSTHODONTICS
Dr. Suhail Ali Obaid Al-Ghafli
Dr. Brian Y. Lee, D03
Dr. Denise L. Leong-Yokota, D03
Dr. Kevin J. Loo, D03
Dr. Gianluca Paniz
Dr. Seevan Gani Shoher
At the all-university ceremony earlier in the day, seven-time Tour
de France champion Lance Armstrong talked about his personal
struggle in overcoming cancer and urged members of the Class of
2006 to be active citizens. “I challenge you to find your own obligation
of the cured . . . somehow find it within you what it means and
be active, be involved, be heard, be aggressive, be smart, ” he told the
graduates.
Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow presented honorary
degrees to Armstrong, philanthropist and entrepreneur
William S. Cummings, A58; Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, U.S.M.C. (ret.),
A56, whose 37-year military career included service in Kenya, Somalia
and Iraq; evolutionist Lynn Margulis, whose revolutionary theory
of inherited symbiotic bacteria and symbiosis in the evolution of
life caused profound changes in thinking about the origin of species;
and the Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M76, pediatrician, pastor,
medical missionary and humanitarian who is leading the Million
Voices for Darfur campaign.
—Jacqueline Mitchell
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ON CAMPUS COMMENCEMENT
NEAR AND FAR
Life after Tufts for the Class of 2006
ARIZONA
Yvonne Chen
Private Practice
Garrett Lum
Private Practice
CALIFORNIA
Joseph Bui
Private Practice
Mark Gerger
Private Practice
David Harold, A00
Private Practice
Joon Lee
Private Practice
Jennifer Lo
AEGD, University of the Pacific
Lisa Nielsen
GPR, VA Hospital System, San Francisco
Christopher Oswald
AEGD, U.S. Marines, Camp Pendleton,
San Diego
Sil Park
Postgraduate Prosthodontics Certificate
Program, UCLA
Ying Shang
Private Practice
Vinh Ton
AEGD, U.S. Navy, Camp Pendleton,
San Diego
Loan Le Truong
Private Practice
Richard Tri Truong
Private Practice
CANADA
Saleema Adatia
Private Practice
Aimee Dawson
Private Practice
Noreen Adnan Khan
Private Practice
Jelena Radovanovic
Private Practice
COLORADO
Brittany Bevis
Private Practice
Shital Tayde
GPR, Denver Health Medical Center
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
John Beack
Private Practice
FLORIDA
Magdaline Britto
Private Practice
Ana Galarza
Private Practice
Fanny Jarquin
Private Practice
Orlando Romero
Private Practice
Tatyana Stepanchuk
Private Practice
David Tarnowski
Private Practice
Amaury Valle
Private Practice
Gretel Valledor
Private Practice
GEORGIA
Henry Blair
Postgraduate Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery Residency, Emory University
Aimee Concepcion Cunningham
AEGD, Fort Benning
Edwin Ng
Private Practice
Nguyen Nguyen
Private Practice
Sandra Oh
Private Practice
Vinh Vuong
Private Practice
HAWAII
Jonathan Hoffman
AEGD, Lutheran Medical Center
ILLINOIS
Lora Chow
Postgraduate Endodontics, University
of Illinois
Roderic Dela Cruz
GPR, Rush University Medical Center,
Chicago
Jay Lee
Private Practice
Thanasi Loukas
Private Practice
Gabriel Schweier
Private Practice
JAPAN
LaJuana Calegan Ravens
AEGD, U.S. Navy, Okinawa
Michael Ravens
AEGD, U.S. Navy, Okinawa
KENTUCKY
Yan Huang
AEGD, Fort Campbell
MARYLAND
Chilo Obianwu
Private Practice
Shawn Teutsch
Postgraduate Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery Program, Bethesda Naval
Medical Center
MICHIGAN
William Boss
Private Practice
Wesley Chiang
Postgraduate Orthodontic Program,
University of Detroit–Mercy
Nahid Roghani
Postgraduate Endodontics Program,
University of Michigan
NEVADA
Helen Bishara
Private Practice
Joseph Widdison
Private Practice
NEW ENGLAND
Jamil Abbasy
GPR, Tufts University School of Dental
Medicine
Muna Abu-Dayyeh
Private Practice
Mani Alikhani
Private Practice
Inna Amirian
Postgraduate Prosthodontics, Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine
Yana Amirian
Private Practice
Boris Bacanurschi
Private Practice
Priti Beniwal
Private Practice
Douglas Brajcich
GPR, Boston University
Lindsay Brislin
Private Practice
Son Bui
South Cove Community Health Center,
Boston
Lindsay Cassidy
Private Practice
Yun Chon
Private Practice
Katherine Churchill
Private Practice
Matthew Clark
GPR, University of Massachusetts
Medical Center, Worcester
Meghan Clark
Postgraduate Endodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Katherine Colandrea
Private Practice
Anna Melissa Concepcion
Private Practice
Nicole Cuff
Postgraduate Pediatric Dental
Residency, University of Connecticut
Armida Dano
Private Practice
Kadam Desai
GPR, Fletcher Allen Health Center,
University of Vermont
Cristina Dominguez
Private Practice
Sarah Enright
Private Practice
Laurice Salib Fanikos
Private Practice
Matthew Feeley
Private Practice
Brad Fulkerson
GPR, Fletcher Allen Health Center,
University of Vermont
Neela Gandhi
Private Practice
John Govostes
Postgraduate Periodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Deborah Griffin
Postgraduate Orthodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Asma Hameed
Private Practice
Edward Ho
Private Practice
Lin Hu
Private Practice
Anastacia Hunton
GPR, University of Massachusetts
Medical Center, Worcester
James C. Jun
Postgraduate Periodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Mina Kaddis
Private Practice
Archana Karanki
Private Practice
Azita Khanbodaghi
GPR, Tufts University School of Dental
Medicine
Nina Khedkar, A02
Postgraduate Orthodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Anna Spencer Khodush
Private Practice
James Kirk
AEGD, University of Connecticut
James Kraus
Postgraduate Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery Residency, Tufts University
School of Dental Medicine
Jason Leung
Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry
Program, Boston University
Craig Lubinsky
Private Practice
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Kristin Lucas
Postgraduate Orthodontic Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Julie Lum
Private Practice
Tiffany McAdams
Private Practice
Rebecca Misner
Private Practice
Katharine Murphy
Private Practice
Kevin Oliveira
MSD in Orthodontics and Dentofacial
Orthopedics, Boston University
Teddi Olszewski
GPR, Tufts University School of Dental
Medicine
Joshua Osofsky
Private Practice
Anne Osowski
Private Practice
Ai-Phuong Pham
Private Practice
Uyen Phan
Private Practice
Brendan Prindiville
Postgraduate Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery Residency, St. Raphael’s
Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
Stephanie Purner
Postgraduate Periodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Maria Ray
Postgraduate Pediatric Residency
Program, Boston University
Laura Rizkallah
Private Practice
Shannon Rodrigues
Private Practice
Shalev Sabari
Postgraduate Orthodontics Certificate
Program, Tufts University School of
Dental Medicine
Tristi Samp
Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry
Program, Boston University
Shihchi Shieh
Private Practice
Dae-Jin Sohn
Private Practice
Sylvia Suaverdez
Private Practice
Nadia Virani
Postgraduate Endodontics Program,
Boston University
Cary Wagner
GPR, Cambridge Harvard Alliance,
Harvard University
Daniel Wood
Private Practice
Ying Jie Wu
Private Practice
Youngjae Yoon
Postgraduate Endodontics Program,
Boston University
Despina Mato Zourdos
Private Practice
NEW JERSEY
Carly Carson
Private Practice
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CLASS OF 2006
South 8%
Mountain States 7%
Florida 5%
West Coast 11%
International 2%
Midwest 8%
Mid Atlantic 15%
Canada 2%
New England 42%
SOURCE: DATA REPORTED BY 152 MEMBERS OF THE D.M.D. CLASS OF 2006 AND THE 15
MEMBERS OF THE DENTAL INTERNATIONAL CLASS WHO GRADUATED IN MAY 2006
Sushma Hoskote
Private Practice
Viraj Manocha
Private Practice
NEW YORK
Demetra Atsaves
GPR, Montefiore Medical Center
Yoonil Cha
Private Practice
Michael Doumouras
GPR, Montefiore Medical Center
Elizabeth Franco
GPR, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Sara Go
Private Practice
Fizza Jafry
GPR, Northshore-Long Island Jewish
Medical Center
Jane Jaroonnarm
Private Practice
Harleen Kaur
GPR, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical
Center, Brooklyn
Kirandeep Malhi
Private Practice
Joseph Muscatiello
GPR, SUNY Stony Brook
Rupesh Singla
Private Practice
David Tepel
Private Practice
Jeremy Ueno
Postgraduate Periodontics Certificate
Program, Columbia University
Sofia Vrataric
Private Practice
Kevin Owen Waltrous, A01
Private Practice
NORTH CAROLINA
Philip Bald
Private Practice
Shiva Mostowfi
AEGD, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Walter Rohner
AEGD, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Peter Inserk Son, A01
AEGD, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
OHIO
Brant Chandler Jones
AEGD, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Stanley Michel
AEGD, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Ashleigh Prescott
AEGD, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
OREGON
Benjamin Brown
Indian Health Services
Amanda Mayes
Private Practice
Nicholas Mellum
Private Practice
PENNSYLVANIA
Jason Petkevis
Private Practice
Devang Shah
Private Practice
Zachary Weber
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Residency M.D. Program, Thomas
Jefferson Hospital
SAUDI ARABIA
Ibtesam Linjawi
Private Practice
SOUTH CAROLINA
Jessica Herbert
AEGD, Fort Jackson
Thomas Mulroy
AEGD, U.S. Army
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sarah Schaeffer
Indian Health Services
SOUTH KOREA
Donghong Sin
General Dentist, U.S. Army Base
TEXAS
Falah Al-Gaissi
Private Practice
David Bohannan
Private Practice
Justin Nelson
AEGD, Fort Bliss, El Paso
UTAH
Michael Alfaro
USAF, Hill Air Force Base
Heather Hansen
Private Practice
Steven Smith
Private Practice
VIRGINIA
Joonwoo Bae
Private Practice
WASHINGTON STATE
Timothy Manning
Private Practice
Trinity Trinh Nguyen
Private Practice
Athena Seegert Pappas
Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry
Program, University of Washington
WISCONSIN
Brian Howe
Private Practice
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ON CAMPUS
FACULTY NOTES
ENDODONTICS
Jay Marlin, D66, associate clinical professor,
had an article published in the
May 2006 issue of Dentistry Today on
the “Rapid-Flow Filling Technique,”
explaining the injectable gutta-percha
root canal filling technique. In June,
Marlin spent time providing endodontic
care at the Dental Volunteers for
Israel’s Trudi Birger Clinic in Jerusalem.
