Spring 2013 - Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

alumni news
class notes
Stephen M. Bank
D61is working as a
part-time librarian in Cary, N.C.
Edwin N. Galkin made New
Jersey Magazine’s “Top Dentists”
list, chosen by his peers for the
second consecutive year.
D63
Jack L.
Appelbaum is
the national meeting chair for
the American Academy of Oral
Medicine and an investigator for
the Medicare Fraud Division for
the state of Nevada.
After 47 years of
D65running a solo
practice that served the D.C.
suburbs in Maryland, Allan C.
Johnson is retiring to Bethany
Beach, Del., with his wife of 41
years, Jan Johnson. He says he
will be seeking a new puppy and
beach and golf time.
Stephen V. McLaughlin, DG78,
DG03P, D11P, still practices
four days a week. He has 10
children, three of whom are
dentists (Ian, D11, Caitlin,
NYU Dental, and Brendan,
DG03, NYU Dental.). He has 49
grandchildren and is expecting
two more. His daughter Cara
is a graduate of Johns Hopkins
Medical School.
Angelo G.
D66 Boncore, see D85.
Daniel G. Davidson
D72 has served as
president of the California Dental
Association. This year he is chair
of Cal DPAC, the state dental
PAC of California. He continues
to practice general dentistry in
San Francisco and lives in Marin
County with his wife, Leslie.
Steven J. Tunick,
D73 an oral surgeon
who practices in New York
City, was tapped by New York
State Health Commissioner
Nirav Shah to serve on the
new I-STOP (Internet System
for Tracking Over-Prescribing)
Advisory Committee. The I-STOP
Committee is expected to play
a major role in developing educational
programs for healthcare
providers on helping their
patients avoid prescription drug
abuse through the new I-STOP
controlled-substance prescription
registry. Committee efforts
will be aided by new electronic
prescribing standards for New
York State. Tunick is a clinical
assistant professor of oral and
maxillofacial surgery at Weill
Cornell Medical College, assistant
attending oral surgeon at
New York Presbyterian Hospital
and clinical assistant dentist
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center. He is a past
president of the New York State
Society of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons and currently serves
on the organization’s board of
directors. He is a member of
the New York County Dental
Society board of directors and
chairs the group’s Professional
Liability Claims Committee.
D75a
Paul J.
Desjardins
retired in 2011 and now heads
Desjardins Associates, a drug
and medical device consulting
company. He also chairs the
School of Dental Medicine’s
Board of Advisors. He can be
reached at paul.j.desjardins@
gmail.com.
D79
Alan W. James
and his wife,
Joanne, became first-time
grandparents when their daughter,
Kelsey, gave birth to a baby
girl, Hope Maya, on March 6,
2012.
William A. Kropa, Kevin F.
Toomey, D80, and Katharine
A. Burton, D10, have opened
the Wellfleet Dental Group in
Wellfleet, Mass.
Jeffrey R. Prinsell was the
invited chair and lecturer at a
surgery symposium in Rome at
the World Congress on Sleep
Apnea. He gave presentations
on maxillomandibular advancement
and other extrapharyngeal
surgery for the treatment
of obstructive sleep apnea.
Prinsell is the founding president
of the American Board of
Dental Sleep Medicine, past
president and Distinguished
Service Award recipient of
the American Academy of
Dental Sleep Medicine and
past chair of the Obstructive
Sleep Apnea Section of the
American Association of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgeons
(AAOMS). He served on the
American Academy of Sleep
Medicine Standards of Practice
Committee Task Force to
update practice parameters
for obstructuve sleep apnea
surgery. He authored a chapter
in the textbook Current Therapy
in OMS (Elsevier 2011). Prinsell
is a diplomate of the AAOMS,
treasurer of the Georgia Society
of OMS; a visiting lecturer at
Emory University and Vanderbilt
University and a surgical consultant
at several Atlanta area
sleep centers. He maintains a
private practice in Marietta, Ga.,
where he resides with his wife,
Kim, and sons Jeffrey and Eric.
Kevin F. Toomey,
D80 see D79.
After a 30-year
D81career in the U.S.
Army, most recently serving at
Fort Jackson, S.C., Michael F.
Cuenin retired from the U.S.
Army Dental Corps in 2011 at
the rank of colonel. A board-certified
periodontist, he joined the
Carolina Center for Restorative
Dentistry (www.ccrdonline.com)
in Mount Pleasant, S.C.
Joseph Kenneally has been
elected vice president of the
International College of Dentists
for 2013, and will serve as
president in 2015. Kenneally, of
Biddeford, Maine, has received
numerous leadership awards
from the American Dental
Association, the Maine Dental
Association, Yankee Dental
Congress and the University of
New England. His ICD activities
have been numerous at the
New England District, the USA
section and the international
level. He chaired the Information
Technology Committee for many
years and helped guide the ICD’s
electronic communications and
web media efforts.
Paul Shamirian, D16P, writes
that his son, Paul R. Shamirian,
began his dental education at
Tufts in September 2012.
Nancy H. Starr
D83 writes that her
oldest son, Zachary, is in his
second year of dental school
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