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Winter 2012 - College of Dental Medicine - Columbia University

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alumni notes<br />

Paul Cosgrove ’98<br />

Subway Celebrity<br />

During October, Paul Cosgrove ’98 (RIGHT) was one<br />

<strong>of</strong> nine faces appearing in a poster campaign for his<br />

alma mater, St. Francis <strong>College</strong> in Brooklyn Heights.<br />

The posters hanging in Brooklyn's busy Atlantic<br />

Terminal station showed a student or alumnus <strong>of</strong><br />

the college, with a quote describing the benefits<br />

each had gained at St. Francis, where Dr. Cosgrove,<br />

earned his BA in 1993.<br />

Shahrzad Sami ’02 and her husband, Dr. Habib<br />

Sadeghi, have received the True Originals Award from<br />

the Virginia Avenue Project for mentoring children, in<br />

Santa Monica, California.<br />

Adam Schulh<strong>of</strong>, Ortho ’03 is a board-certified orthodontist<br />

and co-founder <strong>of</strong> KinderSmiles in Oradell,<br />

New Jersey, specializing in cosmetic solutions for<br />

orthodontic cases. He is the creator <strong>of</strong> Incognito<br />

Lite-braces, which remain fitted behind the teeth for<br />

six months and cost less than traditional braces.<br />

Amy Bryer ’04, currently department head and<br />

Assistant GPR Director at Camp Pendleton<br />

Naval Hospital in San Diego, has been named 2013<br />

dental team lead on the Pacific Partnership, a multi-disciplinary<br />

effort addressing health needs in Tonga,<br />

Samoa, Solomon Islands, Republic <strong>of</strong> Marshall Islands,<br />

Kiribati, and Papua New Guinea. Dr. Bryer envisions<br />

deploying a joint multidisciplinary healthcare and<br />

support team to shift the current paradigm from<br />

providing care to one that will build and strengthen<br />

the healthcare infrastructure in third-world nations<br />

through self-supporting sustainment.<br />

Dr. Bryer previously served a 14-month assignment on<br />

Diego Garcia, a tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean.<br />

Congratulations to Michael Leifert, Ortho ‘04 and<br />

Ronniette Garcia, Ortho ’03, AEGD ‘07 on the August<br />

17th birth <strong>of</strong> their daughter Isabella Victoria Leifert.<br />

Both parents are assistant clinical pr<strong>of</strong>essors in CDM's<br />

Division <strong>of</strong> Orthdontics and <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> the Orthodontic<br />

Alumni Society.<br />

subway sp<br />

32 primus | winter <strong>2012</strong>-13

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