The clinic, a state-of-the-art facility, provides
non-denominational free dental
care to children by dentists from
around the world. If you’re interested in
volunteering, check Dental Volunteers
for Israel on the web at www.dentaldvi.co.il,
or contact Marlin at jmguttagun@gmail.com.
Also in June, Marlin,
chief of endodontics, welcomed four
new residents to the University of
Massachusetts Medical School’s dental
residency program in Worcester.
Leslie Miller, associate clinical professor,
had his article, “Saving Teeth
Through Non-surgical Endodontic
Retreatment,” published in the spring
2006 issue of The Journal of the
Massachusetts Dental Society.
Charles B. Millstein, D62, assistant
clinical professor, had his article, “Finn
Brudevold’s Laboratory: The Forsyth
Institute, 1958–1986,” published in
the summer 2006 issue of The Journal
of the Massachusetts Dental Society,
Vol. 55, No. 2, pgs. 22–25.
Vangel R. Zissi, D62, DG67, clinical
professor, has been appointed to a
two-year term on the Council of the
College-at-Large of the International
College of Dentists (ICD) and was
elected deputy secretary-general of
the ICD College-at-Large. He also
was re-elected deputy registrar of
the U.S.A. Section of the ICD.
PROMOTION
Charles Rankin, D79, DG86, to
professor.
GENERAL DENTISTRY
Jinkun “Jake” Chen, professor and
director of the Division of Oral Biology
Presentations:
■ “Osterix Overexpression in Bone
Marrow Stromal Cells Stimulates Healing
of Critical-Sized Defects in Murine
Calvarial Bone,” Q. Tu, P. Valverde, J.
Tang and J. Chen, American Society of
Bone and Mineral Research, 2006.
■ “Overexpression Of Bone Sialoprotein
Alters The Mst/Lats/WW45 Signaling
Pathway at the Onset of Osteoclast
Differentiation,” P. Valverde and J.
Chen, American Society of Bone and
Mineral Research, 2006.
Publications:
■ V. Karageorgiou, M. Tomkins, R.
Fajardo, L. Meinel, B. Snyder, J. Chen
and D. Kaplan, “Porous Silk Fibrion 3D
Scaffolds for Delivery of Bone Morphogenetic
Protein-2 in vitro and in vivo,”
Journal of Biomedical Materials
Research, April 2006.
■ Q. Tu, P. Valverde and J. Chen,
“Osterix Enhances Proliferation and
Osteogenic Potential of Bone Marrow
Stromal Cells,” Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Communications,
341:1257-1265, 2006.
■ P. Valverde, Q. Tu, J. Zhu and J.
Chen, “BSP Enhances Bone Resorption
and Decreases Bone Density in
vivo,” Journal of Dental Research,
2006.
■ J. Tang, P. Valverde and J. Chen,
“Phenotypic Changes in Bones from
BSP Over-expressing Transgenic Mice,”
Journal of Dental Research, 2006.
Leopoldo Correa, assistant professor,
received an award on August 24, 2006,
from the Tufts University Police Department
on August 24, 2006, for his work
in preventing a theft on campus.
Olympia Karacosta, DG99, assistant
professor, presented a paper titled “A
Multi-disciplinary Approach to Treating
Hypodontia” at the annual Northeast
Implant Dentistry Symposium on
November 11 at the University of
Connecticut Health Center.
Noshir Mehta, DG73, DI77, professor
and chair and director of the Craniofacial
Pain Center, has been appointed
assistant dean of international
relations.
Publication:
■ C. Ceneviz, N. Mehta, A. Forgione,
M.J. Sands, E. Abdallah, S. Lobo Lobo
and S. Mavroudi, “The Immediate
Effect of Changing Mandibular Position
on the EMG Activity of the Masseter,
Temporalis, Sternocleidomastoid and
Trapezius Muscles,” Cranio, Volume
24, Number 4, October 2006.
David Paul, D89, assistant professor,
was elected to the Board of Directors
for Help Mercy International (www.helpmercy.org),
a Boston-based nonprofit
started by Lloyd Williams, an M.D./
Ph.D. student at Tufts Medical School.
Help Mercy supports a rural Zambian
hospital to which Tufts schools of Medicine
and Dental Medicine have donated
equipment and supplies.
Paul J. Vankevich, D81, assistant clinical
professor, has contributed to a
number of recently published textbooks
on oral cancer and tobacco control. He
wrote a chapter on oral and oral pharyngeal
cancer in the 18th edition of
The Merck Manual. In the second edition
of the Stephanac and Nesbit textbook
Treatment Planning in Dentistry,
he co-authored a chapter on oral cancer
and tobacco control. Vankevich also
contributed to the first edition of the
American Academy of Oral Medicine
monogram on tobacco cessation, edited
by Dr. Abdel Mohamed.
APPOINTMENT
Brijesh Chandwani, DG06, to instructor.
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL
PATHOLOGY
Eleni Gagari, D03, associate professor,
chaired a session on mineralization
at the 2006 annual meeting of the
American Association for Dental
Research in Orlando, Fla. Gagari and
Judy Winglee, a Tufts undergraduate
majoring in biology, were the recipients
of a 2006 Tufts Summer Scholars
Award for their research titled “Regulation
of Gene Expression by Inhibition of
Stem Cell Factor (SCF) in Human Dental
Pulp Cells.” The Summer Scholars
program pairs a Tufts undergraduate
with a faculty member to encourage
interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
Presentations:
■ “Metastatic Neoplasms of the Gingiva,”
Athens Dental Association and
Athens University School of Medicine.
■ “Over-expression Results in Dentin
and Periodontal Ligament Defects,”
E. Gagari, L.W. Gamer and V. Rosen,
American Association for Dental
Research.
■ “Negative Regulation of Dentoalveolar
Structure and Function in BMP-3
Transgenic Mice,” E. Gagari, L.W.
Gamer and V. Rosen, American Society
for Bone and Mineral Research.
Publication:
■ E. Gagari, M.K. Rand, L. Tayari, H.
Vastardis, P. Sharma, P.V. Hauschka
and P.D. Damoulis, “Expression of
Stem Cell Factor and Its Receptor, c-kit,
in Oral Mesenchymal Cells,” European
Journal of Oral Sciences, in press.
Jonathan Garlick, professor and director
of the Division of Cancer Biology
and Tissue Engineering, has been
awarded a grant from the U.S. Army
Institute of Surgical Research to develop
a new therapeutic wound care gel
that can accelerate the healing of battlefield
or chronic wounds. Garlick is
part of a collaborative research group
that is headed by Microbion Corp. The
$500,000 one-year grant was awarded
to the team to study the properties of
these new therapeutic agents. In addition,
the Center for Integrated Tissue
Engineering (CITE), established by Garlick
and run by Christopher Egles,
assistant research professor, has been
awarded several grants from Johnson &
Johnson, Biogen-Idec and Proctor &
Gamble to use genetically engineered
human tissue to study the safety and
efficacy of new therapeutic products.
Presentations:
■ “3D Skin Models to Study UV Damage,”
Johnson & Johnson, September
2006.
■ “The Microenvironment in Cancer
Progression: The Role of Cell Adhesion,”
Boston Biomedical Research
Institute, September 2006.
■ “3D Human Tissue Models of Squamous
Cell Carcinoma: Identification of
Therapeutic Targets for Translational
Discovery,” 2nd Annual American-Israeli
Conference on Cancer Treatment,
Jerusalem, Israel, June 28–30, 2006.
■ “3D Human Tissue Models for
Epithelial Stem Cells,” Siena University
conference on stem cells, June 23,
2006.
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■ “The Role of E-cadherin in Early Cancer
Progression,” Tel Hashomer Hospital
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tel
Aviv, Israel, July 13, 2006.
Publications:
■ Garlick, J.A., “Engineering Skin to
Study Human Disease: Tissue Models
for Cancer Biology and Wound Repair,”
Advances in Biochemical Engineering-
/Biotechnology, special volume on
tissue engineering, Eds. Kyongbum Lee
and David L. Kaplin, Springer Verlag, in
press.
■ M. Grachtchouk, J. Liu, A. Wang, L.
Wei, C.K. Bichakjian, J.A. Garlick, A.F.
Paulino, T. Giordano and A.A. Dlugosz,
“Odontogenic Keratocysts Arise from
Quiescent Epithelial Rests and Are
Associated with Deregulated Hedgehog
Signaling in Mice and Humans,” American
Journal of Pathology, 169 (3) 806-
814, 2006.
■ J.A. Garlick, “Perspectives on
Constructing and Deconstructing 3D
Tissue Models of Human Cancer,”
American Association for Cancer
Research Education Book, 403–422,
2006.
Michael A. Kahn, professor, has been
appointed chair of the Department of
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. He
gave a series of two-hour continuing
education courses and local dental
society presentations on oral cancer
and risk management last fall with
Barry Regan of EDIC in Providence,
R.I., Manchester, N.H., and Worcester,
Mass. Last August 18, Kahn hosted,
and Gerard Kugel moderated, “The
Inside Summit on Oral Cancer Discovery
and Management: The Technologies
and the Role of the Dental Clinician.”
The all-day program at Tufts dental
school was sponsored by Aegis Communications.
It was an international
gathering of oral cancer experts in the
basic sciences, clinical sciences and
emerging screening technologies. Kahn
gave a presentation on “The Role of
the Oral Health Care Specialist in the
Diagnostic Process for Oral Cancer.”
Presentations:
■ “Differential Diagnosis of Oral Soft
Tissue Lesions,” a two-hour continuing
education course, Turning Point Resort,
Verona, N.Y., August 26, 2006.
■ “Management of Common Oral Soft
Tissue Lesions: Herpes Simplex Infection
and Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis,”
a one-hour continuing education
course, North Shore District Dental
Society, Salem, Mass., September 7,
2006.
■ “Cases of Stomatitis Medicamentosa,
Dentinogenesis Imperfecta and
Oral Leukemia,” Western Society of
Teachers of Oral Pathology Meeting,
Jackson Hole, Wyo., September
10–12, 2006.
■ “Bisphosphonate Osteonecrosis
Update,” a one-hour continuing education
presentation, Southeastern District
Dental Society, Westport, Mass.,
September 20, 2006.
■ “Optimizing the Oral Cancer Evaluation:
Problems and Emerging Technologies,”
chair and moderator of a
three-hour ADA Satellite Symposium
course, Las Vegas, Nev., October 15,
2006.
■ “Oral Cancer and Premalignancy
Screening,” a three-hour continuing
education course, Massachusetts Dental
Society, Southborough, Mass.,
October 25, 2006.
■ “Cases of Stomatitis Medicamentosa,
Dentinogenesis Imperfecta and
Oral Leukemia,” Eastern Society of
Teachers of Oral Pathology meeting,
Memphis, Tenn., October 27–29,
2006.
■ “Update on Oral Pathology,” a onehour
continuing education course to
general dentist referral clinicians,
November 9, 2006.
■ “Bisphosphonate-associated
Osteonecrosis and Its Management
and Management of Common Oral
Conditions,” a two-hour continuing education
course, Amherst, Mass., November
15, 2006.
■ “Early Oral Cancer Detection System,”
Greater New York Dental Meeting,
November 29, 2006.
ORTHODONTICS
Barry S. Briss, D66, DG70, chair,
has been promoted to professor of
orthodontics.
Marcel Korn, D66, DG70, associate
clinical professor, traveled to Europe,
where he lectured on redirection of
eruption, postural orthodontics and his
new approach to understanding the relationship
of the muscles of mastication
to occlusion and mandibular posture.
Jerry Shuman has joined the department
as a clinical instructor. He commutes
to Tufts on Wednesdays from
Portland, Maine.
Heleni Vastardis, a visiting research
professor who lives and practices in
Athens, Greece, spent two weeks in
the Department of Orthodontics teaching
and assisting the residents with
their research projects. Vastardis also
developed a new course in genetics,
which she presented for the first time
to Tufts Dental residents.
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL
SURGERY
Constantinos Laskarides, DG03, director
of the pre-doctoral program in oral
surgery, has been promoted from
instructor to assistant professor.
Maria Papageorge, D82, DG86, G89,
professor and chair
Presentations:
■ “Surgical Considerations for the
Head and Neck Cancer Patient,” annual
meeting of the Valley District Dental
Society, Springfield, Mass., May 2006.
■ “The Dilemma of Oral Cancer: New
Diagnostic Findings among Young
Women and Men,” moderator for seminar
series, Harvard School of Dental
Medicine, May 2006.
Morton B. Rosenberg, D74, professor
and head of the Division of Anesthesia
and Pain Control
Presentations:
■ “Parenteral Moderate Sedation,” a
certificate course, University of Oregon
School of Dentistry, Oregon Health Science
Center, Portland, Ore.
■ “Hands-on Simulated Anesthesia
Emergencies,” annual meeting of the
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, San Diego, Calif.,
October 2006.
Publication:
■ “American Heart Association
Changes CPR Guidelines,” Journal of
the Massachusetts Dental Society,
56:36-38, 2006.
Kalpakam Shastri, DG05, has been
promoted from instructor to assistant
professor.
Department Presentations:
■ “Quality of Life in Patients with
Resected and Reconstructed
Mandibles,” K. Shastri, M.B. Papageorge,
D. Oreadi and R. Chapman,
88th annual meeting of the American
Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, San Diego, Calif., October
2006.
■ “The Ameloblastoma Revisited,” D.
Oreadi, R. D’Innocenzo and M.B. Papageorge,
27th annual meeting of the
American College of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, Las Vegas, Nev., May
2006.
■ “Acute Renal Failure and Its Management
in the Oral Surgery Setting,”
D. Oreadi, R. D’Innocenzo and M.B.
Papageorge, 27th annual meeting of
the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, Las Vegas, Nev.,
May 2006.
■ “Sinus Graft Containment,” N. Pollaccia
and T. Woo, 27th annual meeting
of the American College of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgeons, Las Vegas,
Nev., May 2006.
Department Publications:
■ S. Hate, N. Jain and M.B. Papageorge,
“Clinico-Pathologic Correlation
(OKC),” Journal of the Massachusetts
Dental Society, 55(1):52-55, 2006.
■ N. Bauter, R. D’Innocenzo and M.
Kahn, “A Clinico-Pathologic Correlation
(Aggressive Fibromatosis),” Journal of
the Massachusetts Dental Society,
55(2):36-38, 2006.
PERIODONTOLOGY
Wai Cheung, DG02, DI06, assistant
professor
Publications:
■ S.S. Baloul, T.J. Griffin, W. Cheung
and H. Moroi, “Results of Cover Screw
Loosening Following Surgical Placement
of Implants: A Retrospective
Cohort Study in a Private Office Setting,
Journal of Clinical Periodontology,
Supplement 7, Volume 33:121, 2006.
■ D. Engler-Hamm, T. Griffin, W. Cheung
and A. Yen, “Prospective Evaluation
of Hard- and Soft-tissue Remodeling
after Ridge Preservation with and
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FACULTY NOTES
without Primary Wound Closure,”
Journal of Clinical Periodontology,
33(7):134, 2006.
Petros Damoulis, DG91, DI05, associate
professor and director of graduate
studies
Publications:
■ D.E. Drakos and P.D. Damoulis,
“Acellular Dermal Matrix in Mucogingival
Surgery,” Odostomatological
Progress, 60(2):54-60, 2006 (Greek).
■ E. Gagari, M.K. Rand, L. Tayari, H.
Vastardis, P. Sharma, P.V. Hauschka
and P.D. Damoulis, “Expression of
Stem Cell Factor and Its Receptor,
c-kit, in Oral Mesenchymal Cells,”
European Journal of Oral Sciences,
114(5):409-415, 2006.
Terrence Griffin, D71, DG75, associate
professor and chair
Presentations:
■ “Periodontal Plastic Surgery,”
American Dental Society of Europe,
Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2006.
■ “Surgical Enhancement of Implant
Esthetics,” American Dental Society
of Europe, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June
2006.
■ “New Advances in Periodontal
Esthetic Surgery,” Tufts Dental Alumni
Day, Boston, Mass., May 2006.
■ “Recent Developments in Periodontal
Plastic Surgery,” Worcester Periodontal
Study Club, Worcester, Mass.,
June 2006.
■ “New Advances in Root Coverage
Surgery,” BTI Symposium, Victoria,
Spain, October 2006.
■ “Changing the Culture of Our Specialty,”
T.J. Hempton, D. Drakos, J.
Hanley and T.J. Griffin, American
Academy of Periodontology, San Diego,
Calif., September 2006.
Publications:
■ T. Shapurian, P.D. Damoulis, G.M.
Reiser, T.J. Griffin and W.M. Rand,
“Quantitative Evaluation of Bone Density
Using the Hounsfield Index,” International
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial
Implants, 21:290-297, 2006.
■ D. Engler-Hamm, T.J. Griffin, W.S.
Cheung and C.A. Yen, “Ridge Preservation,”
Journal of Clinical Periodontology
and presented at the EuroPerio
Meeting, Madrid, Spain, July 2006.
■ S.S. Baloul, T.J. Griffin, H. Moroi
and W.S. Cheung, “Results of Cover
Screw Loosening Following Surgical
Placement of Implants,” Journal of the
American Association for Dental
Research, Abstract #0904, 2006.
■ C. Giota, T. Griffin, H. Moroi, S.
Morgan and W. Rand, “Significance of
Posterior Maxilla Residual Bone Height
on Implant Survival,” Journal of the
American Association for Dental
Research, Abstract #2186, 2006.
Timothy J. Hempton, associate clinical
professor and assistant director of
postdoctoral periodontology
Presentations:
■ “Crown-lengthening Workshop,” continuing
education program, University
of Washington School of Dentistry,
Seattle, Wash., September 2006.
■ “Tooth Retention versus Implant
Therapy,” Dental Hygiene Symposium,
annual meeting of the American Academy
of Periodontology, San Diego,
Calif., September 2006.
■ “Crown-lengthening Workshop,”
annual meeting of the American Dental
Association, Las Vegas, Nev., October
2006.
■ “Surgical Exposure of Ectopic
Canines for Orthodontic Extrusion,”
annual meeting of the New England
Dental Society, Waltham, Mass.,
November 2006.
■ “Crown-lengthening Workshop,”
Greater New York Dental Meeting, New
York, N.Y., November 2006.
Paul A. Levi Jr., D66, associate clinical
professor, has been elected president
of the American Academy of Periodontology
Foundation. He will be initiating
a $5 million campaign for an endowment
fund to provide scholarships for
postdoctoral periodontal residents who
want to enter academics and fellowships
for full- and part-time periodontal
educators.
C. Alec Yen, D99, DG03, assistant
clinical professor, gave a presentation
on “ABP Board Review, Part II” at the
annual meeting of the American Academy
of Periodontology in San Diego in
September.
PROSTHODONTICS AND
OPERATIVE DENTISTRY
Alper Comut, DI06, assistant professor,
has been appointed an associate
fellow of the Greater New York Academy
of Prosthodontics.
Gerard Kugel, D85, L93, professor
and associate dean for research,
joined a team from the Massachusetts
Hispanic Dental Society in August on a
humanitarian mission to Ecuador. He
was accompanied by his 17-year-old
twins, Kurt and Christina, who served
as translators and assistants on the
trip. Kugel and his research team have
been awarded three new grants to
evaluate a new self-adhesive cement
with CEREC full-coverage crowns; to
evaluate a new self-adhesive bonding
agent with class 2 composites and to
assess the efficacy of a new oral care
paste.
Presentations:
■ “The Truth about Light-activated
Tooth Whitening,” annual meeting of
the Academy of Dental Materials, Sao
Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2006.
■ “Porcelain Veneers Hands-on Program,”
annual meeting of the American
Dental Association, Las Vegas, Nev.,
October 16, 2006.
■ “Esthetic Dentistry Update,” University
of Louisville Dental School Alumni
Day Lecture, September 30, 2006.
■ “All-ceramic Restorations,” Ecuadorian
Dental Society, Quito, Ecuador,
August 21, 2006.
■ “Porcelain Veneer and Post Treatment
Care,” annual meeting of the
Academy of General Dentistry, Denver,
Colo., August 3, 2006.
■ “Porcelain Laminate Veneers: A
Hands-on Program,” New York County
Dental Meeting, New York, N.Y., May 6,
2006.
Publications:
■ G. Kugel and S. Ferreira, “The Art
and Science of Tooth Whitening,”
Inside Dentistry, Vol. 2, No 7, pgs.
84-89, September 2006.
■ S. Ferreira, G. Kugel, S. Martin and
J. Ferracane, “Direct Esthetic Adhesive
Restorative Materials,” Inside Dentistry,
Vol. 2, No 7, pgs. 48-51, September
2006.
Anthony Silvestri Jr., E69, clinical professor,
had his article, “Prevention of
Third Molar Tooth Development in
Neonate Rat with a Long Pulse Diode
Laser,” published in Lasers in Surgery
and Medicine.
PROMOTIONS
Debbie Eisen to associate clinical
professor.
Steven Eisen to associate clinical
professor.
Joanne Falzone, D80, to associate
clinical professor.
Judith Goldstein, DI90, to associate
clinical professor.
Roya Zandparsa, DI04, to associate
professor.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Medha Singh, DG04, assistant professor,
participated in the Institute for
Teaching and Learning seminars in
July, September and November 2006,
which were organized by the Academy
for Academic Leadership and the University
of Missouri Kansas City School
of Dentistry. Singh received the Institute
for Teaching and Learning Fellowship
Award from the American
Academy of Periodontology Foundation.
In September 2006, Singh participated
in the Tufts University Research Day
presentations on “Drug Discovery and
Development” at the Jean Mayer USDA
Human Nutrition Research Center on
Aging in Boston. She presented her
poster on “Progression of Periodontitis
in a Medication-induced Saliva Hypo
Function Population,” research conducted
under Prof. Athena Papas. She
also received a certificate of nomination
for the Bud and Linda Tarrson
Fellowship from the American Academy
of Periodontology Foundation.
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THE WIDER WORLD OF TUFTS
UNIVERSITY NEWS
New center will help faculty teach to a diversity of learning styles by Marjorie Howard
Out of the box
WHEN ARTS & SCIENCES DEAN ROBERT STERNBERG TOOK HIS FIRST COLlege
psychology course, he got a C—not an auspicious start for someone
who eventually earned a Ph.D. in the field. The problem, he recalled more
than 30 years later, was that his tests were all based on what students could
memorize, and Sternberg is lousy at memorization. To add insult to injury,
most of the material he had to learn isn’t taught in psychology anymore.
Sternberg may not have fared well on tests that relied on good memorization
skills, but he did do well on tests that involved creativity or verbal
ability. “I can tend to be very good in writing, but I’m relatively poor
in spatial visualization, so in my life, I capitalize on my verbal skills: I write
a lot of articles, read a lot, give a lot of talks,” he said. “But I bought a GPS
system for my car, and I always make sure that I have verbal directions
when I go to a place because I don’t read maps that well. People have to
learn how to make the most of their strengths and get by—either by compensating
for or correcting weaknesses.”
Sternberg’s longstanding interest in different styles of learning resulted
in his founding the PACE Center at Yale University, where he taught before
While some students are analytical learners,
others learn more practically or creatively.
coming to Tufts a year ago. PACE, which
stands for Psychology of Abilities, Competencies
and Expertise, advances the notion of
abilities as capable of development over a
lifetime.
Now Sternberg is taking his scholarship
one step further. He has brought PACE to
Tufts and has augmented it with a new university-wide
program: the Center for the
Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
(CELT).
CELT will help faculty members become
better teachers through seminars, newsletters,
discussions and workshops. “It’s not
that we are saying people here don’t know
how to teach,” said Sternberg, who is CELT’s
director. “The goal is to enhance already
good or even excellent teaching skills. We’re
saying no matter how good you are you can
always be better.”
The signature program of the new center
will be a weekly seminar for faculty fellows
led by Molly Mead, the Lincoln Filene Professor
at Tisch College, and Linda Jarvin,
CELT’s deputy director.
Sternberg said that while some students
learn analytically, others may learn more
practically or creatively. The idea, he said, is to
“teach kids in varied ways so that at any
given time, some are capitalizing on strengths
and others are remediating weaknesses.”
“We’re not offering remedial training,”
Jarvin said. “We’re not saying people don’t
know how to teach and that we have to
revamp the system. But we want to offer
opportunities to faculty to think about their
teaching and to enhance their teaching.”
While PACE has been funded primarily
with grants, CELT’s funding comes from a
seed grant from the Office of the Provost as
well as a $250,000 grant from the Davis
Education Foundation of Falmouth, Maine.
“Our dual mission as a university is
teaching and scholarship,” said Jamshed
Bharucha, provost and senior vice president.
“At Tufts we pride ourselves on valuing
both. Even as we advance our research and
scholarship, we must continue to strive for
excellence in teaching and renew ourselves as
teachers in light of new research on the
process of learning, rapid developments in
the fields we teach, changing demographics
of our students and new technology.”
PHOTO: MELODY KO
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
THE WIDER WORLD OF TUFTS
INTO COLLEGE
RANKINGS
TUFTS UNIVERSITY HAS GOTTEN MORE
academically competitive, is welcoming
to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
students and is a compassionate
neighbor, according to three separate
rankings.
Tufts is among the 25 schools in
the country christened the “New Ivies”
in the latest Kaplan/Newsweek College
Guide. The guide said the 25 schools
have experienced a rise in stature
among the nation’s top students, administrators
and faculty, “edging them to
a competitive status rivaling the Ivy
League.”
The university also has been named
among the 20 best American college
campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) students,
according to a new college ranking book.
The Advocate College Guide, the first
college reference book for LGBT students,
rates schools’ policies, social
organizations, support and health-care
resources, LGBT studies curricula,
housing options, campus safety and
general atmosphere for “out” students
and faculty.
And on yet another list—this one
compiled by Evan Dobelle, president and
CEO of the New England Board of Higher
Education—names Tufts among the top
25 colleges in the nation that care about
the welfare of the communities in which
they reside.
Dobelle’s list recognizes the “extraordinary
efforts” made by schools in
contributing to the educational, economic
and civic well-being of their surrounding
environment. It is a subject
Dobelle knows well, having designed
and fostered a widely heralded cooperative
effort between Trinity College, where
he was president for six years, and the
City of Hartford, Conn., to revitalize the
neighborhood adjacent to the school.
“These are engines of renewal and
revitalization,” Dobelle said.
No bird brains here by Helene Ragovin
Robert Cook and one of
his brainy birds
“IF ANY ONE FACULTY OF OUR NATURE MAY
be called more wonderful than the rest, I do
think it is memory,” the British novelist Jane
Austen wrote.“There seems something more
speakingly incomprehensible in the powers,
the failures, the inequalities of memory, than
in any other of our intelligences.”
This fascination with the nature of memory
is, of course, not limited to writers or
philosophers. Scientists, too, have sought to
unravel the secrets of memory. In examining
the long-term memory capacity of birds and
baboons, a Tufts psychologist hopes to yield
clues to the course of human evolution and
the workings of our own brains, and contribute
to our understanding of neurodegenerative
diseases like Alzheimer’s.
“This will be pretty exciting over the next
couple of decades,” said Robert Cook, professor
of psychology.
Cook and a French colleague, Joel Fagot,
worked with pigeons and baboons, showing
the animals thousands of color photographs
on a computer screen and then testing to see
if they remembered them. The first time
the animals were shown a specific image,
they were taught to associate it with either a
“right” or a “left” response—the pigeons by
touching a screen with their beaks; the
baboons by pointing a joystick.
The pigeons and baboons were shown the
images repeatedly over a three- to five-year
period, and the researchers recorded whether
the animals responded by touching or pointing
in the proper direction.
Even after factoring in the possibility for
“guesses,” it was apparent that both the
pigeons and baboons were able to recall a
significant number of images: between 800
and 1,200 for the pigeons (65 percent), and
between 3,500 and 5,000 for the baboons (70
percent). Cook and Fagot published their
findings in November in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
“The one big difference [between the
pigeons and the baboons] was the capacity of
the two species,” Cook said. “The baboons
could remember four to five times more
information—not that the pigeons were any
slouches.” The pigeons and baboons also
retained the earliest and latest images most
often.“This suggests memory was expressing
in much the same way,” Cook said, “but the
baboons had larger ‘hard drives,’ ”—more
capacity for storing information.
These results suggest that the expansion
of long-term memory capacity may have
played an important role in the evolution of
cognition and behavior among animals and
humans, Cook said. “Many factors have been
suggested to account for the advanced intelligence
of humans,” Cook said. “Our comparison
of monkey and bird memory
suggests that the expansion of memory may
have been one of those factors. Our ancestors
long ago may have first started to remember
information in great detail before they
started to think about the abstract meaning
of that information.” An area
for future research, he said, is
looking at the “cognitive interplay
between item memorization
and concept learning” in
animals.
“This opens up the possibility
of developing an animal
model for looking at long-term
memory decline and how we
might come up with treatments
for that kind of decline,”
he said. “Birds don’t age nearly
as long as humans, so there
is the possibility of studying
changes in long-term memory
within a feasible lifetime.”
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THE CAMPAIGN FOR TUFTS
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
One goal of the campaign is
to expand the dental school’s
simulation clinic.
Great expectations
THE SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE IS SEEKING TO RAISE $40 MILLION AS
part of a five-year, university-wide $1.2 billion fund-raising campaign, the
largest in Tufts’ history.
Beyond Boundaries: The Campaign for Tufts was officially launched on
November 3 at Boston’s Wang Center. The fund-raising endeavor, which
seeks to raise double the amount of the university’s last capital campaign,
targets key priorities such as financial aid, endowed professorships,
research facilities and initiatives in citizenship and public service. Sixty
percent will be directed to the Tufts endowment, which now stands at
$1.2 billion.
The campaign will have a comprehensive impact on the dental
school, enhancing its ability to attract and retain the best faculty; lighten
student debt loads; nurture research and
active citizenship; and achieve unprecedented
advantages in education, clinical
care and research through an improved physical
infrastructure.
Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80, called
the campaign a “journey to sustain and
strengthen our standing as a world leader in
dental medicine.
“Now is the perfect time to build upon
our educational strengths and fiscal discipline,”
Norris said. “For the past several
years, we have incorporated careful strategic
thinking into our long-term planning and
fiscal operations. Upon this exceptionally
strong foundation, Tufts University School
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BEYOND BOUNDARIES
THE CAMPAIGN FOR TUFTS
PHOTO:
of Dental Medicine will build new initiatives
that give our students and faculty the worldclass
facilities and programs to prepare them
to succeed in the ever-changing environment
of dental care and research.”
The campaign’s public launch in November
came after a productive “quiet phase,”
during which the university raised $615
million.
The School of Dental Medicine’s campaign
will support five key investment areas:
FACILITIES
A significant portion of the campaign goal,
$16 million, will be targeted toward addressing
physical plant priorities, a goal that will
dramatically improve the face of Tufts Dental.
As the school has doubled the number of fulltime
faculty and staff over the past 10 years,
every square foot of available space at One
Kneeland Street has been used. The envisioned
renovations will increase
clinical space to enhance access to
care and community programs;
expand the school’s simulation
clinic; transform the continuing
education space into a world-class
facility and create new teaching
space.
In addition, the school aims
to expand its paperless patient
record system to the eight Tufts
Dental Facilities Serving Persons
with Special Needs across Massachusetts
and upgrade office space
to accommodate the administrative
and academic responsibilities
of faculty and staff.
Students and faculty will benefit
as well from a university plan to
build a strong sense of community
on the Boston campus. Landscape
planning will create an attractive
and distinct urban setting that will
reinforce Tufts’ positive presence in
the larger community and strengthen
faculty and student pride in
Tufts Dental.
FACULTY
The school seeks to raise $6 million
to underpin recruitment, retention
and development of a
first-rate and diverse faculty.
According to recent studies, 36 percent of
the nation’s dental school faculty members
who leave academia choose to enter private
practice or industry because of the lack of
competitive teaching salaries. Campaign
funds will strengthen the school’s ability to
recruit and retain talented faculty by increasing
investments in endowed professorships
and salary competitiveness.
Objectives include hiring senior basic
science research faculty to collaborate on
school and university research priorities;
raising funds for endowed chairs to recruit
and retain outstanding academic and clinical
leadership; developing clinical and
administrative faculty for leadership positions;
increasing the faculty/student ratio
in closely supervised clinical teaching; and
establishing competitive salaries and earning
opportunities to encourage the pursuit of
The campaign seeks to raise
$3 million for financial aid
for dental students.
academic careers and to meet the cost of living
in the Boston area.
STUDENT FINANCIAL AID
The cost of a dental education leaves many
qualified candidates without the financial
resources to attend Tufts. With this campaign,
the school is committed to raising $3
million to increase endowment and scholarships
for academic merit, efforts that will
reduce student indebtedness and ensure that
graduating classes are the best in the nation.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
AND ACCESS TO CARE
Approximately 80 percent of dental disease
exists in the 20 percent of the American
people who are characterized as poor, underserved
and having special needs. The
school seeks to raise $3 million to continue
providing comprehensive patient care. This
will allow the school to maintain a
patient volume in its clinics appropriate
for a full clinical experience
for students; teach students the
responsibility of caring for the
underserved and maintain a balanced
budget based on affordable
clinic fees or subsidized care.
TUFTS DENTAL FUND
Annual fund gifts provide critical
resilience against unknown contingencies
and help to stabilize
day-to-day operations. A Dental
Fund goal of $12 million will
directly reinforce the school’s
operating budget, providing unrestricted,
current-use dollars that
immediately support teaching and
learning.
“The underlying theme of this
campaign is our commitment to
the timeless values of teaching,
research and service,” Norris said.
“I invite everyone to participate in
this exciting opportunity to sustain
and strengthen these values
and to shape a bold future for the
School of Dental Medicine.”
To learn more about the Beyond
Boundaries campaign, go to
www.tufts.edu/giving.
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MELODY KO

Advancing implant dentistry By Mark Sullivan
NOBEL BIOCARE AB OF SWEDEN, THE WORLD’S
largest manufacturer of dental implants, has
awarded $4 million to the School of Dental
Medicine to name the oral and maxillofacial
surgery clinic and advance the study of dental
implants and prosthetics.
This historic gift—the second largest ever
to the dental school and the first major gift to
support the school’s planned expansion—
was announced on September 26.
Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow hailed
the partnership, which he said joins “an
entrepreneurial university with an entrepreneurial
company” and underscores the university’s
commitment to stand at the
forefront of clinical training in dentistry.
“This gift strengthens the university and
strengthens dentistry,” Bacow said. “The
patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of
this gift.”
Heliane Canepa, president and CEO of
Nobel Biocare, responded enthusiastically
when asked why her company had made
this investment in Tufts. “It’s the second
largest dental school in the United States,” she
said. “We’ve worked with Tufts for years. We
know the people, and we know their potential.
And, of course, you go with the best
names. They are the front-runner.”
Nobel Biocare’s generosity enables Tufts
to achieve a number of key objectives:
The school’s implant center and oral and
maxillofacial operating facilities will be
expanded to accommodate current and
future demand for implant placement and
restoration.
Implant dentistry will be further integrated
into didactic education and clinical
training. An array of continuing education
programs will train practicing dentists in
the use of dental implant devices and technology.
And implant dentistry research will
be further integrated into both bench science
and clinical research endeavors.
“For us, the impact is huge,” said Dr.
Maria Papageorge, D82, DG86, DG89, professor
and chair of oral and maxillofacial
surgery. “We can provide more patients with
implant dentistry, take care of more patients
in shorter time, further educate both our
pre-doc and postdoctoral students and provide
continuing education in implant dentistry
to our alumni and other dentists.”
Nobel Biocare has been a longtime benefactor
of Tufts. “We are most grateful for
Nobel Biocare’s continuing support,” said
Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80.“This gift will
allow an expansion of the clinic and our curriculum
to advance our educational and
patient-care missions. The real impact is raising
the standard of care for patients served by
the thousands of Tufts dentists nationally
and internationally,” he said.
Dr. Maria Papageorge, chair of oral and
maxillofacial surgery; Robert Gottlander,
executive VP of global marketing and
products at Nobel Biocare; Heliane
Canepa, president and CEO of Nobel
Biocare; and Dean Lonnie H. Norris
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BEYOND BOUNDARIES
THE CAMPAIGN FOR TUFTS
1 Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80;
Robert Hunter, D63; Kathleen
O’Loughlin, D81; and Provost
Jamshed Bharucha
2 Class of D06 alumni Kristen
Lucas Huber, Stephanie Purner,
Kevin Oliveira and Tristi Samp
3 Gigi Garcia Rogers, D94,
and David Russell, D87, M02,
provide musical entertainment.
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4 Van Zissi, D62, DG67, A02P;
Thomas Murnane, A58, D62,
DG65, AG68, J97P; and Robert
Watson, A59, D62
3
5 Charles Rankin, D79, DG86,
D08P; Ingeborg Rankin, D08P;
Catherine Moshirfar, D02,
DG05; and Emilio Arguello,
DG05
2
TOAST TO TUFTS
CELEBRATES PHILANTHROPY
DENTAL ALUMNI, FACULTY AND FRIENDS JOINED DEAN LONNIE
H. Norris, DG80, M99P, A01P, and Dr. Donna M. Norris,
M99P, A01P, at the Ritz-Carlton on Boston Common on
September 8 to celebrate last year’s record-breaking fundraising
achievement.
A Toast to Tufts celebrated the university, the dental
school and its surrounding Boston neighborhoods with food
themed around the North End, waterfront and Chinatown.
Norris and Dr. John Ficarelli, D73, D10P, chair of the
Dental M Club, extended their appreciation to the group for
their hard work as volunteers and their support as donors.
Provost Jamshed Bharucha and Norris awarded Dean’s
Medals to Dr. Kathleen O’Loughlin, D81, president and CEO
of Delta Dental of Massachusetts, and Dr. Robert Hunter,
D63, Delta Dental’s former president and CEO, in recognition
of their efforts that led to Delta Dental’s $5 million gift
to the school, the largest in its history.
The endowment created a chair in public health and
community service and will help the school improve care and
access to care for persons with special needs and other
underserved populations.
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STAYING CONNECTED
ALUMNI NEWS
A greater good
WE HAVE HAD A BUSY AND EVENTFUL AUTUMN.
A highlight was our annual Wide Open Tournament,
which took place at Andover Country
Club. Thanks to all the golfers, sponsors and
those who contributed to the event, we raised
nearly $15,000 for the Student Loan Fund. The
tournament is a great way to spend the day
with classmates and mingle with colleagues in
a fun and relaxed environment.
In alumni chapter news, the New York fall
meeting was held on October 4 and featured Allan Deutsch, D73, who
spoke on “New Developments in One-visit Endodontics.”
I had the opportunity to attend the American Dental Association
meeting in Las Vegas. Our alumni reception at the ADA meeting on
October 17 broke all records, with more than 150 attending. Dean Norris
addressed the group and shared exciting updates of things happening
at the dental school.
Of interest at the ADA convention was the keynote speaker, Sir
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin brand, which encompasses a
number of business organizations, including the airline. His philosophy
of life is to never take no for an answer, and he has defied all the business
experts with his no-holds-barred attitude.
This made me think about how much
dentistry has changed over the years. If it
were not for the forward thinking of our
dental predecessors and the continued
pioneering work by current dentists,
where would dentistry be today I marvel
at the technology and innovation—stem
cell research, CAD-CAM, radiographic
imaging and the advancements in
implantology. Whether in private practice,
academics or research, it is this
entrepreneurial spirit that motivates us as
dentists.
Finally, I would also like to welcome
Catherine Hayes, D87, the new chair of the
Department of Public Health and Community
Service and the newest executive board
member of the Tufts University Dental
Alumni Association.
LISA VOURAS, D89
PRESIDENT, TUFTS UNIVERSITY DENTAL
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
LOOKING FOR AN ASSOCIATE
THE TUFTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATES PROGRAM (TAAP)
assists recent dental school graduates in finding
associateships with practicing alumni/ae. A continuing
effort of the Dental Alumni Association and the Alumni
Office, the program is a unique way to continue the
Tufts experience for both job-seekers and dental alumni/ae
practitioners. As one of the many benefits
of attending Tufts University School of Dental Medicine,
the alumni/ae network serves as a means of introduction
and communication with alumni/ae who are
looking for associates. Those who have been involved
recognize that this program creates mutually beneficial
relationships.
PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Year of Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mailing Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
City/State/ZIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. I am seeking a Tufts dental alum to work in my office: full-time part-time
2. What is the nature of your practice (e.g., general practice, mostly adults,
prosthodontics)
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3. Additional comments: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
To place a Tufts graduate in your office, fill out the form above and mail it to
the Tufts University Dental Alumni Association, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. For more
information, contact the Office of Dental Alumni Relations at 617.636.6773 or fax 617.636.4052.
Mail to: Tufts University
Dental Alumni Association
136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111
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Golf tourney raises $15,000
NEARLY 100 ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE DENTAL SCHOOL GATHered
at Andover Country Club on September 25 for the 24th annual
Wide Open Golf Tournament. The event, which is supported by
dental alumni and corporate sponsors, raised $14,665 for the Student
Loan Fund, bringing the 24-year cumulative total raised for
student aid to $219,469. The 2007 tournament will take place on
September 17 at Mount Pleasant Country Club in Boylston, Mass.
1 Robert Paglia, D70, D00P; Robert Urbon, D70,
A04P; Sheldon Sullaway, D62; and Frank Shin
2 John Meade, A54, D56, A90P, F98P; Peter McAllister,
D82; Anthony Giamberardino, D85; and Bob
Moynihan, A54, D56
3 Richard Hanratty of Federal Trade Union Bank;
Steve Hickey of Hickey & Associates; Allison Norton,
director of the Tufts Dental Fund; and Susan
Peecher, associate director of dental development
and alumni relations
4 Louis Rissin, associate clinical professor; D10P;
and Peiman Mahdavi, D91, DG94, all of Dental
Associates of Walpole
5 Louis Rissin, associate clinical professor; Kathy
O’Loughlin, D81, president and CEO of Delta Delta
Plan of Massachusetts; and Frank Coppola, D64,
D82P, J97P
6 Maria Gove Tringale, director of dental development
and alumni relations; Henry Lord, Bruce Doyle,
D90; Steve Ossen, D90; and Sam Gelso, D90
7 John Benecchi, D76, D09P; William Fiore, D76,
DG78, E05P, D09P; and Jamie Sheehey of Orapharma
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AWARDS
Team Gross Champions: (Score 69):
Bruce Doyle, D90; Samuel Gelso, D90;
Henry Lord and Steve Ossen, D90.
Team Net Champions: (Score 57): Sal
Colletta, D91; Bernard Daly, D71; John
Millette, D91, and Nick Papapetros, D91.
50/50: Curtis Obery, A79, D83
Longest Drive: Robert Urbon, D70, A04P
Closest to Pin: Steve Hollingsworth,
Wachovia Securities Inc.
THE 2006 SPONSORS
Awards Dinner and Raffle Sponsor
($5,500)
Energex Systems Inc.
Gift Sponsor ($4,000)
Hickey & Associates
Standard Golf Foursome ($2,000)
Barr and Barr
Gentle Dental Associates
Tee Hole Sponsors ($1,000)
Barr and Barr
Dental Associates of Walpole
Dentsply Tulsa Dental
Steve Hollingsworth, Wachovia
Securities Inc.
Tufts Dentists of Medford and
Winchester
Gold Level Contest Sponsors ($500)
Anonymous
3M Unitek
Carlin, Charron and Rosen, LLP
Delta Dental Plan of Massachusetts
Ivoclar Vivadent
Myron J. Dickerman Inc.
Sullivan Schein Dental
Tufts University Dental Alumni
Association
Radisson Hotel Boston
Spherion
Silver Sponsors ($250)
Eastern Dentist Insurance Co.
Dr. Lewis Skeirik, D56
Dr. Peter Skeirik, A76, D79
Workplace Resource
Par Club Sponsors
($100/gifts/product donation)
Balloon Tycoon
Benco Dental
Celata Dental Lab Inc.
Courtyard by Marriott Boston
Tremont Hotel
DePaola, Begg and Associates, P.C.
DoubleTree Hotel Chinatown
Dr. Clifton Grayer, D75, DG78
Ms. Gay Shenloogian in Honor of
Dr. Harry H. Gulesian, A37, D39
Hu-Friedy
Jim Beam Small Batch Bourbon
Collection
Langham Hotel Boston
Limited to Endodontics
Dr. Christine McKenna, D81, DG89
Pediatric Dental Associates of Winchester
Dr. Charles Millstein, D62
Dr. Tofigh Raayai, DG77, DI82
Dr. Steven Rubin, D75
South End Flowers
TUSDM Continuing Education
Ultradent
Waterpik Technologies Inc.
Whip Mix Corp.
PHOTOS: J.D. SLOAN
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Out and about
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1I AUTUMN IN THE BIG APPLE
The New York Dental Alumni Chapter held its fall meeting on
October 4 at the Penn Club in New York City. Allan Deutsch, D73,
spoke on “New Developments in One-visit Endodontics.” Nearly
30 people attended the event. From left: Maria Apergis, D01; Victor
Grazina, DG06; John Lanzetta, D87; Debbie Lee, D94; Allan
Deutsch, D73; and Michael Dill, D88.
2I ADA IN LAS VEGAS
Las Vegas was the place to be in October for the American Dental
Association’s annual session. On October 17, more than 150 alumni
turned out for the Tufts Dental reception at the Hotel at Mandalay
Bay. Members of the Class of 1997, from left: Steve Luo, Hieu
Mai, Truc Mai, Farooq Nasserziayee and Lenny Supnet.
3I FLORIDA RECEPTION
Alumni and friends gathered at a reception at Gaylord Palms in
Orlando during the Florida Dental Congress in June 2006. Back
row, from left: Diane Weinert, Monte Sichelman, Florida Chapter
President William Pantazes, D90, Florida Chapter Treasurer Jack
Saxonhouse, D67, Joan Saxonhouse and John Millette, D91. Front
row, from left: Heidi Pechter, D03, Joanna Pantazes and Anna
Marie Avola, D78.
SPAIN IN THE SPRING
The Third International Periodontal Conference will be held April
19–21 at Cantalonian Dental College in Barcelona, Spain. Registration
materials have been sent to all alumni listed as periodontal
graduates. If you have not received a brochure and registration
materials or would like more information about this event, please
contact Therese Kohlman in the Department of Periodontology at
617.636.6531 or therese.kohlman@tufts.edu.
travel-learn
TRAVEL TO EXTRAORDINARY PLACES WITH EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE
From Antarctica to Santorini, from China to the Nile,
the Tufts Travel-Learn Program combines intellectual
inquiry with leisure and exploration. There’s
a perfect trip for every taste. Call Usha
Sellers, Director, at 800.843.2586 or
visit our website for updated details
and itineraries.
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www.tufts.edu/alumni/ed-travel-learn.html
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CLASS NOTES
d49
Esther M. Wilkins, DG66, clinical
professor of periodontology,
is the 2006 recipient of the
American Academy of Periodontology’s
(AAP) Fellowship Award.
The award was presented at the
academy’s 92nd annual meeting
in San Diego in September
and cited “her devotion, time
and energy to the field of periodontology,
including her service
to the AAP and dental and
dental hygiene education.” The
Fellowship Award, funded by
Procter & Gamble Co., is given
Esther M. Wilkins
annually in recognition of distinguished
service to the academy,
which has 8,000 members specializing
in the prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of
diseases affecting the gums
and supporting structures of
the teeth and in the placement
and maintenance of dental
implants. To commemorate
Wilkins’ 90th birthday as well
as her contributions to the field
of dental hygiene, the Boston
City Council declared December
9, 2006, as “Esther M. Wilkins
Day” in the city. Wilkins wrote
Clinical Practice of the Dental
Hygienist, which is considered
the definitive text on dental
hygiene and is now in its ninth
edition. After graduating from
the Forsyth School for Dental
Hygienists in 1939, Wilkins
worked as a hygienist for several
years before she entered
Tufts School of Dental Medicine.
She received her D.M.D.
in 1949 and earned a postgraduate
certificate in periodontology
in 1966 from Tufts. Wilkins
has been a dental school faculty
member since 1966 and continues
to teach one day a week.
REUNIONS 2007, May 4–6
d52
Howard I. Mark of West Hartford,
Conn., received the American
Association of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgeons’ 2006
Community Service Award during
the association’s 88th annual
meeting in San Diego, Calif.,
October 3–7, 2006. Throughout
his career, Mark has volunteered
for a number of projects
that benefit dental students,
dental and allied health care
professions and the public. He
currently serves as president of
the International Pierre Fauchard
Academy, an honorary dental
organization that recognizes
outstanding dentists and their
achievements to their communities.
He helped establish the
Connecticut Oral Health Initiative,
a coalition of health professionals,
business and
community leaders working to
improve the state’s system for
providing oral health care to
families and young children. His
efforts resulted in the development
of Connecticut’s first Early
Childhood Caries Symposium.
He has also been active in the
Tobacco Cessation Program and
was a pioneer in promoting the
use of mouth guards. He currently
teaches at the University
of Connecticut School of Dental
Medicine and chairs the
school’s mentorship program.
REUNIONS 2007, May 4–6
d57
Walter Ariker, DG59, traveled
with the Tufts University Alumni
Association’s Travel-Learn Program
“Celtic Lands” in June
2006. He and his wife, Diane,
explored Ireland, Scotland, England,
Wales and France while
learning about the history of the
Celtic people.
d58
Bernard Schwartz, DG62, was
awarded first prize in the Greater
Long Island Dental Meeting
photography contest this past
spring for his one of his most
recent photos titled “At Prayer.”
Schwartz took the picture of
three sari-clad women at prayer
at a mosque in November
2005, while on a group trip
sponsored by the Tufts Alumni
Association. An orthodontist in
practice for 38 years in Merrick,
Long Island, Schwartz regards
his photographic interest as a
hobby, although he admits he
spends a lot of time at it. He
also enjoys painting, using pastels
and frequently reproduces
his photos on canvas.
d59
Nicholas Pellegrino traveled
with the Tufts University Alumni
Association Travel-Learn Program
to Italy’s Lake District in
May 2006. He and his wife,
Elizabeth, N62, enjoyed their
nine-day journey, which included
a visit to Milan and a walking
tour of Pallanza.
dg59
Walter Ariker, see D57.
REUNIONS 2007, May 4–6
d62
Frederick White traveled with
the Tufts University Alumni
Association Travel-Learn Program
to Provence in May 2006.
Joined by his wife, Anne, he and
other alumni explored the landscapes
in Aix-en-Provence that
the French painter Paul Cézanne
used for his inspiration.
dg62
Bernard Schwartz, see D58.
d65
Eric Parthum retired in September
2006, after practicing dentistry
for more than 40 years in
the Merrimack Valley. For 28
years, he had a private practice
in Lawrence, Mass., and for the
past dozen years, he worked in
a multi-dentist practice at Caritas
Holy Family Hospital in
Methuen, Mass. His patients
ranged in age from 1 to 100,
and he estimates he’s treated
tens of thousands of patients
over the years. He said one of
the greatest highlights of his
career occurred in 1968, when
the City of Lawrence started
adding fluoride to its drinking
water—a move that significantly
improved the oral health of the
city’s children. His retirement
plans include doing more gardening
at his Windham, N.H.,
home and spending more time
with his wife, four daughters
and seven grandchildren. “It’s
been a real great profession,”
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ALUMNI NEWS
CLASS NOTES
he told the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune,
which published a tribute
to him on October 1. “You get
to meet some fantastic people.
You help them with pain and
healing, or with braces or
whitening their teeth. Sometimes
you even change someone’s
personality. You can really
change their life,” he told the
newspaper. “And that’s what I’ll
miss the most.”
dg66
Esther M. Wilkins, see D49.
d68
Raymond Yukna, A64, the former
director of the postgraduate
periodontology program at
the School of Dentistry at
Louisiana State University, is
the 2006 recipient of the American
Academy of Periodontology
(AAP) Special Citation Award. He
received the award on September
18 at the AAP’s 92nd annual
meeting in San Diego. “Dr.
Yukna is recognized for his outstanding
work and dedication to
the periodontics program at
LSU,” said Kenneth A. Krebs,
president of the AAP. “After Hurricane
Katrina, Dr. Yukna made
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the necessary decision to move
the LSU periodontal program to
the University of Colorado in
order to keep the program operating.”
Yukna is now director of
advanced periodontal therapies
at the University of Colorado
School of Dentistry. The AAP
presents the citations annually
in recognition of outstanding
work on an academy committee
or special project.
d71
Martin H. Zase, a cosmetic
dentist in Colchester, Conn.,
has been elected president of
the American Academy of Cosmetic
Dentistry (www.aacd.com),
the largest cosmetic dentistry
organization in the world, with
more than 7,600 members in
more than 60 countries. A former
clinical instructor in restorative
dentistry at Tufts, Zase is a
fellow of the American College
of Dentists. He was a disc jockey
for eight years before he
became a dentist.
d73
Howard Lieb, M04P, is the
2006 recipient of the Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Richmond
County Dental Society.
The presentation was made at
the society’s annual installation
dinner-dance.
d75
Zeno Chicarilli, M77, a plastic
surgeon with offices in Guilford
and New Haven, Conn., has, for
the past three years, participated
in mission trips to Columbia
and Thailand with Heal the Children,
a nonprofit organization
that treats children with congenital
abnormalities such as cleft
palate. In September 2005, he
joined local physicians in providing
relief for victims of Hurricane
Katrina in Louisiana and
Mississippi. For those efforts,
the American Red Cross named
the physicians “Heroes of New
Haven County.”
d79
Jeffrey Prinsell, a board-certified
oral and maxillofacial surgeon
who is licensed as both a
dentist and a physician, has
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Jeffrey Prinsell
been named president of the
American Academy of Dental
Sleep Medicine (www.dentalsleepmed.org),
a professional
organization involved with
research, education and training
in the treatment of sleep-related
breathing disorders such as
snoring and obstructive sleep
apnea. Prinsell has a private
practice in Marietta, Ga.
REUNIONS 2007, May 4–6
d82
Diane Monti-Markowski has
been appointed executive director
of Blue Cross Dental of Blue
Cross/Blue Shield of Rhode
Island. She was previously dental
director for Delta Dental of
Rhode Island for 14 years. She
continues to practice general
dentistry on a part-time basis in
addition to her administrative
duties at Blue Cross.
d90
Glenn Wolfinger and Tom Balshi,
who run a prosthodontics
practice in Fort Washington,
Pa., got some help from a highprofile
patient in filming a dental
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ELECTED TO THE
ROYAL COLLEGE
Donald Booth
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND INDUCTED DR.
Donald Booth, DG66, professor and chair emeritus of oral
and maxillofacial surgery at Boston University School of
Dental Medicine, as a fellow of dental surgery at a formal
diplomate ceremony in London on November 3. He is just
the fourth American oral and maxillofacial surgeon elected
to the college in its history.
“It is a special honor for me to be elected to the Royal
College of Surgeons, an organization whose origins date
back to the reign of Henry VIII in 1540,” Booth said.
Royal College Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery Brian
Avery announced Booth’s unanimous election, citing his
“enormous contributions to the profession.” As an elected
fellow, Booth will have full voting privileges in the college.
Booth is a past president of the Massachusetts Society
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American Association
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is the current
treasurer of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons. He completed his postgraduate training
at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine following his
graduation from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and a
residency at Boston City Hospital.
education commercial that aired
regionally last fall. Mario Andretti,
often called the greatest race
car driver of all time, brought
his high-wattage smile—and his
bright orange Lamborghini—to
film the 30-second TV spot.
Andretti has been a patient of
Prosthodontics Intermedica for
years, and the dentists felt that
the racer’s willingness to speak
publicly about the importance of
dental care might encourage
others to get the treatment they
need. Andretti is the only driver
to win races in each of five
decades.
d93
Evetta Shwartzman and
Konstantin Ronkin have opened
a spa-like dental office in the
same building as their existing
practice, Dream Smile Dental,
in Canton, Mass., to treat
patients with bite and jaw
alignment problems. They’re
employing new technology, the
K7 Evaluation System, which
helps determine the right jaw
position to realign teeth, muscles
and joints. “We can reposition
the jaw to its optimal
physiological position, relieving
pain symptoms,” Shwartzman
said. “Proper diagnosis is critical
before we recommend corrective
treatment such as
braces, veneers, crowns,
bridges, implants or full mouth
reconstruction. It’s all about
recreating balanced occlusion.”
Ronkin notes that the National
Institutes of Health reports
there are 10 million TMJ sufferers
in the United States at any
given time. A majority of them
are women, ages 18 to 45.
d98
Dan Diamond has opened a
new practice, Diamond Dental
Centre, in Concord, Ontario. He
and his wife, Corrie, and their
three children, Kayla, 9; Maya,
6; and Jonah, 3, are enjoying
living in Thornhill, Ontario.
John Pavlo, A94, DG00, who
maintains a private orthodontic
practice in Peabody and Newburyport,
Mass., and his wife,
Vickie, welcomed a new son,
Thanos John Pavlo, on July 22,
2006. The family lives in
Danvers, Mass.
d00
Tonya Chen, J95, married Ben
Mezrich on September 9, 2006,
at the Harbor View Hotel in
Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard.
dg00
John Pavlo, see D98.
d01
Nitish Nahata has been named
a partner in the Tewksbury,
Mass., dental practice of Ronald
Cooper and Joel Spiller. Nahata
provides prosthetic, endodontic
and restorative treatment for
adults and children.
Amit Patel has opened a second
practice in Smithfield, N.C.,
near Raleigh. He and his wife,
Ana, live in Cary, N.C., where he
has his other practice.
d03
Heidi Pechter announces her
engagement to Monte Sichelman,
M.D./MBA. The couple
plans to marry in January
2007.
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CLASS NOTES
d05
Michael Bratland spent three
years as the marketing coordinator
at Umpqua Dairy before
he decided he wanted to be a
dentist. He already had a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from
the University of Oregon, but he
hadn’t taken a full slate of hard
science courses. As a result, he
spent two years at Umpqua
Community College taking those
classes before moving his family
to Boston and spending four
years at Tufts University School
of Dental Medicine. After graduating
from dental school, he
spent a year working for two
Oregon dentists while preparing
to open his own practice, located
in Roseburg, Ore.
d06
Carly Carson has joined a general
dental practice in Springfield,
N.J., where she lives with
her husband, Kevin.
MCCALLUM EARNS ADA’S HIGHEST AWARD
By Jennifer Garvin
FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, DR.
Charles A. “Scotty” McCallum,
D51, H88, has dedicated his
professional life to dental education
and organized dentistry.
A former president of the University of
Alabama at Birmingham and the first
American Dental Association commissioner
on the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Hospitals Board of Commissioners,
McCallum has carved a reputation as a
compassionate dental educator who continues
to champion young people. For
those achievements, he is the 2006 recipient
of the ADA’s Distinguished Service
Award, the association’s highest award to
an individual.
In approving the award, the ADA Board
of Trustees noted that McCallum “has generously
and enthusiastically made his leadership
skills and guidance available to both
the health community and the public.”
“I’m just so thrilled,” McCallum said.
“I’ve been so fortunate to have chosen
dentistry as a career.”
A native of North Adams, Mass., McCallum
considers himself an adopted Southerner.
He earned his dental degree from
Tufts in 1951 and his M.D. from the University
of Alabama Medical College in 1957.
At the University of Alabama, he taught
both medicine and dentistry, and eventually
was appointed dean of the School of
Dentistry and chief of oral and maxillofacial
surgery at the schools of Dentistry
and Medicine. He continued teaching surgery
there until 2000.
In 1969, the medical center helped to
create a new university, which was called
the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
McCallum served as the vice president for
health affairs and director of the UAB
Medical Center before being appointed
president of UAB, a position he held from
1987 to 1993. During his tenure, he created
a teaching excellence award in each
school of the university.
McCallum was a consultant for the ADA
Project in Vietnam and a visiting faculty
member at universities and dental schools
in Iraq, Thailand and Taiwan. He also helped
found UAB international alumni chapters in
Thailand and Taiwan.
ADA President Bob Brandjord first met
McCallum in 1974, when he was an oral
Charles A. McCallum
and maxillofacial surgery resident in Colorado.
“I was so impressed by his enthusiasm,
energy and knowledge,” Brandjord
recalled.
In 1979, McCallum became the first
ADA commissioner on what is now called
the Joint Commission on the Accreditation
of Healthcare Organization Board. He
spent 12 years on the commission, including
two years as chair.
“What really stands out are his efforts
as a pioneer in his profession,” Brandjord
said. “He has done so much to elevate
the image and respect for dentistry.”
McCallum stopped accepting private
patients at age 70, but still continues to
teach. He is a past president of the American
Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, the American Board of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery and the American
Association of Dental Schools.
Since 2000, McCallum has served as
the mayor of Vestavia Hills, a city of
24,000 people located in the Appalachian
foothills south of Birmingham. He decided
to run for mayor at the urging of “some
young people I knew,” he said, and figured
after “37 years of living in this community,
I should give something back to the community.”
His assistant, Kitty Robinson, has
worked with him since 1962. “He just
loves people,” she said. “He loves to see
what they can achieve. Even now, every
week, two or three young people who are
interested in going to dental or medical
school come to him for advice.”
Reprinted with permission, ADA News, October 2,
2006; 37(18):38. © 2006 American Dental
Association. All rights reserved.
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OBITUARIES
Philanthropist
and overseer
LEONARD FLORENCE, J82P, H83, A87P, AN OVERSEER TO TUFTS UNI–
versity School of Dental Medicine, died on June 26, 2006, at his
home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He was 74.
The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Florence was one of
eight children of Myer and Fannie Florence. In a preview of the
entrepreneurial spirit that would make him a titan in the silver
industry, Florence’s first job was shining shoes at the Soldiers
Home in Chelsea, Mass. He hired other Chelsea kids to help him
and also started a side business doing the soldiers’ laundry. Years
later, the Jewish chapel at the Soldiers Home was named for his
parents, and he became a member of the home’s board of
trustees.
As a child, Florence received dental care from the dental school,
and the experience created a special affinity with Tufts. He was one
of the dental school’s top ambassadors and financial boosters, and
had extended his service and generosity to Tufts Hillel, the School
of Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine. He served as a
trustee of Tufts from 2000–01, and had been a dental overseer
since 1982.
After graduating from Chelsea High School in 1950, he attended
Boston University School of Business Administration on a Dewey
Stone Scholarship. Stone, a Brockton industrialist and philanthropist
who saw Florence’s potential and became his mentor, in 1956
put up the money for him to buy the struggling Raimond Silver Co.
in Malden, Mass. In 1963, Florence left Raimond and started the
Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co. Inc. out of a garage in Chelsea.
A millionaire at age 30, he helped pioneer the mass production of
silver picture frames before acquiring Towle Manufacturing Co., a
300-year-old silverware maker in Newburyport.
He left Towle in 1985, and a year later founded Syratech Corp.,
an East Boston manufacturer and importer of giftware and seasonal
products. He built Syratech into a $300 million company that
was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Florence sold
Syratech to the Thomas H. Lee Co. in 1996, and remained as
chairman of the board until 2003. After that, he established the
Leonard Florence Group, a manufacturer and importer of giftware
and premium products.
Florence used his success in his business endeavors to fuel his
philanthropic work. At a chance meeting in the 1960s with the Rev.
Lawrence Cronin, Florence learned about the St. Coletta and Cardinal
Cushing Schools, and was impressed by the care given to special
needs children. He soon became good friends with Richard Cardinal
Cushing and was appointed the first layperson on the schools’ board.
In 1999, Leonard and Bernard Cardinal Law traveled to Israel to
dedicate the Leonard and Charlotte Florence Center for Special Education
in Haifa that was modeled on the Cushing Schools. In 1993,
Pope John Paul II bestowed on him the Order of St. Gregory the
Great, the highest honor a layman can achieve in the Catholic
Church; the award recognizes individuals who distinguish themselves
through notable accomplishments on behalf of society,
regardless of their religious beliefs. In 2000, the pope elevated him
to a commander of the Knights St. Gregory.
Florence also served on the boards of the Race to Erase Multiple
Sclerosis Foundation, the Jewish Theological Seminary of New
York, Beth Israel Hospital, the American Committee of the Weizmann
Institute of Science, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston,
the Fashion Institute of New York and Suffolk University, among
others. He received many awards throughout his long and distinguished
career, including nine honorary degrees, among them an
Honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree from Tufts in 1983.
Florence is survived by his wife of 51 years, Charlotte (Cohen)
Florence; three children, Susan Florence-Smith, J82; Mark Florence,
A87; and Faye Florence; two sisters, two brothers and two grandsons.
Expressions of sympathy in his memory may be donated to one of
two organizations: Brain Tumor Research at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
c/o Dr. Santosh Kesari, 10 Brookline Pl., West Brookline, MA
02445-7226 or to the Leonard Florence Center for Living c/o Chelsea
Jewish Nursing Home, 100 Lafayette Ave., Chelsea, MA 02150.
IN MEMORIAM
Joseph B. Connolly, D43B
August 30, 2006
Scituate, Mass.
Robert E. Dickson, A46, D49
June 14, 2006
Northport, Fla.
Edward Kierstead, D51
February 2006
Fairfield, Maine
Leonard Florence, left, with
Dean Lonnie H. Norris in 1999
Robert Burton Edesess, DG68
August 28, 2006
Indianapolis, Ind.
Carole Alton, DI77
November 19, 2006
Pepperell, Mass.
Edilene Evangelista, DI08
December 31, 2006
Framingham, Mass.
PHOTO: J.D. SLOAN
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ALUMNI NEWS
CONTINUING EDUCATION
MARCH 2
Radiology Certification Course
Dr. Audrey J. Furkart, Dr.
Richard W. Shea, Dr. Domenic A.
Mazzocco, Dr. Brian M. Shea,
Shannon Meloon Balletto
MARCH 7
Dealing with the Challenges in
Your Everyday Practice:
Providing Excellence for the
Changing Dental Patient
Population
Dr. Paul J. Vankevich
MARCH 9
The Restorative Dentist’s Role
in Implant Prosthodontics:
Team Approach
Dr. Allen L. Schneider
MARCH 14
Implants for General Dentists:
Maximizing the Rate of Success
Dr. Mohamed Hassan,
Dr. Bassam Farouk Rabie
MARCH 16
Mechanical Instrumentation of
Root Canals and Endodontic
Diagnosis
Dr. Joe H. Camp
MARCH 17–18
Nitrous Oxide Certification
Course
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg,
Dr. C.S. Maller
MARCH 21
Patient Imaging Software
Simplified: Home Software
in the Office
Dr. Donald S. Sherman
MARCH 23
How to Build the Cosmetic
Component of Your Practice: A
Path to Greater Enjoyment &
Profitability
Gary Takacs
MARCH 30
Current Concepts and
Applications in Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery
Dr. Bart Blaeser, Dr. Melissa
Lackey, Dr. Randy Todd, Dr. Jose
(Joe) M. Marchena
MARCH 30–APRIL 1
Forensic Science
Dr. William M. Morlang
APRIL 11
Dental Update: Medical
Emergencies and Oral and
Maxillofacial Pathology
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg,
Dr. Michael A. Kahn
APRIL 13
Adhesive and Esthetic Dentistry:
Proven Solutions for Clinical
Success
Dr. Harald O. Heymann
APRIL 18
Achieving Success through a
Team Approach to Restorative
Dentistry (Emphasis on
Commonly Undervalued Details
Crucial to Predictable
Restorative Success)
David R. Avery
APRIL 20–21
Multiple Hard- and Soft-Tissue
Lasers—A Standard Proficiency
Certification Course
Dr. Robert A. Convissar
APRIL 25
Periodontics for the General
Dentist/Dental Hygienist Team
Dr. Marty Nager
MAY 2
What’s New, What Works: Taking
the Mystery Out of Endodontic
Therapy
Dr. Arnold I. Maloff, Dr. Sandra
R. Makkar, Dr. Carlene Tsai
MAY 9
Pain and Anxiety Control for the
General Practitioner
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg,
Dr. Michael Thompson
MAY 11
Anterior Tooth Position: The
Connection for Successful
Function and Esthetics
Dr. Hiroshi Hirayama
MAY 12
New Advances in Implant
Overdentures: Happiness
through Simplification
Dr. Allen L. Schneider
MAY 16
Dental Update: Medical
Emergencies and the Prevention
and Management of Surgical
Complications for the Non-Oral
Surgeon in the General Office
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg,
Dr. Constantinos Laskarides
MAY 18
Inside the Land of Oz:
How to Treat Those Little
Munchkins in Your Practice
Dr. Joseph P. O’Donnell,
Dr. David A. Tesini
MAY 23
Crown Lengthening Workshop
Dr. Emilio Arguello,
Dr. Catherine Moshirfar
MAY 30
Simplified Office Oral Surgery
for the General Practitioner and
How to Treat Medical
Emergencies in the
Dental Office
Dr. Robert R. Edwab
JUNE 1–2
Nitrous Oxide Certification
Course
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg,
Dr. C.S. Maller
JUNE 2
Digital Cameras in the
Dental Office
Dr. Donald S. Sherman, Dr. Jay
Morgenstern, Dr. Razvan
Jordache, Dr. Adriana Jordache
JUNE 6
Dental Update for the
Entire Dental Team:
Medical Emergencies
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg
JUNE 8
Precision and Semi-Precision
Attachments—When
Where Why
Dr. George E. Bambara
JUNE 13
Periodontal Therapy and
Implant Placement: A Review
of Treatment Options with the
Registered Dental Hygienist
Dr. Timothy J. Hempton
JUNE 15
The 2nd annual Oral Cancer
Symposium at Tufts. For more
information, please contact the
Division of Continuing Education
at 617.636.6629.
All Continuing Education
courses are held on Tufts
University School of Dental
Medicine’s Boston campus,
unless otherwise noted.
For more information about
these and other upcoming
courses, contact:
DIVISION OF
CONTINUING EDUCATION
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE
One Kneeland Street
Boston, MA 02111
Telephone: 617.636.6629
Fax: 617.636.0800
E-mail: paige.ambrose@tufts.edu
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